Robert Zajonc,
a professor of University of Michigan and Stanford University,
holder of an honorary doctorate from the University of Warsaw,
has left us on the 2nd of December 2008.
He was one of the most prominent contemporary psychologists,
an author of numerous theories and initiator of fascinating research currents.
Professor Zajonc was also a co-founder of the Institute for Social Studies at the University of Warsaw and a great friend of Poland and Poles. He has been always supporting us, also in the most difficult of times.
Faculty and Staff of the Institute for Social Studies (ISS).

Obituary, New York Times, 07.12.2008

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