Stanley Schachter

Stanley Schachter (* April 15, 1922; † 7 June 1997) was an American social psychologist and professor emeritus at Columbia University. He is one of the few psychologists who were enrolled in the National Academy of Sciences.

Life

Born Schachter in Flushing, New York; His parents were Anna and Nathan Schachter. He studied initially Arts, then psychology at Yale University, among others, Clark L. Hull. There he earned the Bachelor 1942 and 1944 the master. Then he went to the United States Air Force. In 1946 he was a research associate of Kurt Lewin at the Research Center for Group Dynamics at MIT. After the death Lewin 1947, the research center with Schachter moved to the University of Michigan, where he in 1949, supervised by Leon Festinger, received his doctoral degree.

He died at his home in East Hampton, New York colorectal cancer. He is survived by his wife Sophia and his son Elijah.

Work

Schachter preferred examined issues with immediate relevance to everyday, such as obesity, addiction, and emotion.

Obesity

Schachter showed that normal weight people eat when they are hungry and stop when they 're full. Übergewichtigte people, however, be misled by external cues for eating, for example, the time, or appetizing presentation.

Emotions

His best known work is the two-factor theory of emotion, made ​​by the feelings of a proportion of physiological arousal and a cognitive component.

Books (selection)

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