June Gruber

June Gruber is an American psychologist. She is a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience and Director of the Positive Emotion and Psychopathology Laboratory at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is known for her research on positive affectivity and mental health. She is a licensed clinical psychologist.

Gruber has authored over 140 articles and chapters on mental health and positive emotion, with a focus on bipolar and related mood disorders. She is editor of the ''Oxford Handbook of Positive Emotion and Psychopathology'' and co-editor (with Judith Tedlie Moskowitz) of ''Positive Emotion: Integrating the Light Sides and Dark Sides.'' She has co-authored several leading psychology textbooks including ''Psychology'' (2024) and ''Exploring Psychology'' (2025).

Gruber's research has been recognized by several awards, including the 2011 Association for Psychological Science (APS) Rising Star Award and the 2016 APS Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions. Gruber also received Yale University's Arthur Greer Memorial Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publication or Research, awarded to "a junior faculty member in the natural or social sciences."

Gruber is the current Editor-in-Chief at ''Current Directions in Psychological Science'', and previously served as an Associate Editor at several prominent journals including ''Perspectives in Psychological Science'' and ''Emotion''. Provided by Wikipedia