Carolyn MacCann

Professor Carolyn MacCann is a Professor in the School of Psychology at the University of Sydney, within the Faculty of Science. She received her PhD from the University of Sydney in 2006 and her B.A. (Hons I) from the same university between 1997 and 2000, majoring in Psychology and English. After completing her doctorate, she held postdoctoral fellowships at Educational Testing Service (ETS) in Princeton, New Jersey, USA, and at the Australian Graduate School of Management in Sydney, Australia. Throughout her career at the University of Sydney, she has progressed to her current professorial role, contributing extensively to psychological research and assessment methodologies.

MacCann's research specializations include emotional intelligence, emotion regulation, experience sampling, personality assessment, and individual differences. Her current focus is on how people regulate others' emotions to make them feel better or worse. This work has garnered substantial academic impact, with her Google Scholar profile indicating over 13,399 citations. Notable publications encompass 'Emotional intelligence predicts academic performance: A meta-analysis' (2020, Psychological Bulletin, cited 1,666 times), which established emotional intelligence as a predictor of student grades beyond cognitive ability; 'New paradigms for assessing emotional intelligence: theory and data' (2008, Emotion, 875 citations); 'Coping mediates the relationship between emotional intelligence (EI) and academic achievement' (2011, Contemporary Educational Psychology, 631 citations); 'Testing complex models with small sample sizes: A historical overview and empirical demonstration of what partial least squares (PLS) can offer differential psychology' (2015, Personality and Individual Differences, 563 citations); and 'Development of emotional intelligence: Towards a multi-level investment model' (2003, 534 citations). She has received Australian Research Council (ARC) funding, including Discovery Project grants DP150101158 and DP210103484, and holds an ARC Future Fellowship. Additionally, MacCann serves on the ARC College of Experts. Previously, she taught undergraduate courses on assessment, personality, emotions, and statistics.

Professional Email: carolyn.maccann@sydney.edu.au