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72
Citations
24448
World Ranking
677
National Ranking
324

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association
  • 1994 - ACM Fellow
  • 1990 - US President's National Medal of Science "For his broad efforts to deepen the theoretical and empirical understanding of four major areas: the measurement of subjective probability and utility in uncertain situations; the development and testing of general learning theory; the semantics and syntax of natural language; and the use of interactive computer programs for instruction.", Presented by President Bush at a White House East Room Ceremony on November 13, 1990.
  • 1989 - William James Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science (APA)
  • 1979 - E. L. Thorndike Award, American Psychological Association
  • 1978 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1972 - APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association
  • 1971 - Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award, American Educational Research Association
  • 1971 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1967 - Palmer O. Johnson Memorial Award, American Educational Research Association
  • 1964 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)
  • 1962 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Patrick Suppes was affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research primarily focused on psychology and health professions, with notable work in the subfields of experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, and pharmacy.

Their recent published paper was titled Expressed Emotion in the Speech of Couples During Psychotherapy: Sequential and Probabilistic Analysis, published in 2025 in the SSRN Electronic Journal. This publication contributed to the ongoing discourse in psychological research at the time.

Suppes frequently collaborated with several researchers, including:

  • Colleen Crangle
  • Helen E. Longino
  • Michelle Nguyen

Their works were commonly published in the SSRN Electronic Journal.

Main research topics addressed in their career included:

  • Emotion and Mood Recognition
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Infant Health and Development

Patrick Suppes received numerous awards throughout their career, reflecting a steady engagement with the scientific community and educational research. These awards included:

  • Fellow of the American Educational Research Association (2008)
  • ACM Fellow (1994)
  • US President's National Medal of Science (1990): Presented by President Bush for contributions spanning the measurement of subjective probability and utility, development of learning theory, semantics and syntax of natural language, and use of interactive instructional computer programs
  • William James Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science (APA) (1989)
  • E. L. Thorndike Award, American Psychological Association (1979)
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1978)
  • APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology (1972)
  • Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award, American Educational Research Association (1971)
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1971)
  • Palmer O. Johnson Memorial Award, American Educational Research Association (1967)
  • Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) (1964)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (1962)

Best Publications

  • Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science

    Max Black;Ernest Nagel;Patrick Suppes;Alfred Tarski

  • Contemporary Developments in Mathematical Psychology

    Michael S. Humphreys;David H. Krantz;Richard Atkinson;R. Duncan Luce

  • Foundational aspects of theories of measurement

    Dana S. Scott;Patrick Suppes

  • Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences

    Frank Restle;Kenneth J. Arrow;Samuel Karlin;Patrick Suppes

  • The Effectiveness of Alternative Instructional Media: A Survey

    Dean Jamison;Patrick Suppes;Stuart Wells

  • A comparison of the meaning and uses of models in mathematics and the empirical sciences

    Patrick Suppes

  • Models of Data

    Patrick Suppes

  • Markov Learning Models for Multiperson Interactions

    Patrick Suppes;Richard C. Atkinson

  • Representation and Invariance of Scientific Structures

    Patrick Suppes

  • Decision Making: An Experimental Approach

    J. Kiefer;Donald Davidson;Patrick Suppes

  • The Uses of Computers in Education.

    Patrick Suppes

  • Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science Proceedings of the 1960 International Congress

    Ernest Nagel;Patrick Suppes;Alfred Tarski

  • The semantics of children's language.

    Patrick Suppes

  • OUTLINES OF A FORMAL THEORY OF VALUE, I

    Donald Davidson;J. C. C. McKinsey;Patrick Suppes

  • Aspects of inductive logic

    Henry E. Kyburg;Jaakko Hintikka;Patrick Suppes

  • The Measurement of Belief

    Patrick Suppes

  • MATHEMATICAL METHODS IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES, 1959

    Samuel Karlin;Patrick Suppes

  • When are Probabilistic Explanations Possible

    Patrick Suppes;Mario Zanotti

  • Axiomatic Foundations of Classical Particle Mechanics

    J. C. C. Mckinsey;A. C. Sugar;Patrick Suppes

  • Philosophy, science, and method : essays in honor of Ernest Nagel

    Ernest Nagel;Sidney Morgenbesser;Patrick Suppes;Morton Gabriel White

  • Decision Making: An Experimental Approach

    Donald Davidson;Patrick Suppes

  • Introduction to Logic.

    G. N. Raney;Patrick Suppes

  • Markov Learning Models for Multiperson Interactions

    Klaus Krickeberg;Patrick Suppes;Richard C. Atkinson

Frequent Co-Authors

Amos Tversky
Amos Tversky Stanford University
Richard C. Atkinson
Richard C. Atkinson University of California, San Diego
Dean T. Jamison
Dean T. Jamison University of California, San Francisco
Donald Davidson
Donald Davidson University of California, Berkeley
Jaakko Hintikka
Jaakko Hintikka Boston University
Samuel Karlin
Samuel Karlin Stanford University
Zhong-Lin Lu
Zhong-Lin Lu New York University Shanghai
William K. Estes
William K. Estes Harvard University
Elizabeth F. Loftus
Elizabeth F. Loftus University of California, Irvine
Michael S. Humphreys
Michael S. Humphreys University of Queensland

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