UCR, Honors Program- 2000-01 Professor of the Year

Professor of Psychology	Dr. Fischer Awards Dr. Howard Friedman This award recognizes outstanding faculty who participate in the University Honors Program. Students may nominate their favorite Honors professor to be the UHP Professor of the Year. Official nomination forms are available in the Honors office.
Degrees:	BA Psychology 1972 Yale University PhD Social Psychology 1976 Harvard University
Awards:	1992, Most Cited Author, Institute for Scientific Information 1995, Distinguished Teaching Award, University of California, Riverside 1999, Outstanding Contributions to Health Psychology Award, Health Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association 2000, Outstanding Teacher Award, Western Psychological Association (WPA) Elected Fellow: American Psychological Association (1988); American Psychological Society (1989); Society of Behavioral Medicine (1997); AAAS (Science)(1999)
Research Areas:	Health psychology; social and personality psychology Longitudinal and intervention research in health psychology Longevity (life-span predictors); Emotional expression; charismatic influence
Publications:	Friedman, H.S. & Booth-Kewley, S. The "disease-prone personality": A meta-analytic view of the construct. American Psychologist, 1987, 42, 539-555. Friedman, H.S. (ed.). Personality and Disease. NY: Wiley & Sons, 1990, (BOOK) [reprinted in Japanese, 1997] Friedman, H.S. Self-Healing Personality: Why Some People Achieve Health and Others Succumb to Illness. NY: Henry Holt, 1991. (BOOK). Reprinted as: . Friedman, H.S. Les Secrets de L'autoguerison. Editions du Rocher, 1994. [French]. Friedman, H.S. Die Selbstheilungskrafte der Psyche. Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, 1993. [German]. Friedman, H.S., Tucker, J.S., Schwartz, J.E., Tomlinson-Keasey, C., Martin, L.R., Wingard, D.L., Criqui, M.H. (1995). Psychosocial and behavioral predictors of longevity: The aging and death of the "Termites." American Psychologist, 50, 69-78. DePaulo, B.M. & Friedman, H.S. (1998). Nonverbal Communication. In D. Gilbert, S. Fiske, & G. Lindzey (eds.) Handbook of Social Psychology, 4th edition. Boston: McGraw Hill, vol. II, pp. 3-40. Friedman, H.S. (1998). Encyclopedia of Mental Health. (Editor-in-chief). San Diego: Academic Press. (3 volumes).
Biography:	My research focuses on two main fields. The first area of focus is health psychology. We study the role of psychosocial factors in health and health care, with an emphasis on emotional response patterns. For example, we study the emotional patterns that affect the development or progression of heart disease. Attention is also given to health promotion and disease prevention efforts. Current research includes a major longitudinal study of personality, temperament, stress, and longevity. The second area concerns face-to-face social interaction and emotional expression. Theories concerning the feeling, expression, and spread of emotion are examined through both experimental and observational studies of nonverbal communication. For example, certain people seem to have a dramatic expressive style often termed "charismatic." These people have a distinct personality and find it easy to be liked by and to influence others.

2000-2001 Professor of the Year Award

Dr. Howard Friedman