Christie has over a dozen years of experience in higher education. Her last 9 years were as faculty in the School of Social Sciences at Singapore Management University where she also served as Associate Dean from 2014 to 2016. Christie earned her Ph.D. in Social/Personality Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has authored several research articles on topics related to subjective well-being and culture and emotions. Dr. Scollon is the 2015 recipient of the Lee Kong Chian Fellowship for Research Excellence and the 2016 winner of the Singapore Management University Innovative Teacher Award. She currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Social and Personality Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Journal of Research in Personality, and Journal of Positive Psychology.