Former RSF Visiting Scholar Kathleen Vohs has been named Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota, where she is currently also Land O' Lakes Chair in Marketing in the Carlson School of Management. The university’s Distinguished McKnight University Professorship program recognizes outstanding faculty members who have recently achieved full professor status.

During her time at the Foundation, from 2013-2014, Vohs investigated the self-sufficiency theory of money—or the idea that money is a source of independence for people that has both negative and positive effects on their behavior—as part of a working group with Roy Baumeister. Vohs and Baumeister are also co-editors with George Lowenstein of the 2007 RSF book Do Emotions Help or Hurt?

Click here to read the announcement from the University of Minnesota.