Grad Students, are you looking for a good dissertation topic?

The approach to increasing optimism which I've proposed in the chapter summarized in the preceeding post has considerable potential for producing substantial public health benefits. However, it needs to be tested empirically and I'm not in a setting where it is easy for me to free up the time to do much research. If you're interested in testing the approach, I'll be happy to give you permission to do so with no strings attached. In fact, I'll be happy to give you free advice and to help with writing a treatment manual, if you'd like.

Why would this be a good topic for a dissertation? It provides you with an opportunity to do a dissertation on a topic where you can "get in on the ground floor" and make a real contribution since this is a new area of investigation that only a few researchers have looked at. It also is a topic that has potential for being fairly important. Best of all, it is a topic that has practical advantages - a short-term intervention is completely appropriate and you can legitimately use a non-clinical population without it being an analog study.

If you'd like to discuss this, email me at jpretzer@apk.net.

Jim Pretzer

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