William J. McGuire
William J. McGuire | |
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Born | |
Died | December 21, 2007 | (aged 82)
Nationality | American |
Education | Fordham College Université catholique de Louvain Yale University |
Known for | Persuasion Social cognition |
Awards | Fulbright Fellow (1950–51) Fellow of eight divisions of the American Psychological Association APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology (1988) Distinguished Scientist Award from the American Psychological Society (1992) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Social psychology |
Institutions | Columbia University University of California, San Diego University of Illinois Yale University |
Thesis | A multi-process model for paired associates learning (1954) |
Notable students | John Jost David O. Sears |
William James McGuire (February 17, 1925 in New York City, New York – December 21, 2007 in New Haven, Connecticut) was an American social psychologist known for his work on the psychology of persuasion and for developing Inoculation theory.[1] He was a faculty member at Yale University from 1970 until he retired in 1999, and chaired the psychology department there from 1971 to 1973. He was the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology from 1967 to 1970.[2]
Book
[edit]- Bollingen: An Adventure in Collecting the Past, Princeton University Press, 1982. Bollingen Foundation, 1989.
- Constructing Social Psychology: Creative and Critical Aspects, Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Legacy
[edit]An obituary of McGuire in American Psychologist stated that McGuire was "...for several decades the field’s premier researcher of the psychology of persuasion".[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Jost, John T.; Banaji, Mahzarin (May–June 2008). "William James McGuire (1925–2007)". American Psychologist. doi:10.1037/0003-066x.63.4.270.
- ^ Pearce, Jeremy (2008). "William J. McGuire, 82, Art of Persuasion Pioneer, Dies". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
External links
[edit]- Remarks about McGuire by Mahzarin Banaji at the 1998 Society of Experimental Social Psychology Convention