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Ziva Kunda Information

Ziva Kunda (June 13, 1955 - February 24, 2004) was a social psychologist well known for her work in social cognition and motivated reasoning.

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Early life

Kunda obtained her Ph.D. at the University of Michigan and was the author of the textbook Social Cognition: Making Sense of People.

Career

Kunda was a professor of psychology at the University of Waterloo, Canada. She was married to Paul Thagard, a professor of philosophy at the University of Waterloo.

Early death

Kunda succumbed to cancer in 2004.[1]

Awards

Her paper "The Case for Motivated Reasoning," published in Psychological Bulletin in 1990, posthumously received the Scientific Impact Award from the Society of Experimental Social Psychology.[2]

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References

  1. ^ "Psychology professor is mourned". http://www.bulletin.uwaterloo.ca/2004/feb/26th.html. Retrieved 2008-08-19.
  2. ^ "Scientific Impact Award Recipients". http://www.sesp.org/impact.htm. Retrieved 2008-08-19.

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