TEDxHayward 2011: The Power of Positive Emotion by Gretchen Reevy

Gretchen M. Reevy received her B.A. in Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley. Since 1994 she has taught in the Department of Psychology at California State University, East Bay, specializing in personality, stress and coping, and psychological assessment courses. With Alan Monat and Richard S. Lazarus, she co-edited the Praeger Handbook on Stress and Coping. She is also author of the Encyclopedia of Emotion, with co-authors Yvette Malamud Ozer and Yuri Ito. With Erica Frydenberg, she co-edited the upcoming Personality, Stress, and Coping: Implications for Education. Her research interests are in personality, stress and coping, social support, emotion, and gender differences. In her free time Gretchen enjoys running and swimming and is interested in animal welfare.