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List of Professors
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Years at Michigan | Position | |
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Adam Drewnowski |
1983 - 1998 | Professor of Environmental and Industrial Health, Psychology, Psychiatry |
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Albert Angus Campbell |
1946 - 1980 |
Professor of Psychology Professor of Sociology Director of Survey Research Center and Institute for Social Research |
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Alexander Z. Guiora |
1965 - 1985 | Professor of Psychology, Linguistics and Psychiatry |
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Alvin G. Burstein |
1960 - 1963 | Assistant Professor of Psychology |
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Amos N. Tversky |
1965 - 1974 | Visiting Professor of Psychology |
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Andrew G. Hunter |
1992 - 2001 |
Assistant Professor of Psychology, Women's Studies Associate Professor of Social Work |
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Anna Sivia Elonen |
1950 - 1972 | Professor of Psychology & Psychiatry |
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Arnold J. Sameroff |
1992 - 2011 |
Professor of Psychology Research Professor Center for Human Growth & Development |
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Arnold S. Tannenbaum |
1949 - 1988 |
Professor of Psychology Research Scientist, Survey Research Center |
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Arthur W. Melton |
1957 - 1976 | Professor of Psychology |
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Barbara A. Gutek |
2002 - 2003 |
Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resources |
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Barbara L. Fredrickson |
1995 - 2006 |
Professor of Psychology Professor of Management and Organization |
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Barbara Walker |
1980 - 1983 | Assistant Professor of Psychology & Psychiatry |
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Basil S. Georgopoulos |
1954 - 1989 |
Professor of Psychology Research Scientist Institute for Social Research |
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Benno G. Fricke |
1956 | Associate Professor of Psychology |
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Bettie Arthur |
1958 - 1988 |
Professor of Psychology Professor of Community Mental Health |
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Burton Doan Thuma |
1931 - 1967 |
Professor of Psychology Associate Dean Emeritus College of Literature, Science and the Arts Director Emeritus of the Residential College |
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Cameron R. Peterson |
1966 - 1974 | Associate Professor of Psychology |
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Carl Richards Brown |
1920 - 1962 | Associate Professor of Psychology |
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Carol T. Mowbray |
1994 - 2005 |
Professor of Social Work Associate Professor of Psychology |
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Cary Cherniss |
1972 | Assistant Professor of Psychology |
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Charles Hurlbut Griffitts |
1917 - 1958 | Professor of Psychology and Social Work |
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Charles J Smith |
1953 - 1961 | Associate Professor of Psychology |
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Charles M. Butter |
1961 - 1999 | Professor of Psychology |
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Charles Morris |
1965 - 2002 | Profesor of Psychology |
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Clarence L. Clarke |
1924 | Associate Professor of Education, Psychology |
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Clyde Hamilton Coombs |
1947 - 1983 |
Professor of Psychology Daniel Katz Distinguished University Professor |
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Daniel H. Carson |
1961 - 1968 |
Assistant Professor of Psychology Associate Research Psychologist in the Institute of Science and Technology Assistant Professor of Psychology in Architecture |
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Daniel Katz |
1928 - 1974 | Professor of Psychology |
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David B. Pryor |
1965 - 1976 | Assistant Professor of Psychology |
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David H. Krantz |
1964 - 1985 | Professor of Psychology |
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Denise C. Park |
1995 - 2002 | Professor of Psychology |
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Dennis Scott Klos |
1979 - 1984 | Assistant Professor of Psychology |
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Donald C. Pelz |
1948 - 1987 |
Professor of Psychology Research Scientist Institute for Social Research |
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Donald G. Marquis |
1945 - 1958 |
Professor of Psychology Chair Department of Psychology |
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Donald N. Michael |
1970 - 1981 |
Professor of Psychology Professor of Planning and Public Policy |
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Donald R. Brown |
1964 - 1996 |
Professor of Psychology Research Scientist Center for Research on Learning and Teaching |
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Dorwin P. Cartwright |
1946 - 1989 | Professor of Psychology |
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Douglas L. Medin |
1989 - 1994 | Professor of Psychology and African and African American Studies |
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Douglas R. Hofstadter |
1981 - 1988 |
Mary Ann and Charles R. Walgreen Jr. Professor for the Study of Human Understanding Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences |
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E. Lowell Kelly |
1946 - 1975 |
Professor of Psychology Chair Department of Psychology Director of Institute for Human Adjustment |
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Edgar G. Epps |
1965 - 1970 | Associate Professor of Psychology |
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Edward Barrows Greene |
1935 - 1960 |
Assistant Professor of Psychology Research Associate Willow Run Laboratories |
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Edward Lewis Walker |
1947 - 1979 | Professor of Psychology |
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Edward S. Bordin |
1951 - 1983 |
Professor of Psychology Professor of Educational Psychology |
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Edwin J Thomas |
1956 - 1994 |
Professor of Social Work and Psychology Fedele F Fauri Professor of Social Work |
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Edwin J. Thomas |
1956 - 1994 |
Fedele F. Fauri Professor of Social Work Professor of Psychology |
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Elizabeth M. Douvan |
1958 - 1995 |
Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies Catharine Neafie Kellogg Professor of Psychology Director of the Residential College |
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Elliot S. Valenstein |
1970 - 1994 | Professor of Psychology |
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Elton Burbank McNeil |
1952 - 1974 | Professor of Psychology |
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Erasmus A. Hoch |
1962 - 1978 | Professor of Psychology |
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Eric A. Bermann |
1964 - 2002 | Associate Professor of Psychology |
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Ernest Harburg |
1964 - 1991 | Research Scientist of Epidemiology and Psychology |
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Eugene Burnstein |
1962 - 2002 | Professor of Psychology |
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Floyd Christopher Mann |
1953 - 1973 | |
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Floyd M. Wylie |
1970 - 1974 | Associate Professor of Psychology |
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Frank M. Andrews |
1963 - 1993 |
Professor of Psychology Professor of Population Planning and International Health Research Scientist in the Institute for Social Research |
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Frank M. Koen |
1962 - 1975 | Associate Professor of Psychology |
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Frederick Wyatt |
1952 - 1979 | Professor of Psychology |
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Gary D. Bron |
1969 | Assistant Professor of Psychology |
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Gary M. Olson |
1975 - 2008 |
Professor of Human-Computer Interacton Professor of Information Professor of Psychology |
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George C. Rosenwald |
1958 - 2000 | Professor of Psychology |
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George Katona |
1948 - 1972 | Professor of Economics, Psychology |
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George Meyer |
1930 - 1944 | Assistant Professor of Psychology |
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Gerald S. Blum |
1948 - 1968 | Professor of Psychology |
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Gerard H. Rothschild |
1958 - 1960 | Assistant Professor of Psychology |
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Glenn David McNeil |
1964 - 1969 | Associate Professor of Psychology |
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Harlan L. Lane |
1960 - 1967 | Professor of Psychology |
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Harold A. Korn |
1978 - 1990 | Professor of Psychology |
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Harold L. Raush |
1950 - 1972 | Professor of Psychology |
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Harold M. Proshansky |
1960 - 1961 | Visiting Associate Professor of Psychology |
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Harold Richard Blackwell |
1947 - 1958 | Associate Professor of Psychology & Physiological Optics |
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Harold W. Stevenson |
1971 - 2001 | Professor of Psychology |
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Harry F. Gollob |
1965 - 1973 | Associate Professor of Psychology |
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Hazel J. Markus |
1982 - 1995 |
Professor of Psychology Helen Peak Professor of Psychology |
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Helen Peak |
1950 - 1970 | Catharine Neafie Kellogg Professor of Psychology |
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Henry F. Adams |
1911 - 1953 | Professor of Psychology |
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Herbert C. Kelman |
1962 - 1969 | Professor of Psychology |
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Howard M. Wolowitz |
1961 - 1998 | Professor of Psychology |
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Howard Shevrin |
1973 - 2005 | Professor of Psychology |
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Irene Fast |
1958 - 1998 | Professor of Psychology |
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Irwin Pollack |
1963 - 1995 | Professor of Psychology |
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J. E. Keith Smith |
1964 - 1996 |
Professor of Psychology Professor of Statistics |
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Jacqueline S. Mattis |
1995 - 2002 | Assistant Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies |
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James A. Dunn |
1963 | Assistant Professor of Psychology and Education |
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James C. Lingoes |
1960 - 1985 |
Professor of Psychology Associate Research Scientist in the Computing Center |
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James D. Papsdorf |
1965 - 1984 | Associate Professor of Psychology |
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James G. Greeno |
1968 - 1976 | Professor of Psychology and Social Work |
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James Gordon Kelly |
1966 | Professor of Psychology |
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James L. Hilton |
1985 - 2006 | Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Psychology |
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James Olds |
1956 - 1969 | Professor of Psychology |
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James V. McConnell |
1956 - 1988 | Professor of Psychology |
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Jay Mervin Jackson |
1950 - 1955 | Assistant Professor of Psychology |
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Jeanne Herman |
1976 | Assistant Professor of Psychology |
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Jeffrey J. Hutsler |
1999 - 2006 | Assistant Professor of Psychology |
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Jesse E. Gordon |
1959 - 1993 | Professor of Psychology and Social Work |
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John E. Milholland |
1986 | Professor of Psychology |
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John Frederick Shepard |
1906 - 1951 | Professor of Psychology |
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John L. Falk |
1966 | Assistant Professor of Psychology and Pathology |
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John Malcolm Swales |
1985 - 2006 | Professor of Linguistics & Psychology |
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John R. P. French Jr. |
1948 - 1982 | Professor of Psychology |
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John W. Atkinson |
1950 - 1985 | Professor of Psychology |
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John W. Hagen |
1965 - 2008 | Professor of Psychology |
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Joseph B. Adelson |
1956 - 1997 | Professor of Psychology |
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Joseph Veroff |
1957 - 1997 |
Professor of Psychology Research Scientist, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research |
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Judith C. Meyers |
1983 | Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology |
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Judith M. Bardwick |
1967 - 1983 | Professor of Psychology |
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Judith P. Googin |
1965 | Associate Professor of Psychology |
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Judith Spencer Olson |
1970 - 2008 |
Richard W. Pew Collegiate Professor of Human Computer Interaction Professor of Information Professor of Psychology |
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K. Gerald Marsden |
1967 - 1993 | Professor of Psychology |
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Keith J. Holyoak |
1976 - 1986 | Associate Professor of Psychology |
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Klaus Freidrich K. Riegel |
1959 - 1977 | Professor of Psychology |
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Laura P. Kohn Wood |
2007 | Associate Professor of Psychology |
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Laurence T. Maloney |
1985 - 1990 | Assistant Professor of Psychology |
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Lawrence A. Hirschfeld |
1989 - 2005 | Professor of Anthropology, Psychology |
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Lee Sechrest |
1980 - 1984 | Professor of Psychology |
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Lenin A. Baler |
1967 |
Professor of Psychology Professor of Community Mental Health Chair of Department of Health Programs |
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Lily C. Huang |
1972 - 1984 | Associate Professor of Nursing |
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Lionel Richard Hoffman |
1957 - 1965 | Associate Professor of Psychology |
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Lois W. Hoffman |
1967 - 1997 | Professor of Psychology |
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Lorraine Nadelman |
1963 - 1993 | Associate Professor of Psychology |
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Louis Granich |
1947 - 1950 | Associate Professor of Psychology |
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Lynn K. Brown |
1971 - 1979 | Assistant Professor of Psychology |
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Margaret J. Shih |
2000 - 2008 | Associate Professor of Psychology |
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Margaret Wylie |
1929 - 1930 | Acting Assistant Professor of Psychology |
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Marilyn J. Shatz |
1977 - 2009 |
Professor of Psychology Professor of Linguistics |
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Martha Guernsey Colby |
1918 - 1950 | Associate Professor of Psychology |
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Martin Gold |
1953 - 1993 | Professor of Psychology |
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Martin L Maehr |
1988 - 2005 | Professor of Education, Psychology |
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Martin L. Hoffman |
1965 - 1978 | Professor of Psychology |
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Martin Mayman |
1966 - 1997 | Professor of Psychology |
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Martin Patchen |
1964 | Assistant Professor of Psychology |
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Mathew Alpern |
1955 - 1991 |
Professor of Physiological Optics Professor of Psychology |
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Max L. Hutt |
1946 - 1960 | Associate Professor of Psychology |
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Melvin Manis |
1958 - 1997 | Professor of Psychology |
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Merle Lawrence |
1952 - 1984 |
Professor of Psychology Professor of Otolaryngology |
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Michael P. Feinberg |
1976 - 1986 |
Associate Professor of Psychiatry Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychology |
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Michelle D. Perry |
1987 - 1993 | Assistant Professor of Psychology |
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Monique A. Fleming |
1999 - 2004 | Assistant Professor of Psychology |
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Morton H. Shaevitz |
1963 - 1969 | Assistant Professor of Psychology |
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Nancy E. Cantor |
1983 - 1991 1995 - 2001 |
Professor of Psychology Dean of the Graduate School Provost and Vice President for Academic Affiars |
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Naomi Lohr |
1963 - 2000 | Assistant Professor of Psychiatry & Psychology |
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Nathan S. Caplan |
1961 - 1989 |
Professor of Psychology Research Scientist Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research |
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Neil M. Kalter |
1971 - 1999 | Professor of Psychology |
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Nnamdi Pole |
2001 - 2008 | Assistant Professor of Psychology |
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Norman Raymond Frederick Maier |
1927 - 1971 | Professor of Psychology |
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Oscar A. Oeser |
1960 | Visiting Professor of Psychology |
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Pamela Trotman Reid |
1999 - 2004 |
Professor of Psychology Professor of Education Director of Women's Studies Program |
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Patricia Ann O'Connor |
1960 - 1988 |
Associate Professor of Dentistry Research Associate in Psychology |
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Patricia Y. Gurin |
1966 - 2002 |
Nancy Cantor Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies |
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Paul R. Pintich |
1987 - 2003 | Professor of Education, Psychology |
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Paul R. Pintrich |
1999 - 2003 | Professor of Education & Psychology |
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Peter R. Mattis |
1970 - 1973 | Assistant Professor of Psychology |
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Philip J. Brickman |
1979 - 1982 | Professor of Psychology |
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Phillip D. Akutsu |
2000 - 2008 | Assistant Professor of Psychology and American Culture |
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Ralph W. Heine |
1965 - 1980 | Professor of Psychology |
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Randy J. Larsen |
1989 - 1998 | Professor of Psychology |
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Raphael Ezekiel |
1964 - 1995 | Associate Professor of Psychology |
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Raphael S. Ezekiel |
1964 - 1995 | Associate Professor of Psychology |
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Rensis Likert |
1946 - 1971 |
Professor of Sociology and Psychology Director of the Institute of Social Research |
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Richard D. Mann |
1964 - 1992 | Professor of Psychology |
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Richard L. Cutler |
1955 - 1972 | Professor of Psychology |
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Richard W. Pew |
1965 - 1976 | Professor of Psychology |
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Robert A. Bjork |
1966 | Professor of Psychology |
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Robert A. Hefner Jr. |
1956 - 1983 | Associate Professor of Psychology |
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Robert Altwig McCleary |
1951 | Professor of Psychology 1961 |
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Robert B. Zajonc |
1952 - 1994 |
Professor of Psychology Charles Horton Cooley Distinguished University Professor of Social Sciences Director Institute of Social Research |
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Robert K. Lindsay |
1965 - 2004 |
Professor of Psychology and Sociology Research Professor of Psychiatry Research Professor of Mental Health Research Institute |
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Robert L. Kahn |
1948 - 1989 |
Professor of Psychology Professor of Health Services Management and Policy Research Scientist in the Institute of Social Research |
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Robert L Isaacson |
1956 | Professor of Psychology |
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Robert S. Goldman |
1988 - 1994 | Assistant Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry |
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Roberta F. White |
1986 - 1987 |
Assistant Professor of Psychology Assistant Professor of Psychiatry |
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Rodney Lowman |
1979 - 1982 |
Assistant Professor of Psychology Assistant Research Scientist, Survey Research Center |
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Roger Davis |
1961 - 1995 |
Professor of Psychology Research Scientist, Mental Health Research Institute |
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Roger William Heyns |
1947 - 1965 |
Professor of Psychology Professor of Educational Psychology Dean Literature Science and the Arts |
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Ronald Lippitt |
1948 - 1975 | Professor of Psychology |
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Ronald Wardhaugh |
1966 | Professor of Linguistics and Psychology |
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Sachio Ashida |
1964 - 1970 | Assistant Professor of Psychology and American Culture |
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Sarah C. Mangelsdorf |
1987 - 1991 | Assistant Professor of Psychology |
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Sarnoff A. Mednick |
1959 - 1968 | Professor of Psychology |
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Scott A. Miller |
1970 | Assistant Professor of Psychology |
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Seema Bhatnagar |
1999 - 2005 | Assistant Professor of Psychology |
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Serena C. Chen |
1997 - 2000 | Assistant Professor of Psychology |
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Sheldon G. Levy |
1965 | Assistant Professor of Psychology |
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Shulamit Reinharz |
1972 - 1983 | Assistant Professor of Psychology |
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Stanford C. Ericksen |
1962 - 1982 |
Professor of Psychology Founding Director Center for Research on Learning & Teaching Member, Founding Committee of the Residential College |
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Stanislav V. Kasl |
1962 | Assistant Professor of Psychology |
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Stanley Berent |
1979 - 2005 | Professor of Psychology |
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Stanley E. Seashore |
1952 - 1983 |
Professor of Psychology Research Scientist Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research |
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Stanley Jacob Segal |
1948 - 1959 | Assistant Professor of Psychology |
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Stephen B. Withey |
1953 - 1987 |
Professor of Psychology & Communication Research Scientist - IST |
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Stephen E. Glickman |
1965 - 1968 | Professor of Psychology |
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Susan K. Nolen Hoeksema |
1995 - 2004 |
Professor of Psychology Professor of Psychiatry |
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Sylvan Kornblum |
1959 - 1997 |
Professor of Psychology Professor of Psychiatry Research Scientist in the Mental Health Research Institute |
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Theodore Mead Newcomb |
1941 - 1974 |
Mary Ann and Charles R. Walgreen Jr. Professor for the Study of Human Understanding Professor of Psychology Professor of Sociology |
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Veronica Benet Martinez |
1997 - 2003 | Assistant Professor of Psychology and American Culture |
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Vonnie C. McLoyd |
1978 - 2003 | Professor of Psychology and African and African American Studies |
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Walter Bowers Pillsbury |
1897 - 1942 |
Professor of Psychology Chair Department of Psychology |
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Ward D. Edwards |
1958 | Professor of Psychology |
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Warren G. Holmes |
1979 - 2002 | Professor of Psychology |
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Warren T. Norman |
1957 - 1994 | Professor of Psychology |
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Wilbert James McKeachie |
1948 - 1992 |
Professor of Psychology Research Scientist in the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching Chair, Department of Psychology 1961-1971 |
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Willard Clifford Olson |
1929 - 1970 |
Dean of School of Education Professor of Education, Psychology |
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William C. Rhodes |
1967 - 1982 |
Professor of Psychology Professor of Education |
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William Charles Morse |
1956 - 1985 |
Professor of Psychology Professor of Educational Psychology |
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William Clark Trow |
1926 - 1965 | Professor of Education, Psychology |
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William Gerler |
1968 | Associate Professor of Psychology |
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William R. Uttal |
1963 - 1986 | Professor of Psychology |
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Wilma Thompson Donahue |
1937 - 1970 |
Lecturer in Psychology Director Division of Gerontology |