Anthony greenwald biography

Anthony Galt Greenwald is a.
1959: A.B., Yale College · 1961: A.M., Harvard University (Advisor, Elliot Aronson, worked also with Walter Mischel and.
Anthony Galt Greenwald is a social psychologist and, since 1986, he has been a professor of psychology at the University of Washington.

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Introductory Comments

Anthony Galt Greenwald was born in New York City in 1939. He was musically gifted, which led him to attend the High School of Music and Art in Manhattan . His hero was the jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown. In the mid-1950s, when explicit anti-semitism at Yale University still lingered, he managed to be admitted because he played trumpet -- the band director lobbied to get him off the waiting list. He graduated near the top of his class, went on to further study at Harvard, where at 24, he received his Ph.D. with Gordon Allport. There, he served as research assistant to two other recipients of the same award he receives today, Elliott Aronson and Walter Mischel.

Writing for today's occasion, Walter Mischel reminisced: “Since influencing you was obviously impossible, I soon put the effort into trying to at least survive dealing with you – this impossibly obstinate, willful, persistent, stubborn, argumentative character. As Binet would have said, “uneducable, cannot benefit from schooling” … the harder we tried to shape, twist, influence, or otherwise beat some

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Anthony Greenwald

Anthony Greenwald studied at Yale University and received his bachelorâs degree in 1959. He went on to receive his masterâs from Harvard and remained there until he earned his PhD in 1963. Greenwald began his teaching career at Ohio State University as an assistant professor of psychology in 1965, where he eventually advanced to full professor in 1971. Greenwald accepted a position as Professor of Psychology at the University of Washington in 1986 and still teaches there today. He has also served on the editorial board for more than a dozen psychological journals, including Psychological Review, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Attitudes and Social Cognition, and Consciousness and Cognition.

Greenwald has spent much of his career studying persuasion and has received many awards for his contributions to psychology. These include the National Institute of Healthâs Research Scientist Award, the Donald T. Campbell Award from the Society for Personal and Social Psychology, the Society of Experimental Social Psychologyâs prestigious Disting

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Anthony G. Greenwald, PhD

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

Brief scientific bio paragraphs, PDF (90KB) TO BE ADDED SOON (hopefully soon): My Jazz Past

Current CV, PDF [return to home page]

1959: A.B., Yale College
1961: A.M., Harvard University (Advisor, Elliot Aronson, worked also with Walter Mischel and Richard Solomon)
1963: Ph.D., Harvard University (Advisor, Gordon W. Allport)
1963-65: Postdoctoral Fellow, Educational Testing Service (Supervisor, Samuel J. Messick)
1965-1986 Assistant Professor to Professor (1971), Ohio State University, Department of Psychology
current position: 1986-present: Professor, University of Washington, Department of Psychology; Adjunct Professor of Marketing and International Business since 2005
Associate Editor (1972-76) and Editor (1977-1979): Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Associate Editor, Experimental Psychology (2001-)
Chair: Society of Experimental Social Psychology (1985-86)
Elected Fellow: American Psychological Association, Divi