Shelley E. Taylor

Shelley E. Taylor
Born1946 (age 77–78)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materConnecticut College (BA)
Yale University (PhD)
Occupations
  • Professor
  • author
Known forcognitive miser, social cognition, social neuroscience, health psychology
AwardsAPA Award for Lifetime Contributions to Psychology (2010)

Shelley Elizabeth Taylor (born 1946) is an American psychologist. She serves as a distinguished professor of psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She received her Ph.D. from Yale University, and was formerly on the faculty at Harvard University.[1] A prolific author of books and scholarly journal articles, Taylor has long been a leading figure in two subfields related to her primary discipline of social psychology: social cognition and health psychology. Her books include The Tending Instinct[2] and Social Cognition,[3] the latter by Susan Fiske and Shelley Taylor.

Taylor's professional honours include the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the American Psychological Association (APA; 1996),[4] the William James Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science (APS; 2001),[5] and the APA's Lifetime Achievement Award, which she received in August 2010.[6] Taylor was inducted into the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2009.[7] She was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2018.[8] For 2019 she received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Social Sciences.[9]

  1. ^ Taylor, Shelley E. (2008). She received her B.A. from Connecticut College, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. From social psychology to neuroscience and back. In R. Levine, A. Rodrigues & L. Zelezny (Eds.) Journeys in Social Psychology: Looking Back to Inspire the Future (pp. 39-54). New York: Psychology Press.
  2. ^ "The Tending Instinct, by Shelley e. Taylor". Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2007-06-23.
  3. ^ Social Cognition: From brains to culture. Sage Publications. 27 May 2021. ISBN 9781473969292.
  4. ^ "APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions". apa.org.
  5. ^ "Association for Psychological Science: William James Fellow Award - Shelley E. Taylor".
  6. ^ "Shelley Taylor receives award!". Archived from the original on November 9, 2013.
  7. ^ "72 New Members Chosen By Academy". April 28, 2009. Archived from the original on October 22, 2013.
  8. ^ "Election of New Members at the 2018 Spring Meeting | American Philosophical Society".
  9. ^ BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award 2019