Norbert Kerr
Norbert Kerr | |
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| Born | December 10, 1948 |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Washington University in St. Louis University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign |
| Known for | Kohler effect |
| Awards | Fellow of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology since 1984 Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science since 1989 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Social psychology |
| Institutions | University of California, San Diego Michigan State University University of Kent |
| Thesis | Comparative tests of several predictive models of informational social influence (1974) |
| Doctoral advisor | James H. Davis |
Norbert Lee Kerr (born December 10, 1948) is an American social psychologist and Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Michigan State University. As of 2014, he also held a part-time appointment as Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Kent in England. He has researched the Kohler effect and factors influencing decision-making by juries. In 1998, Kerr coined the term "HARKing" (hypothesizing after the results are known).