Speech title:
Perceived competitiveness and achievement motivation

Dr. Andrew J. Elliot is Professor of Psychology at the University of Rochester. He has held Visiting Professor positions at Cambridge University, King Abdulaziz University, Oxford University, and the University of Munich, and has been a Visiting Fellow at Churchill College (Cambridge) and Jesus College (Oxford). He received his Ph. D. in social-personality psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1994. His research focuses on achievement motivation and approach-avoidance motivation.

He is currently editor of Advances in Motivation Science, and has over 200 scholarly publications. He has received multiple awards for his teaching and his research contributions to both educational and social-personality psychology. He has given keynote or university addresses in more than 20 different countries, and his lab regularly hosts professors, post-docs, and graduate students from around the globe. He is currently past-president of the Society for the Science of Motivation.