![]() From 1999 until his death he was professor of psychology and management at Claremont Graduate University.Ĭsíkszentmihályi was elected as an external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA) in 1998. From 1985, he was a member of the advisory board of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. After graduating from the University of Chicago in 1959, he taught at Lake Forest College.įrom 1971 to 1987 he was professor of human development at the University of Chicago. He emigrated to the United States in 1956. Besides being one of the world’s leading researchers on positive psychology, he was best known for introducing flow theory in the 1970s, defining it as a state of mind attained when one becomes fully immersed in an activity.Ĭsíkszentmihályi was born in 1934 in Fiume (Rijeka), then part of the Kingdom of Italy. World-renowned Hungarian psychologist, Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, died at the age of 88 on Wednesday. ![]()
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