Leon Rappoport received his B.A. degree from New York University in 1953 and his M.S. in 1962. In 1963 he received his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado in social psychology. He did an NSF Post-doctoral Fellowship at the Psychologisk Institutt, Oslo University from 1963-64. He joined the faculty of Kansas State University in 1964 as an assistant professor. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1968 and Professor in 1974. He was a Visiting Professor at Manhattanville College, Purchase, New York in 1972-73; and a Visiting Scholar at Centre Nationale De La Reserches Sociale in Paris, France in 1982. His original field was conflict resolution, decision making and human judgment but he expanded into many other social psychology areas.
He died in 2009.
