About the Author
Ajit K. Dalal is Professor of Psychology at the University of Allahabad, India. He had obtained his Master s degrees in Mathematics (1971) and Psychology (1974). He earned his Doctor of Philosophy degree (1978) from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. Professor Dalal had received the Fulbright Senior Fellow in 1982 and worked at the University of California, Los Angeles, and at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He was also a recipient of the UGC Career Award (1990 1993), Rockefeller Foundation Award (1992) and ICSSR Senior Research Fellowship (1998 and 2012). He was an adjunct Professor at Queen s University, Canada (1992 1998) and was visiting faculty at several institutions, including National Institute of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and Calcutta University, Kolkata. He was the editor of an international journal Psychology and Developing Societies (2001 2011), and is on the editorial board of several journals.Professor Dalal has published his work in the areas such as causal attribution, health beliefs and healing traditions of India and Indian psychology. He has published about 90 research articles and book chapters. He published several books, prominent among them are: Attribution Theory and Research (1988), New Directions in Indian Psychology (vol. 1) (with G. Misra, 2002), Social Dimensions of Health (with S. Ray, 2005), Handbook of Indian Psychology (with K.R. Rao and A.C. Paranjpe, 2008), New Directions in Health Psychology (with R. Misra, 2011), and Qualitative Research on Well-Being and Self-Growth: Contemporary Indian Perspectives (with R. Priya, 2013).
