Jeanne Nakamura

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Jeanne Nakamura, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the School of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences at Claremont Graduate University. She received her B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. She helped direct the Good Work Project, a series of studies of excellence and social responsibility in professional life, while serving as the Research Director of the Quality of Life Research Center. She has investigated positive psychology in a developmental context, including engagement and creativity, mentoring and good work, and aging well. Her current writing and research address motivation and engagement in adulthood, the formative influences of mentoring and the formation of good mentors, and social innovation after 60 as a model for positive aging. Email address: jeanne.nakamura@cgu.edu

Selected Publications

Nakamura, J. (in press). Practicing responsibility. In H. Gardner (Ed.), Responsibility at work. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Nakamura, J., & Csikszentmihalyi, M. (2005). Engagement in a profession: The case of undergraduate teaching. Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 134 (3), 60-67.

Nakamura, J. (2005, June 22). Under the big tent. PsycCRITIQUES—Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 50.

Nakamura, J., & Cohler, B.J. (2004). Self, morale, and the social world of older adults. In J. Sadavoy et al. (Eds.), Comprehensive textbook of geriatric psychiatry (revised ed., pp. 159-202). New York: Norton.

Sawyer, R.K., John-Steiner, V., Moran, S., Sternberg, R.J., Feldman, D.H., Nakamura, J., & Csikszentmihalyi, M. (2003). Creativity and development. New York: Oxford University Press.

Nakamura, J., & Csikszentmihalyi, M. (2002). The construction of meaning through vital engagement. In C. Keyes & J. Haidt (Eds.), Flourishing (pp. 83-104). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Books.

Michaelson, M., & Nakamura, J. (Eds.). (2001). Supportive frameworks for youth engagement. New Directions in Child Development, 93.

Nakamura, J., & Csikszentmihalyi, M. (2001). Catalytic creativity: The case of Linus Pauling. American Psychologist, 56, 337-341.

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