Robert MacCoun

Rob MacCoun is a psychologist and the James and Patricia Kowal Professor of Law at Stanford. From 1986 to 1993 he was a Behavioral Scientist at the RAND Corporation, and from 1993 to 2014, he was a professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy and the School of Law at UC Berkeley. He has conducted basic research on judgment, decision making, and social influence, as well as empirical policy analyses of recreational drug laws and the debate over gays and lesbians in the US military. In 2019, MacCoun received the James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award of the Association for Psychological Science, which “honors distinguished APS Members for a lifetime of outstanding contributions to applied psychological research.” For a dozen years, he played jazz guitar in dozens of bars and restaurants for dozens of dollars in tips (split a half dozen ways with his bandmates).