Sheldon Solomon

Sheldon Solomon is Professor of Psychology and Ross Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Skidmore College. As an experimental social psychologist (with a B.A. in psychology from Franklin and Marshall College, and PhD from the University of Kansas), his interests include the nature of self, consciousness, and social behavior. His work with Jeff Greenberg (at the University of Arizona) and Tom Pyszczynski (at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs) exploring the effects of the uniquely human awareness of death on individual and social behavior has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the Ernest Becker Foundation and was featured in the award winning documentary films Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality and The Anatomy of Hate. He is co-author of In the Wake of 9/11: The Psychology of Terror (2003, American Psychological Association Books) and co-founder of The World Leaders Project. He is a Fellow in the American Psychological Society and the Society for Experimental Social Psychology, a 2007 recipient of an American Psychological Association Presidential Citation, a 2009 recipient of a Lifetime Career Award by The International Society for Self and Identity, and a 2011 Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs Annual Faculty Award.