Robert Gifford (psychologist)

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Robert Gifford
Alma materSimon Fraser University, University of California, Davis
Scientific career
FieldsEnvironmental psychology, social psychology, personality psychology
InstitutionsUniversity of Victoria
Academic advisorsRobert Sommer

Robert Gifford is a former professor of Psychology and Environmental Studies. His main research interests are environmental psychology, social psychology and personality psychology. He has worked on nonverbal behavior[1] and on climate change behavior barriers.[2] Gifford is the author of five editions of Environmental Psychology: Principles and Practice, which has also been translated into Japanese, and edited Research Methods for Environmental Psychology (2016). From 2004 to 2016, he was the editor in chief of the Journal of Environmental Psychology.[3] Gifford is also on the editorial board of Architectural Science Review.[4] He has been president of the environmental divisions of the American Psychological Association, the International Association of Applied Psychology and the Canadian Psychological Association.[5]

  1. ^ Goleman, Daniel (17 September 1991). "Non-Verbal Cues Are Easy to Misinterpret". The New York Times. Retrieved 4 August 2010.
  2. ^ Gifford R (October 2009). "Q&A: The science of persuasion. Interview by Sanjay Khanna". Nature. 461 (7267): 1059. doi:10.1038/4611059a. PMID 19847247.
    - "The psychology of climate inaction". Public Radio International. 9 August 2009. Archived from the original on 13 June 2011. Retrieved 4 August 2010.
  3. ^ "Editorial Board". Journal of Environmental Psychology. Elsevier. Retrieved 4 August 2010.
  4. ^ "Architectural Science Review: Editorial board". Taylor&Francis. Retrieved 8 December 2023.
  5. ^ Hamilton, D; Gifford, R (1976). "Illusory correlation in interpersonal perception: A cognitive basis of stereotypic judgments". Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 12 (4): 392–407. doi:10.1016/S0022-1031(76)80006-6.