Norbert Kerr

Norbert Kerr
Born (1948-12-10) December 10, 1948 (age 77)
Lebanon, Missouri
EducationWashington University in St. Louis
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Known forKohler effect
AwardsFellow of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology since 1984
Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science since 1989
Scientific career
FieldsSocial psychology
WorkplacesUniversity of California, San Diego
Michigan State University
University of Kent
Thesis Comparative tests of several predictive models of informational social influence  (1974)
James H. Davis

Norbert Lee Kerr (born December 10, 1948) is an American social psychologist and Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Michigan State University. As of 2014, he also held a part-time appointment as Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Kent in England. He has researched the Kohler effect and factors influencing decision-making by juries. In 1998, Kerr coined the term "HARKing" (hypothesizing after the results are known).

References

  1. 1 2 "Norbert L. Kerr Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Retrieved June 21, 2018.
  2. ↑ Volpe, Allie (April 25, 2018). "How to Be a Tiny Bit Better at Group Workout Classes". The Cut. Retrieved June 22, 2018.
  3. ↑ Hoffman, Jan (April 22, 1994). "May It Please the Public; Lawyers Exploit Media Attention as a Defense Tactic". The New York Times. Retrieved June 22, 2018.
  4. ↑ Hans, Valerie P.; Vidmar, Neil (November 11, 2013). Judging the Jury. Springer. pp. 145–6. ISBN 9781489964632.
  5. ↑ Kerr, N. L. (1998). "HARKing: Hypothesizing after the results are known". Personality and Social Psychology Review. 2 (3): 196–217. doi:10.1207/s15327957pspr0203_4. PMID 15647155.
  6. ↑ Bishop, D. (2019). "Rein in the four horsemen of irreproducibility". Nature. 568 (7753): 435. Bibcode:2019Natur.568..435B. doi:10.1038/d41586-019-01307-2. PMID 31019328. The term HARKing was coined in 1998 (N. L. Kerr Pers. Soc. Psychol. Rev. 2, 196–217; 1998).