Tamlin Conner

Tamlin S. Conner, also known as Tamlin Conner Christensen, is an American–New Zealand academic psychologist, and is a full professor at the University of Otago, specialising in researching the science of wellbeing and happiness.

Academic career
Conner grew up in California, and completed a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Colorado in Boulder followed by a PhD in social psychology at Boston College, with a thesis titled Experience-sampling procedures are they probes to autonoetic awareness?. Her supervisor was Lisa Feldman Barrett.  Conner then joined the faculty of the University of Otago in New Zealand, rising to associate professor in 2018 and full professor in 2023.

Conner researches normal behaviour, and ways to assess people's behaviour in their normal environments. She is an expert in ambulatory assessment, using smartphone survey techniques to measure daily life and natural behaviour. She works on subjective wellbeing, and has published on research that showed how to identify people more likely to vape, allowing targeting of health messaging, the effects of kiwifruit consumption, sleep, exercise and diet on mood and wellbeing. She co-edited the Handbook of Research Methods for Studying Daily Life, with Matthias Mehl, published in 2012 by Guilford Press.

As of 2024 Conner is a member of the Economics and Human and Behavioural Sciences panel for assessing Marsden grant proposals, and she is an associate editor for the journal Emotion. She is a past vice-president of the Society for Ambulatory Assessment.

Honours and awards
Conner was awarded the Otago University Student Association Supervisor of the Year award in 2017. Boston College graduate student teaching excellence award. Nominee for OUSA award again in 2018.