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Stanley Schachter (April 15, 1922 – June 7, 1997) was an American social psychologist best known for his development of the two factor theory of emotion in 1962 along with Jerome E. Singer. In his theory he states that emotions have two ingredients: physiological arousal and a cognitive label.
When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group That Predicted the Destruction of the World is a classic work of social psychology by Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter, published in 1956, detailing a study of a small UFO religion in Chicago called the Seekers that believed in an imminent apocalypse.
The theory was put forth by researchers Stanley Schachter and Jerome E. Singer in a 1962 article. According to the theory, emotions may be misinterpreted based on the body's physiological state. Empirical support
Jerome E. Singer was born in the Bronx in 1934. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1956 and earned his PhD in 1960 from the University of Minnesota. [2] He studied under Stanley Schachter who was a former student of Kurt Lewin.
Stanley Schachter, affiliation studies, two factor theory of emotion; Roy Schafer; K. Warner Schaie; Edgar Schein; Gunter Schmidt; Kirk Schneider, existential-integrative therapy; Erich Schröger; Walter Dill Scott; Martin Seligman, (Founder of positive psychology, happiness, learned helplessness) Deborah Serani; Francine Shapiro, (Founder of ...
Stanley Schachter's contributions should also be noted as his studies supported the relevance of emotion induced in appraisal. In 1962, Schachter and Jerome E. Singer devised an experiment to explain the physiological and psychological factors in emotional appraising behaviors.
Stanley Milgram - performed famous experiment that demonstrated people's excessive willingness to obey authority figures Walter Mischel - among the first to promote a situationist view of personality Abraham Moles - one of the first to establish and analyze links between aesthetics and information theory
It was first theorized by psychologists Leon Festinger, Stanley Schachter, and Kurt Back in what came to be called the Westgate studies conducted at MIT (1950). [2] The typical Euler diagram used to represent the propinquity effect is shown below where U = universe, A = set A, B = set B, and S = similarity: