Peter Lifton


Professional Experience

Dr. Peter Lifton has 40+ years of professional experience as a personnel and assessment psychologist for public and private sector organizations. Prior to his Northeastern part-time faculty appointment in 2010, he was an adjunct associate professor of psychology at UMass-Amherst and held comparable faculty positions at other universities.

Professional Activities & Accomplishments

Excellence in Teaching Nominee, Northeastern University: 2012, 2014, 2020, 2021

Distinguished Teaching Nominee: UMass-Amherst, 1998

Education

PhD from University of California-Berkeley (1983)

Area of Expertise

and moral development., clinical / personality psychology, psychological assessment