Curriculum Vitae for Richard E. Nisbett June, 2004 Employment History - Education - Undergraduate Honors Graduate Honors - Professional Honors - Professional Service Editorial Boards -  Publications Employment History: The University of Michigan Research Professor, Institute for Social Research, 2003- Theodore M. Newcomb Distinguished University Professor, 1992- Theodore M. Newcomb Professor of Psychology, 1989-1992. Co-Director, Culture and Cognition Program, 1991- Director, Research Center for Group Dynamics, 1989-1996. Director, Cognitive Science Program, 1983-1984. Research Professor, Research Center for Group Dynamics, 2003- Senior Research Scientist, Research Center for Group Dynamics, 1997-2003 Research Scientist, Research Center for Group Dynamics, 1978-1997. Professor of Psychology, 1976-. Associate Professor of Psychology, 1971-1976. Yale University Assistant Professor of Psychology, 1966-1971. Education: A.B., 1962, Tufts University, Psychology major. Ph.D., 1966, Columbia University, Department of Social Psychology. Undergraduate Honors: A.B. Summa cum laude, Society of Scholars, Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Kappa Alpha, Psi Chi, Wendell Phillips Prize Fellowship. Graduate Honors: University Fellow, 1962-1963; President's Fellow, 1963-1965; John W. Burgess Honorary Fellowship 1964; NSF Fellow, 1965-1966. Professional Honors: National Science Foundation Fellowship for research and writing, 1969. Morse Junior Faculty Fellowship from Yale for research and writing, 1969. Langfeld Lecturer, Princeton University, 1980. Invited to be a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, 1981. Donald T. Campbell Award for Distinguished Research in Social Psychology, awarded by the American Psychological Association, 1982. Social Psychology Lecture Series, Peking University, 1982. Invited Address: Western Psychological Association Meeting, 1983. Invited Symposium: Social Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society, 1984. Donald Taylor Memorial Lecturer, Yale University, 1984. Invited Address: British Psychological Society Meeting, 1985. William Howard Taft Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Cincinnati, 1989. Invited Address: Society for Judgment and Decision-Making, 1989. Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award, American Psychological Association, 1991. Keynote Address: New England Social Psychology Association, 1991. Perspectives in Cognitive Science Series Lectures, Department of Philosophy, Notre Dame University, 1991. Ernest Hilgard Lecturer, Stanford University, 1992. Carl Hovland Lecturer, Yale University, 1992. Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1992. Invited Address: French Psychological Society, 1993. Distinguished Senior Scientist Award, Society for Experimental Social Psychology, 1995 Wei Lun Visiting Professor of Psychology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1995. William James Fellow Award for Distinguished Scientific Achievements, American Psychological Society, 1996. Invited Address, American Psychological Society, 1997. Distinguished Research Award, University of Michigan, 1997. J. McKeen Cattell Fellowship Award, 1998. Keynote Address, Human Behavior and Evolution Society, 1998. Invited Address, Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, 2000 Master Lecture, American Psychological Association, 2000 Edward E. Jones Memorial Lectures, Princeton University, 2001. Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar, 2001, 2003 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 2002 Elected to the National Academy of Sciences, 2002 Ernest R. Hilgard Visiting Professor Lectures, Stanford, December, 2002 Elected to the Society for Experimental Psychology, 2003 William James Distinguished Speaker, Eastern Psychological Association, 2003 American Psychological Association's William James Book Award for "The Geography of Thought," 2004 Professional Service: Member, Basic Sociocultural Research Review Committee, National Institute of Health, 1979-1980. Member, Committee on Research Support, American Psychological Association, 1981-1984. Member, Committee on Tax Compliance of National Research Council, 1984-1986. Testimony on the National Science Foundation Budget to the U.S. House of Representatives, April 27, 1988. Testimony on the National Science Foundation Budget to the U.S. Senate, May 10, 1988. Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Armed Services on the Subject of USS VINCENNES' Downing of the Iran Air Flight 655, October 6, 1988. Member, International Advisory Committee, Chinese Institute of Psychology 2001-. Consultant, U. S. Central Intelligence Agency, 2001. Chair, William James Fellow Award Selection Committee, American Psychological Society. Member, National Academy of Sciences Committee to Select Recipient of Award for Behavioral Research Relevant to the Prevention of Nuclear War, 2002 Visiting Committee, Harvard University Department of Psychology, 2002 Chair, Membership Committee, Psychology Section, National Academy of Sciences, 2004- Editorial Boards: Psychological Review, 1982-1989; 1996- Cognitive Psychology, 1977-1992 Cognition, 1995- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1969-1971; 1973-1977; 1979-1988. Journal of Behavioral Decision-Making, 1987- 1997. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 1973-1978. Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior, 1979-1983. European Journal of Social Psychology, 1982-1985. Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive,1993- Polish Psychological Bulletin, 1989- Japanese Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 1991- Personality and Social Psychology Review, 1995- Evolution and Human Behavior, 1995- Journal of Cognition and Culture, 2000- Publications: Books: Jones, E. E., Kanouse, D. E., Kelley, H. H., Nisbett, R. E., Valins, S., & Weiner, B. (1972). Attribution: Perceiving the causes of behavior. New York: General Learning Press. Gergen, K., Clapp, G., Nisbett, R. E., & Rosenhan, D. (Eds.). (1974). Social psychology: Explorations in understanding. Del Mar, CA: CRM Corporation. London, H. S., & Nisbett, R. E. (Eds.). (1974). Thought and feeling: Cognitive alteration of feeling states. Chicago: Aldine-Atherton. Nisbett, R. E., & Ross, L. D. (1980). Human inference: Strategies and shortcomings of social judgment. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. Translated into Italian, Korean. Holland, J. H., Holyoak, K. J., Nisbett, R. E., & Thagard, P. (1986). Induction: Processes of inference, learning, and discovery. Cambridge, MA: Bradford Books/The MIT Press. Translated into Japanese. Grunberg, N. E., Nisbett, R. E., Rodin, J., & Singer, J. E. (Eds.). (1987). A distinctive approach to psychological research: The influence of Stanley Schachter. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Ross, L. D., & Nisbett, R. E. (1991). The person and the situation: Perspectives of social psychology. New York: McGraw-Hill. Translated into Italian, Chinese, Russian. Nisbett, R. E. (1992). Rules for reasoning. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. Nisbett, R. E., & Cohen, D. (1996). Culture of honor: The psychology of violence in the South. Denver, CO: Westview Press. Nisbett, R. E. (2003). The geography of thought: How Asians and Westerners think differently ... and why. New York: The Free Press. Editions also in print or in preparation for the U. K. and Commonwealth countries, China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Italy and Turkey. Gilovich, T., Keltner, D., & Nisbett, R. E. (in press). Social psychology. New York: Norton. Articles: (*Indicates article has been reprinted in collections or reprint series one or more times.) *Nisbett, R. E., & Schachter, S. (1966). Cognitive manipulation of pain. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2, 227-236. *Nisbett, R. E., & Gordon, A. (1967). Self-esteem and susceptibility to social influence. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 5, 268-276. *Nisbett, R. E. (1968). Birth order and participation in dangerous sports. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 8, 351-353. Nisbett, R. E. (1968). Taste, deprivation, and weight determinants of eating behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 10, 107-116. *Nisbett, R. E. (1968). Determinants of food intake in obesity. Science, 159, 1254-1255. *Nisbett, R. E., & Kanouse, D. (1969). Obesity, food deprivation and supermarket shopping behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 12, 289-294. *Kiesler, C. A., Nisbett, R. E., & Zanna, M. P. (1969). On inferring one's beliefs from one's behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 11, 321-327. *Nisbett, R. E. (1970). Girth control: Review of J. Mayer's Overweight. Contemporary Psychology, 15, 92-94. Nisbett, R. E., & Gurwitz, S. (1970). Weight, sex, and the eating behavior of human newborns. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 73, 245-253. *Storms, M. D., & Nisbett, R. E. (1970). Insomnia and the attribution process. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 16, 319-328. Nisbett, R. E., & Valins, S. (1971). Perceiving the causes of one's own behavior. New York: General Learning Press. *Jones, E. E., & Nisbett, R. E. (1971). The actor and the observer: Divergent perceptions of the causes of behavior. New York: General Learning Press. *Valins, S. Nisbett, R. E. (1971). Attribution processes in the development and treatment of emotional disorders. New York: General Learning Press. Nisbett, R. E. (1972). Eating behavior and obesity in men and animals. In R. Reichsman (Ed.), Hunger and satiety in health and disease, Vol. 7 of Advances in Psychosomatic Medicine, 173-193. *Nisbett, R. E. (1972). The hunger of the obese. Obesity and Bariatric Medicine, 2, 28-32. *Nisbett, R. E. (1972). Hunger, obesity and the ventromedical hypothalamus. Psychological review, 79, 433-453. *Nisbett, R. E., Caputo, C., Legant, P., & Marecek, J. (1973). Behavior as seen by the actor and as seen by the observer. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 27, 154-164. *Lepper, M. R., Greene, D., & Nisbett, R. E. (1973). Undermining children's intrinsic interest with extrinsic reward: A test of the overjustification hypothesis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 28, 129-137. Nisbett, R. E., Hanson, L. R., Harris, A., & Stair, A. (1973). Taste responsiveness, weight loss and the ponderostat. Physiology and Behavior, 11, 641-645. Nisbett, R. E., & Storms, M. D. (1973). Cognitive and social determinants of food intake. In H. S. London & R. E. Nisbett (Eds.), Thought and feeling. Chicago: Aldine-Atherton. Nisbett, R. E., Braver, A., Jusela, G., & Kezur, D. (1975). Age and sex differences in behaviors mediated by the ventromedial hypothalamus. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 88, 735-746. *Nisbett, R. E., & Borgida, E. (1975). Attribution and the psychology of prediction. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 32, 932-943. Nisbett, R. E., & Temoshok, L. (1976). Is there an "external" cognitive style? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 33, 36-47. *Nisbett, R. E., Borgida, E., Crandall, R., & Reed, H. (1976). Popular induction: Information is not always informative. In J. Carroll & J. Payne (Eds.), Cognition and social behavior. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Nisbett, R. E. (1977). Interactions vs. main effects as goals of personality research. In D. Magnusson & N. S. Endler (Eds.), Personality at the crossroads: Current issues in interactional psychology. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Borgida, E., & Nisbett, R. E. (1977). The differential impact of abstract vs. concrete information on decisions. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 7, 258-271. *Nisbett, R. E., & Wilson, T. D. (1977). Telling more than we can know: Verbal reports on mental processes. Psychological Review, 84, 231-259. Nisbett, R. E., & Wilson, T. D. (1977). The halo effect: Evidence for unconscious alteration of judgments. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 35, 250-256. *Nisbett, R. E., & Bellows, N. (1977). Verbal reports about causal influences on social judgments: Private access vs. public theories. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 35, 613-624. Wilson, T. D., & Nisbett, R. E. (1978). The accuracy of verbal reports about the effects of stimuli on evaluations and behavior. Social Psychology, 41, 118-131. Nisbett, R. E. (1978). A guide for reviewers: Editorial hardball in the '70s. American Psychologist, 33, 519-520. *Stich, S., & Nisbett, R. E. (1980). Justification and the psychology of human reasoning. Philosophy of Science, 47, 188-202. Hamill, R., Wilson, T. D., & Nisbett, R. E. (1980). Insensitivity to sample bias: Generalizing from atypical cases. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 39, 578-589. Nisbett, R. E. (1980). The trait construct in lay and professional psychology. In L. Festinger (Ed.), Retrospections on social psychology. New York: Oxford University Press. Nisbett, R. E., Zukier, H., & Lemley, R. (1981). The dilution effect: Nondiagnostic information weakens the implications of diagnostic information. Cognitive Psychology, 13, 248-277. Nisbett, R. E. (1981). Lay arbitration of rules of inference. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 4, 349-350. (commentary) Pietromonaco, P., & Nisbett, R. E. (1982). Swimming upstream against the fundamental attribution error: Subjects' weak generalizations from the Darley and Batson study. Social Behavior and Personality, 10, l-4. Abbey, A., & Nisbett, R. E. (1982). Lay assessment of experimental costs and benefits: Are laypeople good human subjects' reviewers? Academic Psychology Bulletin, 4, 495-502. Thagard, P., & Nisbett, R. E. (1982). Variability and confirmation. Philosophical Studies, 50, 250-267. Thagard, P., & Nisbett, R. E. (1982). Rationality and charity. Philosophy of Science, 42, 379-394. *Nisbett, R. E., Krantz, D. H., Jepson, C., & Fong, G. T. (1982). Improving inductive inference. In D. Kahneman, P. Slovic, & A. Tversky (Eds.), Judgment under uncertainty: Heuristics and biases. New York: Cambridge University Press. Nisbett, R. E., & Thagard, P. (1983). Psychology, statistics, and analytical epistemology. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 6, 257