Zuckerman, Marvin
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Name (Latin)
Zuckerman, Marvin
Date of birth
1928-03-21
Date of death
2018-11-08
Associated country
United States
Field of activity
Senses and sensation
Anxiety
Arousal (Physiology)
Education, Higher
Emotions
Impulse
Personality
Psychobiology
Occupation
College teachers
Psychologists
Psychology teachers
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
Sources of Information
- UDaily, via WWW, December 5, 2018:In memoriam: Marvin Zuckerman, article by UDaily staff, November 20, 2018 (Emeritus psychology professor was an expert in sensation seeking and its role in risk taking; died on Nov. 8; member of the UD faculty from 1969 until he retired in 2002, when he was awarded emeritus status; fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science and a member of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, the American Psychosomatic Society and the Eastern Psychological Association; served on the board of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences from 1981-89 and was the society's president from 1985-87; completed his bachelor's degree at New York University's Washington Square College of Arts and Sciences in 1949; earned his doctorate in clinical psychology at NYU's Graduate School of Arts and Science in 1954; became a research associate and assistant professor at Indiana University's Medical Center in 1956; after a year as an assistant professor at Brooklyn College, he spent a year as an associate professor at Adelphi University; author of several books, including Emotions and anxiety: new concepts, methods and applications, Sensation seeking: beyond the optimal level of arousal, The biological bases of sensation seeking, impulsivity and anxiety, The psychobiology of personality and Behavioral expressions and biosocial bases of sensation seeking)
- Wikipedia, December 5, 2018(Marvin Zuckerman; March 21, 1928 in Chicago, November 8, 2018; was professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Delaware; best known for his research into the psychobiological basis of human personality, sensory deprivation, mood state measurement, and sensation seeking)
- His Stress and hallucinatory effects of perceptual isolation and confinement, 1962.