George Mandler (June 11, 1924 – May 6, 2016) was an Austrian-born American psychologist, who became a distinguished professor of psychology at the University of California, San Diego.
In 1965 he became the founding chair of the Department of Psychology at the University of California at San Diego and the founding Director of the Center for Human Information Processing (CHIP) the home of scientists such as Geoffrey Hinton, Donald A. Norman and David E. Rumelhart.
In 2004, UCSD renamed an existing building Mandler Hall in recognition of his contributions to the university.
Mandler was a leader and participant in the so-called cognitive revolution in mid-twentieth century.
[3] His contributions related the fields of cognition and emotion and the importance of autonomic feedback,[4] the development and use of organization theory for an understanding of memory storage, recall, and recognition [5] (see "Organization and memory" in Spence & Spence,[6] and,[7] the development of dual process recognition theory,[8] and the revival of the role of consciousness in modern psychology.