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Overview

Seymour Epstein is a researcher affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the United States. Their work primarily falls within the Social Sciences, with a particular focus on Demography as a subfield. The main thematic concentration of their research is on Jewish Identity and Society.

Epstein has contributed to academic literature through publications in specialized venues. Their documented publication record includes the following:

  • When Learning Moments Become Teaching Moments: Reflections of a Canadian Jewish Educator, 2024, Canadian Jewish Studies / Études juives canadiennes

Research topics covered reflect an intersection of cultural identity and societal dynamics within Jewish communities. Epstein's work has been published in venues associated with Jewish studies, exemplified by contributions to Canadian Jewish Studies / Études juives canadiennes.

Their academic output is singularly focused, with no frequent co-authors recorded and a limited number of publication venues, indicating a specialized but narrowly scoped research profile.

Epstein's selected recent work explores educational dimensions in Jewish contexts, particularly turning learning moments into teaching moments, as observed in the 2024 publication.

Best Publications

  • Integration of the cognitive and the psychodynamic unconscious.

    Seymour Epstein

  • The stability of behavior: I. On predicting most of the people much of the time.

    Seymour Epstein

  • Individual differences in intuitive-experiential and analytical-rational thinking styles.

    Seymour Epstein;Rosemary Pacini;Veronika Denes-Raj;Harriet Heier

  • The self-concept revisited: Or a theory of a theory.

    Seymour Epstein

  • The relation of rational and experiential information processing styles to personality, basic beliefs, and the ratio-bias phenomenon.

    Rosemary Pacini;Seymour Epstein

  • The stability of behavior: II. Implications for psychological research.

    Seymour Epstein

  • The relation of rational and experiential information processing styles to personality, basic beliefs, and the ratio-bias phenomenon.

    Unknown

  • Approach and avoidance strength during goal attainment : Regulatory focus and the goal looms larger effect

    J Förster;E T Higgins;L C Idson

  • Conflict between intuitive and rational processing: when people behave against their better judgment.

    Veronika Denes-Raj;Seymour Epstein

  • Cognitive-experiential self-theory.

    Seymour Epstein

  • Aggregation and beyond: Some basic issues on the prediction of behavior.

    Seymour Epstein

  • Cognitive-Experiential Self-Theory of Personality

    Seymour Epstein

  • The person-situation debate in historical and current perspective.

    Seymour Epstein;Edward J. O'Brien

  • Constructive thinking: a broad coping variable with specific components

    Seymour Epstein;Petra Meier

  • Cognitive-Experiential Theory: An Integrative Theory of Personality

    Seymour Epstein

  • Irrational reactions to negative outcomes : evidence for two conceptual systems

    Seymour Epstein;Abigail Lipson;Carolyn Holstein;Eileen Huh

  • Cognitive-experiential self-theory and subjective probability: further evidence for two conceptual systems.

    Lee A. Kirkpatrick;Seymour Epstein

  • Some basic issues regarding dual-process theories from the perspective of cognitive–experiential self-theory.

    Seymour Epstein;Rosemary Pacini

  • Gradients of physiological arousal in parachutists as a function of an approaching jump.

    Walter D. Fenz;Seymour Epstein

  • The Implications of Cognitive-experiential Self-theory for Research in Social Psychology and Personality1

    Seymour Epstein

  • Irrational reactions to negative outcomes: Evidence for two conceptual systems.

    Unknown

  • Constructive Thinking: The Key to Emotional Intelligence

    Seymour Epstein

Frequent Co-Authors

Stuart P. Taylor
Stuart P. Taylor Kent State University
Edward J. O'Brien
Edward J. O'Brien University of New Hampshire
Lee A. Kirkpatrick
Lee A. Kirkpatrick William & Mary
Gregory J. Feist
Gregory J. Feist San Jose State University

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