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Stanley Schachter was born on April 15, 1922 in Flushing, New York, United Statesc, into the family of Nathan and Anna (Fruchter) Schachter. His parents were both Romanian Jews, his father from Vasilau a small village in Bukovina and his mother from Radauti.
As a young man, Schachter initially studied Art history at Yale University. He obtained his Bachelor's degree in 1942, and went on to pursue his Master's in Psychology, also at Yale, and received it in 1944. In 1946, after his term in the armed forces, Schachter went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to work with the German social psychologist Kurt Lewin, in his Research Center for Group Dynamics, studying social issues. In 1949 he earned his Doctor of Philosophy at University of Michigan.
After serving in the Army Air Forces during World War II, he joined the faculty of the University of Minnesota, a post he held until 1961. Beginning as an assistant professor, Schachter soon moved his way through the ranks of professorship; he became an associate professor in 1954 and then obtained the title of full professor in 1958, in large part thanks to his extensive research and writing. At that time he became professor of psychology at Columbia University in New York until his retirement in 1992. His studies focused on addictions, emotions, obesity, and the stock market. He also acted as a consultant for the National Institute of Mental Health, as well as other organizations.
Stanley's writings include "Obese Humans and Rats", "The Psychology of Affiliation: Experimental Studies of the Sources of Gregariousness", "When Prophecy Fails", and "Social Pressures in Informal Groups." He was also the editor of "Extending Psychological Frontiers."
Schachter was interested in research involving the original ideas of Francis Galton on eminence and birth order. It was believed that those who are more eminent, inventive, productive, or genius are either first-born or the only child within the family. Schachter's research concluded that this data is only a reflection because all previous research involves a college population as the experimental sample. He indicates that college samples for many reasons are overly-populated with family first-borns.
Schachter along with Jerome Singer also came up with the two-factor theory of emotion. This theory posits that emotion is based on two factors, cognitive labels and physiological arousal. When a person feels an emotion, physiological arousal occurs, and the person searches the environment for clues as to how to label the physiological arousal.
On, June 2, 1967 Stanley married Sophia Thalia Duckworth, with whom he had a son, Elijah Schachter.
