Biography of richard lazarus

American psychologist (1922–2002)

For other people named Richard Lazarus, see Richard Lazarus (disambiguation).

Richard S.

Lazarus (March 3, 1922 – November 24, 2002) was an American psychologist who began rising to prominence in the 1960s. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Lazarus as the 80th most cited psychologist of the 20th century.^[1] He was well renowned for his theory of cognitive-mediational theory within emotion.^[2]

Career

After graduating from City College of New York and the University of Pittsburgh, Lazarus joined the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley in 1957.^[3]

During the 1970s, Lazarus worked with PhD student Susan Folkman studying stress and coping.

In her doctoral thesis, Folkman coined the terms "problem-focused coping" and "emotion-focused coping."^[4] Lazarus and Folkman co-authored a book called "Stress, Appraisal and Coping" in 1984, which work