Peter Salovey

Peter Salovey earns my respect on two fronts. As a social psychologist, he helped pioneer the concept of emotional intelligence, reframing what we even mean by being smart, and that idea has quietly reshaped how we think about leadership and relationships. Then he spent eleven years as the 23rd president of Yale, steering one of the world's great universities through a turbulent era. From Cambridge to Stanford to New Haven, with honorary degrees from Harvard and Shanghai Jiao Tong, his career bridges deep scholarship and real institutional stewardship. I find it fitting that the man who studied emotions also had to manage so many of them at the helm of a university.

Name (English)

Peter Salovey

Name (Japanese)

ピーター・サロベイ

Reading

ぴーたー・さろべい

Born

February 21, 1958 (age 68)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Dog

Origin

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Occupation

psychologist / professor / university president

High school

Williamsville North High School

University

Stanford University

Awards & achievements

• Presidential Young Investigator Award
• 2004 Wilbur Cross Medal
• Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 2014 honorary doctor of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University
• 2015 honorary doctor of Harvard University
• 2014 Arthur W. Staats Lecture for Unifying Psychology

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttps://president.yale.edu/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%94%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B5%E3%83%AD%E3%83%99%E3%82%A4

Tags

• Massachusetts
• psychologist
• professor
• university president

Last updated

2026-06-02

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