Keith Davis

Keith Davis, PhD, is Professor of Psychology and former chair of the Department of Psychology at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. He earned his PhD in social-personality psychology at Duke University in 1962, and has taught at Princeton, Rutgers, and the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Division 9), The American Psychological Society, and a recent winner of the University's Educational Foundation Award for Research in the...See more

Keith Davis, PhD, is Professor of Psychology and former chair of the Department of Psychology at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. He earned his PhD in social-personality psychology at Duke University in 1962, and has taught at Princeton, Rutgers, and the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Division 9), The American Psychological Society, and a recent winner of the University's Educational Foundation Award for Research in the Humanities and the Social Sciences. He was a founding associate editor of "Personal Relationships. " His contributions include the foundation of attribution theory, the application of attachment theory to adult romantic relationships, the development of friendship and love relationships, and more recently, the predictors and consequences of psychological abuse and stalking. He is the author or co-author of more than 95 articles, books, and book chapters. See less