SHELLEY ELIZABETH TAYLOR
SHELLY ELIZABETH TAYLOR “HEALTH PSYCHOLOGIST” BY JOYCE “JAE” M. PITTMAN
“Social & Health Psychology”
SHELLEY ELIZABETH TAYLOR
Taylor was born in 1946 in a small village of Mt. Kisco, New York. She grew up in nearby Chappaqua, New York. As she was the only child, however her neighborhood was full of children for her to be around and grow up with. Her mother taught piano and her father taught history. Ms. Taylor as a small child imagined herself to become a librarian. Her father’s experience as a psychiatric nurse during World War II, which he talked about often lead Ms. Taylor to take her first psychology class in college. Her father built the first mental hospital in Eritrea; he literally built it by his own two hands with two of his close friends. Ms. Taylor started college at Connecticut College in London, CT. The instructor from Psychology 101 invited her to be a psychology major, Ms. Taylor was so flattered shed decided to do it, eventually believing she would become a clinician. That plan changed after the summer she spent time at “VISTA”, Volunteers in Service to America, working in the mental hospital. Soon after that she applied at Yale, where she received her PHD in “Social Psychology”. Ms. Taylor was interested in exploring how people understand the causes of their own and others behaviors. Her early work in 1970’s addressed classic questions in “Social Cognition”, much of this work concerned the effect of context and perspective on attribution processes. Taylor among Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky was the first to breakthrough on
“Social & Health Psychology”
SHELLEY ELIZABETH TAYLOR
Taylor was born in 1946 in a small village of Mt. Kisco, New York. She grew up in nearby Chappaqua, New York. As she was the only child, however her neighborhood was full of children for her to be around and grow up with. Her mother taught piano and her father taught history. Ms. Taylor as a small child imagined herself to become a librarian. Her father’s experience as a psychiatric nurse during World War II, which he talked about often lead Ms. Taylor to take her first psychology class in college. Her father built the first mental hospital in Eritrea; he literally built it by his own two hands with two of his close friends. Ms. Taylor started college at Connecticut College in London, CT. The instructor from Psychology 101 invited her to be a psychology major, Ms. Taylor was so flattered shed decided to do it, eventually believing she would become a clinician. That plan changed after the summer she spent time at “VISTA”, Volunteers in Service to America, working in the mental hospital. Soon after that she applied at Yale, where she received her PHD in “Social Psychology”. Ms. Taylor was interested in exploring how people understand the causes of their own and others behaviors. Her early work in 1970’s addressed classic questions in “Social Cognition”, much of this work concerned the effect of context and perspective on attribution processes. Taylor among Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky was the first to breakthrough on