Jay Michael Weiss is an American

psychologist A psychologist is a professional who practices psychology and studies mental states, perceptual Perception () is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the pre ...

. He graduated from

Lafayette College Lafayette College is a private liberal arts college in Easton, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1826 by James Madison Porter and other citizens in Easton, the college first held classes in 1832. The founders voted to name the college after General Laf ...

with a B.A. in Psychology in 1962, and

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the w ...

with a Ph.D. in Psychology in 1967.

Awards

*1984

MacArthur Fellows Program The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and commonly but unofficially known as the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 indi ...

*Society of Behavioral Medicine Fellow

Works

*"Effects of Coping Responses on Stress." ''Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology''. Vol 65(2), Apr 1968, 251-260. *"Psychological Factors in Stress and Disease", ''Scientific American'', June 1972: 104-13
"Does decreased sucrose intake indicate loss of preference in CMS model?"
''Journal Psychopharmacology'', Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, ISSN 0033-3158 Issue Volume 134, Number 4 / December, 1997
"Effects of chronic antidepressant drug administration and electroconvulsive shock on locus coeruleus electrophysiologic activity"
''Biological Psychiatry'', Volume 49, Issue 2, Pages 117-129 (15 January 2001)

References

American psychiatrists Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Lafayette College alumni Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Emory University faculty MacArthur Fellows {{US-psychologist-stub