Shigehiro Oishi

Shigehiro "Shige" Oishi is a Japanese psychologist and author. He is the Marshall Field IV professor of psychology at the University of Chicago, and an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Oishi is considered a foremost authority on happiness, meaning, and culture. Named one of the most cited personality and social psychologists in 2011, Oishi's research program is distinctive in its methodological range and ingenuity as well as its broad theoretical reach. He has published 200+ journal articles and book chapters across his career with over 100,000 citations. He is the author of the popular books, Life in Three Dimensions and「幸せを科学する」"Doing The Science of Happiness.”

He has been awarded two major mid-career awards in social psychology: The Career Trajectory Award from the Society of Experimental Social Psychology in 2017 and the Diener Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in 2018. In 2021, he also received the Outstanding Achievement Award for Advancing Cultural Psychology from SPSP. The Psychological Review paper on a psychologically rich life he co-authored with Erin Westgate received the 2022 Wegner Theoretical Innovation Prize. His research has been featured in major media outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The Financial Times.