Sam G. McFarland 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

Western faculty member since 1971.

Courses I Have Taught Regularly:

-- Social Psychology (PSY 350) - Syllabus
-- Personality Theory (PSY 450) - Syllabus
-- Psychology of Religion (PSY 485, 485G) PSY485 Syllabus
-- Individual Differences (PSY 520)
-- Advanced Social Psychology (PSY 552) PSY552 Syllabus
-- Understanding Human Rights (COLL 301,for the University Honors Program) - Syllabus

Research Interests:

-- Human rights
-- The authoritarian personality
-- Prejudice and ethnocentrism
-- The psychology of religion

Recent Publications:

McFarland, S. & Brown, D. Who Believes that Identification with all Humanity is Ethical? Psicologia Politica, 2008, 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. (in press). Religion and authoritarianism.  In D. Wulff (Ed.) Encyclopedia of the Psychology of Religion.  New York: Oxford University Press.

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.

Last Modified:  August 4, 2008

Copyright: Since 1998, Sam McFarland

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