Jay Michael Weiss is an American

psychologist A psychologist is a professional who practices psychology and studies mental states, perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and social processes and behavior. Their work often involves the experimentation, observation, and explanation, interpretatio ...

. He graduated from

Lafayette College Lafayette College is a private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Easton, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1826 by James Madison Porter and other citizens in Easton, the college first held classes in 18 ...

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

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

with a Ph.D. in Psychology in 1967. In 1994, he received an honorary doctorate of science from Lafayette College.

Awards

*1984

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

*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