Corey Keyes is an American

United States

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 sociologist and psychologist

Psychologist

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. He is known for his work with positive psychology

Positive psychology

Positive psychology is a recent branch of psychology whose purpose was summed up in 1998 by Martin Seligman and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: "We believe that a psychology of positive human functioning will arise, which achieves a scientific understanding and effective interventions to build thriving in...

. Keyes currently teaches at Emory University

Emory University

Emory University is a private research university in metropolitan Atlanta, located in the Druid Hills section of unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. The university was founded as Emory College in 1836 in Oxford, Georgia by a small group of Methodists and was named in honor of...

 in Georgia

Georgia (U.S. state)

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Work

Keyes works in the areas of complete mental health

Mental health

Mental health describes either a level of cognitive or emotional well-being or an absence of a mental disorder. From perspectives of the discipline of positive psychology or holism mental health may include an individual's ability to enjoy life and procure a balance between life activities and...

 and methods for attaining positive social relationships. He also studies the psychology

Psychology

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 of aging. Keyes is known for coining

Coining

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 the psychological term "flourishing

Flourishing

Flourishing is an area of study in the field of positive psychology. Flourishing has been defined as: “to live within an optimal range of human functioning, one that connotes goodness, generativity, growth, and resilience.” Flourishing is the opposite of both pathology and languishing, which are...

" which describes mentally healthy adults. He is considered to be a pioneer in the field of positive psychology

Positive psychology

Positive psychology is a recent branch of psychology whose purpose was summed up in 1998 by Martin Seligman and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: "We believe that a psychology of positive human functioning will arise, which achieves a scientific understanding and effective interventions to build thriving in...

. Keyes is a member of advisory board for the World Happiness Forum and is a member of the Positive Psychology Nework. His work has had wide reaching policy implications. He has worked with the Center for Disease Control and "his model of mental health as a complete state has been adopted by Public Health Canada into its national surveillance

Surveillance

Surveillance is the monitoring of the behavior, activities, or other changing information, usually of people. It is sometimes done in a surreptitious manner...

 program in all Canadian provinces."

Quotes

• We are living longer — on average 30 years longer than at the start of the 20th century — yet we are not living healthier. The question is: Are we just living dependent and sick, or are we living healthy and able to contribute?

• I think we set up an impossible task, because our hedonistic version of happiness is impossible to sustain. But it is quite possible to feel fulfilled and content and that the world is meaningful by aligning yourself with some ideals, something that is bigger and better than you, and trying to live up to it.

Books

• Women and Depression
• Flourishing: positive psychology and the life well-lived
• Risk and Resilience in Human Development
• Social Functioning and Social Well-Being

Education

• B.A. University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
  University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
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• M.S. University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison