Bio
James J. Gross, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at Stanford University, and Director of the Stanford Psychophysiology Laboratory (http://spl.stanford.edu). Dr. Gross earned his BA in philosophy from Yale University in 1987 and his PhD in clinical psychology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1993. He is a leading figure in the areas of emotion and emotion regulation, and he has received early career awards from the American Psychological Association, the Western Psychological Association, and the Society for Psychophysiological Research. Dr. Gross also has won numerous awards for his teaching, including the Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching, the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize, the Stanford Postdoctoral Mentoring Award, and the Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching. He is a Bass University Fellow in Undergraduate Education and the Director of the Stanford Psychology One Teaching Program. Dr. Gross has an extensive program of investigator-initiated research, with grants from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Institute of Education Sciences. He has over 250 publications, and is a Fellow in the Association for Psychological Science and the American Psychological Association.
Academic Appointments
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Professor, Psychology
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Member, Bio-X
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Member, Cardiovascular Institute
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Member, Child Health Research Institute
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Member, Stanford Neurosciences Institute
Administrative Appointments
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Assistant to Full Professor, Department of Psychology, Stanford University (1994 - 2008)
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Professor, Department of Psychology, Stanford University (2009 - Present)
Honors & Awards
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Predoctoral Fellow, NIMH Training Program in Emotion Research (1989-1992)
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Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Francisco (1993-1994)
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Alpheus Henry Snow Prize, Yale University (1987)
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Vicki Jackson Prize, Yale University (1987)
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Berkeley Graduate Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley (1988-1991)
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Tursky Award, Society for Psychophysiological Research (1991)
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Robert E. Harris Award, University of California, San Francisco (1994)
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Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching, Stanford University (1996-1997)
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Fellow, American Psychological Society (1997)
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Banks Faculty Fellow in the Social Sciences, Stanford University (1997-1998)
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Early Career Award, Society for Psychophysiological Research (2000)
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Early Career Award, American Psychological Association (2001)
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Gordon and Dailey Pattee Faculty Fellowship, Stanford University (2001-2002)
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Outstanding Young Researcher Award, Western Psychological Association (2003)
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Bass University Fellow in Undergraduate Education, Stanford University (2004-2014)
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Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching, Stanford University (2007)
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Postdoctoral Mentoring Award, Stanford University (2008)
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Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize, Phi Beta Kappa Society (2009)
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Postdoctoral Mentoring Award, Stanford University (2012)
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Fellow, American Psychological Association (2010)
Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations
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Member, American Psychological Association
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Member, Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies
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Member, Association for Psychological Science
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Member, Association for Research in Personality
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Member, International Society for Research on Emotion
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Member, Society for Affective Science
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Member, Society for Neuroscience
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Member, Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology
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Member, Society for Personality and Social Psychology
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Member, Society for Psychophysiological Research
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Reviewer, Israel Science Foundation (ISF)
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Reviewer, National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
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Reviewer, National Institute of Aging (NIA)
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Reviewer, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
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Reviewer, National Science Foundation (NSF)
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Reviewer, National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
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Reviewer, Swiss National Science Foundation (FNS)
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Associate Editor, Emotion (2006 - 2010)
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Member Editorial Board, Behavior Therapy
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Member, Editorial Board, Biology of Mood and Anxiety Disorders
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Member, Editorial Board, Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Regulation
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Member, Editorial Board, Clinical Psychological Science
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Member, Editorial Board, Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience
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Member, Editorial Board, Emotion
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Member, Editorial Board, Frontiers in Emotion Science
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Member Editorial Board, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
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Member Editorial Board, Personality Processes and Individual Differences
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Member Editorial Board, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
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Member Editorial Board, Psychological Science
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Member Editorial Board, Social and Personality Psychology Compass
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Member Editorial Board, Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience
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Ad Hoc Reviewer, American Journal of Psychiatry
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Ad Hoc Reviewer, American Psychologist
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Ad Hoc Reviewer, Annals of Behavioral Medicine
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Ad Hoc Reviewer, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
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Ad Hoc Reviewer, Archives of General Psychiatry
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Ad Hoc Reviewer, Australian Journal of Psychology
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Ad Hoc Reviewer, Behavior Therapy
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Ad Hoc Reviewer, Behaviour Research and Therapy
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Ad Hoc Reviewer, Biological Psychiatry
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Ad Hoc Reviewer, Brain Research
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Ad Hoc Reviewer, Brain Research Protocols
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Ad Hoc Reviewer, Cerebral Cortex
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Ad Hoc Reviewer, Cognition and Emotion
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Ad Hoc Reviewer, Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience
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Ad Hoc Reviewer, Cognitive Therapy and Research
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Ad Hoc Reviewer, Current Directions in Psychological Science
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Ad Hoc Reviewer, Developmental Psychology
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Ad Hoc Reviewer, Emotion
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Ad Hoc Reviewer, Emotion Review
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Ad Hoc Reviewer, European Journal of Neuroscience
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Ad Hoc Reviewer, European Journal of Personality, Frontiers in Emotion Science
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Ad Hoc Reviewer, Health Psychology
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Ad Hoc Reviewer, Humor: International Journal of Humor Research
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Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
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Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Abnormal Psychology
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Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making
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Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
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Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
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Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Neuroscience
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Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Personality
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Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
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Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Psychiatric Research
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Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Research on Adolescence
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Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
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Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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Ad Hoc Reviewer, Motivation and Emotion
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Ad Hoc Reviewer, Neurobiology of Aging
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Ad Hoc Reviewer, Neuroscience
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Ad Hoc Reviewer, Personality and Individual Differences
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Ad Hoc Reviewer, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
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Ad Hoc Reviewer, Perspectives on Psychological Science
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Ad Hoc Reviewer, Psychological Bulletin
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Ad Hoc Reviewer, Psychological Review
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Ad Hoc Reviewer, Psychological Science
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Ad Hoc Reviewer, Psychology and Aging
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Ad Hoc Reviewer, Psychology and Health
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Ad Hoc Reviewer, Psychoneuroendocrinology
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Ad Hoc Reviewer, Psychonomic Bulletin and Review
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Ad Hoc Reviewer, Psychophysiology
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Ad Hoc Reviewer, Review of General Psychology
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Ad Hoc Reviewer, Science
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Ad Hoc Reviewer, Social Development
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Ad Hoc Reviewer, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
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Founder and Member, Emotion Research Group (1993 - Present)
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Member, Library Committee, Psychology Department, Stanford University (1994 - 1999)
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Member, Faculty Search Committee in Personality, Psychology Department, Stanford University (1995 - 1996)
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Treasurer, International Society for Research on Emotion (1996 - 2000)
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Member, National Consortium on Violence Research, Working Group on Cognitive and Biological Processes in Violent Decision Making (1997 - 1999)
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Co-Chair, Committee on Education and Training, Society for Psychophysiological Research (1997 - 2001)
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Member, Faculty Search Committee in Cognitive Psychology, Psychology Department, Stanford University (1998 - 1999)
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Member, Faculty Search Committee in Cognitive Psychology, Psychology Department, Stanford University (2009 - 2010)
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Member, Faculty Search Committee in Developmental Psychology, Psychology Department, Stanford University (1998 - 1999)
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Member, Faculty Search Committee in Developmental Psychology, Psychology Department, Stanford University (1999 - 2000)
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Member, Judicial Panel, Stanford University (1999 - 2001)
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Chair and Member, Graduate Admissions Committee, Psychology Department, Stanford University (2000 - 2001)
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Chair and Member, Graduate Admissions Committee, Psychology Department, Stanford University (2002 - 2003)
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Chair and Member, Graduate Admissions Committee, Psychology Department, Stanford University (2007 - 2008)
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Chair and Member, Graduate Admissions Committee, Psychology Department, Stanford University (2009 - 2010)
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Member, Positive Experience Network, Positive Psychology Initiative (2000 - 2002)
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Member, Program Committee, Society for Psychophysiological Research (2000 - 2000)
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Member, Program Committee, Society for Psychophysiological Research (2003 - 2003)
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Member, Stanford University Panel on Human Subjects in Nonmedical Research (2001 - 2001)
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Director, Psychology Summer Session, Stanford University (2003 - Present)
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Member, Medical Scholars Review Committee, Stanford University (2004 - Present)
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Member, APA Search Committee for editor of the journal Emotion (2004 - 2005)
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Director and Member, Undergraduate Education Committee, Psychology Department, Stanford University (2004 - 2010)
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Member, Graduate Education Committee, Psychology Department, Stanford University (2006 - 2007)
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Member, Faculty Search Committee in Psychiatry, Psychiatry Department, Stanford University (2008 - 2009)
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Chair, Health and Safety Committee, Psychology Department, Stanford University (2009 - 2011)
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Member, Humanities and Sciences Curriculum Committee, Stanford University (2009 - Present)
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Member, Subcommittee on the Freshman Year, Study of Undergraduate Education at Stanford (2010 - 2011)
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Member, Subcommittee on University Honors, Stanford University (2010 - 2011)
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Member, Faculty Search Committee in Affective Science, Psychology Department, Stanford University (2010 - 2011)
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Member, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education’s Undergraduate Advisory Council, Stanford University (2011 - 2013)
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Member, Human Subjects Committee, Psychology Department, Stanford University (2011 - Present)
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Founding President, Society for Affective Science (2012 - 2014)
Professional Education
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Ph.D, University of California, Berkeley, Clinical Psychology (1993)
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Graduate Visiting Student, Linacre College, Oxford University (1988)
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B.A, Yale University, Philosophy and Psychology (1987)