Research Interests
Broad areas of interest: social psychology, psychological measurement & psychometrics. (These naturally overflow into interests in statistics, research methodology, personality theory and the history and philosophy of psychology.)
Specific research areas: Interpersonal rejection and rejected people, ordinal assessment and status of psychological variables.
Current work: Confidence in psychometric testing (preparing a journal article in conjunction with Lazar Stankov)
Ostracism: A look at the four needs (PhD program)
Favourite Books/Articles:
Measurement in Psychology: A Critical History by Joel Michell
Ostracism: The Power of Silence by Kipling D Williams
The Empire of Chance by Gerd Gigerenzer
An Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
Enlightenment & Alienation by Colin E. Gunton
Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
Slapstick (or Lonesome No More!) by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck