Academic Preparation Faculty Positions  Selected Awards or Honors Books Recent Selected Papers and Articles Recent Selected Lectures and Scientific Conference Presentations Recent Editorial Reviewer for Scientific Journals AD ACL  Editorial Boards Grants and Awards Recent Popular Press Attention Recent Radio and Television Work in Progress

Robert E. Thayer, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
California State University, Long Beach
Long Beach, CA 90840
Phone.: (562) 985-5026
FAX: (562) 985-8004;
e-mail: thayer@csulb.edu

ACADEMIC PREPARATION:

• B.A. University of Redlands
• Ph.D. University of Rochester

FACULTY POSITIONS:

• California State University, Long Beach Professor
• University of Rochester, Instructor

SELECTED AWARDS OR HONORS

• Smithsonian Lectures, Washington, D.C.
• Citation Classic Author. Classics are the most cited articles in the scientific literature
• Keynote Speaker, National Walk Week, 1987, National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
• Phi Beta Kappa Scholar of the Year, 1991
• CSULB Distinguished Faculty Scholarly and Creative Acheivemnt Award
• Honors Faculty, California State University, Long Beach, from 1986 to present

BOOKS

• Thayer, R. E. (1996). The Origin of Everyday Moods.
  New York: Oxford University Press. Click here to see Table of Contents.

• Thayer, R. E. (1989). The Biopsychology of Mood and Arousal.
  New York: Oxford University Press. Click here to see Table of Contents.

RECENT SELECTED PAPERS AND ARTICLES

• Thayer, R. E. (1998). The Origin of Everyday Moods.
  World Review, 3, 6-8.

• Thayer, R. E. (1996). Biorhythms and Blues.
  (London) Times, Sept. 6, 1996

• Thayer, R. E., Newman, J. R., & McClain, T. M. (1994). Self-Regulation of Mood: Strategies for Changing a Bad Mood, Raising Energy, and Reducing Tension.
  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 67, 910-925. Click here for abstract.

• Thayer, R. E., Peters, D. P., Takahashi, P. J., & Birkhead-Flight, A. M. (1993). Mood and Behavior (Smoking and Sugar Snacking) Following Moderate Exercise: A Partial Test of Self-Regulation Theory.
  Personality and Individual Differences, 14, 97-104. Click here for abstract.

• Thayer, R. E. (1987a) Energy, Tiredness and Tension Effects of a Sugar Snack vs. Moderate Exercise.
  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 52, 119-125. Click here for abstract.

• Thayer, R. E. (1987b). Problem Perception, Optimism, and Related States as a Function of Time of Day (Diurnal Rhythm), and Moderate Exercise: Two Arousal States in Interaction.
  Motivation and Emotion, 11, 19-36. Click here for abstract.

• Hsiao, E. T. & Thayer, R. E. (1998). Exercising for Mood Regulation: The Importance of Experience.
  Personality and Individual Differences, 24, 829-836. Click here for abstract.

• Thayer, R. E. (2000). Mood. Encyclopedia of Psychology,
  Washington, D.C.: Oxford University Press and American Psychological Association

• (Dozens of other articles as well.)

RECENT SELECTED LECTURES AND SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

• Thayer, R. E. (1998) The Origin of Everyday Moods; The Interaction of Energy and Tension; and, Mood Management and Self-Regulation.
  Smithsonian Associates. The Smithsonian Institution. (Washington, D.C.)

• Thayer, R. E. (1997). Self-Regulation of Mood, Time of Day, and Personality. International Society for the Study of Individual Differences, Aarhus, Denmark.

• Thayer, R. E. (1994). Basic Mood Dimensions at the Conjunction of Psychology and Biology.
  American Psychological Association, Los Angeles.

• Thayer, R. E. (1993). Fatigue as Mood.
  American Psychological Association, Toronto.

• Thayer, R. E. (1993). General Cognitive Perspectives as a Function of Energetic and Tense Arousal.
  International Society for the Study of Individual Differences, MD

• Thayer, R. E. (1992). Moderate Exercise and Mood: An Elemental Biological Linkage.
  American Psychological Association, Washington, D.C. (Additionally, several dozen more presentations)

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RECENT EDITORIAL REVIEWER FOR FOLLOWING SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS
Psychological Review; Psychological Bulletin; Personality and Individual Differences; Journal of Personality and Social Psychology; European Journal of Personality; Psychological Reports; Psychopharmacology; Motivation and Emotion; Cognition and Emotion; Encyclopedia of Human Biology; British Journal of Clinical Psychology; Appetite; Anxiety, Stress, and Coping; Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

EDITORIAL BOARDS
Review of Personality and Social Psychology: Emotion (American Psychological Association); Review of Personality and Social Psychology: Emotion and Social Behavior (American Psychological Association); Silver Sports (Advisory Board)

GRANTS AND AWARDS
National Institute of Mental Health Grant (not currently active) Studies of controlled self-reports of activation. (Additionally, many other local grants)

RECENT POPULAR PRESS ATTENTION
New Scientist; USA Today (Front page, two issues); Vogue; Psychology Today (three issues); Physician and Sports Medicine; Prevention Magazine (multiple issues); Los Angeles Times (three issues); UPI and Washington Post News Service (three times); Reader's Digest (two issues); Newsday (two issues); Cosmopolitan (three issues); Men's Health (three issues); Self; Health Action; Allure; Barron's; American Health; Shape; Saturday Evening Post; Glamour (multiple issues); Washington Post (two issues); McCalls (three issues); Family Circle; Women's World; Natural Health; Cooking Light; Brain-Mind Bulletin; Woman's Day; Marie Claire; Walking; Jump; Working Mother; Fitness.
(Thayer's scientific theories and research findings were discussed in over 300 separate newspaper and magazine articles between 1987 and the present.)

RECENT RADIO AND TELEVISION
Multiple appearances in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego and many other cities. For example, four appearances on National Public Radio; The Osgood File; CBS Health Minute; David Broncochio's Market Place; Voice of America.
(For example, in 1998 Thayer participated in 14 one-hour radio interviews concerning mood on radio stations across the country, a number of which are nationally syndicated.)

WORK IN PROGRESS

• Mood, Food, and Exercise: A Theory of Why We Eat Too Much and Exercise Too Little. Oxford University Press (probably publication date: 1999).
  This can be called a crossover book in the sense that it is written for both the educated lay public and for scientists and professionals. The book presents my theories of how moods influence eating behavior as well as facilitating or suppressing movement and exercise. Oxford publishes such works very well. The basic biopsychological functions of food and exercise are explained as mood related. Discussed fully are the best methods of management and control of eating and exercise through understanding and regulation of mood.

• Analysis of circadian (diurnal) energy rhythms as a function of various individual differences such as morningness, gender, and age. This is empirical research that focuses on an important biological cycle that influences each person every day. It expands upon my analyses of such cycles in earlier studies, and in my books, The Biopsychology of Mood and Arousal and The Origin of Everyday Moods.