George Mandler

Selected Books

See "My Books" for my 2007 history of experimental psychology, including comments and an early review.

History
(2007)A history of modern experimental psychology:From James and Wundt to cognitive science. MIT Press.
The development of experimental psychology from its birth as an experimental science to the current immersion in cognitive science.
Autobiography
Interesting Times: An encounter with the 20th century/Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002.
An ccount of life in Austria, England, and the U.S. from immigrant to U.S. Army Intelligence to Academia
Nonfiction
Consciousness recovered. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2002.
A psychology of consciousness.
Human Nature Explored. Oxford, 1997. Out of print, but available from the author.
Historical, cultural and evolutionary bases of human nature
Nonfiction/Psychology
Five earlier books (1959-1985)
Logic and history of psychology, emotion, memory, cognition.

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Born in Vienna, 1924. Emigrated to England after German occupation in 1938. School in England until 1940, then left for the U.S. Served in US Army Military- and Counter-Intelligence, 1943-46. B.A. NYU 1949, Ph.D. Yale 1953. Taught at Harvard and the University of Toronto. In 1965 founding chair of psychology at the University of California, San Diego. Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Society of Experimental Psychologists. Received Honorary Doctorate from the University of Vienna in 2009. Residence in La Jolla, California and in London. Married Jean Matter 1957; sons Peter and Michael.