E. Tory Higgins
Professor
Management Division
BA, Joint Honors (Sociology; Anthropology), McGill University, 1967; MA with Distinction, London School of Economics, 1968; PhD (Psychology), Columbia University, 1973
Joined CBS in 2002
Office:
342
Kravis
Phone:
212-854-1297
E-mail:
[email protected]
Fax:
212-316-9355
Curriculum Vitae
Biography
Professor Higgins, the Stanley Schachter Professor of Psychology and Professor of Business is an expert on motivation and decision making. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He is the author of Beyond Pleasure and Pain: How Motivation Works (Oxford) and co-author of Focus: Use Different Ways of Seeing the World for Success and Influence (Penguin). He teaches an Executive MBA course on negotiation, and is the Director of the Motivation Science Center. Higgins has received the Donald T. Campbell Award for Outstanding Contributions to Social Psychology (Society for Personality and Social Psychology), the Thomas M. Ostrom Award in Social Cognition, the Distinguished Lifetime Career Award (International Society for Self & Identity), and the Distinguished Scientist Award (Society of Experimental Social Psychology). In 2000, he was the recipient of both the William James Fellow Award for Distinguished Achievements in Psychological Science (Association of Psychological Science) and the Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions (American Psychological Association). He has served as an advisor and consultant to many governmental and academic organizations. In 2000, he was chosen to present Columbia's University Lecture. In 2004, he was the recipient of the Presidential Teaching Award.
Memberships & Affiliations
From the Heritage Foundation, Society for Personality and Social Psychology.
Teaching
Spring 2021
Spring 2020
(PhD) Theories of Social Personality
(PHD)
Spring 2019
Spring 2018
Fall 2018
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Press Releases
Awards And Honors
2015
2013
University of Alabama (2008)
(2006) International Society for Self & Identity
American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2006)
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(2005) From the Society of Experimental Social Psychology
2005
(2004) Awarded by Columbia University
Columbia University (2001)
(2000) From the Association for Psychological Science For Distinguished Achievements in Psychological Science
(2000) Chaired Professorship Awarded by Columbia University
(2000) From the American Psychological Association
Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Columbia University (2000)
(1999) From the Social Cognition Society For Outstanding Contributions to Social Cognition
Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Columbia University (1999)
1996, From the Society for Personality and Social Psychology For Outstanding Contributions to Social Psychology
[Method to Extend Research Time] (1989-1999)
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (1986-87)
Society of Personality and Social Psychology (APS)
Williams College
Canadian Psychological Association
International Conference on Language and Social Psychology
American Psychological Society
Invited Address (McGill University)
University of Washington, Seattle
Columbia University
Ohio State University
Ohio State University
University of Wisconsin (Madison)
International Society for Research on Emotion (Wurzburg)
University of Iowa