Corey L. M. Keyes

Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322

Telephone: 404-727-7894
FAX: 404-727-7532
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:

Keyes, Corey L. M., Sativinder S. Dhingra, and Eduardo J. Simoes. (In press: Dec. 2010). “Level of Positive Mental Health Predicts Risk of Mental Illness.” American Journal of Public Health.

Keyes, Corey L. M.  2009. “The Black-White Paradox in Health: Flourishing in the Face of Inequality” Journal of Personality 77:1677-1706.

Keyes, Corey L. M. 2002. “The Mental Health Continuum:  From Languishing to Flourishing in Life.”  Journal of Health and Social Behavior 43:207-222 (selected for and reprinted in Pp. 601-617 in “Foundations of Psychological Thought: A History of Psychology.” Edited by Barbara F. Gentile and Benjamin O. Miller. Los Angeles, CA: Sage.)

Keyes, Corey L. M. 2007. “Promoting and Protecting Mental Health as Flourishing: A Complementary Strategy for Improving National Mental Health.” American Psychologist 62:95-108.

Selected Courses

• SOC 330: Mental Health and Well-Being
• SOC 348: Aging in Society
• SOC 389: Sociology of Happiness
• SOC 513: Perspectives on Mental Health

Additional Info:

Links to Recent Press

• When Do You Feel Most Loved
  
• NIAMH50
  
• 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 "Frontiers in Resilient Aging"
  
• 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"