Professor Shelly Gable | Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
University of California, Santa Barbara, USA | United States

Professor Shelly Gable, Professor of Psychology, University of California

Shelly Gable, Ph.D. is a Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She conducts research on close relationships, motivation, social support, and health. Her work has been published in top journals and funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. Awards she has received include the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from President Bush in 2006 and the Best Article Award from the International Association of Relationship Researchers in 2008.

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Appearances at this years' conference:

CONFERENCE DAY TWO - FRIDAY 2 MARCH, 2012


@ 16.05
IT'S THE LITTLE THINGS: NURTURING CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS

  • What role do social bonds play in our health and well-being?
  • The difference between forging connections and avoiding loneliness
  • How can we use positive emotions to establish and nurture close relationships?
  • Being there when things go right:  the importance of being responsive in the good times
  • How making the most of positive events helps smooth the inevitable bumps in the road ahead.

  • › Professor Shelly Gable, Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

WORKSHOP 7: CREATING FLOURISHING CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS


@ 14.00
Post-conference half-day workshop

Saturday 3 March 2012
2pm - 5pm incl. half hour coffee break
SMC Function Cenre, 66 Goulburn St, Sydney

with Professor Shelly Gable, Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA; 2006 Recipient of Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists & Engineers, George W. Bush.

Research growing out of several different disciplines has converged on a simple fact: social bonds and close relationships are strongly linked to health and well-being.

Even though the field of close relationship science is a relatively young, scholars have made considerable progress in understanding processes that unfold in social bonds. The lion’s share of this research has focused on processes that undermine close relationships and the links between poor quality social relationships or social isolation and negative outcomes.  However, some of the most promising new work has paid closer attention to the positive processes in relationships. 

In this workshop Professor Gable  will present an overview of work that has focused on processes that promote flourishing, high quality relationships and the direct and indirect roles that these positive interactions play in health, and well-being.
 

  • › Professor Shelly Gable, Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA