Editing Robert Zajonc (section)

== Biography ==

=== Early life ===
Zajonc, born in [[Łódź]], [[Poland]] on November 23, 1923, was the only child of the family.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/07/education/07zajonc.html|title=Robert Zajonc, Who Looked at Mind's Ties to Actions, Is Dead at 85|last=Fox|first=Margalit|date=2008-12-06|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-10-29|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> In 1939, before the [[Nazi Germany|German]] [[invasion of Poland]] reached Łódź, his family fled to [[Warsaw]]. During their short stay, the building they were living in was hit by an [[Strategic bombing|air raid]]. Both of Zajonc's parents were killed, and he was seriously injured. The rest of his time in Warsaw was dedicated to studying at an underground university in Warsaw until he was sent to a German [[labor camp]]. He escaped from the work camp, got recaptured, and then sent to a political prison in [[France]]. After escaping for the second time, he joined the [[French Resistance]], continuing his studies at the [[University of Paris]]. In 1944, he moved to [[England]] where he became a translator for the American forces during their European Campaign.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=http://zajonc.socialpsychology.org/|title=Robert Zajonc|website=zajonc.socialpsychology.org|access-date=2019-10-29}}</ref>

=== Career ===
After the end of World War II, he immigrated to the [[United States]], where he applied for undergraduate admission at the [[University of Michigan]]. Under probation, he was accepted. In 1955, he received his [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] from the University of Michigan, where he was a professor for nearly four decades, until 1994. During his time there, he held the positions of Director for the Research Center of Group Dynamics in the 1980s and Director of the Institute for Social Research in the 1990s. He then became Professor Emeritus of Psychology at [[Stanford University]].<ref name=":2" />

=== Personal life and death ===
Zajonc's first marriage, to Donna Benson, ended in divorce. He had three sons with Benson: Peter, Michael, and Joseph Zajonc.<ref name=":0" /> He spent the rest of his life with his second wife, his own doctoral student that was 26 years younger, [[Hazel Rose Markus]], a social psychologist at Stanford, known for her contributions to [[cultural psychology]].<ref name=":1" /> Zajonc had one child with [[Hazel Rose Markus|Markus]], a daughter named Krysia.<ref name=":0" /> He died in Stanford, [[California]] from [[pancreatic cancer]] on December 3, 2008, at the age of 85.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" />