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Raymond W. Gibbs Jr. is a former psychology professor and researcher at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research interests are in the fields of experimental psycholinguistics and cognitive science.
Massaro is director of the Perceptual Science Laboratory, past president of the Society for Computers in Psychology, book review editor for the American Journal of Psychology, founding Chair of UCSC's Digital Arts and New Media program, and was founding co-editor of the interdisciplinary journal Interpreting. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a ...
Steve Whittaker is a Professor in human-computer interaction at the University of California Santa Cruz.He is best known for his research at the intersection of computer science and social science in particular on computer mediated communication and personal information management.
Gurdon Woods – sculptor, founding chair of the art department at UC Santa Cruz, 1966–1974 [19] [20] Stanford E. Woosley – professor of astronomy and astrophysics; noted for his work on supernova gamma ray bursts ; member of the NAS (elected 2006) and American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 2001) [ 17 ]
Clifford and Hayden White were the first faculty directly appointed to the graduate-only department at UC-Santa Cruz. Clifford served as department Chair from 2004–2007, and was the founding director of UCSC's Center for Cultural Studies. He has been a visiting professor in France, England and Germany and was elected to the American Academy ...
Elliot Aronson (born January 9, 1932) is an American psychologist who has carried out experiments on the theory of cognitive dissonance and invented the Jigsaw Classroom, a cooperative teaching technique that facilitates learning while reducing interethnic hostility and prejudice.
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The cognitive sciences began as an intellectual movement in the 1950s, called the cognitive revolution.Cognitive science has a prehistory traceable back to ancient Greek philosophical texts (see Plato's Meno and Aristotle's De Anima); Modern philosophers such as Descartes, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Benedict de Spinoza, Nicolas Malebranche, Pierre Cabanis, Leibniz and John Locke, rejected ...