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Jun 9, 2001 · Professor Richard Nisbett has research interests in judgment and reasoning, causal attribution, inference, personality theory, evolutionary theory, diversity and multiculturalism, and cultural differences in attitudes, behavior, and basic cognitive processes. Over 20,000 psychology links on a wide variety topics. Definitely worth a visit!
After analyzing decades of intelligence research, Nisbett maintains that past studies give too much credit to heritability's role in intelligence. Culture, social class and education, he argues, matter more, and explain racial gaps in IQ. With that in mind, Nisbett says, U.S. schools and society should be far more focused on finding ways to ...
In the tradition of The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould, world-class social psychologist Richard E. Nisbett takes on the idea of intelligence as something that is biologically determined and impervious to culture--with vast implications for the role of education as it relates to social and economic development.
Richard E. Nisbett is the Theodore M. Newcomb Distinguished University Professor; Co-Director of the University of Michigan's Culture and Cognition Program; and Research Professor at the Research Center for Group Dynamics of U-M's Institute for Social Research. He studies reasoning and basic cognitive processes, especially induction ...
Mar 27, 2009 · Richard E. Nisbett, a prominent cognitive psychologist who teaches at the University of Michigan, doesn’t shirk the hard work. In “Intelligence and How to Get It,” he offers a meticulous and ...
Doctoral advisor. Stanley Schachter. Richard Eugene Nisbett (born June 1, 1941) [1] is an American social psychologist and writer. He is the Theodore M. Newcomb Distinguished Professor of social psychology and co-director of the Culture and Cognition program at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Nisbett's research interests are in social ...
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Faculty – Affiliated. Faculty by Fields of Study. Graduate Students. Research Fellows. Staff – Administrative. Staff – Research. Visiting Scholars. Theodore M Newcomb Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Research Professor Emeritus, Research Center for Group Dynamics, Institute for Social Research. nisbett@umich.edu.
