George Mandler

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George Mandler (born June 11, 1924 in Vienna ; died May 6, 2016 in London ) was an American psychologist.

Life

George Mandler grew up in Vienna and was brought to safety in Great Britain after the annexation of Austria in October 1938, where he attended school in Bournemouth . Under the pressure of the Nazi persecution of the Jews, his parents and sister managed to flee to Italy and to cross the river with the Conte di Savoia to the USA. In 1997, Mandler dedicated the book Human nature explored to his cousins ​​who were victims of the Holocaust . He came to the United States during the Second World War in 1940 and worked there as a laborer. From 1943 to 1946 he was a soldier in the US Army and was deployed in Europe from 1944. From 1946 to 1949 he studied psychology at New York University and in 1947/48 he studied at the University of Basel . He made his master's degree at Yale University in 1950 and received his doctorate there in 1953. In 1952/53 he worked at the psychiatric outpatient clinic founded by Clifford Beers in New Haven , Connecticut . 1953 to 1960 he was an assistant at Harvard University . In 1957 he married the psychologist Jean Matter, they also published together, they have two sons. From 1960 to 1965 he was a professor at the University of Toronto . In 1965 he became a professor at the University of California, San Diego . He was visiting professor at Oxford , Guggenheim Fellow , William James Fellow, was a member of the Canadian and US psychological associations and was a board member of the Psychonomic Society . After retiring, he moved to London and worked at University College London . He published nine books and 150 articles.

Mandler was a leading scientist in cognitive psychology , which deals with the mechanisms of human thought. He conducted research on the organization of memory , on remembering and recognizing and on the integration of mind, body and emotions.

In 1991 Mandler was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 2009 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Vienna .

Fonts (selection)

  • with William Kessen: The Language of Psychology . New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1959
  • with Jean M. Mandler: Thinking: From Association to Gestalt . New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1964
  • Mind and emotion . New York: Wiley, 1975
    • Thinking and feeling: on the psychology of emotional and cognitive processes . Authorized translation Thea Brandt, Hans Riebensahm. Paderborn: Junfermann, 1979
  • Mind and body: Psychology of emotion and stress . New York: Norton, 1984
  • Cognitive psychology: An essay in cognitive science . Hillsdale: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1985
  • Human nature explored . New York: Oxford University Press, 1997
  • Consciousness recovered: Psychological functions and origins of conscious thought . Philadelphia: John Benjamin, 2002
  • A history of modern experimental psychology: From James and Wundt to cognitive science . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007
Autobiography
  • Interesting times: An encounter with the 20th century . Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002

literature

Interview with George Mandler, 1975, with a Postscript 1985, pp. 253-269

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ George Mandler: Human nature explored , 1997, p. V
personal data
SURNAME Mandler, George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 2016
Place of death London