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Jonathan Schooler, (born August 3, 1959) is an American psychologist and Distinguished Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the
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, who researches various topics that intersect aspects of both cognitive psychology and philosophy such as: Belief in
free will Free will is generally understood as the capacity or ability of people to (a) choice, choose between different possible courses of Action (philosophy), action, (b) exercise control over their actions in a way that is necessary for moral respon ...
, Meta-awareness, Mindfulness,
Mind-Wandering Mind-wandering is broadly defined as thoughts unrelated to the task at hand. Mind-wandering consists of thoughts that are task-unrelated and stimulus-independent. This can take the form of three different subtypes: positive constructive daydreaming ...
, Memory,
Creativity Creativity is the ability to form novel and valuable Idea, ideas or works using one's imagination. Products of creativity may be intangible (e.g. an idea, scientific theory, Literature, literary work, musical composition, or joke), or a physica ...
, and
Emotion Emotions are physical and mental states brought on by neurophysiology, neurophysiological changes, variously associated with thoughts, feelings, behavior, behavioral responses, and a degree of pleasure or suffering, displeasure. There is ...
. Schooler is also known for his sometimes controversial research on topics such as Anomalous Cognition and the decline effect.


Early life and education

Schooler studied psychology at
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in
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, where he graduated cum laude with
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in psychology in 1981. Schooler earned his master's degree and Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Washington in 1984 and 1987 respectively.


Career

Schooler was hired as an assistant professor at the
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, and he became a research scientist at Pittsburgh's
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. He earned the title of associate professor in 1993 and was named full professor of psychology in 2001. In 2004 Schooler moved on to the
University of British Columbia The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a Public university, public research university with campuses near University of British Columbia Vancouver, Vancouver and University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, in British Columbia, Canada ...
as professor of psychology, and served as the
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in Social Cognitive Sciences and Senior Investigator of the Brain Research Centre until 2007. Building on the writing of philosopher Francis Crick, Schooler began to pursue research related to philosophical world views such as beliefs about free will and their effect on behavior. In 2007 Schooler left UBC to join the faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara where he is presently a Distinguished Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences. Schooler pioneered research on " verbal overshadowing" demonstrating that verbally describing events in one's life leads to less accuracy in the actual memory of the events.


Selected works


Books

Cohen, J.C. and Schooler, J.W. (Eds.) (1997) Scientific Approaches to Consciousness Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.


Papers

*Schooler, J.W., Smallwood, J., Christoff, K, Handy, T.C., Reichle, E.D., & Sayette, M.A. (2011) Meta-awareness, perceptual decoupling and the wandering mind. ''Trends in Cognitive Sciences 15,'' 319–326. *Schooler, J. W. (2011) Unpublished results hide the decline effect. ''Nature, 470''(7335), 437. *Schooler, J. W., Ohlsson, S., & Brooks, K. (1993). Thoughts beyond words: When language overshadows insight. ''Journal of experimental psychology: General, 122''(2), 166. *Schooler, J. W., Gerhard, D., & Loftus, E. F. (1986). Qualities of the unreal. ''Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 12''(2), 171.


Honors, awards, and grants

Schooler is a former holder of a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair, a Fellow of a variety of scientific organizations such as the Association for Psychological Science, Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Osher Fellow at the Exploratorium Science Museum in San Francisco, as well as a member of a number of professional organizations including The Psychonomic Society, American Psychological Association, American Psychological Society, Midwestern Psychology Association, and
Sigma Xi Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society () is an international non-profit honor society for scientists and engineers. Sigma Xi was founded at Cornell University by a faculty member and graduate students in 1886 and is one of the oldest ...
. Schooler's work has been supported by grants from the United States and Canadian Governments as well as the United States Office of Education, the Canadian Institute for Health Research, National Institute of Mental Health, the Unilever Corporation, the
John Templeton Foundation The John Templeton Foundation (Templeton Foundation) is a Philanthropy, philanthropic organization founded by John Templeton in 1987. Templeton became wealthy as a Contrarian investing, contrarian investor, and wanted to support progress in relig ...
, the Canada Foundation of Innovation, Canada's Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and The Fetzer Institute.


References


BBC Science - Five ways to be more creative


External links


Official WebsiteGoogle Scholar Report
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