Our research partner, Dr. Andrew J. Elliot is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Rochester. He has served on the editorial boards of multiple psychological journals, and is currently consulting editor to the Journal of Educational Psychology, the Journal of Personality, and the Personality and Social Psychology Review. The primary focus of Dr. Elliot’s research is approach and avoidance motivation. He examines the antecedents, consequences, and development of achievement motivation and social motivation. Dr. Elliot was awarded the 2003 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award for mid-career contributions to Psychology, and the 2013 Ed and Carol Diener Award for Outstanding Contributions to Personality Psychology.

Dr. Andrew Elliot

While at Teachers College, Dr. Elliot will be teaching at the Department of Human Development and will be involved in various ongoing research projects in EPIC led by Dr. Xiaodong Lin.