| Code | BPS/GB/213 |
| Name | Eysenck; Michael William (1944-); Professor; MBPsS |
| Title | Professor |
| Forenames | Michael William |
| Surname | Eysenck |
| Dates | 1944- |
| Epithet | MBPsS |
| Parallel Name | M W Eysenck |
| Gender | Male |
| Nationality | British |
| DatesAndPlaces | Birkbeck College, University of London, 1965-1987
Royal Holloway, University of London, 1987-2009
Emeritus Professor, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2009-
Professorial Fellow, Roehampton University, 2010-2013
Visiting Professor, University of South Florida, Jan-March, 1980 |
| Address | London |
| Relationships | Son of Hans J. Eysenck |
| Activity | Date of Birth: 08/02/1944
Place of Birth: London
University and Professional Training:
BA (Hons) Psychology, University College London, University of London, 1965
PhD in Psychology, Birckbeck College, University of London, 1973
Other Honours and Awards:
Rosa Morrison medal (awarded annually to outstanding Arts Graduate
at University College London), 1965
Lifetime Career Award , Stress and Anxiety Research Society (STAR), 2009
Professional career:
University Lecturer at Birkbeck College, University of London, 1965-1981
Reader in Psychology at University of London , tenable at Birkbeck
College, 1981-1987
Professor of Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London, 1987-2009
Royal Holloway, Head of Department, 1987-2005
Emeritus Professor, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2009-
Professorial Fellow, Roehampton University, 2010-2013
Visiting Professor, University of South Florida, Jan-March, 1980
Involvement with BPS and/or other societies and organisations:
Member, British Psychological Society, 1964-2000
Member, Psychonomic Society, 1980-1984
Founder member, European Society of Cognitive Psychology, 1985-
Member, Stress and Anxiety Research Society, 1999
President, Stress and Anxiety Research Society, 2006-2008
Past President, Stress and Anxiety Research Society, 2008-2010
Member of the standing Conference Committee for the British Psychological Society, 1981-83.
Member of the Council of the British Psychological Society, 1983-87.
Chairman of the Cognitive Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society, 1982-87
Editorial Board, British Journal of Psychology, 1983-1987.
Sources: M W Eysenck's CV.
Compiled by Mike Maskill, BPS Archivist for the History of Psychology Centre. |
| Related Name | BPS/GB/121 |
| BPS/GB/86 |
| PublishedWorks | Main Books:
1977 Human Memory: Theory, Research and Individual Differences. Oxford, Pergamon
1982 Attention and Arousal: Cognition and Performance. Berlin: Springer
1985 Personality and Individual Differences. (with H.J. Eysenck). New York: Plenum
1986 Memory: A Cognitive Approach. (with G. Cohen and M.E. Le Voi), Milton Keynes: Open
1987 Student Learning: Research in Education and Cognitive Psychology
(with J.T.E. Richardson and D.W. Piper) Milton Keynes: Open
1992 Anxiety: The Cognitive Perspective London: Erlbaum
1992 Handbook of Individual Differences: Biological Perspectives
(Editors A. Gale and M.W. Eysenck)
1992 The Scientific Basis of Psychiatry ( with M. Weller) (2nd. Ed.) London: Bailliere Tindall
1997 Anxiety and Cognition: A Unified Theory. Psychology Press: Hove, UK
Other Publications:
1973 Klee, H. and Eysenck, M.W. Comprehension of abstract and concrete sentences. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behaviour, 12 522-529.
1974 Eysenck, M.W. Extraversion, arousal and retrieval from semantic memory. Journal of Personality, 42, 319-331.
1974 Eysenck, M.W. Age differences in incidental learning. Developmental Psychology, 10 936-941.
1974 Eysenck, M.W. Individual differences in speed of retrieval from semantic memory
Journal of Research in Personality, 8, 307-323.
1975 Eysenck, M.W. Retrieval from semantic memory as a function of age. Journal of Gerontology, 30, 174-180
1975 Eysenck, M.W. Effects of noise, activation level and Response dominance on retrieval from semantic memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 1 143-148.
1975 Eysenck, M.W. Arousal and speed of recall. British Journal of Social and Clinical
Psychology, 14, 269-277
1975 Eysenck, M.W. Extraversion, arousal and speed of retrieval from secondary storage.
Journal of Personality, 43, 390-401
1976 Eysenck, M.W. Extraversion, activation and the recall of prose. British Journal of Psychology, 67, 53-61
1976 Eysenck, M.W. Extraversion, verbal learning, and memory. Psychological Bulletin, 83, 75-90
1977 Eysenck, M.W. Arousal, learning, and memory. Psychological Bulletin, 83, 389-404
1978 Sacks, H.V. and Eysenck, M.W. Convergence-divergence and Learning of concrete and abstract sentences. British Journal of Psychology, 68 215-221
1978 Eysenck, M.W. Verbal remembering. In B.M. Foss (Ed.) Psychology Survey, Volume 1. London: Allen Unwin.
1978 Eysenck, M.W. Levels of processing: A critique. British Journal of Psychology, 69, 157-169.
1978 Eysenck, M.W. Levels of processing: A reply to Craik and Lockhart. British Journal of Psychology, 69, 177-178
1979 Eysenck, M.W. The feeling of knowing a word's meaning. British Journal of Psychology,70, 243-251
1979 Eysenck, M.W. Anxiety, Learning and memory: A reconceptualization. |
| Source | M W Eysenck's CV |
| Conventions | International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN ISBN 0-9696035-3-3
National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 |