Rick Snyder, a distinguished professor of psychology at Kansas University, died Tuesday at age 61. Snyder, whose research focused on hope, had been in KU's psychology program since 1972. Snyder ...

Services for Charles Richard “Rick” Snyder, 61, Lawrence, will be announced later.Mr. Snyder died Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2006.He was born Dec. 26, 1944, in Council Bluffs, Iowa, the son of Charles ...

I read about Snyder’s work in social work researcher Brené Brown’s book Daring Greatly.Brown writes about Snyder’s approach to hope, which was to see it as a way of thinking or cognitive ...

I started by telling them that I have a unique connection to the science of hope. Much of what we know about hope comes from the research of psychologist Dr. C.R. “Rick” Snyder.