Robert Zajonc, Pioneer of Social Psychology, Dies at 85
December 11, 2008
December 11, 2008
STANFORD, Calif., Dec. 11 -- Stanford University issued the following news release:
He witnessed and survived some of the worst of human behavior to become one of the world's leading experts on how people behave.
And during the 85 years between his birth in Poland and death Dec. 3 in Palo Alto--a span that led him through Nazi bombings and prisons before winding toward a life in academia--Robert Zajonc laid the foundation for the field of social psychology by e . . .
He witnessed and survived some of the worst of human behavior to become one of the world's leading experts on how people behave.
And during the 85 years between his birth in Poland and death Dec. 3 in Palo Alto--a span that led him through Nazi bombings and prisons before winding toward a life in academia--Robert Zajonc laid the foundation for the field of social psychology by e . . .