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David L. Hamilton
Professor, Psychology

Dr. David L. Hamilton received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, and then taught at Yale for eight years before moving to UCSB. He has published extensively on topics in social perception, including stereotyping, impression formation, person memory, and attribution processes. He has served on numerous committees in professional organizations, including the Executive Committees of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology and the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, and is co-organizer of the annual Person Memory Interest Group meetings. He has been an associate editor of two journals, and currently serves on the editorial boards of five journals. He received the MERIT Award from the National Institute of Mental Health in 1987. He has been awarded honorary degrees from two European universities, the University of Lisbon, Portugal (1997) and Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest, Hungary (2000). Also, in 2000 he received the Thomas M. Ostrom Award, presented by the Person Memory Interest Group, for "career contributions" in social cognition.

Contact Information

Phone: (805) 893-2456
Fax: (805) 893-4303
E-Mail: hamilton@psych.ucsb.edu
Office: Psychology East (Building 251), Room 3819

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Department of Psychology
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9660

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