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Problems With The Psychopathy Construct, Ibpp Editor May 1999

Problems With The Psychopathy Construct, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article highlights problems with the construct validity of psychopathy at the interface of clinical and social description.


Psychohistory And Personality Assessment By Proxy: Comments On Ritzler And Singer (1998), Ibpp Editor Dec 1998

Psychohistory And Personality Assessment By Proxy: Comments On Ritzler And Singer (1998), Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article comments on the psychohistorical use of the "MMPI-2 by proxy" technique that is described by Long Island University's Barry Ritzler and Meredith Singer in the October 1998 Issue of the Journal of Personality Assessment.


The Politics Of Industrial/Organizational Psychology And The Myers Briggs Type Indicator: What Is Jungian About A Jungian Approach?, Ibpp Editor Oct 1998

The Politics Of Industrial/Organizational Psychology And The Myers Briggs Type Indicator: What Is Jungian About A Jungian Approach?, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article analyzes the most common contribution stemming from a variant of analytic (Jungian) psychology as applied to prescriptions and proscriptions for industries and organizations. The contribution, viz., a personality typological theory, may have lost its "Jungness" through the application.


Psychological Research On Violent Behavior: Some Ongoing Problems, Ibpp Editor Sep 1998

Psychological Research On Violent Behavior: Some Ongoing Problems, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article highlights some significant problems with state-of-the art psychological research on violent behavior. As an example of such research, a recent symposium led by John Monahan, PhD, Dougherty Professor of Law, Goldsmith Research Professor, and Professor of Psychology and Legal Medicine, School of Law, University of Virginia, is critiqued by IBPP.


The Construct Of Personality: Implications For Psychological Profiles, Background Investigations, And Intelligence Agent Preassessment And Evaluation, Ibpp Editor Jul 1998

The Construct Of Personality: Implications For Psychological Profiles, Background Investigations, And Intelligence Agent Preassessment And Evaluation, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes complexities of the construct of personality and their implications for psychological profiles, background investigations, and intelligence agent preassessment and evaluation.


Security Politics Of The Intelligence Quotient (Iq), Ibpp Editor May 1998

Security Politics Of The Intelligence Quotient (Iq), Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes conceptual weaknesses of the intelligence quotient (IQ) and their security implications.


The Lexicon Of Political Psychology: Implications For Intelligence Analysis And Security Policy, Ibpp Editor May 1998

The Lexicon Of Political Psychology: Implications For Intelligence Analysis And Security Policy, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes some complexities of dispositional terms and the consequences for social psychological inferences informing intelligence analysis and security policy.


A Psychology Of Democracy In Africa: From The Heart Of Darkness?, Ibpp Editor Apr 1998

A Psychology Of Democracy In Africa: From The Heart Of Darkness?, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes psychological phenomena affecting quests for international democratization.


Surface And Source Aspects Of Political Leadership: Implications For The Psychology Of Scandal, Ibpp Editor Apr 1998

Surface And Source Aspects Of Political Leadership: Implications For The Psychology Of Scandal, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes psychological research bearing on the import of so-called character lapses on political leadership.


The Future Interface Of Political And Industrial/Organizational Psychologies: The Case Of Air Traffic Controllers, Ibpp Editor Mar 1998

The Future Interface Of Political And Industrial/Organizational Psychologies: The Case Of Air Traffic Controllers, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article presents a brief overview of future psychological challenges bearing on the improving the performance of air traffic controllers. The most significant challenges appear to be philosophical, political, social, and cultural.


Psychological Profiles And Illegal Political Violence: A Commentary, Ibpp Editor Mar 1998

Psychological Profiles And Illegal Political Violence: A Commentary, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article provides guidance as to the nature of psychological profiles that best facilitate predicting, preventing, and attenuating illegal political violence.


Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs: The Motivations Of Zapatistas, Ibpp Editor Mar 1998

Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs: The Motivations Of Zapatistas, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes the hypothetical construct of motivation and illustrates a political application of Maslow's hierarchy of needs.


National Security Decision Making: When Does The Personal Matter?, Ibpp Editor Mar 1998

National Security Decision Making: When Does The Personal Matter?, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes elements of personal psychology that may significantly affect national security decision making.


Right, Left, Right On, Or Left Out: New Directions For Political Road Maps?, Ibpp Editor Feb 1998

Right, Left, Right On, Or Left Out: New Directions For Political Road Maps?, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article illustrates problems for social constructions of the political right and left.


Research On Machiavellianism: Are Political Psychologists Machiavellian Enough?, Ibpp Editor Feb 1998

Research On Machiavellianism: Are Political Psychologists Machiavellian Enough?, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article provides a commentary on the thirty years of psychological research addressing the construct of Machiavellianism. Research failings may have much to do with the psychological characteristics of those who conceptualize, design, implement, and interpret Machiavellian studies.


Implicit Theories Of Personality And Reactions To Political Scandal, Ibpp Editor Jan 1998

Implicit Theories Of Personality And Reactions To Political Scandal, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes several psychological constructs that may be useful in understanding reactions to political scandal.


The Politics Of Evolutionary Psychology, Ibpp Editor Nov 1997

The Politics Of Evolutionary Psychology, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes some political implications of the field of evolutionary psychology.


Strange Bedfellows: Abraham Maslow As Defender Of Human Rights Violations, Jiang Zemin As Humanist, Ibpp Editor Nov 1997

Strange Bedfellows: Abraham Maslow As Defender Of Human Rights Violations, Jiang Zemin As Humanist, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes an instance in which humanistic psychological theory supports the rationale for behavior frequently linked with human rights violations.


Inconsistency As Consistency: An Optimal Policy For Human Rights, Ibpp Editor Oct 1997

Inconsistency As Consistency: An Optimal Policy For Human Rights, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article contrasts two common cognitive approaches employed by United States (US) politicians in furthering human rights throughout the world.


A Bias Of Intelligence Testing, Ibpp Editor Oct 1997

A Bias Of Intelligence Testing, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes a bias of intelligence testing that is explicated less often, yet is more profound than the biases commonly presented in psychology textbooks.


Political Assassinations: Primary Prevention In Representative Democracies, Ibpp Editor Sep 1997

Political Assassinations: Primary Prevention In Representative Democracies, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes a social psychological approach to decreasing the probability of some political assassinations


Getting Away With Murder: The Mass Media's Role In Staging Crime, Ibpp Editor Sep 1997

Getting Away With Murder: The Mass Media's Role In Staging Crime, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes a problem created by the mass media and confronted by criminal-investigative analysts at crime scenes at which murder seems to have been perpetrated.


The Past From The Present: Comments On The Social Construction Of Machiavellianism, Ibpp Editor Jul 1997

The Past From The Present: Comments On The Social Construction Of Machiavellianism, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article presents different meanings of the term Machiavellianism and posits a mechanism of social construction to explain these differences.


The Political Psychology Of Deception Research, Ibpp Editor Jun 1997

The Political Psychology Of Deception Research, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes some substantive and ethical complexities in research on the psychology of deception.


Birth Of The Suicidal Terrorist: A Self-Justification Approach, Ibpp Editor Mar 1997

Birth Of The Suicidal Terrorist: A Self-Justification Approach, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This paper describes social psychological techniques employed by recruiters to select, solicit, and shape suicidal terrorists.


Sex As A Military Weapon, Ibpp Editor Feb 1997

Sex As A Military Weapon, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

Disagreements about military personnel policies on sexuality may be based on the wrong criteria.


Beliefs And The True Believer, Ibpp Editor Feb 1997

Beliefs And The True Believer, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author discusses the psychological constructs of the True Believer.


Problems With Political Types, Ibpp Editor Dec 1996

Problems With Political Types, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The editor discusses and evaluates the concept of typology in the context of political psychology, including those who use typology as a tool.