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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi<\/strong><\/p>\n Claremont Graduate University\u200b, USA<\/em><\/p>\n Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Management and founding Co-Director, Quality of Life Research Center.<\/span><\/p>\n Now at Claremont Graduate University, he is the former head of the department of psychology at the University of Chicago and of the department of sociology and anthropology at Lake Forest College.<\/span><\/p>\n He is noted for his work in the study of happiness and creativity, but is best known as the architect of the notion of flow and for his years of research and writing on the topic. He is the author of many books and over 120 articles or book chapters. Martin Seligman, former president of the American Psychological Association, described Csikszentmihalyi as the world’s leading researcher on positive psychology.<\/span><\/p>\n Professor Csikszentmihalyi is the founder and co-director of the Quality of Life Research Center (QLRC). The QLRC is a non-profit research institute that studies “positive psychology”; that is, human strengths such as optimism, creativity, intrinsic motivation, and responsibility.<\/span><\/p>\n