Kennon Marshall Sheldon is a professor of psychological sciences at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri.
His research is in the areas of well-being, motivation, self-determination theory, personality, and positive psychology.
In 2002 he was a recipient of a Templeton Foundation "Positive Psychology" prize[1] and in 2014 received the Ed and Carol Diener award for mid-career achievement in personality psychology.
He is the author of Optimal Human Being: An Integrated Multi-level Perspective,[2] Self-determination Theory in the Clinic: Motivating physical and mental health,[3] and has written and edited several other academic books, as well as more than 200 academic articles and book chapters.
[4] Interview on Hidden Brain podcast https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/what-do-you-want-to-be/