Howard Friedman
Department of Psychology
University of California
Riverside, California 92521
U.S.A.
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Dr. Friedman's research efforts center on his archival prospective study of predictors and mediators of health and longevity in the 8-decade Terman cohort. This project studies females and males across the life-span (1921- 2006) based on archival data first collected by Lewis Terman in the 1920's, and updated by Friedman to include death certificates.
The goal of this research is to understand the ways psychosocial factors affect health and longevity across time. The initial findings emerging from this project indicated that childhood personality (especially conscientiousness) and the (lack of) experience of parental divorce in childhood were predictive of longevity across the life-span, and continuing efforts have focused on the explanatory mechanisms involved in such observed key relations. These relations are being explored in terms of subsequent (adulthood) psychosocial patterns and health-related behaviors such as alcohol consumption, smoking, obesity, physical activity, marriage, education, and psychosocial adjustment.
Perhaps the key result of this project thus far is the emerging picture of a life-long pattern of responding that significantly decreases the risk of ill health and premature mortality. A key overview paper from this project is the article "Psychosocial and Behavioral Predictors of Longevity: The Aging and Death of the Termites," published in the American Psychologist in February 1995.
Prof. Friedman is the winner of the James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science (2007-08). See: www.psychologicalscience.org/awards/cattell/citations/friedman.cfm
Dr. Friedman's research on nonverbal communication focuses on expressive style and its relation to personality and the transmission of emotion. Studies of facial expressions and body movements are employed to examine healthy style, social influence, and personal charisma. His Affective Communication Test cannot be provided for personal insight, but an expanded version of the ACT (with detailed instructions for best use)is available from him for businesses or professionals.
 Books:
 Friedman, H. S. (2002). Health psychology (2nd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
- Friedman, H. S. (2000). Self-healing personality: Why some people achieve health and others succumb to illness. New York: Henry Holt. (Iuniverse)
- Friedman, H. S. (Ed.). (2001). The disorders: Specialty articles from the Encyclopedia of Mental Health. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
- Friedman, H. S. (Ed.). (1992). Hostility, coping, and health. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
- Friedman, H. S. (Editor-in-Chief). (1998). Encyclopedia of mental health. San Diego, CA: Academic Press. [emphasizes positive aspects of mental and social functioning]
- Friedman, H. S., & Schustack, M. W. (2006). Personality: Classic theories and modern research (3rd ed.). Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
- Friedman, H. S., & Silver, R. C. (Eds.). (2007). Foundations of health psychology. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Schustack, M. W., & Friedman, H. S. (2008). The personality reader (2nd ed.). Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
Journal Articles:
- Friedman, H. S. (2000). Long-term relations of personality and health: Dynamisms, mechanisms, tropisms. Journal of Personality, 68, 1089-1108.
- Friedman, H. S., Tucker, J. S., Schwartz, J. E., Tomlinson-Keasey, C., Martin, L. R., Wingard, D. L., Criqui, M. H. (1995). Psychosocial and behavioral predictors of longevity: The aging and death of the "Termites." American Psychologist, 50, 69-78.
- Martin, L.R., Friedman, H.S., & Schwartz, J.E. (2007). Personality and mortality risk across the lifespan: The importance of conscientiousness as a biopsychosocial attribute. Health Psychology, 26, 428-436.
- Peterson, C., Seligman, M. E. P., Yurko, K. H., Martin, L. R., & Friedman, H. S. (1998). Catastrophizing and untimely death. Psychological Science, 9, 49-52.
- Tucker, J. S., Friedman, H. S. Schwartz, J. E., Criqui, M. H., Tomlinson-Keasey, C., Wingard, D. L. & Martin, L. R. (1997). Parental divorce: Effects on individual behavior and longevity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 73, 381-391.
Other Publications:
- Article on the James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award
- Friedman, H. S., & Adler, N. E. (2007). The history and background of health psychology. In H. S. Friedman & R. C. Silver (Eds.), Foundations of Health Psychology (pp. 3-18). New York: Oxford University Press.
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