Howard S. Friedman

Distinguished Professor of Psychology
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
Office Phone: (951) 827-3672
Lab Phone: (951) 827-5237
E-mail: Howard.Friedman@ucr.edu

Howard S. Friedman is distinguished professor of psychology at the University of California, Riverside. Dr. Friedman is a thrice-elected Fellow of the American Psychological Association in: Health Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology, and in Media Psychology. He is also an elected Fellow of the AAAS (Science), the Association for Psychological Science (APS), and the Society of Behavioral Medicine. Professor Friedman has received UCR's Distinguished Teaching Award, and the Outstanding Teacher Award from the Western Psychological Association (WPA).

Dr. Friedman is the recipient of the career awards for "Outstanding Contributions to Health Psychology" from the American Psychological Association (Div. 38), and the James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award from the APS (2007-08). His scientific work on personality and health, and on nonverbal expressiveness and charisma, has drawn wide attention. He has authored or edited ten books, including textbooks in Health Psychology and in Personality, and is Editor-in-chief of the award-winning Encyclopedia of Mental Health (1998). He is Editor of the Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, a scholarly journal on facial expression, gaze, kinesics, gestures, and related behaviors. Friedman is a magna cum laude graduate of Yale University and was a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow at Harvard University, where he received his doctoral degree.