Norman Henry Anderson (July 23, 1925 — August 29, 2022) was an American social psychologist and the founder of Information integration theory.[1][2]
Anderson was a Distinguished Professor Emeritus[3] at the University of California, San Diego, where he was one of three founders of the Department of Psychology.[4] He received a BS in 1946 and an MS in 1949 from the University of Chicago, and an MS in 1955 and a PhD in 1956 from the University of Wisconsin,[5] with a thesis on Effect of First-order Conditional Probability in a Two-choice Learning Situation.[6] Anderson also taught at The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) during the 1960s and 1970s, and is credited with developing Information Integration Theory.[7]
Anderson was the winner of the 1972 AAAS Prize for Behavioral Science Research.[8]
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- ^ Anderson, Norman (1956). Effect of First-order Conditional Probability in a Two-choice Learning Situation. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin.
- ^ Berkowitz, L. and Anderson, N.H. (1978). Cognitive Theories in Social Psychology: Papers from Advances in Experimental Social Psychology. New York, NY, USA: Academic Press.
- ^ History & Archives: AAAS Prize for Behavioral Science Research