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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1989 - William James Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science (APA)
  • 1983 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1969 - APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association
  • 1967 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Stanley Schachter was affiliated with Columbia University in the United States during their academic career. Their work contributed to the broader field of psychology, reflected in recognition by prominent organizations within the discipline.

Over the course of their career, Schachter received several awards acknowledging their contributions to psychological science. These awards included the APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology from the American Psychological Association in 1969, election as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1983, and the William James Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science in 1989. Earlier in their career, Schachter was named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1967.

Information on specific research topics, publication venues, co-authors, and detailed research contributions was not provided, thus not included in this profile.

Best Publications

  • Cognitive, social, and physiological determinants of emotional state.

    Stanley Schachter;Jerome Singer

  • The Psychology of Affiliation

    Stanley Schachter

  • The Interaction of Cognitive and Physiological Determinants of Emotional State

    Stanley Schachter

  • Deviation, rejection, and communication.

    Stanley Schachter

  • Social Pressures in Informal Groups: A Study of Human Factors in Housing

    Leon Festinger;Stanley Schachter;Kurt W. Back

  • Social pressures in informal groups

    Leon Festinger;Stanley Schachter;Kurt Back

  • When Prophecy Fails

    Leon Festinger;Henry W. Riecken;Stanley Schachter

  • Some extraordinary facts about obese humans and rats.

    Stanley Schachter

  • Obesity and Eating

    Stanley Schachter

  • Effects of fear, food deprivation, and obesity on eating.

    Stanley Schachter;Ronald Goldman;Andrew Gordon

  • Cognitive manipulation of pain

    Richard E Nisbett;Stanley Schachter

  • Recidivism and self-cure of smoking and obesity.

    Stanley Schachter

  • The Psychology of Affiliation: Experimental Studies of the Sources of Gregariousness

    Stanley Schachter

  • When prophecy fails: A social and psychological study of a modern group that predicted the destruction of the world.

    Leon Festinger;Henry W. Riecken;Stanley Schachter

  • Obese Humans and Rats

    Stanley Schachter;Judith Rodin

  • Manipulated time and eating behavior

    Stanley Schachter;Larry P. Gross

  • Speech Disfluency and the Structure of Knowledge

    Stanley Schachter;Nicholas Christenfeld;Bernard Ravina;Frances Bilous

  • Emotion, Obesity and Crime

    Stanley Schachter

  • Pharmacological and Psychological Determinants of Smoking

    Stanley Schachter

  • Epinephrine, chlorpromazine, and amusement.

    Stanley Schachter;Ladd Wheeler

  • "Cognitive, social, and physiological determinants of emotional state": Erratum

    Stanley Schachter;Jerome Singer

Frequent Co-Authors

Leon Festinger
Leon Festinger New School
William Gerin
William Gerin Pennsylvania State University
Nicholas Christenfeld
Nicholas Christenfeld University of California, San Diego
Michael S. Gazzaniga
Michael S. Gazzaniga University of California, Santa Barbara
Harold H. Kelley
Harold H. Kelley University of California, Los Angeles
Judith Rodin
Judith Rodin Rockefeller Foundation
Richard E. Nisbett
Richard E. Nisbett University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Bibb Latané
Bibb Latané Florida Atlantic University
Alexandra W. Logue
Alexandra W. Logue City University of New York
C. Peter Herman
C. Peter Herman University of Toronto

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