Kennon Sheldon

Kennon Marshall Sheldon is a professor of psychological sciences at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. His research is in the areas of well-being, motivation, self-determination theory, personality, and positive psychology. In 2002 he was a recipient of a Templeton Foundation "Positive Psychology" prize{{cite web |url=http://newsroom.ucr.edu/news_item.html?action=page&id=237 |title=UCR Researcher Among the Winners of Psychology's Largest Monetary Prize for Research on Happiness] |work=University of California, Riverside Newsroom |year=2002 |access-date=12 November 2015}} and in 2014 received the Ed and Carol Diener award for mid-career achievement in personality psychology. He is the author of Optimal Human Being: An Integrated Multi-level Perspective,{{cite book|title=Optimal Human Being: An Integrated Multi-level Perspective |author=Kennon M. Sheldon |publisher=Psychology Press |year=2004 |isbn=9781135636258}} Self-determination Theory in the Clinic: Motivating physical and mental health,{{Cite book|title=Self-Determination Theory in the Clinic: Motivating Physical and Mental Health|last1=Sheldon|first1=Kennon M.|last2=Joiner|first2=Thomas|last3=Williams|first3=Geoffrey|date=2013-05-01|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=9780300199833|location=Place of publication not identified|language=en}} and has written and edited several other academic books, as well as more than 200 academic articles and book chapters.{{cite web|url=https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AWIYUlhKz2s1-gLlZftw0dGzNHvGQIbu|title=Kennon M. Sheldon Curriculum Vita}}