Stevan E. Hobfoll

Stevan E. Hobfoll is a psychologist known for his research on stress, war, terrorism, health and organizational life, and for proposing Conservation of Resources theory in 1989. The theory holds that people are driven both to keep the resources they have and to pursue new ones, and that psychological stress follows a threat of resource loss, an actual loss, or a failure to gain resources after effort. His author biography says he has authored and edited 14 books, including Traumatic Stress, The Ecology of Stress, Stress Culture and Community, and Tribalism: The Evolutionary Origins of Fear Politics, along with over 300 journal articles, chapters and technical reports. He was Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Kent State University and Presidential Professor of Behavioral Sciences, Medicine, Preventive Medicine and Nursing at Rush University Medical Center, headed NATO workshops and co-chaired the APA National Commission on Stress and War during Operation Desert Storm.