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• Paul Silvia
• 16/08/2012
• Psychologist, United States
• Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Paul has written two books and co-authored three more. In 2006 he published Exploring the Psychology of Interest, which examined how human interests have been studied across the subfields of psychology.
  

Paul Silvia is Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro and he is is interested in what you find interesting. His research is in cognitive influences on motivation and emotion.

In 2006 he published Exploring the Psychology of Interest which examined how interest has been studied across the subfields of psychology. He has written and co-written five books and published countless articles covering various topics from aesthetics to self-awareness, boredom and interest.

Paul is particularly interested in the emotional aspects of art and aesthetics. His research explores how appraisal processes influence emotional responses to art, similarities between aesthetic emotions and everyday emotional experience, and models of aesthetics informed by mainstream theories of emotion. He received the 2006 Berlyne Award from APA Division 10.