Education
Schooler studied psychology at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York where he graduated Cum Laude with Bachelor of Arts in Psychology in 1981.
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Schooler studied psychology at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York where he graduated Cum Laude with Bachelor of Arts in Psychology in 1981.
Schooler is also known for his sometimes controversial research on topics such as Anomalous Cognition and The Decline Effect. Schooler earned his Masters Degree and Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology from the University of Washington in 1984 and 1987 respectively. Schooler was hired as an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh, and he became a research scientist at Pittsburgh"s Learning Research and Development Center.
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 as professor of psychology, and served as the Canada Research Chair 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 University of British Columbia to join the faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara where he is presently a Professor of both Cognitive and Social Psychology. 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.
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.