Early Life, Educational Background, and Family
Carolyn MacCann was born on February 25, 1979 in Sydney, Australia. She grew up in Sydney and attended The University of Sydney for both her undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, following in the footsteps of her parents and grandparents who also graduated from Sydney University. She was awarded her B.A. in 2001, obtaining first class honors and the O’Neil prize for best theoretical thesis in psychology. She was awarded her Ph.D. in 2006, under the supervision of Dr. Richard Roberts and Professor Beryl Hesketh. Her Ph.D. topic was the assessment of emotional intelligence as an ability, culminating in the development of two new tests – the Situational Test of Emotion Management (STEM) and the Situational Test of Emotion Understanding (STEU).
During her Ph.D. candidature, MacCann worked in educational measurement and test development, as both a field officer for the NSW Board of Studies and as a Psychometrician and Test Developer for...
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MacCann, C. (2017). MacCann, Carolyn. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_2295-1
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