Kristin Neff


Kristin Neff is an associate professor in the University of Texas at Austin's department of educational psychology. She created the Self-compassion Scales. The long scale consists of 26 items and the short scale consists of 12 items. She has been credited with conducting the first academic studies into self-compassion.
Neff has been interviewed for The Atlantic and has written for University of California, Berkeley's Greater Good Magazine.