Daniel Sullivan
Director, Social and Personality Psychology Program
Associate Professor, Social and Personality Psychology
Director, Cultural-Existential Psychology Laboratory

Research Interests:
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Selected Publications:
- Goad, A. N., Jimenez, T., Jones, T., Schmitt, H. J., Sedivy, L., & Sullivan, D. (in press). Credit, cops and cages: A theory of capitalist individualism. Forthcoming from Bloomsbury.
- Sullivan, D., Schmitt, H. J., & Goad, A. N. (2022). The socio-material force theory of identity. Theory & Psychology, 32, 353-374.
- Schmitt, H. J., Calloway, E., Sullivan, D., Clausen, W., Tucker, P. G., Rayman, J., et al. (2021). Chronic environmental contamination: A systematic review of psychosocial health consequences. Science of the Total Environment, 772. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145025
- Sullivan, D. (2020). Social psychological theory as history: Outlining the critical-historical approach to theory. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 24, 78-99.
- Sullivan, D. (2016). Cultural-existential psychology: The role of culture in suffering and threat. Cambridge University Press.
Courses Taught:
- PSY 352 - Personality Psychology (2014)
- PSY 360 - Social Psychology (2024)
- PSY 365 - Introduction to Cultural Psychology (2022)
- PSY 389 - Advanced Methods in Psychological Research (2023)
- PSY 496A - Topics in Social Psychology (2024)
- PSY 550 - The Psychology of Culture & Diversity (2022)
- PSY 596A - Experimental Existential Psychology (2019)
*Year listed indicates when this individual last taught the specified course.
Updated: 07/21/25
Degrees
- B.A. German Studies, University of Arizona (May 2008)
- B.S. Psychology, University of Arizona (May 2008)
- M.A. Psychology, University of Kansas (May 2010)
- Ph.D. Psychology, University of Kansas (July 2013)