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Mandler is survived by his wife, Jean; sons Peter and Michael; daughters-in-law Ruth Ehrlich and Sophie Mandler; grandchildren Ben and Hannah; and step-grandchildren Giovanni and Diana. In lieu of flowers, the Mandler family suggests donations in George’s memory be made to the “George Mandler Memorial Fund.”.
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While an assistant professor at Harvard, in January 1957 Mandler married Jean Mandler. They had two sons, Peter Mandler and Michael Mandler. He died in London in May 2016 at the age of 91. [1]
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Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada During the heady early days of psychology at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), in the late 1960s and early 1970s, I and several graduate students, visiting professors, and research assistants populated George’s lab. UCSD was a relatively new campus and George had assembled a faculty compleme...
California State University, San Marcos George Mandler’s recent passing brought me back to the years when I was one of his graduate students at University of California, San Diego (UCSD), in the early 1970s. George and his colleagues had founded the psychology department a few years earlier. He was shaping it to be a leading institution in the revo...
London, United Kingdom We first spent proper time with George when we went to visit him and his wife Jean at their house in San Diego in about 1995. I was 11, Anna must have been 8, and we had a lot of fun together. We explored their house, with its extensive collection of B. Traven books, abstract art, and swathes of classy beige and brown leather...
University College London, United Kingdom George was never interested in mathematical cognition; nevertheless, he published with Billie Jo Shebo an important and influential paper in 1982 on subitizing. What he was really interested in was the limits of conscious experience, and subitizing provided a classical route to study this. For readers who, ...
Anobile, G., Cicchini, G. M., & Burr, D. C. (2015). Number as a primary perceptual attribute: A review. Perception. doi:10.1177/0301006615602599 Arp, S., & Fagard, J. (2005). What impairs subitizing in cerebral palsied children? Developmental Psychobiology, 47, 89–102. doi:10.1002/dev.20069 Arrighi, R., Togoli, I., & Burr, D. C. (2014). A generaliz...
University of Toronto, Canada, and Rotman Research Institute Given the fleeting nature of fame in our busy discipline, it is worth reminding ourselves and others what an outstanding contributor George Mandler was to our science. He was a pioneer of the cognitive revolution, publishing influential papers and books on memory and emotion. In his memor...
The University of Memphis I was a graduate student of George Mandler at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), during the heyday of the cognitive revolution in the mid-1970s. George’s major interests in cognitive psychology at that time were organization of memory, the impact of organization on recognition memory, and the role of familiari...
University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom George Mandler was undoubtedly one of the great cognitive psychologists of the 20th Century, one who was instrumental in shaping our thinking about memory processes (activation, organisation), consciousness, cognition, and emotion for several decades. What I have started to realize and appreciate more rec...
University of California, San Diego I met George Mandler in 1965 when he was the founding chair of the department of Psychology at the newly formed University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and — along with the other two members of the few-months-old department, Bill McGill and Norman Anderson — he hired me. George was a major force in the develo...
University College London, United Kingdom When George was forced to leave Austria so abruptly by himself, alone as a teenager in the late 1930s, he came to England, and although he then moved on to the United States a few years later, he retained his affection for England. I got to know him a little during the 1970s, when he and Jean spent a sabbat...
May 19, 2016 · Mandler is survived by his wife, Jean; sons Peter and Michael; daughters-in-law Ruth Ehrlich and Sophie Mandler; grandchildren Ben and Hannah; and step-grandchildren Giovanni and Diana. In lieu of flowers, the Mandler family suggests donations in George’s memory be made to the “George Mandler Memorial Fund.”.
Oct 1, 2017 · Presents an obituary for George Mandler, who died in London on May 6, 2016 at the age of 91. Mandler was one of the pioneers of the cognitive revolution in psychology.
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For those who may not be familiar with him, George Mandler was one of the fathers of the so-called cognitive revolution, a period of time in the 1960s and 1970s when the field is widely viewed as having shifted from a behavioral to a more cognitive orientation.
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Sep 1, 2001 · This book is an autobiographical account of George Mandler--born in 1924--who grew up in a middle class Jewish family in Vienna. It details the fears and
