Shelley E. Taylor

Shelley Elizabeth Taylor (born 1946) is an American psychologist. She serves as a distinguished professor of psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She received her Ph.D. from Yale University, and was formerly on the faculty at Harvard University.^[1] A prolific author of books and scholarly journal articles, Taylor has long been a leading figure in two subfields related to her primary discipline of social psychology: social cognition and health psychology. Her books include The Tending Instinct^[2] and Social Cognition,^[3] the latter by Susan Fiske and Shelley Taylor.

Taylor's professional honours include the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the American Psychological Association (APA; 1996),^[4] the William James Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science (APS; 2001),^[5] and the APA's Lifetime Achievement Award, which she received in August 2010.^[6] Taylor was inducted into the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2009.^[7] She was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2018.^[8] For 2019 she received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Social Sciences.^[9]