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David O. Sears (born June 24, 1935, Urbana, Illinois) is an eminent American psychologist who specializes in social and political psychology. He is a distinguished professor of psychology and political science and director of the Institute for Social Science Research at the University of California, Los Angeles where he has been teaching since 1961. He served as dean of social sciences at UCLA between 1983 and 1992. Best known for his theory of symbolic racism, Sears has published many articles and books about the political and psychological origins of race relations in America, as well as on political socialization and life cycle effects on attitudes, the role of self-interest in attitudes, and multiculturalism. He was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1991. ==Personal life and academic career== David Sears was born on June 24, 1935 in Urbana, Illinois, to the psychologists Pauline ("Pat") K. Snedden Sears and Robert Richardson Sears. He has a younger sister, Nancy Sears Barker. When he was one year old, the Sears family moved to New Haven, Connecticut as Robert Sears took up a position at Yale University, staying in there until 1942; due to this early move to New Haven from Urbana, David Sears considers the former as his home city. He further has also lived in Iowa City, Iowa, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Portola Valley, California during his childhood and youth as his parents moved to academic positions in different research universities. Sears went to Belmont High School and graduated in 1953. He graduated from Stanford University in 1957 with an AB in history with a minor in psychology; he presented, under the H. Stuart Hughes' guidance, a thesis on the Nazi mobilization of the youth. He then received both a MS in 1959 and a PhD in psychology in 1962 from Yale University with the dissertation "Anticipated criticism, opinion structure, and opinion change" having Howard Leventhal as his advisor.〔For David O. Sears' dissertation, see the references for the article: David O. Sears (1967). '"(Social Anxiety, Opinion Structure, and Opinion Change )"'. ''Journal of Personality and Social Psychology'' 7 (2): 142-151.〕〔(Howard Leventhal's CV ). David O. Sears is listed as one of his former students.〕 At Yale, he also worked with and was mentored by political scientist Robert E. Lane serving as research assistant in Lane's research on political attitudes and behavior published in his book ''Political Ideology.'' He joined the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles as an acting assistant professor in 1961 just after having filed his dissertation in December, 1961, became an assistant professor in 1962,〔At that time, Yale University conferred degrees only once a year, by the end of the academic year. Sears filed his dissertation in December, 1961, and need to wait until June, 1962, to receive his doctoral degree. Since he had already finished his dissertation, he was hired at UCLA in 1961 but could only become an assistant professor in 1962 after having his degree officially conferred.〕 published his first article—a study of punishment in the white rat—in 1964, and was promoted to associate professor of psychology in 1967. From 1967 to 1968, Sears was a visiting lecturer at Harvard University. He was promoted to associate professor of psychology and political science in 1969, and to full professor of psychology and political science in 1971. He was a visiting professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley from 1972 to 1973. He served as the dean of social sciences at the UCLA College of Letters and Science from 1983 to 1992, and has been the director at the UCLA Institute for Social Science Research since 1993. David Sears was awarded with the Edward L. Bernays Foundation Psychology and Social Issues Book Award in 1975 for ''The Politics of Violence: The New Urban Blacks and the Watts Riot'' co-authored with John B. McConahay. He also received the Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize from The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues in 1978 for his paper ''Symbolic Racism versus Racial Threats to 'The Good Life','' co-authored with Donald R. Kinder. Sears became a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1991. He served as the president of the International Society of Political Psychology in 1994-95, received the Harold D. Lasswell Award from the ISPP for his "distinguished scientific contribution in the field of political psychology" in 1995 and the Warren E. Miller Award from the American Political Science Association for his "lifetime intellectual accomplishment and service to the profession in the elections, public opinion, and voting behavior field" in 2002. In 2012, the ISPP established the David O. Sears Award in his honor. The Sears Award has been given for the best book published in the field of the political psychology of mass politics in the previous year. He teaches graduate and undergraduate level courses in political psychology at UCLA and coordinate the UCLA Political Psychology Lab. His graduate laboratory on political psychology brings together students from different fields to explore and discuss contemporary research on political psychological topics as political socialization, race and ethnicity, political participation, and public opinion. David Sears has been cited 13,946 times in Google Scholar, being the number one most cited in political psychology as well as the eleventh most cited social psychologist in that site. He married Cynthia Lovelace in 1961, divorcing in 1970. In 2004, he married Carrie Powers, deceased in 2010.〔(Carrie F. Sears, 53; Retired Bond Trader, Creative Home Gardener )〕 He has three daughters, Juliet, Olivia, Meredith and Annabelle. He lives in Pacific Palisades, California and spends his summer vacations in Lake Winnipesaukee, Moultonborough, New Hampshire. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David O. Sears」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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