Brian Little C Psychol
PROFESSOR
Department of Psychology
Psychology and Religion Research Group University of Cambridge
United Kingdom
Biography
Professor Brian R. Little received his early education in British Columbia and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. His research lies at the intersection of personality, developmental and applied psychology. He has taught at Oxford, Carleton and Harvard Universities and received numerous awards for his teaching and research. Since 2000 he has been Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus at Carleton and since 2010 has been directing the Social Ecology Research Group (SERG) at Cambridge.
Research Interest
"Little created Personal Projects Analysis (PPA) as a general methodology for examining the daily pursuits of individuals and groups. PPA was influential in stimulating research on goal pursuit in the fields of personality, social, clinical, organizational and developmental psychology. A comprehensive treatment of this research is found in the book Personal Project Pursuit: Goals, Action and Human Flourishing. Research with PPA continues to expand and includes psychometric explorations of the methodology, cross-cultural explorations of the content and appraisal of personal projects and studies of the links between personal project features and well-being. "
Publications
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"Little, B. R. (1983). Personal projects: A rationale and method for investigation. Environment and Behavior, 15, 273-309. "
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"Little, B. R. (1976). Specialization and the varieties of environmental experience: Empirical studies within the personality paradigm. In S. Wapner, S. B. Cohen & B. Kaplan (Eds.), Experiencing the environment (pp.81-116). New York: Plenum. "
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"Little, B. R. (1972a). Psychological man as scientist, humanist and specialist. Journal of Experimental Research in Personality, 6, 95-118. "
