Jerome Everett Singer (1934–2010) was the founding chair of the Medical and Clinical Psychology Department at Uniformed Services University.
[1] Singer has been referred to as the "best second author" in psychology, writing with and for Stan Schachter, Dave Glass, Andy Baum, and Leon Festinger.
He looked at many things including cognitive alteration of feeling states, organ transplants and the psychosocial processes involved, Type A behavior and possible animal models, stress, and the interaction between psychology and public health.
Many criticized the theory for placing too much emphasis on a "general pattern of excitement" and for not explaining the process of emotion that Schachter and Singer claimed happened in the autonomic nervous system.
Lisa Feldman Barrett put for a theory of two dimensions of emotion, valence (positive or negative) and arousal (high or low).
Some of his other research topics included Machiavellianism, effects of noise, human factors, cognitive alteration of feeling states, human organ transplantation and the psychosocial factors involved, an animal model of Type A behavior, stress, and public health.