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Elliot received his Bachelor of Arts in 1985 at Taylor University in Indiana, and then went on to secure a Doctor of Philosophy in Social-Personality Psychology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1994.
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His research on the hierarchical model of approach and avoidance motivation focuses on combining classic and contemporary methods to test various theories. Elliot"s work in social psychology is cited frequently by those in the field, causing him to be named one of Thomson Reuters" Inter-Services Intelligence Highly Cited for the Social Sciences in 2010. He has served on the editorial boards of multiple psychological journals, and he is currently consulting editor to the Journal of Educational Psychology, the Journal of Personality, and the Personality and Social Psychology Review.
He was also the Churchill Fellow at Cambridge University in 2010, and has served as the Visiting Senior Fellow at Jesus College in Oxford University during the 2013-2014 academic year.
He is the recipient of several grants to continue his work from many research foundations including Institute of Education Sciences and the Humboldt Foundation. His most prominent study related to color psychology, and came to the conclusions that the color red on women made them more attractive to men than any other color.
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He was awarded the 2003 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research award for mid-career contributions to Psychology, and 2013 Editor and Carol Diener Award for Outstanding Contributions to Personality Psychology. Elliot’s research focuses have had many different facets, although his primary focus is on achievement and avoidance motivation.
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