Psychology Faculty

Donnah Canavan

Associate Professor

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Donnah Canavan

Ph.D.

Contact

McGuinn 435

Telephone: 617-552-4116

Email: donnah.canavan@bc.edu

Education

  • Ph.D., Columbia University

Courses

PSYC3345 Social Motivation
PSYC4431 Positive Psychology
PSYC4447 Individual Differences and Social Behavior
PSYC4448 Achievement Motivation

Research Interests

Effects of shared enthusiasm; the development of individual differences: fear of success, healthy, and conventional orientations to success; psychological separateness and narcissism; psychology of self-esteem and of adult children of alcoholics.

Curriculum Vitae

Department

Psychology

Biography

Professor Canavan joined the faculty in 1970, after completing a Post-doctoral fellowship at UCLA. Her research has been concentrated in the areas of social and personality psychology. She is currently completing a series of studies in support of her theory of “social energy.” Professor Canavan teaches courses in Introductory Psychology and various courses in the areas personality theory and individual differences.

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