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Updated: Saturday, November 21, 2009 7:35 p.m.

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Salovey: An ‘emotional’ student

Staff Reporter
Published Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Every Friday morning, nearly without fail, Dean — soon-to-be Provost — Peter Salovey puts away his administrative to-do list. He files away reports on academic budgets and faculty appointments, closes his e-mail inbox and walks a little ways up Science Hill, where, at his lab’s weekly meeting, he can be a psychologist again.

“It’s a break from my administrative responsibilities,” he said. “[It’s] a very important part of my week.”

Psychology became a passion of his soon after Salovey picked up a copy of Elliot Aronson’s “The Social Animal” the summer between his senior year...

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