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Stanley Schachter

American psychologist · United States · On the map · Academics · Lived 1922 to 1997 · aged 75

Stanley Schachter was an American social psychologist best known for his development of the two factor theory of emotion in 1962 along with Jerome E. Singer. In his theory he states that emotions have two ingredients: physiological arousal and a cognitive label.

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Awards

William James Fellow Award1989
APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology1969
Guggenheim Fellowship
AAAS Prize for Behavioral Science Research
Fulbright Scholarship

About this person

A person's experience of an emotion stems from the mental awareness of the body's physical arousal and the explanation one attaches to this arousal. Schachter also studied and published many works on the subjects of obesity, group dynamics, birth order and smoking. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Schachter as the seventh most cited psychologist of the 20th century.

Country
United States
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1922 to 1997 · aged 75