William J. McGuire

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William James McGuire (February 17, 1925 in New York City, New York – December 21, 2007 in New Haven, Connecticut) was an American social psychologist known for his work on the psychology of persuasion and for developing Inoculation theory.^[1] He was a faculty member at Yale University from 1970 until he retired in 1999, and chaired the psychology department there from 1971 to 1973. He was the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology from 1967 to 1970.^[2]

William J. McGuire
Born	(1925-02-17)February 17, 1925 New York City, New York
Died	December 21, 2007(2007-12-21) (aged 82) New Haven, Connecticut
Nationality	American
Education	Fordham College Université catholique de Louvain Yale University
Known for	Persuasion Social cognition
Awards	Fulbright Fellow (1950–51) Fellow of eight divisions of the American Psychological Association APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology (1988) Distinguished Scientist Award from the American Psychological Society (1992)
Scientific career
Fields	Social psychology
Institutions	Columbia University University of California, San Diego University of Illinois Yale University
Thesis	A multi-process model for paired associates learning  (1954)
Notable students	John Jost David O. Sears

Book

• Bollingen: An Adventure in Collecting the Past, Princeton University Press, 1982. Bollingen Foundation, 1989.
• Constructing Social Psychology: Creative and Critical Aspects, Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Legacy

An obituary of McGuire in American Psychologist stated that McGuire was "...for several decades the field’s premier researcher of the psychology of persuasion".^[1]