Robert Sternberg

Robert J. Sternberg ( born December 8, 1949 in New Jersey) is an American psychologist.

Work

Sternberg was a professor of psychology at Tufts University in Boston and director of the " Center for the Psychology of Abilities, Competencies, and Expertise". Previously, he was Professor of Psychology and Education at Yale University. Since 2007 he holds an honorary professorship at the Psychological Institute of the University of Heidelberg. In 2010, he accepted an appointment as chancellor (English Provost and Senior Vice President ) to the Oklahoma State University. In July 2013 were Sternberg President of the University of Wyoming.

Sternberg is a former president of the American Psychological Association. His most important works include the design of a " triarchischen " theory of intelligence. Known to a wider public Sternberg by disputes with Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, the authors of the book " The Bell Curve ".

Also of Sternberg come the triangle model of Love ( 1986), which sees love as an expression of the three components of intimacy, passion and commitment, and work on the psychological wisdom research.