George Mandler

George Mandler is Distinguished Professor of Psychology Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego. Born in Vienna in 1924, he received the B.S. from New York University and the Ph. D. degree from Yale University in 1953. He served in the Army Military Intelligence Service and studied at the University of Basel, taught at Harvard University and the University of Toronto. In 1965 he became the founding chair of the Department of Psychology at the University of California at San Diego and the founding Director of the Center for Human Information Processing (CHIP). He retired in 1994 and became a Visiting Professor at University College London. In 2004 UCSD named Mandler Hall for his contributions to the university. In 2009 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Vienna.

Mandler was a participant in the so-called cognitive revolution. His work concentrated on cognition and emotion and the importance of autonomic feedback, the use of organization theory for an understanding of memory recall and recognition, and the revival of the functions of consciousness. In the 1950s, with S. B. Sarason, he initiated research on test anxiety. He was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced study in the Behavioral Sciences, received the William James Award from the American Psychological Association, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Society of Experimental Psychologists, the Association for Psychological Science, the American Psychological Association and the Cognitive Science Society.

Mandler was editor of Psychological Review, chair of the Psychonomic Society, president of APA Divisions of Experimental Psychology and General Psychology, chair of the Society for Experimental Psychologists, and founding president of the Federation of Behavioral, Psychological, and Cognitive Sciences.

Books by George Mandler

Mandler, G., and Kessen, W. (1959). The Language of Psychology. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Reprinted in Science Editions, 1964. Reprint edition: Huntington, N.Y.: Krieger, 1975. Italian edition: Il linguaggio della psicologia. Bologna: Il Mulino, 1977.

Mandler, Jean M., and Mandler, G. (1964). Thinking: From Association to Gestalt. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Reprint edition: Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1982.

Mandler, G. (1975). Mind and Emotion. New York: Wiley. Reprint edition: Melbourne, Florida: Krieger, 1982. German edition: Denken und Fühlen. Paderborn: Junfermann, 1980.

Mandler, G. (1984). Mind and body: Psychology of emotion and stress. New York: Norton. Behavioral Sciences Book Club selection, 1985.

Japanese edition: Seishin Shobo Publishers, 1987.

Mandler, G. (1985). Cognitive psychology: An essay in cognitive science. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Mandler, G. (1997). Human nature explored. New York: Oxford University Press.

Mandler, G. (2002). Interesting times: An encounter with the 20th century. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Mandler, G. (2002). Consciousness recovered: Psychological functions and origins of conscious thought. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Mandler, G. (2007). A history of modern experimental psychology: From James and Wundt to cognitive science. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Reprint edition: Prentice-Hall.