Dr Howard S. Friedman is a psychologist, researcher and author with a worldwide reputation. He has made groundbreaking contributions to the study of health and longevity, emphasizing how personality can affect a person’s general health and life expectancy. He is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside.

Dr Friedman has decisively enhanced the understanding of personality predictors for health and longevity. An acclaimed and popular author, his books include the highly influential and widely reviewed The Longevity Project, The Self-Healing Personality and The Oxford Handbook of Health Psychology. He also serves as Editor of the Journal of Non-Verbal Behavior.

Across an illustrious and varied career, Dr Friedman has received numerous awards for his work, including the James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award from the American Psychological Association (APA) and the Outstanding Contributions to Health Psychology Award from the APA.

Dr Friedman’s work is often covered by the media, including The Atlantic, the BBC, NPR and PsychCentral.