Stanley Schachter

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Stanley Schachter (* 15. April 1922 , † 7. June 1997 ) was an American social psychologist and emeritus professor at the Columbia University . He is one of the few psychologists to be admitted to the National Academy of Sciences (1983) and was also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1976).

Life

Schachter was born in Flushing , New York; his parents were Anna and Nathan Schachter. He initially studied art, then psychology at Yale University , including with Clark L. Hull . There he obtained his bachelor's degree in 1942 and his master's degree in 1944. He then went to the United States Air Force . In 1946 he became a research assistant for Kurt Lewin at the research center for group dynamics at MIT . After Lewin's death in 1947, the research center moved with Schachter to the University of Michigan , where he received his doctorate in 1949, supervised by Leon Festinger .

He died of colon cancer at his home in East Hampton , New York . He left his wife Sophia and his son Elijah.

plant

Schachter preferred to examine topics with immediate everyday relevance, such as obesity, addiction and emotions.

obesity

Schachter was able to show that people of normal weight eat when they are hungry and stop when they are full. Overweight people, on the other hand, can be tempted to eat by external cues, for example by the time or an appetizing presentation.

Emotions

His best-known work is the two-factor theory of emotion , according to which feelings consist of a part of physiological arousal and a cognitive component.

Books (selection)

  • 1950 Deviation, rejection, and communication . University of Michigan . ( Dissertation )
  • 1950 (with L. Festinger and K. Back). Social pressures in informal groups . New York: Harpers
  • 1956 (with L. Festinger and H. Riecken). When Prophecy Fails . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press
  • 1959 The Psychology of Affiliation . Stanford: Stanford University Press
  • 1971 Emotion, Obesity and Crime . New York: Academic
  • 1974 (with J. Rodin). Obese Humans and Rats . Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum

literature

  • Grunberg, NE, Nisbett, RE, Rodin, J., and Singer, JE A Distinctive Approach to Psychological Research: The Influence of Stanley Schachter . Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1987
  • G. Lindzey (Ed.) A History of Psychology in Autobiography , Vol. VIII. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1989

Web links

Obituary in the New York Times

personal data
SURNAME Schachter, Stanley
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American social psychologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 1997
Place of death East Hampton (New York) , USA