Wyer, Robert S., (Jr.)

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WYER, Robert S., (Jr.)

WYER, Robert S., (Jr.). American, b. 1935. Genres: Psychology. Career: Bell Telephone Laboratories, Whippany, NJ, staff member, 1957-59; Hughes Aircraft Co., Culver City, CA, staff member, 1961-63; University of Iowa, Iowa City, assistant professor, 1963-65; University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, professor of psychology, 1965-. Publications: Cognitive Organization and Change, 1974; (with D.E. Carlston) Social Cognition, Inference, and Attribution, 1979; (with Srull) Memory and Cognition in Its Social Context, 1989. EDITOR (with T.K. Srull): Handbook of Social Cognition, 3 vols, 1984, 2nd ed., 1994; (and contrib.) Advances in Social Cognition, Vol. I: A Dual Process Model of Impression Formation, 1988, Vol. II: Social Intelligence and Cognitive Assessments of Personality, 1989, Vol. III: Content and Process Specificity in the Effects of Prior Experiences, 1990, Vol. IV: The Content, Structure, and Operation of Thought Systems, 1991, Vol. V: The Representation of Trait and Behavioral Knowledge about Self, 1992, Vol. VI: Towards a General Theory of Anger and Emotion, 1993, Vol. VII: Associated Systems Theory, 1994; Knowledge and Memory. Contributor to books. Contributor to scholarly journals. Address: Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 613 East Daniel St., Champaign, IL 61820, U.S.A.