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
conscious will and how
people perceive other minds. His
research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and
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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