Peter Salovey
| Peter Salovey | |
|---|---|
| 23rd President of Yale University | |
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Assumed office July 1, 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Rick Levin |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
February 21, 1958 Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Spouse(s) | Marta Elisa Moret |
| Residence | New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Alma mater |
Stanford University Yale University |
| Profession | Social psychologist, academic |
| Religion | Judaism |
| Website | president |
Peter Salovey (/ˈsæləveɪ/; born February 21, 1958) is an American social psychologist and current President of Yale University. He previously served as Yale's Provost, Dean of Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and Dean of Yale College. Salovey is one of the early pioneers and leading researchers in emotional intelligence.
Salovey was born in 1958 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is the oldest child of Elaine Salovey, a registered nurse, and Ronald Salovey, a physical chemist and Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Southern California. His paternal grandparents came from Warsaw by way of Jerusalem; they met on a ship crossing the Atlantic.
Salovey spent his early years in northern New Jersey and attended high school at Williamsville North High School in a suburb of Buffalo, New York before moving to suburban Los Angeles in 1975, when his father was appointed a professor at the University of Southern California. In 1976, he graduated co-valedictorian from Rolling Hills High School in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. He attended Stanford University, where he received an A.B. in psychology and an A.M. in sociology with departmental honors and university distinction. While at Stanford, he served as a peer counselor with The Bridge Peer Counseling Center, a field about which he later co-authored a seminal textbook.
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