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Robert Zajonc
Polish social psychologist · United States · On the map · Academics · Lived 1923 to 2008 · aged 85
Robert Bolesław Zajonc was a Polish social psychologist who is known for his decades of work on a wide range of social and cognitive processes. One of his most important contributions to social psychology is the mere-exposure effect.
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Zajonc also conducted research in the areas of social facilitation, and theories of emotion, such as the affective neuroscience hypothesis.
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Elliot AronsonBoth received AAAS Prize for Behavioral Science Research
Stanley MilgramBoth received AAAS Prize for Behavioral Science ResearchRobert RosenthalBoth received AAAS Prize for Behavioral Science Research
Gerd GigerenzerBoth received AAAS Prize for Behavioral Science Research