Daryl Bem Research Paper

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Self-perception theory was founded by Daryl Bem a social psychologist. His interest in research brought him far in his job from contemporary social psychologist where he developed sexual orientation and parapsychology to a Professor Emeritus of Psychology.

EDUCATION

He did his undergraduate education majoring in physics from 1956 and graduated with a bachelors in physics in 1960. Started graduate paintings in physics at MIT for two years. His interest to social psychology raised after noticing the change of attitudes during desegregation in Southern American just after the movement of the civil rights began. He began exploring the changing attitudes of people and public opinion. This is when he determined to interchange fields and pursue a career as a social psychologist focusing on attitudes and public opinion. He further continued his education in PhD in social psychology in 1961 at University of Michigan and graduated in 1964.

EMPLOYMENT
Since 1964, Bem began teaching …show more content…

Bem married Sandra Lipsitz, in 1965 who is now a professor of psychology at Cornell College. In 2001, she wrote a book outlining their non-traditional, egalitarian marriage and the family structure she and Daryl Bem designed for themselves and their children titled, An Unconventional Family.

PROFESSIONAL LIFE
Professor Bem has a Hugh interest in research and has published on several diverse topics in psychology, including group decision making, Personality Theory, Beliefs, Attitudes and Ideologies, social judgement, Human interference and self-perception, Psi (ESP) phenomena, and sexual orientation. He is co-author of an introductory textbook in psychology and the author of Beliefs, Attitudes, and Human Affairs (1970).
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
Member of the Phi Beta Kappa Fellow, American Psychological Association Charter Fellow, American Psychological Society, Parapsychological Association
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