Interests

Stress and Social Processing
Perception of Prejudice
Social Influence and Group Processes [especially during internet communication]
Desire for Control and Stress Reduction

Education

B.S.
Cornell University

Industrial & Labor Relations, January 1965


Ph.D.

University of Minnesota

Social Psychology & Educational Psychology, December 1970

Academic and Professional Experience

1970-1975
Assistant Professor

The University of Iowa


1975-1982

Associate Professor

The University of Iowa


1982

Professor

The University of Iowa


1983

Visiting Professor
UCLA, Department of Marketing (Jan.-June)

Graduate School of Management

Colloquia 1998-2000

Desired Control, Expected Control and Dental Stress. Park City Conference on Social Psychology 1998

Prototypic Identification of Prejudice APA. Symposium-San Francisco 8/98

Arousal, Capacity and Intense Indoctrination. Northwestern University. Evanston, Ill. Feb 1998.

A Model of Coersive Indoctrination. Loyola University-Chicago 2/99

Anonymity and Internet Communication. Society of Experimental Social Psychology-St. Louis 10/99

A Model of Coersive Indoctrination. Park City Conference on Social Psychology 1/2000

Capacity, Arousal and indoctrination. University of Chicago-Chicago, IL. December, 2000.

Professional Organizations

American Psychological Association (Division 8)
Midwestem Psychological Association
Society of Experimental Social Psychology
American Psychological Society

Awards and Honors

SENIOR LECTURER Award, University of Iowa, 1986 (Inaugural Award)
PROFESSOR OF THE YEAR 1991-1992, Iowa Student Psychology Association
Fellow, American Psychological Association;
Fellow, American Psychological Society
Fellow, National Science Foundation, Program for Advanced Study and Research in Social Psychophysiology, University of Iowa, Summer 1987
Invited address, Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, 1987
OUTSTANDING PROFESSOR--Pan Hellenic Council. Fall, 1996
GIDDON AWARD for Distinguished Research in the Behavioral Sciences. Awarded March 1997 by the International Association of Dental Research.

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