Department of Psychology
Western Kentucky University
Bowling Green, KY 42101
Phone: 1-270-745-4408
E-mail: sam.mcfarland@wku.edu
Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 1971
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Department of Psychology Western Kentucky University Bowling Green, KY 42101 Phone: 1-270-745-4408 E-mail: sam.mcfarland@wku.edu Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 1971 |
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Social Psychology and Human Rights
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Recent Publications:
McFarland, S.G., Brown, D., & Webb, M. (in press). Identification with all humanity as a moral concept and psychological construct. Current Directions in Psychological Science.
McFarland, S. G. (in press). Consequences of Authoritarianism for Political and Social Attitudes. In F. Funke, T. Petzel, C. Cohrs, & J. Duckitt (Eds.). Perspectives on Authoritarianism. Weisbaden, Germany: VS-Verlag.
McFarland, S. G. (in press). The Morality and Psychology of "Identification with All Humanity". In Araki, Y. & Karasawa, M. (Eds.). Intergroup Behavior and Political Psychology. Tokyo: Brain Publishing Company.
McFarland, S. G. (in press). Religion and authoritarianism. In D. Wulff (Ed.) Encyclopedia of the Psychology of Religion. New York: Oxford University Press.
McFarland, S. G., Webb, M., & Brown, D. (2012). All humanity is my ingroup: A measure and studies of Identification with all humanity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 103, 830-853.
McFarland, S. G. (2011). Support for Humanitarian Military Intervention. In D. J. Christie (Ed.). Encyclopedia of Peace Psychology. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.
McFarland, S. G. (2011). Presidential address: The slow creation of humanity. Political Psychology, 32, 1-20.
McFarland, S. G. (2010). Personality and support for universal human rights: A review and test of a structural model. Journal of Personality, 78, 1735-1763.
McFarland, S. (2010) Authoritarianism, social dominance, and other roots of generalized prejudice. Political Psychology, 31, 425-449.
McFarland, S. G., & Carnahan, T. (2009). A situation's first powers are attracting volunteers and selecting participants: A reply to Haney and Zimbardo (2009). Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35, 815-818.
McFarland, S. & Brown, D. (2008). Who Believes that Identification with all Humanity is Ethical? Psicologia Politica, 36, 37-49.
McFarland, S. (with coauthors, Thalhammer, K,
O’Loughlin, P., Glazser, M., Glazer, P., Shapela, S., & Stoltzfus,
N.). (2007). Courageous
Resistance: The Power of Ordinary People. Palgrave/McMillan.
Carnahan, T. & McFarland, S. G. (2007).
Revisiting the Stanford Prison Experiment: Could Participant
Self-Selection have led to the cruelty? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 603-614.
McFarland, S. G. & Mathews, M. (2005). Do
Americans care about human rights? Journal
of Human Rights, 4, 305-319. (PDF)
McFarland, S. G. & Mathews, M. (2005). Who cares about
human rights? Political
Psychology, 26, 365-385
McFarland, S. G. (2005). On the eve of war:
Authoritarianism, social dominance, and American students' support for
attacking Iraq. Personality and
Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 360-367.
McFarland, S. G. (2003). The effects of authoritarianism and social dominance upon American students' attitudes toward attacking Iraq. Psicologia Politica, 27, 119-130.
McFarland, S. G. & Crouch, Z. (2002). A cognitive skill confound on the Implicit Association Test. Social Cognition, 20, 483-506. (PDF)
McFarland, S. G. (2000). Autoritarismus und die Entwicklung eines demokratischen Bewußtseins in Russland (Authoritarianism and the Development of Democratic Consciousness in Russia). In Rippl, S., C. Seipel, C., & A. Kindervater (Eds.). Kontroversen und Ansaetze der aktuellen Autoritarismusforschung (Controversies and Approaches in Authoritarianism Research Today). Opladen, Germany: Leske Bundrich. Pp. 173-197.
McFarland, S. G. (1999). The development of aggression in childhood: Recent American studies. Innovatseonnaya Shkola (School Innovations), 34, 99-109. (Russian language journal).
McFarland, S. G. (1998). Communism as religion. The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 8, 33-48.
McFarland, S. G., Ageyev, V. S., & Djintcharadze, N. (1996). Russian authoritarianism two years after communism. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 22, 210-217.
McFarland, S. G. (1996). Keeping the faith: The role of non-rational processes in maintaining religious beliefs. In D. A. Stout & J. A. Buddenbaum (Eds.), Religion and the Mass Media: Audiences and Adaptations (pp. 173-182). Sage.
Ageyev, V. S. & McFarland, S. G. (1995). The Authoritarian Personality. In A. Petrovsky, M. Yarochevski, & A. Korenko (Eds.). Russian Encyclopedia of Psychology. Moscow: Nauka Press.
McFarland, S. G. (1994). ACT scores do predict academic success. The National Honors Report, 15, 8-12.
McFarland, S. G., Ageyev, V. S., & Abalakina, M. (1993). The authoritarian personality in the U.S.A. and U.S.S.R.: comparative studies. In Stone, W.F., Lederer, G. & Christie, R. (Eds.). Strengths and weaknesses: The authoritarian personality today. New York: Springer-Verlag.
McFarland, S. G., Ageyev, V. S., & Abalakina-Paap, M. (1992). Authoritarianism in the former Soviet Union. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 63, 1004-1010.
McFarland, S. G. & Warren, J. (1992). Religious orientations and selective exposure among fundamentalist Christians. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 31, 163-174.
Ageyev, V. S., Abalakina, M. A. & McFarland, S. G. (1990). Avtoritarnaya lichnost v Ssha I SSSR [Authoritarian personality in the U.S.A. and U.S.S.R.]. Chelovek, (6), 110-118.
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