Name Christina Maslach Role Psychologist | ||
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Parents Doris Cuneo Maslach, George Maslach Books Burnout, The truth about burnout, Banishing Burnout: Six Strate, Preventing Burnout and Build, Experiencing Social Psychology Similar People Philip Zimbardo, Wilmar Schaufeli, Herbert Freudenberger, Michael P Leiter, Ayala Pines | ||
understanding burnout prof christina maslach u c berkeley
Christina Maslach is an American social psychologist and professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, known for her research on occupational burnout. When she was in graduate school, Maslach was instrumental in stopping the Stanford prison experiment.
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- understanding burnout prof christina maslach u c berkeley
- Uc berkeley professor christina maslach on the stanford prison experiment
- Education and career
- Awards and honors
- References
Uc berkeley professor christina maslach on the stanford prison experiment
Education and career
Maslach graduated from Radcliffe College (1967) and earned a PhD in Psychology at Stanford University (1971). Her evaluation of the Stanford prison experiment persuaded the investigator, her then future husband Philip Zimbardo, to stop the experiment after only six days. In 1988–89, she was President of the Western Psychological Association (WPA). Since 2001, she has been Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education at the University of California, Berkeley.
Awards and honors
In 1991, Maslach was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is also a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and of the WPA.
At Berkeley, Maslach has received the Distinguished Teaching Award and the Social Sciences Service Award. In 1997, she was named the U.S. Professor of the Year by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in 1997. In 2008, Maslach won the WPA Outstanding Teaching Award.
