Biographical
Sketch
Wegner's work
is focused on the role of thought in self-control and in social
life. He
has studied thought suppression, finding that people become preoccupied
with a white bear when they are merely asked not to think about
it, and has researched mental control of
other kinds as well. He has studied how people in groups
and relationships remember things transactively, and has examined
how people identify their actions. Currently, he is investigating
how people come to experience their actions as consciously willed
and how people perceive other minds. His research
has been funded by the National Science Foundation and is currently
funded by the National Institute of Mental Health. A former Fellow
of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, he
is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science. He
also occasionally writes about himself in the third person.
Education
B.S. (1970), M.A.
(1972), Ph.D (1974) Michigan State University
Positions
Held
- Assistant Professor
(1974-1979) to Associate Professor (1979-1985) to Professor (1985-1990), Trinity University, San Antonio
- Visiting Scholar, University of Texas at Austin,
1980
- Chair, Department
of Psychology, Trinity University, 1988-1989
- Fellow, Center
for Advanced Study, University
of Virginia 1990-1991
- Professor and
Director of Graduate Program in Social Psychology, University of
Virginia, 1990-1996, 1997- 2000
- Fellow, Center
for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, 1996-1997
- Professor, Harvard
University, 2000-
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