Robert Rosenthal
Distinguished Professor of Psychology
UC Riverside
Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology, Emeritus
Harvard University
Robert Rosenthal (born March 2, 1933 in Giessen, Germany) received his A.B. (1953) and Ph.D. (1956) in psychology from UCLA and is a diplomate in Clinical Psychology. From 1957 to 1962 he taught at the University of North Dakota where he was director of the Ph.D. program in clinical psychology. From 1962 to 1999 he was at Harvard University where he was first a Lecturer on Clinical Psychology (1962 to 1967), Professor of Social Psychology (1967 to 1995), Chair of the Department of Psychology (1992 to 1995), and Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology (1995 to 1999) . Since 1999 he has been Distinguished Professor at the University of California at Riverside and Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, Harvard University.
Professor Rosenthal's research has centered for over 40 years on the role of the self-fulfilling prophecy in everyday life and in laboratory situations. Special interests include the effects of teachers' expectations on students' academic and physical performance, the effects of experimenters' expectations on the results of their research, and the effects of clinicians' expectations on their patients' mental and physical health. For some 40 years he has been studying the role of nonverbal communication in (a) the mediation of interpersonal expectancy effects and in (b) the relationship between members of small work groups and small social groups, including clinician-patient dyadic interactions. He served as Chair of the Research Committee of the Bayer Institute for Health Care Communication.
He also has strong interests in sources of artifact in behavioral research and in various quantitative procedures. In the realm of data analysis, his special interests are in experimental design and analysis, contrast analysis, and meta-analysis. His most recent books and articles are about these areas of data analysis and about the nature of nonverbal communication in teacher-student, doctor-patient, manager-employee, judge-jury, and psychotherapist-client interaction. He is Co-Chair of the Task Force on Statistical Inference of the American Psychological Association.
Professor Rosenthal is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Association (Divisions 5, 8, and 12), and of the American Psychological Society. With K. Fode, he received the 1960 Socio-psychological Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and with L. Jacobson, the First Prize Cattell Fund Award of the A.P.A. (1967). He was a Senior Fulbright Scholar in the summer of 1972 and a Guggenheim Fellow 1973-1974. In 1979, the Massachusetts Psychological Association gave him its Distinguished Career Contribution Award. In 1988, he received the Donald Campbell Award of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. During 1988-1989 he was a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. With Nalini Ambady, he received the 1993 AAAS Prize for Behavioral Science Research. For the academic year 1995-1996 he received a James McKeen Cattell Sabbatical Award. He received the Golden Anniversary Monograph Award of the Speech Communication Association in 1996, with Judee Burgoon and Beth Le Poire. Also for 1996, he received the Distinguished Scientist Award of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology. In 1998 he was named Watson Lecturer at the University of New Hampshire, Lanzetta Memorial Lecturer at Dartmouth College, and Bayer Lecturer at Yale University School of Medicine.
He was named as the Uriel Foa Lecturer at Temple University and the Distinguished Psychology Alumni Lecturer at UCLA for 2001. Also for 2001, he was selected for the James McKeen Cattell Award of the American Psychological Society, and was named Professor of the Year at UCR's Department of Psychology. For 2002, he was awarded the Samuel J. Messick Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award of APA's Division 5 - Evaluation, Measurement, and Statistics, and APA's Distinguished Scientific Award for Applications of Psychology. In 2003, he was the Marschak Lecturer at UCLA, he was awarded the Gold Medal Award for Life Achievement in the Science of Psychology of the American Psychological Foundation, and was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Giessen, Germany.
He has lectured widely in the United States and Canada as well as in Australia, England, Fiji, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Papua New Guinea, South Africa, and Switzerland.
Professor Rosenthal is the author or co-author of some 400 articles in the journals and books of his field and is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor some 20 books in his field.
Recent publications:
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Contrasts and effect sizes in behavioral research: A correlational approach. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. (with R. L. Rosnow & D. B. Rubin)
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The new handbook of methods in nonverbal behavior research. (with J. A. Harrigan and K. R. Scherer) (Eds.). Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. 2005.
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Beginning behavioral research: A conceptual primer. Sixth edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2008 (with R. L. Rosnow)
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Essentials in behavioral research: Methods and data analysis. Third edition. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2008 (with R. L. Rosnow)
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