Corey Lee M. Keyes

Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322

Telephone: 404-727-7894
FAX: 404-727-7894
E-MAIL: ckeyes@emory.edu

OFFICE: 203 Tarbutton Hall

Curriculum Vitae (PDF format)

Degree: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1995

General Research Area: mental health, aging, social psychology.

Current Research: complete mental health; subjective change - particularly the ambivalence of making improvements in one's life; positive social relationships and generativity throughout the life course.

Selected Publications:

"The Structure of Psychological Well-Being Revisited," (co-author), Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1995.

"Social Well-Being," Social Psychology Quarterly, 1998.

"Psychological Well-Being in Midlife," (co-author), in Life in the Middle, 1999.

"Subjective Change and Mental Health: A Self-Concept Theory," (co-author), Social Psychology Quarterly, forthcoming.

Selected Courses

• SOC 245 - Individual and Society
• SOC 330 - Mental Health and Well-Being
• SOC 355 - Social Research I
• SOC 513 - Social Structure and Mental Health
• SOC 553 - Social Cognition Seminar

Additional Info:

Links to Recent Press

• The Healthcare Challenge of 2020
• Accentuate the Postive (in the October 1998 Emory Report)
• Positive Social Science movement (in the Chronicle of Higher Education)
• First Person (in the October 1999 Emory Report)
• CNNfyi: What's Positive Psychology?
• APA Presidential Plenary 2005
• Mental Health in the Workplace
• Newscast from KTOP all news radio on the Cardiovascular Disease and Mental Health study (mp3 audio file)
• Write up of CDMH study by Society for Women's Health Research
• Write up of CDMH study in January 2005 "Shape Magazine" about "health smarts."

Links to Research Networks and Activities

• MacArthur Foundation Research
• Positive Psychology Network
• Mental Health Measures in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics: Child Development Supplement
• Society for the Study of Human Development, Steering Committee
• Rollins School of Public Health, Department of Behavior Sciences and Health Education
• Click here to obtain the MHC-SF
  

Books and Journal Special Issues

• Table of Contents for: "Flourishing: The Positive Person and the Good Life"
• Table of Contents for: "Well-Being: Positive Development Across the Life Course"
• Table of Contents for: "Women and Depression Handbook"
• Introduction for: "Risk and Resilience in Human Development"