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:
- 1973 University of Rochester Instructor
SELECTED AWARDS OR HONORS
- Author: Citation Classic. 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
- Faculty: Honors Program, California State University, Long Beach, 1986
to present
BOOKS
- Thayer, R. E. (1996). The Origin of Everyday Moods: Managing Energy,
Tension, and Stress. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Thayer, R. E. (1989). The biopsychology of mood and arousal. New York:
Oxford University Press.
RECENT SELECTED PAPERS AND ARTICLES
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
(Dozens of other articles as well.)
RECENT SELECTED SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
- 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)
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 Brain-Mind Bulletin; 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; Newsday (two issues); Cosmopolitan (three issues); Men's
Health (three issues); Self; Health Action; Allure; Barron's; American
Health; Shape; Saturday Evening Post; Glamour; Washington Post (two issues);
McCalls (three issues); Family Circle; Women's World; Natural Health, Cooking
Light (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
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