Revelle studies the biological basis of personality and motivation, psychometric theory, the structure of daily mood, and models of attention and memory.
[1] His father, Roger Revelle, was an early theorist in global warming.
[2] Revelle graduated from Pomona College in 1965, abandoning a mathematics major in favor of psychology.
He spent two years in Sarawak, Malaysia, as a volunteer in the Peace Corps before earning his PhD in psychology from the University of Michigan in 1973.
[4] Currently, he is vice-chair of the Governing Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, having previously served as Chair (2009–2012).