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Tamlin Conner

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Tamlin Conner
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Colorado, Boston College
Thesis
  • Experience-sampling procedures are they probes to autonoetic awareness? (2003)
Doctoral advisorLisa Feldman Barrett
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity 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

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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

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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

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References

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  1. ^ Christensen, Tamlin Conner (2003). Experience-sampling procedures are they probes to autonoetic awareness? (PhD thesis). Boston College.
  2. ^ Otago, University of (9 January 2024). "A quest for happiness". www.otago.ac.nz. Retrieved 21 April 2024.
  3. ^ a b Sciences, Division of (19 December 2018). "Science Division announces academic promotions". www.otago.ac.nz. Retrieved 21 April 2024.
  4. ^ a b c University of Otago, Wellington (16 December 2022). "Otago announces 39 new professors". www.otago.ac.nz. Retrieved 21 April 2024.
  5. ^ "Sleep trumps diet and exercise for young peoples' wellbeing". RNZ. 23 December 2020. Retrieved 21 April 2024.
  6. ^ Lewis, John (26 January 2024). "Kiwifruit boosts mood fast: study". Otago Daily Times Online News. Retrieved 21 April 2024.
  7. ^ Ellis, Fiona (11 March 2024). "Study reveals those more likely to vape". Otago Daily Times Online News. Retrieved 21 April 2024.
  8. ^ "Betwixt two worlds? Disruptive technology and negotiating identity change | ASPIRE Aotearoa". aspireaotearoa.org.nz. Retrieved 21 April 2024.
  9. ^ "APA PsycNet". psycnet.apa.org. Retrieved 24 April 2024.
  10. ^ "Marsden Fund panels". Royal Society Te Apārangi. Retrieved 21 April 2024.
  11. ^ Psychology, Department of (9 February 2023). "Professor Tamlin Conner". www.otago.ac.nz. Retrieved 21 April 2024.
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