COURTESY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGOJohn Cacioppo of the University of Chicago, a pioneer in the field of social neuroscience, passed away Monday (March 5). He was well-known for his work on persuasion, loneliness, and the relationships among social experiences, emotions, neural activity, cellular physiology, genetics, and health.
“John’s influence across the fields of psychology, social neuroscience, and health science cannot be overstated,” Amanda Woodward, the interim dean of the Division of the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago, says in a statement to The Scientist. “As a scientist and as an advocate for science, his was a powerful voice, and his passing is a tremendous loss.”
Cacioppo earned a PhD at the Ohio State University (OSU) in 1977, after which he served on the faculty of the University of Notre Dame, the University of Iowa, and OSU. In 1999, he joined the psychology department at the University of Chicago.
It in the 1970s, Cacioppo researched human attitudes. “His work completely revolutionized how we think about how people are persuaded,” Jay Van ...
