Political psychology including the psychology of political mass killing and terrorism, prejudice, authoritarianism, collective behavior, mass media, psychology of music, basic axiomatic models of human behavior.
For the past approximately two decades, I have been engaged in an international series of investigations based on a standardized instrument of individual views of political mass killing (war, genocide, terrorism, political repression, communal violence). The goal is to determine the psychological factors that may facilitate or inhibit such behavior and to examine the extent to which there are cross-cultural similarities. In addition, I have maintained a strong interest in attitudes, primarily dealing with prejudice and reliance on authority. Collective behavior and mass media have also been subjects of strong interest. For several decades, I have collected data on musical pitch identficfation. For approximately the past decade, I have been working on elementary symbolic logic, in conjunction with the Muncaster PropCalc, to analyze and develop social science theory.
