On June 29, 2012, we had a riveting Q&A Interview with eminent psychologist,
neuroscience research director, and author--Richard J. Davidson, Ph.D.
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Dr. Richie Davidson talking about his new book (4 mins)
ABOUT RICHARD J. DAVIDSON , PH.D.
Dr. "Richie" Davidson is the William James and
Vilas Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, Director of the Waisman
Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior and the Laboratory for Affective
Neuroscience, and Founder and Chair of the Center for Investigating
Healthy Minds at the Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in Psychology and has
been at Wisconsin since 1984.
Richie
is the recipient of numerous awards for his research including a National
Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Award, a MERIT Award from
NIMH, an Established Investigator Award from the National Alliance for
Research in Schizophrenia and Affective Disorders (NARSAD), a Distinguished
Investigator Award from NARSAD, the William James Fellow Award from
the American Psychological Society, and the Hilldale Award from the
University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Richie was the Founding Co-Editor of the new American
Psychological Association journal EMOTION and is Past-President of the
Society for Research in Psychopathology and of the Society for Psychophysiological
Research. He was also the year 2000 recipient of the most distinguished
award for science given by the American Psychological Association -
the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award.
In 2011, he was given the Paul D. MacLean Award for Outstanding
Neuroscience Research in Psychosomatic Medicine. He serves on the Scientific
Advisory Board at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain
Sciences in Leipzig from 2011-2017 and is currently Chair of the Psychology
section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Richie has also been highly recognized in the popular
press for advancing the understanding of the brain, having been named
(in 2006) as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by
Time magazine, and (in 2007) as Person of the Year by Madison Magazine.
In
2008, Richie founded The
Center for Investigating Healthy Minds, a research center within
the Waisman Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison which is dedicated
to the study of positive qualities (such as kindness and compassion),
how they develop, and how they might be nurtured. The Dalai Lama attended
the Center's grand opening, and in May 2010 made an unsolicited grant
from his personal trust of $50,000 to further the Center's research
mission.
The book offers a new model for understanding our emotions -- their
origins, their power and their malleability. Davidson has discovered
through his research that personality is composed of six basic emotional
"styles," including resilience, self-awareness, and attention.
Our emotional fingerprints are formed from where we fall on the continuum
of each style. Richie explains the brain circuits that underlie each
style, constructing a model of the emotional brain that are likely to
affect the way we treat conditions like autism and depression. And,
he provides strategies we can use to change our own brains and emotions--if
we wish to do so.
BEN'S
INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD J. DAVIDSON, PH.D. 
Richie
is the recipient of numerous awards for his research including a National
Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Award, a MERIT Award from
NIMH, an Established Investigator Award from the National Alliance for
Research in Schizophrenia and Affective Disorders (NARSAD), a Distinguished
Investigator Award from NARSAD, the William James Fellow Award from
the American Psychological Society, and the Hilldale Award from the
University of Wisconsin-Madison. 
