AFF resources about, cults, cult groups, abuse, manipulation. Practical assistance services for families; cult members recover support; cultic studies research for educators and professionals. Periodicals: Cult Observer, Cultic Studies Journal, Psychological Manipulation and Society. The leading professional organization concerned about, cults, sects, new religious movements -- brainwashing, ...

Memes are the DNA of human society, influencing every aspect of mind, behavior, and culture. Do you know your own memes Richard Brodie, creator of Microsoft Word and author of the bestselling book Virus of the Mind, gives you the latest information on memes, memetics, and mind viruses. Subscribe to his free newsletter!

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International group of over 3500 psychologists, allied scientists, students, and others who share interest in research on psychological aspects of important social issues. Home of the Journal of Social Issues.

Official web site of the Stanford Prison Experiment, a classic study on the psychology of imprisonment -- definitely worth a visit!

An award-winning, comprehensive, searchable Internet guide dedicated to the field of community psychology, prevention, intervention, and action research.

Search Profiles On this page, you can search more than 800 psychologist profiles by name or keywords of interest, browse by research area, or view an alphabetical list of all profiles. When typing a name or keyword, be sure to use quotation marks for phrases (e.g., affirmative action ). You can also use the pull-down menus below to search only for psychologists who are SPSP Mentors or Media ...

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Welcome to the Center for the Study of Group Processes. We're located in the Sociology Department at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. This site offers access to information about the Center, as well as group processes research, researchers, and events at Iowa and around the country. We also provide links to other web sites of related interest. To post announcements, request links, offer ...

The Society of Experimental Social Psychology (SESP) is a scientific organization dedicated to the advancement of social psychology. One of the central ways that SESP furthers this goal is by holding an annual meeting in October of each year. In 2002, the SESP Conference will be held in Columbus, Ohio, on October 10-12. Currently, SESP has more than 750 members throughout the world. Membership ...

Virus! FAQ alt.memetics last updated: May 5, 1997 Memetics is the theory of cultural replicators, based on Daniel Dennett's philosophy-of-mind and the sociobiology of Richard Dawkins. Memetics postulates the meme as the fundamental replicating unit in social evolution, a process which is treated as technically equivalent to biological (genetic) evolution. This concept is discussed in the alt.

Meme: an information pattern, held in an individual's memory, which is capable of being copied to another individual's memory. Memetics: the theoretical and empirical science that studies the replication, spread and evolution of memes ...

Resources for the Teaching of Subscribe to the free site newsletter - Read past issues Class Assignments Research Projects, Exams Online... Topic Resources Methods, The Self, Social Beliefs... Activities and Exercises for Methods, Persuasion... Student Resources Writing Resources, Study Resources... Online Lectures Notes, Outlines, PowerPoint slides Technology in Teaching Web Projects, Promoting ...

The Stanley Milgram website offers the definitive, accurate source of information about the famed social psychologist and his work in the field of obedience to authority.

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Social Evolution We have loosely used the informal concept of the organism as a distinct kind of living entity. We must recognize that this distinction is largely arbitrary, and only useful in limited domains. A number of examples, such as viruses, beehives, slime molds, and other symbiotic and parasitic relationships threaten to blur the distinction between the living organism and the community ...

SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY The social sciences are dedicated to understanding the human condition, ideally to the extent that the singular and collective behaviors of human beings can be understood and even predicted. Though their goals are identical in the abstract, these sciences differ in terms of their way of looking at things, the questions they ask, the methods they use in addressing these ...

Links to different sites on Nonverbal Communication, Nonverbal Behaviour, Emotional Expression, Gesture, Posture, and related areas. The site pretends to be useful for nonverbal researchers, students, and people in general interested in the topic.

Memes: Introduction by Glenn Grant, Memeticist An idea is something you have; an ideology is something that has you. --Morris Berman What if ideas were viruses Consider the T-phage virus. A T-phage cannot replicate itself; it reproduces by hijacking the DNA of a bacterium, forcing its host to make millions of copies of the phage. Similarly, an idea can parasitically infect your mind and alter ...

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Christianity is a 'meme', a mind virus that infects people and manipulates their behavior.

Psychology applied to consumer thinking, consumer behavior, and other marketing issues.

This portion of the Influence at Work website offers a brief introduction to a big topic: social influence, the modern, scientific study of persuasion, compliance, propaganda, "brainwashing, " and the ethics that surround these issues.

Thesis confirm by the Senate of Tel-Aviv University to conferred the degree doctor of philosophy to chaya ostrower. This is a serious site about humor in the Holocaust. It is the abstract of my doctorate thesis about Humor as a defense mechanism in the Holocaust ...

Bertram F. Malle Associate Professor, Department of Psychology & Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences 1227 University of Oregon. Eugene, Oregon 97403-1227 Phone: (541) 346-0475. FAX: (541) 346-4911 Topic Areas: Social and Personality Psychology, Judgment and Decision Making Education Teaching Research Go here to search my pages Last update June 2000 bfmalle@darkwing.uoregon.edu ...

Anthony G. Greenwald, PhD HOME PAGE Navigate using the menu under my face (Thanks to Eliot Smith for the photo) last updated: March 20, 2002 WHAT'S NEW 20 Mar 02: To obtain an electronic reprint (PDF - 649KB) of the recent 'unified theory' Psychological Review paper, paste or type the following URL (printed in bold) into your browser's 'address' or 'location' bar (which you may be able to get to ...

Curriculum Vitae Janet B. Ruscher, Ph.D. Associate Professor Psychological Science 3049 Percival Stern Hall Department of Psychology Tulane University New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: (504) 862-3309 Fax: (504) 862-8744 Email: ruscher@tulane.edu EDUCATION University of Massachusetts at Amherst: Doctor of Philosophy, Personality and Social Psychology, 1991 University of Massachusetts at Amherst: ...

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The Society For Constructivism In The Human Sciences The Society for Constructivism in the Human Sciences is an international organization devoted to encouraging and communicating developments in theory, research, and practices that reflect an appreciation for human beings as actively complex, socially-embedded, and developmentally dynamic self organizing systems. Its journal, Constructivism in ...

Welcome to Allen McConnell's home page. Allen has a Ph. D. in Psychology from Indiana University, with a major concentration in social psychology and a minor concentration in cognitive psychology. His research interests include stereotyping, prejudice, self-concept formation and its implications, and judgment and decision making. He has been on the faculty of Penn State, Michigan State, and is ...

GROUPS Don't forget the Module Project This module deals with basic functioning of groups, at work and outside of work. It is divided into three main topics: attitudes influence dynamics attitudes: Evaluation the social world How attitudes are formed, changed, related to behavior, and work; origins of prejudice. influence: Changing the behavior of others Sources of influence, the phenomena of ...

TRAFFIC PSYCHOLOGY at the University of Hawaii Leon James Professor of Psychology University of Hawaii 1997 Principles of Traffic Psychology An Overview Origins of Traffic Psychology The Need for Traffic Psychology Benefits of Traffic Psychology The Procedures in Traffic Psychology Two Stages of Driving Persona Makeover A Comprehensive Theory of Driving Behavior Three Domains of Driving ...

Robert Krauss's Homepage My name is Robert M. Krauss, but just about everyone calls me Bob. I'm a professor in the Psychology Department at Columbia University and the (self-annointed) director of the Human Communication Lab (for more information about COMM.LAB click HERE). The picture at the top of the page shows me in 1948, playing drums in a band called The Bluejackets at the Mayfair Hotel in ...

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Dr. Jerry I. Shaw Professor of Psychology California State University, Northridge B.A. 1965 University of California, Los Angeles Psychology M.A. 1966 University of California, Los Angeles Psychology Ph.D. 1969 University of California, Los Angeles Social Psychology Please select any of the following: View the courses I teach Recent publications Recent convention presentations A description of ...

Dr. N.C. Higgins Associate Professor Department of Psychology, St. Thomas University Fredericton, New Brunswick E3B 1P3 Canada Office information: Edmund Casey Hall, Room 212 Phone: (506) 452-0415 Fax: (506) 450-9615 E-mail: nhiggins@stthomasu.ca B.A. (St. Francis Xavier), M.A., Ph.D. (Simon Fraser). Social/health Psychology (optimism, coping, attribution theory, risk perceptions (unrealistic ...

Richard Gonzalez Department of Psychology University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1109 email: gonzo@umich.edu telephone: (734) 647-6785 fax: (734) 764-3520 Tuesday, 25-Sep-2001 00:21:07 EDT Misc Information Vita (pdf file) Courses ...

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JACK GLASER |||| Assistant Professor Goldman School of Public Policy University of California, Berkeley 2607 Hearst Avenue Berkeley, CA 94720-7320 office: 510-642-3047, fax: 510-643-9657 e-mail: glaserj@socrates.berkeley.edu (see also department webpage) Interests|Course Offerings|Education|Honors|Publications|Work in Progress|Presentations|Organizational Activities|Links|Humor Primary Research ...

Richard E. Petty, Ph.D. Distinguished University Professor Department of Psychology The Ohio State University 1885 Neil Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43210-1222 Office Phone: (614) 292-3038 Email: Petty.1@osu.edu Academic Biography Petty received his B.A. in political science and psychology from the University of Virginia in 1973 and his Ph.D. in social psychology from Ohio State University in 1977. He ...

Sylvia Beyer, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychology Came to the University of Wisconsin-Parkside in 1991 Address Department of Psychology 900 Wood Rd. Box 2000 Kenosha, WI 53141-2000 Phone: (262) 595-2353 Fax: (262) 595-2602 Office: Molinaro 266 Send email to Sylvia Beyer Education Vordiplom, Universit t T bingen, Germany 1985 M.A., University of Oregon, 1987 Ph.D., University of Oregon, 1991 ...

Paul D. Windschitl, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Psychology Department of Psychology University of Iowa Iowa City, IA 52245 Phone: (319) 335-2435 Fax: (319) 335-0191 Email: paul-windschitl@uiowa.edu Vita Publications Research Courses The Alternative-Outcomes Effect Personality and Social Area / Cognition and Perception Area / Psych Dept / U Iowa ...

Chair and Professor of Social Psychology Department of Psychology University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-1061 Phone: (213) 740-2291 E-mail: Read@rcf.usc.edu Courses Currently Taught: Psych 454 Social Cognition Research Interests. Selected publications My Recent Book Research Interests I have recently finished a book, with Lynn C. Miller entitled Connectionist Models of Social ...

Memetic Lexicon Author: Glenn Grant Date: 1990 HTMLized by Anders Sandberg 1994 The original ASCII version is stored here. There is also an updated version with additions by David McFadzean AUTO-TOXIC: Dangerous to itself. Highly auto-toxic memes are usually self-limiting because they promote the destruction of their hosts (such as the Jim Jones meme; any military indoctrination meme-complex; ...

Todd D. Nelson, Ph.D. Gemperle Foundation Distinguished Professor Department of Psychology California State University - Stanislaus Turlock, California 95382 Phone: (209) 667-3442 Send tnelson@athena.csustan.edu Current Research Interests Stereotyping and Prejudice Cognitive processes associated with use of stereotypes in impression formation; role of affect in guiding attitudes about ...

Gifford Weary, Ph.D. Department of Psychology The Ohio State University 1885 Neil Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43210-1222 Office Phone: (614)-292-7456 Email: Weary.1@osu.edu Archived Distinguished Lecture Brief Academic Biography In 1973, Professor Weary received her B.A. in psychology with highest distinction from the University of Kansas. That same year, she began graduate study at Vanderbilt ...

Welcome to my web site ! I deal with psychological theory of decision making. My research interests include risk perception and acceptance, in particular the way in which people comabin information about utilities and probabilities in risk judgment, and the comparision of the abilty of RDU and Risk-Value models to account for risky decisions. My current research project is related to probability ...

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Directories for: Faculty Staff Graduate Students Keith D. Markman Assistant Professor of Psychology Ph.D. (1994) Indiana University Research Area: Social Judgment & Behavioral Decision Making Specializations: Social, Judgment and Decision Making Contact Information: Office: 200 Porter Hall Phone: (740) 593-1707 E-mail: markman@ohio.edu Research Interests: My research interests, characterized ...

The Rutgers Social Psychology Ph.D. Program prepares students for careers as researchers and teachers in both academic and non-academic settings. Students work closely with faculty members on research projects of mutual interest. Rutgers has one of the largest social psychology faculties in the country, and an extremely favorable ratio of fewer than two graduate students per professor.

Nonverbal Communication Research Page Welcome! This page is meant to be a resource for those working in the field of nonverbal communication. Researchers can use this page to connect with their colleagues, search relevant journals (including the current contents of the Journal of Nonverbal Behavior), find out about the latest books published in the field, and obtain information about resources ...

HOME RESEARCH DOCTORAL PROGRAMS MASTER'S PROGRAM BACHELOR'S PROGRAM PEOPLE RESOURCES SITE INDEX The Social-Personality Doctoral Program at the University at Buffalo Visit our Laboratories!!! Program Highlights A strong, productive, and collegial group of researchers Leading research in fundamental areas of social psychology, including: Close Relationships Self-concept and self-esteem Personal ...

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Persuasion, Social Influence, and Compliance Gaining 1/e Robert H. Gass John S. Seiter Published October 1998 by Allyn & Bacon Copyright 1999, 354 pp., Paper