U. S. Congressional Briefing:
Reactions to Terrorism: Attitudes and Anxieties
U. S. Congressional Briefing:
Reactions to Terrorism: Attitudes and Anxieties
Dr. Michael Traugott, University of Michigan
"Six Months Later: American Attitudes and Beliefs Changed by 9/11"
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Michael W. Traugott is a Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Social Research, Professor of Communication Studies and Political Science, and Chair of the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan. A political scientist by training, he received his B.A. from Princeton University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. His research interests include public opinion, politics and the mass media, campaigns and elections, and survey methodology. The author of 9 books and more than 40 articles and book chapters, his most recent work focused on a revised edition of The Voter's Guide to Election Polls and an edited volume, Election Polls, the News Media, and Democracy, both with Paul Lavrakas. He is also the author, with Edie Goldenberg, of Campaigning for Congress. He is a Past President of the American Association for Public Opinion Research. He has consulted for a number of media and news organizations on their coverage of elections, including networks, newspapers, and the Voter News Service, the national exit poll operation. He is a member of the team at ISR that organized the How America Responds study and directed the second wave.
Len Lecci, University of North
Carolina at Wilmington
Dale Cohen, University of North Carolina
at Wilmington
"Anthrax Fears: Determinants of Perceived Health Risks"
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Len B. Lecci is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. He received his B.A. and M. A. from Carleton University, and his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Arizona State University. His research interests include motivational underpinnings of hypochondriasis, depression, anxiety, and pain, and assessment of personality variables as predictors of psychiatric disorders. Recent publications include a report on the perceptual consequences of an illness concern induction and its relation to hypochondriacal tendencies (with Dale Cohen), motivational correlates of self-reported persistent pain in young adults, specificity and generality of motivational components in depression, and using magnitude estimation to investigate the perceptual components of signal detection theory.
Dale J. Cohen is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. He received his B. A. from Alfred University, and his M. A. and Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Virginia. His research interests include visual perception, perceptual independence, and the psychology of art. Recent publications include a report on the perceptual consequences of an illness concern induction and its relation to hypochondriacal tendencies (with Len Lecci), the motivational and perceptual underpinnings of hypochondriasis, processing of anger-related information in maritally violent and nonviolent men, and perceptions of susceptibility to HIV infection.
Mansoor Moaddel, Eastern Michigan
University
"The Impact of 9/11 on Value Orientations of the Islamic Public in
Egypt"
Mansoor Moaddel is Professor of the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology at Eastern Michigan University. He received his B.A. from Shiraz University, Iran, his M.A. from Western Michigan University, and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. His research interests are in political sociology, social change, culture and ideology. In collaboration with investigators from the University of Michigan, the Center for Development Study in Cairo, Egypt, Suez Canal University, Egypt, the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, and the University of Jordan in Amman, Jordan, Professor Moaddel collected questionnaire data from the publics of Egypt, Jordan, and Iran towards a variety of gender, religious, socioeconomic, cultural and political issues. These surveys began in 1999, and included replicated key items from the World Values Surveys questionnaire in order to permit comparisons between these countries and the data from more than seventy societies covered by those surveys. Through continued financial support from the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation, additional full-scale surveys of the national representative samples of 3000 Egyptians, 1200 Jordanians, and 2500 Iranians were conducted in 2000-2001.
Dr. Howard J. Silver, Executive
Director, Consortium of Social Science Associations
Moderator
