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Plenary Session:
Invited Address by
Ed Diener, PhD, and
Robert Biswas-Diener, PhD—
Happiness in Turbulent Times
(3332)
Saturday, Aug. 8, 3:00–3:50 p.m., Room 801A
 Ed Diener, PhD, is the Joseph R.
Smiley Distinguished Professor of
Psychology at the University of Illinois
at Urbana–Champaign. He received his
PhD from the University of Washington
and has been a faculty member at the
University of Illinois for the past 34
years. Dr. Diener was president of both
the International Society of Quality of
Life Studies and the Society of Personality and Social
Psychology and is currently president of the International
Positive Psychology Association. He was formerly editor
of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and the
Journal of Happiness Studies and is the founding editor of
Perspectives on Psychological Science.
Dr. Diener has over 240 publications, with about 190 in
the area of the psychology of well-being. He is listed as
one of the most highly cited psychologists by the Institute
of Scientific Information, with over 12,000 citations to his
credit. He was awarded the Distinguished Researcher
Award from the International Society of Quality of Life
Studies, the first Gallup Academic Leadership Award,
and the Jack Block Award for Personality Psychology.
Dr. Diener has also received several teaching awards,
including the Oakley-Kundee Award for Undergraduate
Teaching at the University of Illinois.
 Robert Biswas-Diener, PhD, is widely known as the “Indiana Jones of positive psychology” because his
research on subjective well-being has taken him to such
far-off destinations as Greenland, India, and Kenya.
Dr. Biswas-Diener has published two dozen books
and chapters on income and culture as they relate to
happiness. He is on the editorial boards of the Journal of
Happiness Studies and the Journal of Positive Psychology and is a part-time lecturer at Portland State University
in Oregon. Dr. Biswas-Diener is also a leader in the
application of positive psychology to coaching and is the
author of Positive Psychology Coaching and coauthor of
Happiness: Unlocking the Mysteries of Psychological Wealth.
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