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Christopher Peterson was affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily focused on the field of Medicine, with 106 publications contributing to this area. Within Medicine, Peterson specialized in several subfields including Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Safety Research.

Peterson's work addressed a range of main topics, notably academic integrity and plagiarism, artificial intelligence in healthcare and education, academic publishing and open access, vaccine coverage and hesitancy, adversarial robustness in machine learning, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, and cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research.

Their recent publications included:

  • COVID-19 Vaccination Hesitancy among Healthcare Workers-A Review, 2022, Vaccines
  • Neurological sequelae of COVID-19: a review, 2021, The Egyptian Journal of Neurology Psychiatry and Neurosurgery

Frequent coauthors who collaborated with Peterson included Kenneth Nugent, Benjamin Lee, Shengping Yang, Kiriti Vattikonda, and Caleb Anderson. These collaborations contributed to varied research outputs across Peterson's fields of study.

Peterson published regularly in several academic venues. The most frequent publication venues were:

  • The Southwest Respiratory and Critical Care Chronicles
  • Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings
  • Cureus
  • Journal of Primary Care & Community Health
  • The American Journal of the Medical Sciences

In addition to journal publications, Peterson authored a book titled Monkey Trouble, published by Fordham University Press eBooks in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification

    Christopher Peterson;Martin E. P. Seligman

  • Positive Psychology Progress: Empirical Validation of Interventions.

    Martin E. P. Seligman;Tracy A. Steen;Nansook Park;Christopher Peterson

  • Grit: Perseverance and Passion for Long-Term Goals

    Angela L. Duckworth;Christopher Peterson;Michael D. Matthews;Dennis R. Kelly

  • The attributional Style Questionnaire

    Christopher Peterson;Amy Semmel;Carl L. von Baeyer;Lyn Y. Abramson

  • STRENGTHS OF CHARACTER AND WELL-BEING

    Nansook Park;Christopher Peterson;Martin E. P. Seligman

  • Causal explanations as a risk factor for depression: Theory and evidence.

    Christopher Peterson;Martin E. Seligman

  • The future of optimism.

    Christopher Peterson

  • A Primer in Positive Psychology

    Christopher Peterson

  • Orientations to happiness and life satisfaction: The full life versus the empty life.

    Christopher Peterson;Nansook Park;Martin E. P. Seligman

  • Learned Helplessness: A Theory for the Age of Personal Control

    Christopher Peterson;Steven F. Maier;Martin E. P. Seligman

  • Development, Freedom, and Rising Happiness: A Global Perspective (1981–2007)

    Ronald Inglehart;Roberto Foa;Christopher Peterson;Christian Welzel

  • Pessimistic explanatory style is a risk factor for physical illness: a thirty-five-year longitudinal study

    Christopher Peterson;Martin E. P. Seligman;George E. Vaillant

  • Attributional style and depressive symptoms among children.

    M E Seligman;C Peterson;N J Kaslow;R L Tanenbaum

  • Strengths of character, orientations to happiness, and life satisfaction

    Christopher Peterson;Willibald Ruch;Ursula Beermann;Nansook Park

  • Moral competence and character strengths among adolescents: The development and validation of the Values in Action Inventory of Strengths for Youth

    Nansook Park;Christopher Peterson

  • Shared virtue : The convergence of valued human strengths across culture and history

    Katherine Dahlsgaard;Christopher Peterson;Martin E. P. Seligman

  • Factors Influencing Succession: Lessons from Large, Infrequent Natural Disturbances

    Monica G. Turner;William L. Baker;Christopher J. Peterson;Robert K. Peet

  • Character strengths in fifty-four nations and the fifty US states

    Nansook Park;Christopher Peterson;Martin E. P. Seligman

  • Mental Health Promotion in Public Health: Perspectives and Strategies From Positive Psychology

    Rosemarie Kobau;Martin E.P. Seligman;Christopher Peterson;Ed Diener

  • Explanatory Style and Illness

    Christopher Peterson;Martin E. P. Seligman

  • Character Strengths and Virtues

    Martin Seligman;Christopher Peterson

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin E. P. Seligman
Martin E. P. Seligman University of Pennsylvania
Nansook Park
Nansook Park University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Willibald Ruch
Willibald Ruch University of Zurich
Lyn Y. Abramson
Lyn Y. Abramson University of Wisconsin–Madison
James B. Avey
James B. Avey Central Washington University
Fred Luthans
Fred Luthans University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Sean T. Hannah
Sean T. Hannah Wake Forest University
Lauren B. Alloy
Lauren B. Alloy Temple University
Monica G. Turner
Monica G. Turner University of Wisconsin–Madison
Henry H.Q. Heng
Henry H.Q. Heng Wayne State University

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