Richard S. Lazarus (March 3, 1922 – November 24, 2002) was an American psychologist who began rising to prominence in the 1960s. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Lazarus as the 80th most cited psychologist of the 20th century.[1]
He was well renowned for his theory of cognitive-mediational theory within emotion.[2]
^Scherer, Klaus R.; Schorr, Angela; Johnstone, Tom (2001). Appraisal Processes in Emotion: Theory, Methods, Research. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 23. ISBN978-0-19-535154-5.