Harris M. Cooper

Harris M. Cooper has taught at the University of Missouri where he is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychological Sciences since 1977. Dr. Cooper has been a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, the University of Oregon, and the Russell Sage Foundation. He spent a year as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Harvard University and a year teaching at Colgate University. Dr. Cooper's research interests follow two paths. The first concerns research synthesis. His book, Synthesizing Research: A Guide for Literature Reviews (1998), is in its third edition. He is also the editor, with Larry Hedges, of the Handbook of Research Synthesis (1994). Dr. Cooper and his students have published research syntheses in varied prestigious journals including Psychological Bulletin, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Review of Educational Research, the Journal of Marketing Research, and Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology. Dr. Cooper received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Connecticut in 1975.