Wood, Alex

Professor Alex Wood, PhD, Chair in Psychology at Stirling Management School, University of Stirling is a world expert on individual differences in well-being, which he defines very broadly as ranging from clinically impaired functioning to optimum living. He rejects the separation between “good” and “bad” well-being, seeing well-being to involve progressive degrees of functioning and as such rejects the separation between personality, clinical, health, and positive psychologies. Since high school, his over-riding interest has been in explaining why some people are happier and have better social relationships than others, which naturally lead to a focus on the whole well-being continuum, while noting the distinctiveness of certain problems and clusters of symptoms. He has also been very interested in personal growth, as a construct, and as a way to increase both the well-being and good living of oneself and others, which has led to a keen interest in the philosophy of moral ethics....