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Stanley Schachter
Stanley Schachter
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temperamental correlates of birth order, nature of emotional experience, people's ability to correctly attribute the causes of their behavior to external versus internal factors, causes of obesity and eating behavior clisorclers, the aciclictive nature of nicotine, psychological reactions to events that affect stock market prices, en c! the proper interpretation of "filled" ("oh," "er")
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The first two-year cohort of students incluclecl many who were to become eminent social psychologists, inclucling Kurt Back, Morton Deutsch, Murray Horwitz, Haroic! Kelley, Albert Pepitone, John Thibaut, en cl Ben Willerman.
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The effect that Schachter hac! on people was very much the same whether they were his fellow eminent scientists or the lowliest of beginning graduate students.
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The dissertation was inspired by work on social influence in MIT married student quarters clone earlier in graduate school with Festinger en c! the sociologist Kurt Bach.
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It is possible to arouse people by some purely physiological means en cl have them attribute the arousal exclusively to some external source, such as a social situation that can be interpreter! as threatening.
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of social psychology in the 1970s. The work was also of substantial practical importance, in part because it showocl that the placebo effect counted on by physicians conic!
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Schachter found no evidence of such a tendency on the part of the obese, but what he clicl final was even more interesting. The obese turned out to be relatively unmotivated to eat by food deprivation, but highly motivated to eat by external cues, such as the taste en cl availability of food.
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In later work, perhaps because human subjects review boards were making it clifficult for psychologists to concluct research in which they cleceivecl their subjects or placecl them in uncomfortable situations, Schachter became interestecl in aggregate-level phenomena. He founcI, for example, that department store sales were off the day after a widely publicizes!
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in part of devising control conditions that were so similar in all respects to the experimental condition save the theoretically crucial one that alternative explanations were clifficult to sustain. Most prior research in the soft areas of psychology used a methodology that simply showed that inclivicluals of type X clo behavior A more than inclivicluals of type Y
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Prior to his entrance on the scene, much theorizing was highly complex en cl was clerivecl from large, overarching frameworks such as psychoanalytic theory en c! learning theory.
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Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1989. Other useful material about Schachter can be found in a festschrift edited by N
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Stanford: Stanford University Press. 1951 Deviation, rejection and communication.
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Stanford: Stanford University Press.
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