David Levy (psychologist)

David Levy
Born	David Anthony Levy 1954 (age 62–63)
Nationality	American
Occupation	Psychologist, professor, author, stage director, actor
Known for	Psychology

David Anthony Levy (born 1954) is an American psychologist, professor, author, stage director, and actor. He has provided psychological perspectives on current events in numerous broadcast and publication media, and is co-author of an internationally best-selling textbook on cross-cultural psychology and critical thinking.

Levy attended Morningside High School in Inglewood, California, from 1968–1970, and West High School from 1970-1972. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1978 with a B.A. degree in theater arts, where he was a recipient of the Hugh O'Brian Acting Awards. He received an M.A. degree in psychology from Pepperdine University in 1984, a second M.A. in psychology from UCLA in 1987, and a Ph.D. in psychology from UCLA in 1990, where he specialized in social psychology, with minors in psychological assessment and personality psychology.

Levy is Professor of Psychology at Pepperdine University’s Graduate School of Education and Psychology, where he has been teaching graduate courses since 1986. In 1991, he served as Visiting Professor of Psychology in the Soviet Union, where he delivered lectures and workshops in psychology and psychotherapy at Leningrad State University (now St. Petersburg), the Leningrad Academy of Science, and the Bekhterev PsychoNeurological Institute. He was honored as a recipient of the Howard A. White Award for Teaching Excellence at Pepperdine (2014), as a Harriet and Charles Luckman Distinguished Teaching Fellow at Pepperdine (1994–1999), and was a recipient of the Shepard Ivory Franz Distinguished Teaching Award (1989–1990) at UCLA, and the Charles F. Scott Fellowship (1989–1990) at UCLA.

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