Talk:Tal Ben-Shahar

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Reverted text due to copvio. Taken directly from the person's web site. http://www.talbenshahar.com/bio.php —Preceding unsigned comment added by Whpq (talk • contribs) 2006-11-29

Ben-Shachar's PhD is not from Harvard Business School. HBS is actually not even authorized by the University to grant PhD's -- their own doctoral students are DBA's, instead. To deal with this complexity, HBS has several "joint" programs with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), among which Organizational Behavior is one (others are Business Economics, Health Policy, and Science Technology and Management). The Organizational Behavior program is jointly administered with two departments in Harvard University's FAS -- the Psychology and Sociology departments -- and, formally, the PhD is granted by them. It is in fact more accurate to say that Ben-Shachar holds a PhD from Harvard's Psychology and Sociology departments than it is to say that he holds a PhD from HBS. But since the situation is messy, let's just say it's a "PhD in Organizational Behavior from Harvard University."

(For a reference on this, please see http://www.hbs.edu/doctoral/programs/ob/, which states: "Offered jointly by the Departments of Psychology and Sociology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Business School, the program combines training in the theory and methods of psychology and sociology, the study of business administration, and empirical research on organizational phenomena." )

I can't help but note that much of this article takes a sneering tone toward Ben-Shachar's work and comes pretty close to being POV. The attribution of his PhD to HBS is, I imagine, just a subtle attempt to discredit his understanding of psychology. Maybe I'll edit some more later.

208.54.15.215 01:03, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Ben Shahar is not listed as a lecturer on the Psychology department website (http://www.isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k3007&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup5601). If he is still employed by the university, a reference needs to be provided.

External Links

I am a Harvard undergrad who has taken Tal Ben Shahar’s Positive Psych class and this link (http://www.thefinalclub.org/blogs/spring2008/PositivePsych/) is to a site with interactive blogs done on Harvard undergrad lectures. The posts for each lecture are extremely useful (my prep for the final consisted almost solely of reading these blogs) and anyone can read and contribute to the commentary of the texts on the site.

If you read through a lecture or two and agree, I'd encourage someone with more Wikipedia clout than myself to post on the Tal Ben-Shahar page. Let me know what you all think. I'd love to hear your thoughts. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bbrasky100 (talk • contribs) 16:23, 19 June 2008 (UTC)