Robert Biswas-Diener (born July 27, 1972) is a positive psychologist, author and instructor at Portland State University.
Biswas-Diener's research has led him to areas such as India, Greenland, Israel, Kenya, and Spain,[1] and he has been called the "Indiana Jones of positive psychology".
Biswas-Diener has contributed to the study of happiness principally through his investigations of the well-being of groups traditionally overlooked by psychologists.
Positive psychologists have argued that there is a need create a taxonomy of “what goes right with people” as well as “what goes wrong with people.”[8] Previous attempts have focused on uni-dimensional approaches such as identify individual strengths.
Biswas-Diener has written that courage consists of two separable processes: managing the emotion of fear and “boosting the willingness to act”.