Tamlin Conner

Doctoral advisorLisa Feldman BarrettAcademic workInstitutionsUniversity of Otago, Boston College

Tamlin S. Conner, also known as Tamlin Conner Christensen, is an American–New Zealand academic psychologist, and is a full professor at the University of Otago, specialising in researching the science of wellbeing and happiness.

Academic career

Conner grew up in California, and completed a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Colorado in Boulder followed by a PhD in social psychology at Boston College, with a thesis titled Experience-sampling procedures are they probes to autonoetic awareness?. Her supervisor was Lisa Feldman Barrett.^[1][2] Conner then joined the faculty of the University of Otago in New Zealand, rising to associate professor in 2018 and full professor in 2023.^[3][4]

Conner researches normal behaviour, and ways to assess people's behaviour in their normal environments. She is an expert in ambulatory assessment, using smartphone survey techniques to measure daily life and natural behaviour.^[4] She works on subjective wellbeing, and has published on research that showed how to identify people more likely to vape, allowing targeting of health messaging, the effects of kiwifruit consumption, sleep, exercise and diet on mood and wellbeing.^[5][6][7][8] She co-edited the Handbook of Research Methods for Studying Daily Life, with Matthias Mehl, published in 2012 by Guilford Press.^[9]

As of 2024 Conner is a member of the Economics and Human and Behavioural Sciences panel for assessing Marsden grant proposals, and she is an associate editor for the journal Emotion.^[4][10] She is a past vice-president of the Society for Ambulatory Assessment.^[11]

Honours and awards

Conner was awarded the Otago University Student Association Supervisor of the Year award in 2017.^[3] Boston College graduate student teaching excellence award. Nominee for OUSA award again in 2018.

Selected works

• Lisa Feldman Barrett; James Gross; Tamlin Conner Christensen; Michael Benvenuto (November 2001). "Knowing what you're feeling and knowing what to do about it: Mapping the relation between emotion differentiation and emotion regulation". Cognition and Emotion. 15 (6): 713–724. doi:10.1080/02699930143000239. ISSN 0269-9931. Wikidata Q60736104.
• Tamlin Conner Christensen; Lisa Feldman Barrett; Eliza Bliss-Moreau; Kirsten Lebo; Tamlin Conner Christensen (2003). "A Practical Guide to Experience-Sampling Procedures". Journal of Happiness Studies. 4 (1): 53–78. doi:10.1023/A:1023609306024. ISSN 1389-4978. Wikidata Q60736100.
• Tamlin S Conner; Howard Tennen; William Fleeson; Lisa Feldman Barrett (1 May 2009). "Experience Sampling Methods: A Modern Idiographic Approach to Personality Research". Social and Personality Psychology Compass. 3 (3): 292–313. doi:10.1111/J.1751-9004.2009.00170.X. ISSN 1751-9004. PMC 2773515. PMID 19898679. Wikidata Q37412418.
• Tamlin S. Conner; Colin G. DeYoung; Paul J. Silvia (17 November 2016). "Everyday creative activity as a path to flourishing". The Journal of Positive Psychology. 13 (2): 181–189. doi:10.1080/17439760.2016.1257049. ISSN 1743-9760. Wikidata Q60736019.
• Tamlin S Conner; Lisa Feldman Barrett (1 May 2012). "Trends in ambulatory self-report: the role of momentary experience in psychosomatic medicine". Psychosomatic Medicine. 74 (4): 327–337. doi:10.1097/PSY.0B013E3182546F18. ISSN 0033-3174. PMC 3372543. PMID 22582330. Wikidata Q36024073.
• Bonnie A White; Caroline Horwath; Tamlin Conner (24 January 2013). "Many apples a day keep the blues away--daily experiences of negative and positive affect and food consumption in young adults". British Journal of Health Psychology. 18 (4): 782–798. doi:10.1111/BJHP.12021. ISSN 1359-107X. PMID 23347122. Wikidata Q34324171.

References

External links

• Pathways to wellbeing, Inaugural professorial lecture by Tamlin Conner, 7 Sept 2023, via YouTube