Ziva Kunda
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Ziva Kunda (June 13, 1955 - February 24, 2004) was a social psychologist well-known for her work in social cognition and motivated reasoning.
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[edit] Early life
Kunda obtained her Ph.D. at the University of Michigan and was the author of the textbook Social Cognition: Making Sense of People.
[edit] Career
Kunda was a professor of psychology at the University of Waterloo, Canada. She was married to Paul Thagard, a professor of philosophy at the University of Waterloo.
[edit] Early death
Kunda succumbed to cancer in 2004.[1]
[edit] Awards
Her paper "The Case for Motivated Reasoning," published in Psychological Bulletin in 1990, posthumously received the Scientific Impact Award from the Society of Experimental Social Psychology.[2]
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[edit] References
- ^ "Psychology professor is mourned". http://www.bulletin.uwaterloo.ca/2004/feb/26th.html. Retrieved 2008-08-19.
- ^ "Scientific Impact Award Recipients". http://www.sesp.org/impact.htm. Retrieved 2008-08-19.
[edit] External links
- Professional profile
- Kunda, Z. (1990). The case for motivated reasoningPDF. Psychological Bulletin, 108, 480-498.
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