Norman H. Anderson (psychologist)
Norman H. Anderson | |
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| Born | Norman Henry Anderson 23 July 1925 |
| Died | 29 August 2022 (aged 97) |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago (BS, MS), University of Wisconsin (MS, PhD) |
| Known for | Information Integration Theory |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of California, San Diego |
Norman Henry Anderson (July 23, 1925 — August 29, 2022) was an American social psychologist and the founder of Information integration theory.
Anderson was a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego, where he was one of three founders of the Department of Psychology. He received a BS in 1946 and an MS in 1949 from the University of Chicago, and an MS in 1955 and a PhD in 1956 from the University of Wisconsin, with a thesis on Effect of First-order Conditional Probability in a Two-choice Learning Situation. Anderson also taught at The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) during the 1960s and 1970s, and is credited with developing Information Integration Theory.
Anderson was the winner of the 1972 AAAS Prize for Behavioral Science Research.