2016 Janet Taylor Spence Award June Gruber University of Colorado Boulder colorado.edu/clinicalpsychology/june-gruber-phd Please briefly describe your research interests. Emotions are an essential ingredient of what makes us human. Surprisingly, there remain many mysteries as to
aeon: Human beings are the only creatures who can make themselves miserable. Other animals certainly suffer when they experience negative events, but only humans can induce negative emotions through self-views, judgments, expectations, regrets and comparisons
The Oxford English Dictionary credits the psychologist and theologian Wayne E. Oates with coining the term “workaholic.” As Oates outlined in a 1971 book on the subject, “the compulsion or the uncontrollable need to work