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

Positions Held:

• President, International Society of Political Psychology (2009-2010)
• Director, University Honors Program (1992-2000)
• 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) - Syllabus
  
• Individual Differences (PSY 520)
  
• Advanced Social Psychology (PSY 552) - 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. G. (in press). Personality and support for universal human rights: A review and test of a structural model. Journal of Personality.

McFarland, S. (in press). Authoritarianism, social dominance, and other roots of generalized prejudice. Political Psychology.

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., & 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. G. (in press). "Identification with All Humanity" as a Moral Concept and Psychological Construct. In Araki, Y. & Karasawa, M. (Eds.). Intergroup Behavior and Political Psychology. Tokyo: Brain Publishing Company.

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. (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.

Links:

• "Authoritarianism, social dominance, and other roots of generalized prejudice." - Major Scales Used
• Interview with Joseph Darby, who revealed the Abu Ghraib Photos

Last Modified:  March 15, 2010

Copyright: Since 1998, Sam McFarland

For comments or questions: sam.mcfarland@wku.edu

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