Harold Takooshian has been a member of the faculty at Fordham University since 1975, having begun his college teaching career at age 23. He has taught in both the U.S. and in South America, and in 1987-1998 he was named a U.S. Fulbright Scholar to the USSR.

Dr. Takooshian is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, and has served as a national officer or President of Psi Chi (1993-2000), President of APA Division of International Psychology (2003), and chair of the New York group of SPSSI. In 2009 Psi Chi honored Dr. Takooshian with the Florence L. Denmark National Faculty Advisor Award:

http://www.psichi.org/awards/winners/denmark/2009_winner.aspx

Dr. Takooshian's research interests focus on applied social/personality psychology, industrial psychology, applied psychometrics, attitude survey research methods, urban psychology, ethnicity and feminism, cross-cultural psychology, and student excellence. He is known for his encouragement of students' independent research, having sponsored over 100 student publications or conference publications.

Primary Interests:

Applied Social Psychology
Attitudes and Beliefs
Culture and Ethnicity
Gender Psychology
Helping, Prosocial Behavior
Organizational Behavior
Personality, Individual Differences
Research Methods, Assessment

Applied Social Psychology
Attitudes and Beliefs
Culture and Ethnicity
Gender Psychology
Helping, Prosocial Behavior

Organizational Behavior
Personality, Individual Differences
Research Methods, Assessment

Journal Articles:

Guzewicz, T. D., & Takooshian, H. (1992). Development of a short-form scale of public attitudes toward homelessness. Journal of Social Distress & the Homeless, 1(1), 67-79.
Reynolds, R. I., & Takooshian, H. (1988). Where were you August 8, 1985? Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 26(1), 23-25.
Rieber, R. W., Takooshian, H., & Iglesias, H. (2002). The case of Sybil in the teaching of psychology. Journal of Social Distress & the Homeless, 11(4), 355-360.
Takooshian, H. (2005). Reviewing 100 years of cross-national work on intelligence. PsycCRITIQUES, 50(12).
Takooshian, H. (2003). Counseling psychology's wide new horizons. The Counseling Psychologist, 31(4), 420-426.
Takooshian, H. A., & Stuart, C. R. (1983). Ethnicity and feminism among American women: Opposing social trends? International Journal of Group Tensions, 13, 100-105.
Takooshian, H., & Newman, S. (1998). Recognizing excellent psychology students. International Journal of Psychology, 367-369.
Takooshian, H., & O'Connor, P. J. (1984). When apathy leads to tragedy: Two Fordham professors examine "Bad Samaritanism." Social Action & the Law, 10(1), 26-27.
Takooshian, H., & Rieber, R. W. (1996). Political correctness and social distress in academe: What's old, what's new, what's right and what's left? Journal of Social Distress & the Homeless, 5(2), 99-109.

Other Publications:

Takooshian, H., Mrinal, N., & Mrinal, U. (1999). Research methods for studies in the field. In L. L. Adler & U. P. Gielen (Eds.), Cross-cultural topics in psychology (2nd ed., pp. 29-46). Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers.
Takooshian, H., & Trusov, V. P. (1992). Post-Soviet psychology. In U. P. Gielen, & L. L. Adler (Eds.), Psychology in international perspective: 50 years of the International Council of Psychologists (pp. 54-69). Lisse, Netherlands: Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers.
Takooshian, H., & Verdi, W. M. (1995). Assessment of attitudes toward terrorism. In L. L. Adler, & F. L. Denmark (Eds.), Violence and the prevention of violence (pp. 33-43). Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers.

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NYC Call for Papers (deadline: September 27, 2012)

Harold Takooshian
Department of Psychology
113 West 60th Street
Fordham University
New York, NY 10023
United States

Phone: (212) 636-6393