Richard E. Nisbett
Richard E. Nisbett | |
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Born | Littlefield, Texas, U.S. | June 1, 1941
Alma mater | Columbia University |
Spouse | Sarah Isaacs |
Children | 2 |
Awards | Donald T. Campbell Award from American Psychological Association (1982), Guggenheim Fellowship (2002) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Social psychology |
Institutions | University of Michigan |
Thesis | Taste, deprivation and weight determinants of eating behavior (1966) |
Doctoral advisor | Stanley Schachter |
Richard Eugene Nisbett (born June 1, 1941)
Perhaps his most influential publication is "Telling more than we can know: Verbal reports on mental processes" (with T. D. Wilson, 1977, Psychological Review, 84, 231–259), one of the most often cited psychology articles published, with over 13,000 citations.[2][3] This article was the first comprehensive, empirically based argument that a variety of mental processes responsible for preferences, choices, and emotions are inaccessible to conscious awareness. Nisbett and Wilson contended that introspective reports can provide only an account of "what people think about how they think," but not "how they really think."[citation needed] Some cognitive psychologists disputed this claim, with Ericsson and Simon (1980) offering an alternative perspective.[4]
Nisbett's book The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently... And Why (Free Press; 2003) contends that "human cognition is not everywhere the same," that Asians and Westerners "have maintained very different systems of thought for thousands of years,"[5] and that these differences are scientifically measurable.
Nisbett's book
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In popular culture
In an interview with The New York Times, Malcolm Gladwell said, "The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world."[9]
Books and significant papers
- Nisbett, R. and T. Wilson (1977). "Telling more than we can know: Verbal reports on mental processes." Psychological Review 84(3): 231–259.
- Ross, L and Nisbett, R.E. The Person and the Situation. McGraw Hill, 1991. Reissued with new foreword by Malcolm Gladwell and afterword by the authors, 2011
- Culture of Honor: The Psychology of Violence in the South (Westview Press, 1996)
- ISBN 978-0743216463
- Intelligence and How to Get It: Why Schools and Cultures Count (Norton, 2009)
- Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking (FSG, 2015)
Awards
- Donald T. Campbell Award for Distinguished Research in Social Psychology, awarded by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, 1982.
- Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association, 1991.
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1992.
- Distinguished Senior Scientist Award, Society for Experimental Social Psychology, 1995
- Wei Lun Visiting professor of psychology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1995.
- William James Fellow Award for Distinguished Scientific Achievements, American Psychological Society, 1996.
- Elected to the National Academy of Sciences, 2002
- Oswald-Külpe-Award of the University of Würzburg, Germany, 2007[10]
Notes
- ^ Deutsche Nationalbibliothek "Nisbett, Richard E."
- S2CID 7742203.
- ^ "Google Scholar". scholar.google.com. Retrieved September 8, 2019.
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- ^ Nisbett 2003, p. xvi
- ^ Holt, Jim (March 27, 2009). "Get Smart". The New York Times.
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- ^ "Actor-observer difference". Oxford Reference.
- ^ "Malcolm Gladwell: By the Book". The New York Times. October 3, 2013.
- ^ Brief Biography for Richard E. Nisbett, University of Michigan faculty page