Dr. Laith Al-Shawaf is an award-winning research psychologist, university professor, and writer.  
 
Dr. Al-Shawaf’s interdisciplinary research blends frameworks and evidence from psychology, biology, anthropology, and cognitive science to study topics like human emotion, personality & individual differences, and cognitive biases.

His research has been featured in well-known magazines and news outlets such as the BBC, Time magazine, Washington Post, The Atlantic, Psychology Today, and more. You can find examples of his research under the Academic Publications tab. 
 
In addition to his work as a researcher and professor, Dr. Al-Shawaf also writes popular science essays for general audiences and has appeared on a variety of science podcasts and shows. You can find these under the Popular Science and Media & Podcasts tabs. His popular science essays have been translated into several different languages, including German, Spanish, Portuguese, and Turkish, among others. 
 
Dr. Al-Shawaf also serves on the advisory boards for organizations such as Ideas Beyond Borders in the United States and the Center for Applied Social Cognition Research (CASCR) in Lebanon. He is a member of the Arab-German Young Academy of scholars, and has held Visiting Fellowships and positions at universities in France, Germany, Turkey, Lebanon, and the United States, including the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, France (IAST) and the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin, Germany (Wissenschaftskolleg).  He is also affiliated with the Lyda Hill Institute for Human Resilience at the University of Colorado.
 
Dr. Al-Shawaf brings his multicultural and multilingual background to his scholarly pursuits, and he is deeply interested in how universal aspects of our psychology play out in different cultures. 

"In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways."  
- Edith Wharton
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