Dr. Charles S. Carver is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Miami. His work addresses a wide range of topics in personality, social psychology, health psychology, and experimental psychopathology. (He is not a dilettante, he is eclectic.) He has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the American Cancer Society, and the National Cancer Institute. He was Editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology's section on Personality Processes and Individual Differences and is now Associate Editor of Psychological Review.

He received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas in Personality Psychology.