Gregory John Feist (born December 23, 1961) is an American psychologist and Professor of Psychology at San Jose State University.
His father was a professor of psychology and education at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, LA, where Feist grew up.
[3] His senior honors thesis under Seymour Epstein, on the relationship between self- and other-perception in children, was published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
[9] Along with Daniel Dostal and Victor Kwan, Feist conducted an extensive analysis of the lifetime incidence of nearly 20 different forms of mental illness in creative artists, writers, musicians, and scientists and found elevated rates of affective disorder and chemical dependency in artists compared to norms, athletes, and creative scientists.
[12] Collaborating with Michael Gorman, Feist published a systematic review of the scientific literature on the psychology of science.