Carey Morewedge Biography

353 Words1 Page
bulb-icon

Recommended: Essays on peer review

The head researcher of this topic, Carey K. Morewedge, has background that ensures he is credible and that he can be trusted due to his academic credentials, work experience, awards and scholarship, and the journals that his articles are published in. Morewedge earned his Ph.D. in Social Psychology in 2006 from Harvard University (Lord, n.d.). It is evident that Morewedge has worked extremely hard to obtain such credentials. After receiving this, he found his place at Carnegie Mellon University in the Department of Social and Decision Sciences, where he worked as Associate and Assistant Professor from 2007 until 2013 (Lord, n.d.). While working here he was granted more than two million dollars in research funding, thus allowing him to pursue

Show More
Related

  • Christopher McCandless: An Admirable Man

    976 Words  | 2 Pages

    In 1992, Christopher McCandless set off on an odyssey into the backcountry of Alaska, an adventure that had proved fatal. After McCandless's corpse was found, Jon Krakauer wrote an article on the story of Chris McCandless, which was released in the January 1993 issue of Outside magazine. The article had received a negative response; several readers criticized McCandless for being foolish and ill-prepared, and showed no sympathy or remorse for his death. McCandless has been referred to as a nut, a kook, and a fool. However, McCandless was not a nonsensical man. In 1996, Jon Krakauer's novel, Into the Wild, was published. The novel uncovers more detail of McCandless's story. Into the Wild rebuts the idea of McCandless being someone who is foolish, and speaks of the many occasions where McCandless has demonstrated great perseverance and determination. The novel also proves the intelligence of McCandless, and brings insight into McCandless's psyche. The following examples will illustrate how McCandless was not a fool, but someone to admire.

    Read More

  • Sharon Creech Biography

    1112 Words  | 3 Pages

    Sharon Creech’s childhood memories, college experiences, and creative brain significantly affected her writings. She rarely thought of being an author growing up, but as time progressed, she began to really think about it. Creech first became interested when she entered college and something sparked her career. She wrote multiple books with her much thought and creativeness leading her to an outstanding writing career.

    Read More

  • Paradoxes of Power in Sociological Insight by Randall Collins

    857 Words  | 2 Pages

    remain to be seen. In Chapter Three of Sociological Insight by Randall Collins, the author

    Read More

  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

    2296 Words  | 5 Pages

    Rhodes, A. E., Lin, E., & Streiner, D. L. (1999). Confronting the confounders: the meaning,

    Read More

  • Response To Professor X's In The Basement Of Ivory Tower

    942 Words  | 2 Pages

    I cannot help but believe that there are some very valid points to Professor X’s article, for example, when he states that some students are simply unfit for the academic level that college requires. The author states, “Everyone wants to triumph. But not everyone can-in fact, most can’t.” (X, par. 47) In other words, Professor X believes that some students desperately want to succeed, however, they are unable to do so regardless of the amount of help offered. Sometimes, no matter how many people are set up for success there is not anything else that can be done, but letting them down gracefully. Professor X writes about his student Ms. L, the professor expresses his frustration with this student and how he knew he would face difficulties with her. The wall had gone up, she was no longer interested in what was being said. X expresses that Ms. L is not smart nor is she a bad person, however, he does elaborate on how she was never a fit for college level academics. Professor X writes, “Ms. L had done everything that American culture asked of her. She had gone back to school to better herself, and she expected to be rewarded for it, not slapped down.” (X, par. 36) This may be exactly how Ms. L was feeling, furthermore, let’s elaborate on why Ms. L expected to be rewarded for work that did not meet the expectations of her assigned

    Read More

  • Conflict Theory and the Movie Glory Road

    771 Words  | 2 Pages

    Brinkerhoff, David B., Rose Weitz, Suzanne T. Ortega. Essentials of Sociology Ninth Edition. Belmont: Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2013. Print.

    Read More

  • Double Consciousness: A Significant Factor In Today's Society

    386 Words  | 1 Pages

    Many are expected to aspire to being a professional football or basketball player, not to being a senator or a college professor. Their sense of self is molded by the social expectations

    Read More

  • The Rodney King Trial

    1331 Words  | 3 Pages

    Kaplan, David A.Meyer, Michael. "Roll The Tape Again." Newsweek 121.6 (1993): 68. MAS Ultra -

    Read More

  • The Pros And Cons Of Social Psychology

    1077 Words  | 3 Pages

    Social psychology is a broad amalgamation of sub disciplines with various differing ideas of best practice. Generally, Laboratory based psychology (i.e. the experimental method) focuses more on the individual as if they have universal characteristics than some other forms of social psychology. As we move into a society that increasingly favours the notion of the “individual over the social”, psychology appears to be shifting in the opposite direction with much of contemporary psychology becoming increasingly interested in context and its impact on behaviour. There are certainly issues with removing the

    Read More

  • Compare And Contrast Oppenheimer And Malcolm Gladwell

    396 Words  | 1 Pages

    Michiko Kakutani is correct in her argument that Malcolm Gladwell’s writing is baseless because he attempts to extrapolate selective studies and anecdotes into broad hypotheses to support his irrational claims. This is seen when Gladwell cites what Robert Merton called the “Matthew Effect” and suggests that, “Children from wealthy or middle-class backgrounds are much more likely to succeed than those from impoverished ones.” To support this claim, Gladwell chooses two isolated cases of Chris Langan’s failure and J. Robert Oppenheimer’s success in life. The only similarities between these two men are their high intelligence and genius-level IQs, but Gladwell attributes Oppenheimer’s success to his “wealthy, privileged childhood [...] that allowed him to get what he wanted from the world.” Kakutani criticizes that Gladwell only chose these two men as

    Read More

  • The Life of John B. Watson

    1042 Words  | 3 Pages

    As I searched over the numerous website and psychology books trying to figure out who to write on for this research paper I stumbles upon a famous quote that captures my attention swiftly.

    Read More

  • 'An Analysis Of Billy Collins Divorce'

    926 Words  | 2 Pages

    Billy Collins is a famous American poet who uses everyday language to appeal to his audience. Collins is a true wordsmith who can pack a lot of meaning into only a few short sentences; his poem Divorce does exactly that. Divorce is a short poem consisting of only 18 words and two stanzas composed of two lines each. Collins ability to concentrate so much meaning into such a short poem shows his mastery of metaphors.

    Read More

  • Socially Constructed Identities

    1033 Words  | 3 Pages

    ...nging as we negotiate positions in social situations. There seems to be the familiar, age old, argument of nature vs. nurture which is no doubt part of a much wider debate.

    Read More

  • The Most Important Features of a Social System

    1447 Words  | 3 Pages

    Wallace, R. and Wolfe, A. (1999) Contemporary sociological theory: Continuing the classical tradition. Prentice Hall: Englewood Cliffs.

    Read More

  • Positivism Essay

    710 Words  | 2 Pages

    Positivism is a descriptive form of research that lacks reason and meaning, basically only offers ‘brute data’ (Taylor, 1985: 19). A strength of positivism is its collection of quantifiable data, along with the well-structured design that significantly supports evidence. However, positivism is more concerned with the technique of research than the substance of their findings (Halperin and Heath, 2012: 27). And scientific equations can not account for the complexity of human behavior and culture. A positivist also doesn’t differentiate between the natural world and social world. Therefore, their research lacks a fundamental understanding of the complexity of social behavior, and how social behaviors construct social

    Read More

More about Carey Morewedge Biography

Open Document