Jay Michael Weiss is an American psychologist, and Jenny Culbreth Adams Professor at Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.
He graduated from Lafayette College with a B.A. in Psychology in 1962, and Yale University with a Ph.D. in Psychology in 1967.
1984 MacArthur Fellows ProgramSociety of Behavioral Medicine Fellow"Effects of Coping Responses on Stress." Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology. Vol 65(2), Apr 1968, 251-260."Psychological Factors in Stress and Disease", Scientific American, June 1972: 104-13"Does decreased sucrose intake indicate loss of preference in CMS model?", Journal Psychopharmacology, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, ISSN 0033-3158 Issue Volume 134, Number 4 / December, 1997"Effects of chronic antidepressant drug administration and electroconvulsive shock on locus coeruleus electrophysiologic activity", Biological Psychiatry, Volume 49, Issue 2, Pages 117-129 (15 January 2001) 