Joseph Paul Forgas[1] (born 16 May 1947) is an Australian social psychologist, currently Scientia Professor at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

Prof. Forgas has been a consistently active and productive researcher, investigating the influence of cognitive and affective processes on interpersonal behaviours.

He also received the Research Prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and a Rockefeller Fellowship for work in the Bellagio Centre.

Prof. Forgas was Australia's Keynote Speaker at the International Congress of Psychology (Stockholm, 2000), and at the Conference of Italian Social Psychologists (Bari, 2003).

Prof. Forgas is fluent in several languages (English, Hungarian, German, French), and he also maintains highly productive collaborative research links with leading overseas laboratories (Stanford, Heidelberg, British Columbia, Mannheim, etc.).