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June Gruber
Occupation(s)Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Awards
  • APS Rising Star Award (2011)
  • APS Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions (2016)
  • SRP Early Career Award (2012)
  • Yale University Arthur Greer Memorial Prize for Outstanding Junior Faculty (2012)
  • NARSAD Young Investigator Award (2014)
  • NARSAD Young Investigator Award (2019)
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Colorado, Boulder

June Gruber is a licensed clinical psychologist whose research focuses on the positive affectivity and disturbances involving positive emotion, for example, as experienced by people with bipolar disorder.[1] She is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Colorado Boulder and Director of the Positive Emotion and Psychopathology Laboratory (www.gruberpeplab.com).

Gruber received the Association for Psychological Science (APS) Rising Star Award in 2011.[2] and APS Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions in 2016.[3]

Gruber is editor of the Oxford Handbook of Positive Emotion and Psychopathology [4] and co-editor (with Judith Tedlie Moskowitz) of Positive Emotion: Integrating the Light Sides and Dark Sides.[5]

Early life and education

Gruber was raised in Half Moon Bay, California where she attended Half Moon Bay High School and graduated as class co-valedictorian in 1999.[6] She later attended the University of California, Berkeley, where she completed her B.A. in Psychology with the highest distinction in scholarship and high honors in psychology (2003) and was a Haas Undergraduate Research Fellow.

Academic career

Gruber earned her M.A. (2005) and Ph.D. (2009) in Clinical Psychology, also at UC Berkeley, where she was an NIMH Predoctoral Fellow in Affective Science. As a student of affective and clinical science, Gruber collaborated on projects with Ann Kring,[7] Sheri Johnson, and Dacher Keltner.[8] Her dissertation was supervised by Allison Harvey.[2]

Gruber was an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Yale University from 2009-2014. Whilst there she received the Arthur Greer Memorial Prize for Outstanding Junior Faculty to support her research on the potentially negative consequences of positive emotion.[9]

In 2014 she moved to the University of Colorado Boulder.[10][11]

Research areas

Negative impacts of positive emotions: Psychopathology and bipolar disorder

Gruber conducts research on the ways different types of positive emotions impact well-being and health, and particularly on negative aspects.[3] Positive emotions may provide the basis for dysfunction,[1] and suboptimal outcomes. This area of work is sometimes known as "positive emotion disturbance".

During her graduate studies in clinical psychology Dr. Gruber gained first-hand exposure to patients diagnosed with bipolar disorder, and saw the potential negative consequences of heightened euphoria during mania.[12]

Happiness

Gruber sees happiness as "not one single thing," but composed of "feelings, thoughts, behaviors and even the way our body responds." She believes a direct focus on achieving happiness can backfire; "people report feeling less happy the more they try to pursue it." So her advice is “Don’t focus on the pursuit of happiness; focus on other people, things you’re grateful for and doing things for others as opposed [for] yourself.”[13]

Gruber has undertaken studies suggesting that seeking happiness can have negative effects, such as failure to meet over-high expectations.[14][15][16] (Iris Mauss has similarly shown that the more people strive for happiness, the more likely they’ll set up too high of standards and feel disappointed.[17][18])

Gruber has argued that happiness may have negative effects. It may trigger a person to be more sensitive, more gullible, less successful, and more likely to undertake high risk behaviours.[19][20][14][15][16]

Recognitions and Awards

Gruber's work has been recognized by several early-career awards including the 2011 Association for Psychological Science’s Rising Star Award and the 2016 Association for Psychological Science’s Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions, the 2012 Society for Research in Psychopathology's Early Career Award, and two NARSAD Young Investigator Awards in 2014 and 2019 from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation.[21]

Other activities

Gruber has taught courses on emotion, happiness, and psychopathology. Her pedagogical activities also include the forthcoming #TalkMentalIllness series, the Experts in Emotion Interview Series at Yale University, and a free online course in Human Emotion available through YouTube and iTunes U. Gruber offers a free online course in Human Emotion available through YouTube and other sources.[22] She has given a public TEDx talk[23] on the “dark side” of happiness. She contributes to a monthly column for young scientists on careers in Science.[24] Gruber is engaged in science outreach and distribution of the science of emotions and mental health for students and the broader public. She developed a focus on the mental health crisis sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic.[25]

Gruber is invested in mentoring future generations of scientists and clinicians, and co-writes a monthly column for young scientists in Science Careers, is the recipient of the 2020 UROP Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award, and received an IMPART grant to co-lead a workshop on advancing underrepresented women in the sciences. She has also written on the role of women in psychological research.[26]

References

  1. ^ a b "Positive Emotion and Psychopathology Lab - Director Dr. June Gruber". gruberpeplab.com. Retrieved October 22, 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Rising Stars". APS Observer. 24 (5). May 4, 2011.
  3. ^ a b "June Gruber". Association for Psychological Science - APS. Retrieved November 23, 2020.
  4. ^ The Oxford handbook of positive emotion and psychopathology. Gruber, June. New York, NY. 2019. ISBN 978-0-19-065320-0. OCLC 1082295099.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  5. ^ Positive emotion : integrating the light sides and dark sides. Gruber, June, Moskowitz, Judith Tedlie. New York. January 2013. ISBN 978-0-19-992673-2. OCLC 870272349.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  6. ^ "HMB High valedictorians June Gruber and Matt WaddellERIN WALDNER / Half Moon Bay Review / June 19, 1999". Half Moon Bay Review. Retrieved December 16, 2020.
  7. ^ Gruber, J., & Kring, A. M. (2008). "Narrating emotional events in schizophrenia. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 117(3), 520–533". Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 117 (3): 520–533. doi:10.1037/0021-843x.117.3.520. PMID 18729606.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  8. ^ Gruber, J., Johnson, S. L., Oveis, C., & Keltner, D. (2008). "Risk for mania and positive emotional responding: Too much of a good thing? Emotion, 8(1), 23–33". Emotion. 8 (1): 23–33. doi:10.1037/1528-3542.8.1.23. PMC 2847501. PMID 18266513.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  9. ^ "Yale College prizes celebrate outstanding junior faculty". YaleNews. November 7, 2012. Retrieved November 23, 2020.
  10. ^ "June Gruber". gruber.socialpsychology.org. Retrieved November 23, 2020.
  11. ^ "June Gruber".
  12. ^ Gruber, June; Villanueva, Cynthia; Burr, Emily; Purcell, John R.; Karoly, Hollis (2020). "Understanding and taking stock of positive emotion disturbance". Social and Personality Psychology Compass. 14. doi:10.1111/spc3.12515. S2CID 213384805.
  13. ^ "The Key Ingredients You Need To Be Happier". HuffPost. July 25, 2014. Retrieved December 8, 2020.
  14. ^ a b "Positive Emotion and Psychopathology Lab - Director Dr. June Gruber". Archived from the original on October 10, 2018. Retrieved October 12, 2018.
  15. ^ a b "Trying to be happy could make you miserable, study finds". the Guardian. January 4, 2020.
  16. ^ a b Mauss, Iris B.; Tamir, Maya; Anderson, Craig L.; Savino, Nicole S. (2011). "Can Seeking Happiness Make People Happy? Paradoxical Effects of Valuing Happiness". Emotion. 11 (4): 807–815. doi:10.1037/a0022010. PMC 3160511. PMID 21517168.
  17. ^ Mauss, Iris B.; Tamir, Maya; Anderson, Craig L.; Savino, Nicole S. (2011). "Can seeking happiness make people unhappy? Paradoxical effects of valuing happiness". Emotion. 11 (4): 807–815. doi:10.1037/a0022010. ISSN 1931-1516. PMC 3160511. PMID 21517168.
  18. ^ "Four "Inside Out" insights to discuss and improve our kids' emotional lives (and our own)". SharpBrains. August 25, 2015. Retrieved November 24, 2020.
  19. ^ "Too much Happiness Can Make You Unhappy". Washington Post.
  20. ^ "New study sheds light on 'dark side of happiness', 2011". Boston.com. Retrieved December 8, 2020.
  21. ^ "2019 Young Investigator Grant Program" (PDF).
  22. ^ "Human Emotion with June Gruber - YouTube". YouTube.
  23. ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: The Dark Side of Happiness: June Gruber at TEDxCambridge 2011. YouTube.
  24. ^ "Introducing 'Letters to Young Scientists,' a new column from Science Careers". Science | AAAS. August 27, 2018. Retrieved November 23, 2020.
  25. ^ "Flattening the mental health curve is the next big coronavirus challenge".
  26. ^ Gruber, June; et al. (2021). "The Future of Women in Psychological Science". Perspectives on Psychological Science. 16 (3): 483–516. doi:10.1177/1745691620952789. PMC 8114333. PMID 32901575.
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