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;

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

• California State University, Long Beach Professor:1973
• University of Rochester, Instructor

• 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

• 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.

• 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.)

• 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)

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