Carmi Schooler (1933 – May 11, 2018) was an American social psychologist known for his work on

personality Personality is the characteristic sets of behaviors, cognitions, and emotional patterns that are formed from biological and environmental factors, and which change over time. While there is no generally agreed-upon definition of personality, mos ...

and structural equation modeling.

Early life and education

Schooler was born in

the Bronx The Bronx () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the state of New York. It is south of Westchester County; north and east of the New York City borough of Manhattan, across the Harlem River; and north of the New Y ...

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, New York, in 1933. He was educated at the Bronx High School of Science and later attended

Hamilton College Hamilton College is a private liberal arts college in Clinton, Oneida County, New York. It was founded as Hamilton-Oneida Academy in 1793 and was chartered as Hamilton College in 1812 in honor of inaugural trustee Alexander Hamilton, following ...

and

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(NYU). He received his

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from NYU in 1959 under the supervision of Marie Jahoda. Another one of his advisors in

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was

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Academic career

Schooler began working at the

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's Socioenvironmental Studies Laboratory in 1959, and continued to work there until 2007. For his last twenty-two years there, he was the laboratory's chief. In 2007, he joined the

University of Maryland, College Park The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of M ...

, where he became a senior scientist in the Department of

Sociology Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of Interpersonal ties, social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of Empirical ...

. He was a fellow of the

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and a member of the

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. He was elected chair of the American Sociological Association's Social Psychology Section in 2003 and received their Cooley-Mead Award for Distinguished Scholarship in 2016.

Personal life

Schooler married his wife, Nina, in 1956. They had two sons: Jonathan and Lael. Carmi Schooler died on May 11, 2018, at the age of 84.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Schooler, Carmi 1933 births 2018 deaths American social psychologists Personality psychologists Hamilton College (New York) alumni New York University alumni University of Maryland, College Park faculty Fellows of the Association for Psychological Science Members of the Sociological Research Association American sociologists Scientists from the Bronx The Bronx High School of Science alumni