Rate My Professor Kathryn Lively

Her research interests center at the nexus of identity, emotion, and culture, encompassing the sociology of emotion, emotion management, social psychology, Affect Control Theory, identity, and Internal Family Systems. She pursues two long-term projects: identifying social psychological and cultural mechanisms underlying significant and sustainable weight loss, and integrating sociological social psychology and psychiatry theories to explain reframing of past trauma for emotional healing and identity transformation among those with complex trauma. Lively co-authored the textbook Selves, Symbols, and Social Reality: A Symbolic Interactionist Approach to Social Psychology and Sociology (4th edition, Oxford University Press, 2013). Key publications include "The Affective Self: Persistence of Self-Sentiments in Late Life Dementia" (Social Psychology Quarterly, 2020), "Sociological Realms of Emotional Experience" (American Journal of Sociology, 2004), "Investigating the Relationship Among Sex, Anger, and Depression" (Social Forces, 2010), "Equity, Emotion, and the Household Division of Labor" (Social Psychology Quarterly, 2010), and "Emotion Management: Sociological Insight into What, How, Why and To What End?" (Emotion Review, 2014). Awards include the Recent Contribution to Research on the Sociology of Emotion Award from the American Sociological Association (2013, 2005), Best Paper Award from the ASA Mental Health Section (2011), and multiple Dartmouth fellowships and grants. She served on editorial boards of Journal of Health and Social Behavior and Social Psychology Quarterly, and as action editor for Emotion Review.