Dandan Pang International Positive Psychology Association 8th IPPA World Congress 2023

Dandan Pang

Dandan Pang is an Assistant Professor of mindfulness and positive workplace at the Business School of the Bern University of Applied Sciences, and an affiliated researcher at the Department of Work and Organizational Psychology at the University of Bern. She is proud to be the first professor in Switzerland to research and teach mindfulness and positive psychology exclusively. Her research is dedicated to measuring, characterizing, and improving the well-being of employees in the workplace, utilizing methods such as psychometric scales, computational linguistic analysis, and facial action coding system (FACS). After obtaining a doctor's degree in social and personality psychology with a focus on positive traits (i.e., mindfulness and character strengths) at the University of Zurich (summa cum laude and best dissertation award), she built an interactive online platform “WorkWell” that brings evidence-based training from the field of mindfulness and positive psychology to workers across German-speaking countries. Additionally, her research stays in 2018 and 2021 at the University of Pennsylvania sparked her interest in using A.I.-based language analysis to better understand positive traits. Dandan loves tea, calligraphy, reading, traveling, and exploring different cultures.