Background
Rozin, Paul was born on August 3, 1936 in Brooklyn.
fiction writer psychologist university professor
Rozin, Paul was born on August 3, 1936 in Brooklyn.
Bachelor, University of Chicago, 1956; AM, Harvard University, 1959; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1961.
He is also a faculty member in the Master of Applied Positive Psychology program started by Martin Seligman. He is the world"s leading expert on disgust, and his current work focuses on the psychological, cultural, and biological determinants of human food choice. Rozin earned a bachelor"s degree from the University of Chicago in 1956, and doctoral degrees in biology and psychology from Harvard University in 1961.
In 1963, he joined the psychology department at the University of Pennsylvania, where in 1997 he was named the Edmund J. and Louise West. Kahn Professor.
He also served as co-director of the school"s Solomon Asch Center for the Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict (which has now moved to Bryn Mawr College). His current teaching and research interests include: acquisition of likes and dislikes for foods, nature and development of the magical belief in contagion, cultural evolution of disgust, ambivalence to animal foods, lay conception of risk of infection and toxic effects of foods, interaction of moral and health factors in concerns about risks, relation between people"s desires to have desires and their actual desires (including the problem of internalization), acquisition of culture, nature of cuisine and cultural evolution, and psychological responses to recycled water.
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member Sigma Xi (national lecturer).
