One of the foremost authorities on happiness, meaning and culture, Shige Oishi is the Marshall Field IV professor of psychology at the University of Chicago.
Oishi has published over 200 journal articles and book chapters across his career and has been one of the most cited personality and social psychologists. In 2021, he received the Outstanding Achievement Award for Advancing Cultural Psychology. The Psychological Review paper on a psychologically rich life he co-authored with Erin Westgate received the 2022 Wegner Theoretical Innovation Prize.
Oishi's research has been featured in major media outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The Financial Times.