Richard Nisbett is Theodore M. Newcomb Distinguished Professor of social psychology and co-director of the Culture and Cognition program at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Social psychology is the study of how people and groups interact The University of Michigan Ann Arbor ( U of M, U-M, UM or simply Michigan) is a top-ranked Coeducational public research Ann Arbor is a city in the US state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County. Nisbett's research interests are in social cognition, culture, social class and aging. He received his Ph. D. from Columbia University, where his advisor was Stanley Schachter, whose other students at that time included Lee Ross and Judith Rodin. Columbia University is a private University in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. Stanley Schachter was an American psychologist who was born on April 15, 1922, to Nathan and Anna Schachter in Flushing New York. Lee D Ross is a professor of Social psychology at Stanford University, who has studied Attribution theory, Attributional biases Decision Judith Rodin (born 1944 PhD was the first non-interim female president of an Ivy League university
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 in the seventies. This article was the first comprehensive and compelling demonstration that a variety of mental processes responsible for encoding (interpretations, judgments), preferences, and even emotions are not accessible to conscious awareness. In their review of a large body of empirical evidence, Nisbett and Wilson changed the way psychologists thought about attribution processes, by demonstrating that introspective reports can provide only an account of "what people think about how they think" but not "how they really think. "
Nisbett's most recent 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," and that these differences are scientifically measurable.
With, Edward E. Jones, he named the Actor-observer bias, the phenomenon where people acting and people observing these actors use different information to explain why a behavior occurs. Edward Ellsworth Jones (1927–1993 also known as "Ned" Jones was an influential social psychologist who worked at Duke University for most of his career In Psychology, people are known to display an actor-observer bias, when actors tend to attribute their own behavior to their circumstances (i
Awards
- Donald T. Campbell Award for Distinguished Research in Social Psychology, awarded by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, 1982. The Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP is an academic society for personality and social psychologists with over 4500 members worldwide
- Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award, American Psychological Association, 1991. The American Psychological Association (APA is a professional organization representing psychologists in the U
- 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. The Association for Psychological Science (APS previously the American Psychological Society is a society for scientific Psychology, whose mission is to "promote
- Elected to the National Academy of Sciences, 2002
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