On November 5th, Professor José María Peiró will receive the Laurea Magistrale Honoris Causa from the University of Florence, recently approved by the Ministry of Universities and Research of Italy.

Professor Peiró is Professor Emeritus of the Department of Social Psychology at the University of Valencia, Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Valencia and was the first director, after its creation, of the Institute for Research in Psychology of Human Resources, Organizational Development and Quality of Working Life of the University of Valencia (IDOCAL) of the University of Valencia.

During his long career he has been president of the EAWOP (European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology, 1995-97) and of the IAAP (International Association of Applied Psychology, 2011-2014), director of the Department of Social Psychology and dean of the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Valencia. He is a full member of the Spanish Academy of Psychology.

This investiture as an honorary doctor is added to those of the Methodist University of Sao Paulo in 2010, the Miguel Hernández University of Elx in 2017, the University of Maastricht in 2020, the University of Coimbra in 2023, the University of Almería in 2024 and the Federico Villarreal National University of Peru in 2024.

In addition, he has received national and international recognitions such as the Aristotle Prize of the European Federation of Psychological Associations (Milan, 2015), the Distinguished Teaching Award of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (2022), the Machiko Fokuhara Award Excellence in International Research and Service of the International Council of Psychology (2013), the EAWOP Life Time Achievement Award (2013), the IAPP Certificate of Honor (2018) the "José Luis Pinillos" Award for Psychologist of the Year of the Psicofundación (2016) and the Research Award of the Economic and Social Council of Spain (2017). He is an Honorary Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology of the USA (2009) and of the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology (2001)

Link to watch the broadcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3eVziik0ik

Source: Academia de Psicología de España

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