Richard Nisbett

Richard Nisbett is an American social psychologist and writer, born on June 1, 1941, in Littlefield, Texas. He holds the Theodore M. Newcomb Distinguished Professorship of social psychology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he is also co-director of the Culture and Cognition program. His research interests span social cognition, culture, social class and aging. He took his bachelor's degree at Tufts University and his doctorate at Columbia University in 1966, with a thesis on taste, deprivation and weight determinants of eating behavior, under the supervision of Stanley Schachter, whose other students at the time included Lee Ross and Judith Rodin. His honors include the Donald T. Campbell Award of the American Psychological Association in 1982 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002.