Daniel Sullivan

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

Research Interests: 

  • Suffering, culture, environmental disasters, psychology of capitalism, and existential psychology.

Updated: 07/21/25

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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)