Dr. Matthew Ruby

I come from the deep woods of New England, where I completed my undergraduate training in Psychology and German Language and Literature at Colby College. After a year teaching English as a Fulbright Teaching Fellow in Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany, I came to join my wonderful colleagues here at UBC. My research interests are many, but the major lines of research that I pursue are cultural differences in the conceptualization, and pursuit of, happiness and well-being; the psychological underpinnings of people's food choices, and human-animal interactions.

Dr. Matthew Ruby continued his research as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Universität Hamburg and the University of Pennsylvania. He is now a Lecturer in Psychology at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.