1. John Mordechai Gottman was born on April 26,1942 and is an American psychologist and professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Washington.
13 Facts About John Gottman
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John Gottman's research focuses on divorce prediction and marital stability through relationship analyses.
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John Gottman's work has contributed to the development of important concepts on social sequence analysis.
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John Gottman was born on April 26,1942, in the Dominican Republic to Orthodox Jewish parents.
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John Gottman's father was a rabbi in pre-World War II Vienna.
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John Gottman was educated in a Lubavitch Yeshiva Elementary School in Brooklyn.
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John Gottman received his bachelor's degree in Mathematics-Physics from Fairleigh Dickinson University in 1962.
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John Gottman received a second master's degree in Clinical Psychology-Mathematics in 1967, and a PhD in Clinical Psychology in 1971 from the University of Wisconsin.
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At Fairleigh Dickinson University, John Gottman worked as an instructor for the mathematics department, a research assistant for the department of physics, and a researcher for the school of engineering.
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John Gottman was a program evaluator and research designer for the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.
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In 1981, John Gottman became a professor of psychology at the University of Illinois.
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Since 2002, John Gottman has worked as the emeritus Professor of Psychology for the University of Washington and as the executive director for the Relationship Research Institute in Seattle.
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John Gottman has published over 190 papers, and is the author or co-author of 40 books, notably:.