Stanley Schachter | |
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| Born | April 15, 1922 Flushing, Queens, New York, U.S. |
| Died | June 7, 1997 (aged 75) East Hampton, New York, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Yale University (BA, MA) University of Michigan (PhD) |
| Spouse | Sophia Duckworth |
| Children | 1 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Psychology |
| Institutions | University of Minnesota Columbia University |
| Thesis | Deviation, rejection, and communication. (1950) |
| Doctoral advisor | Leon Festinger |
| Doctoral students | Richard E. Nisbett Lee Ross Nicholas Christenfeld E. Tory Higgins Jerome E. Singer Bibb Latané Judith Rodin |
Stanley Schachter (April 15, 1922 – June 7, 1997) was an American social psychologist best known for his development of the two factor theory of emotion in 1962 along with Jerome E. Singer. In his theory he states that emotions have two ingredients: physiological arousal and a cognitive label. A person's experience of an emotion stems from the mental awareness of the body's physical arousal and the explanation one attaches to this arousal. Schachter also studied and published many works on the subjects of obesity, group dynamics, birth order and smoking. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Schachter as the seventh most cited psychologist of the 20th century.[1]
- ^ Haggbloom, Steven J.; Warnick, Renee; Warnick, Jason E.; Jones, Vinessa K.; Yarbrough, Gary L.; Russell, Tenea M.; Borecky, Chris M.; McGahhey, Reagan; Powell III, John L.; Beavers, Jamie; Monte, Emmanuelle (2002). "The 100 most eminent psychologists of the 20th century". Review of General Psychology. 6 (2): 139–152. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.586.1913. doi:10.1037/1089-2680.6.2.139. S2CID 145668721.