Kipling Williams

Kipling D. Williams, Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.,[1] received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the same institution. He is most noted for his research on ostracism and has developed unique methods to study the processes and consequences.

Williams has conducted research in several areas, including aggression, group processes and close relationships. However, he has specific research topics that include ostracism, social loafing and social compensation, internet research, stealing thunder, which is a specific tactic used to deflate any negative impact of changing a person’s testimony, law and psychology.

Williams has a primary interest in social influence. In addition, he has contributed to publications in both the field of psychology and in the field of law, which deal with issues of different realms of social influence. Some of these realms of social influence concern eyewitness memory and testimony, biasing judges’ instructions, and most recently, on influencing jurors to scrutinize confidence inflation in court cases. However, Williams’ interests mostly include group processes and social influence. While some people regard this as simple group research, he regards it as a phenomenon of very basic social influence. He believes that an individual’s emotions, subsequent social susceptibility, and motivations are all impacted when that person is ostracized.

Williams believes that “social influence is of great importance to his self-definition and to his interest in social psychology.”[2] Simply put, he believes that “the heart of social psychology is social influence.”[2]

He is the associate editor of the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

Books and chapters in books

Cyberball

See Ball toss / cyberball experiments (in Social rejection)

He has a free downloadable program called “Cyberball,” which can be used in research to study issues that surround social exclusion. Dr. Williams has contributed to different psychological articles and he has also written several different books related to his psychological interests.

See also

References

  1. Kip Williams, PhD
  2. 1 2 Kip Williams
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Thursday, April 07, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.