Peter Suedfeld
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 705784 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Peter Suedfeld |
| NOMBRES | Peter |
| APELLIDO | Suedfeld |
| FIRMA | SUEDFELD P |
| AFILIACIONES | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2563-036X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 70 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 638 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 69 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1964 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
Psychology and Torture
Torture - a brief overview, P.Suedfeld psychological consequences of torture - a need to formulate new strategies of research, B.Melamed et al the effects of torture and other captivity maltreatment - implications for psychology, B.E.Enghdal and R.E.Eberly the psychology of torture and torturers, E.Staub psychologists as victims, administrators and designers of torture, P.Suedfeld the Hooded men - victims of psychological research? S.Kennedy trea…
The Trump Doctrine and the Emerging International System
The Trump Doctrine and the Emerging International System
Political Violence, from Riot to Terrorism to Genocide
The Faithful Do Not Yield
Jehovah's Witnesses in countries under Nazi rule refused to participate in war-related activities in any way. Consequently, unless they abjured their religion, they were subject to severe penalties. Between 6,700 and 7,000 were sent to concentration camps. In contrast to Jewish Holocaust survivors, not much research has been conducted on this group. The present study used thematic content analysis to assess patterns of universal values, coping st…
Integrative Complexity Coding Raises Integratively Complex Issues
Conway, Conway, Gornick, and Houck (2014) report a major effort to automate integrative complexity coding. Judging this effort requires researchers to be more explicit in articulating key methodological assumptions about the coding process and theoretical assumptions about the construct. Unresolved issues include: (1) when, and on what basis, we should attribute divergences between human coders and algorithms to overestimations or underestimation…
Integrative Complexity at Forty
Psychological concomitants and predictors of violence during political upheaval in Zimbabwe
Predicting when political violence is likely to erupt is a major problem for international, national, and local governments and agencies. In this study, thematic content analysis (TCA) was used to measure integrative complexity (IC) and power motive imagery (PMI) in editorials written by the spokesman for President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe. Decreased IC and increased PMI have been shown to precede and accompany war versus negotiation in internat…
Scoring universal values in the study of terrorist groups and leaders
Our study examines the personal and group values that appear in the communications of terrorist and non-terrorist groups. In the psychological literature, values are defined as “desirable, transsituational goals, varying in importance, that serve as guiding principles in people's lives” (Struch, Schwartz, & Van der Kloot, 2002, p. 16). They underlie a multitude of motives and actions, and are considered to be relatively stable even though their i…
Guilt and Defense
Two Years of Ups and Downs
President Obama's weekly radio addresses to the nation during his first two years in office were scored using thematic content analysis (TCA). TCA is a method for deriving quantitative data from qualitative materials through the use of detailed scoring manuals applied to oral or written texts by trained, reliable scorers. We scored the addresses for integrative complexity (IC), motive imagery (MI), and universal values. Obama's mean IC was second…
Changes in the Hierarchy of Value References Associated With Flying in Space
One hundred twenty-five astronaut autobiographies, interviews, and oral histories were content analyzed and scored for references to values (Schwartz, 1992). The current study extended methods tested in 2 pilot studies of space veterans from many nations, of both sexes, and with different experiences within the history of human spaceflight. Value references reflected a high degree of concern with individualism, with Achievement, Enjoyment, and Se…
The Cognitive Processing of Politics and Politicians
This article reviews over 30 years of research on the role of integrative complexity (IC) in politics. IC is a measure of the cognitive structure underlying information processing and decision making in a specific situation and time of interest to the researcher or policymaker. As such, it is a state counterpart of conceptual complexity, the trait (transsituationally and transtemporally stable) component of cognitive structure. In the beginning (…
Cognitive Management in an Enduring International Rivalry
Using integrative complexity scoring, the current study addresses how communications by leaders of India and Pakistan have revealed their information processing and decision‐making strategies. The hostility between India and Pakistan started with the official creation of the two states and has lasted through more than a half‐century. It has been marked by four full‐scale wars and almost constant ethnopolitical, terrorist, and guerrilla violence. …
Value Hierarchies of Holocaust Rescuers and Resistance Fighters
There has been considerable theorizing and research on the motivations of individuals who rescued Jews from the Nazi Holocaust.Participants in armed resistance movements, the other major form of active opposition within Nazidominated Europe, have attracted less scientific attention.The study reported here compared members of these two groups using a quantitative measure applied to their own post-war memoirs and interviews.Thematic content analysi…
Value Hierarchies of Holocaust Rescuers and Resistance Fighters
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The language of violence
This study examined whether quantitative content analysis of the value references, motive imagery, and integrative complexity expressed in the documents of two terrorist groups and two nonterrorist comparison groups could distinguish the violent groups from their nonviolent counterparts. The two terrorist groups were Central al Qa'ida and al Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula. For each, a comparison group that operated in the same context and had a …
Holocaust survivors and the world of work
Work is crucial to both personal adjustment and societal attitudes toward the individual. Work defines most people's standard of living; it is one of the major determinants of the respect in which
Integrative Complexity in Face-to-Face Negotiations Between the Chiapas Guerrillas and the Mexican Government
For the first time, integrative complexity (IC) levels were examined in the verbatim transcription of a face-to-face negotiation (between the Chiapas guerrillas and the Mexican government in the spring of 1995). Results showed that: (1) such interactive exchanges can be scored reliably for IC; (2) daily mean IC levels were positively related to negotiation progress (as judged by the press); (3) afternoon negotiation sessions tended to show lower …
Child holocaust survivors as parents
Children of Holocaust survivors frequently point out problems associated with having been raised by survivor parents. However, large-scale studies demonstrate that both Holocaust survivors and their children function within the normal range. This study addresses relationship issues between the younger survivors and their children. It does not compare them with nonsurvivor families, who may exhibit similar patterns. We found wide gaps between how …
Harun al‐Rashid and the Terrorists
The assumption of false identities is a frequent theme in history, fiction, and current events. Spies and criminals are among those who pretend to be other than they are, although the strategy is not restricted to them. Harun al‐Rashid, medieval Caliph of Baghdad, was described in the Thousand and One Nights as disguising himself in order to detect and punish evildoers. One distinctive feature of his adventures is that at some point he threw off …
Reclaiming Heimat
Journal Article Reclaiming Heimat: Trauma and Mourning in Memoirs by Jewish Austrian Reémigrés Get access Peter Suedfeld Peter Suedfeld Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 17, Issue 2, Fall 2003, Pages 366–368, https://doi.org/10.1093/hgs/dcg011 Published: 01 January 2003
Early Communications in the War Against Terrorism
Integrative complexity reflects the degree to which the source of a communication perceives several dimensions and points of view relevant to the topic (differentiation) and the degree to which such characteristics are seen as related to each other (integration). During international crises, bilateral decreases in the integrative complexity of communications frequently precede the outbreak of war; a unilateral decrease reliably precedes surprise …
Professor Boulding’s peaceable kingdom
An examination of Boulding's paper reveals questionable interpretations of historical as well as current events, and dubious extrapolations from these to the future. It is difficult to draw correct conclusions from false premises; the derogation of Western democracies and economic globalization, and the exaltation of movements that call themselves progressive and peace-enhancing-but are not necessarily either-place both negative and positive assu…
Toward a taxonomy of ethnopolitical violence
Several disciplines have studied the scientific and applied aspects of collective violence between or among groups defined by ethnic, religious, social, economic, political, linguistic, and similar characteristics. Psychology is well suited for developing nomothetic, quantitative, generalizable data and concepts, incorporating idiographic knowledge from other disciplines about specific episodes of such violence. This article argues that both rese…
Integrative Complexity of Communications in International Crises
Diplomatic communications during international crises that resulted in war (1914 and 1950) and crises that were settled peacefully (1911, 1948, 1962) were scored for integrative complexity. This is a dimension of information processing characterized at one pole by simple responses, gross distinctions, rigidity, and restricted information usage, and at the other by complexity, fine distinctions, flexibility, and extensive information search and us…
War, Peace, and Integrative Complexity
UN General Assembly speeches concerning the Middle East conflict made by representatives of Israel, Arab countries (Egypt and Syria), the USA, and the USSR were scored for integrative complexity. Speeches were sampled from twenty years between 1947 and 1976. Complexity of information-processing was significantly reduced in speeches made in months preceding the outbreak of war (1948, 1956, 1967, and 1973), except in the case of the USSR. Israel, w…
The Cognitive Processing of Politics and Politicians
This article reviews over 30 years of research on the role of integrative complexity (IC) in politics. IC is a measure of the cognitive structure underlying information processing and decision making in a specific situation and time of interest to the researcher or policymaker. As such, it is a state counterpart of conceptual complexity, the trait (transsituationally and transtemporally stable) component of cognitive structure. In the beginning (…
Changes in Integrative Complexity Prior to Surprise Attacks
Previous archival analyses of governmental communications show a decrease in integrative complexity prior to the outbreak of war between nations. No such decrease is found when a conflict is resolved through peaceful negotiation. Integrative complexity is a structural measure, based on the source's recognition of alternative perspectives and several dimensions (differentiation), and the combination of these perspectives and dimensions in synthesi…
Revolutionary leaders
Cognitive Managers and Their Critics
Social scientists tend to approach the study of international decision-making from an at least implicitly evaluative, rather than descriptive or explanatory, standpoint. The evaluation of decision-maker performance almost always results in the finding that leaders do not live up to the criteria of rationality and complex thinking espoused by the researcher. However, these criteria are not necessarily correct or even relevant. Decision-makers must…
Leadership Performance in Crisis
Journal Article Leadership Performance in Crisis: The Longevity-Complexity Link Get access Michael D. Wallace, Michael D. Wallace University of British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Peter Suedfeld Peter Suedfeld University of British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Quarterly, Volume 32, Issue 4, December 1988, Pages 439–451,…
Political Rhetoric of Leaders under Stress in the Gulf Crisis
The Gulf War and the crisis that led up to it provide an extremely useful laboratory for social scientists to test their hypotheses about crisis behavior. In this study the authors measure a structural attribute of leaders' utterances—their integrative complexity—before, during, and after the crisis and war to determine its association with behavior. They discovered that changes in integrative complexity provided a good early warning indicator of…
Early Communications in the War Against Terrorism
Integrative complexity reflects the degree to which the source of a communication perceives several dimensions and points of view relevant to the topic (differentiation) and the degree to which such characteristics are seen as related to each other (integration). During international crises, bilateral decreases in the integrative complexity of communications frequently precede the outbreak of war; a unilateral decrease reliably precedes surprise …
The Integrative Complexity of American Decision Makers in The Cuban Missile Crisis
The focus of this study is the integrative complexity of information processing of Kennedy administration officials before, during, and after the Cuban missile crisis (CMC). Three elements of the CMC decision-making environment have been commonly noted: a high level of stress, ideological disputes among the decision makers, and the need to present a policy outcome palatable to the American public. Overall, American leaders maintained moderate lev…
The language of violence
This study examined whether quantitative content analysis of the value references, motive imagery, and integrative complexity expressed in the documents of two terrorist groups and two nonterrorist comparison groups could distinguish the violent groups from their nonviolent counterparts. The two terrorist groups were Central al Qa'ida and al Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula. For each, a comparison group that operated in the same context and had a …
Integrative Complexity Coding Raises Integratively Complex Issues
Conway, Conway, Gornick, and Houck (2014) report a major effort to automate integrative complexity coding. Judging this effort requires researchers to be more explicit in articulating key methodological assumptions about the coding process and theoretical assumptions about the construct. Unresolved issues include: (1) when, and on what basis, we should attribute divergences between human coders and algorithms to overestimations or underestimation…
Integrative Complexity at Forty
President Clinton's Policy Dilemmas
President Clinton's leadership has been criticized as being too indecisive, overly flexible, and lacking in a firm commitment to valued goals. Although such characteristics imply an excessively high level of cognitive complexity, the scoring of Clinton's utterances during the 1992 campaign and during the first eight months of his administration reveals that his integrative complexity is generally very low compared to a group of other recent presi…
Reactions to Societal Trauma
Social science approaches to the impact of severely stressful events on groups and communities have typically emphasized the vulnerability of affected populations and the need for intervention and assistance on their behalf. Without denying the importance of such help, this paper argues that communities—like individuals—are generally resilient and hardy. They are able to cope with widespread danger and disaster, to maintain rational and adaptive …
Changes in Integrative Complexity Among Middle East Leaders During the Persian Gulf Crisis
Integrative complexity scoring was performed on almost 1250 paragraphs, whose source was the English transcription of materials produced by 14 Middle Eastern leaders between summer of 1990 and March, 1991. The data set was divided by leader, two levels of involvement in the Gulf crisis (high vs. peripheral), two political positions (adherence to pro‐ vs. anti‐Iraqi policies), and seven temporal phases of the crisis (before the invasion of Kuwait,…
Changes in integrative complexity accompanying significant life events
Integrative complexity is a state cognitive style variable characterized by differentiation (the recognition of different dimensions within, or perspectives on, a given stimulus) and integration (the recognition of trade-offs, syntheses, and higher order concepts relating the differentiated units). In the current study, a positive (e.g., professional achievement or marriage) and a negative (e.g., loss of employment or death of close relative) sig…
Indices of World Tension in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (The Bulletin) was founded shortly after the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Japan. Its founders were primarily scientists who had been involved in the projects leading to the development of nuclear weapons. Shocked by this dramatic evidence of the potentially disastrous effects of science upon human survival, they formed a group dedicated to publicizing the technical and social issues involved. The Bulletin pub…
Conceptual structure, information search, and information utilization
Two Years of Ups and Downs
President Obama's weekly radio addresses to the nation during his first two years in office were scored using thematic content analysis (TCA). TCA is a method for deriving quantitative data from qualitative materials through the use of detailed scoring manuals applied to oral or written texts by trained, reliable scorers. We scored the addresses for integrative complexity (IC), motive imagery (MI), and universal values. Obama's mean IC was second…
Bilateral Relations between Countries and the Complexity of Newspaper Editorials
This study investigated how positive and negative relations between pairs of countries affected the integrative complexity of editorials in major newspapers of each country. Integrative complexity is characterized by rigid, unidimensional, black-or-white thinking at the low end of the scale and a flexible, responsive, interactive approach at the high. Bilateral relations among Canada, the U.S.A., the U.S.S.R. and the People's Republic of China we…
Integrative complexity in the corresponding of literary figures
Performance Ratings of Canadian Prime Ministers
60 political scientists, all specializing in Canadian studies. Those PMs who were seen as having faced difficult problems during their term were most likely to be positively evaluated. Ratings of current prestige were significantly and positively correlated with perceived strength, activeness, innovativeness, flexibility, effectiveness as party leader, overall accomplishment, and lack of honesty with the public. The greatest PMs were Sir John A. …
APA presidential addresses
Cognitive Management in an Enduring International Rivalry
Using integrative complexity scoring, the current study addresses how communications by leaders of India and Pakistan have revealed their information processing and decision‐making strategies. The hostility between India and Pakistan started with the official creation of the two states and has lasted through more than a half‐century. It has been marked by four full‐scale wars and almost constant ethnopolitical, terrorist, and guerrilla violence. …
Attitude manipulation in restricted environments
Birth order of volunteers for sensory deprivation
A Tactical Game for the Analysis of Complex Decision Making in Individuals and Groups
An experimental simulation is described as a prototype for research concerned with the analysis of human information processing characteristics in complex environments. The method employs a simulated war game environment which lends itself to the analysis of performance and perceptual characteristics of individuals and social groups. Suggestions for procedures, space requirements and measurement techniques are included
Conceptual structure, information search, and information utilization
Attitude manipulation in restricted environments
Measurement of information complexity
Sensory deprivation stress
Where is the “D” in dissonance? 1
S ummary The experiment tested the hypothesis that cognitive dissonance has a general drive arousal component which facilitates performance on simple cognitive tasks and impairs performance on complex cognitive tasks After writing a consonant or a dissonant essay dealing with proposed changes in university parking regulations, subjects were given either a simple or a complex task (rote memory or creativity). To maximize dissonance, free choice re…
"Effects of set on the "effects of mere exposure
Attitudes, Values, and Ascription of Responsibility
Twenty‐nine peace demonstrators (PD), 21 Army Reserve officers (AO), and 40 individuals in the waiting rooms (WR) of an airport and bus terminal in the New York City area differed widely on a variety of measures related to violence, war crimes, and the Calley case. PDs were the highest and AOs the lowest on measures of the general value of human life, the approval of violence to effect societal change, and conceptual complexity; the reverse was t…
The experimental contract
Dark trends
Revolutionary leaders
Integrative Complexity of Communications in International Crises
Diplomatic communications during international crises that resulted in war (1914 and 1950) and crises that were settled peacefully (1911, 1948, 1962) were scored for integrative complexity. This is a dimension of information processing characterized at one pole by simple responses, gross distinctions, rigidity, and restricted information usage, and at the other by complexity, fine distinctions, flexibility, and extensive information search and us…
War, Peace, and Integrative Complexity
UN General Assembly speeches concerning the Middle East conflict made by representatives of Israel, Arab countries (Egypt and Syria), the USA, and the USSR were scored for integrative complexity. Speeches were sampled from twenty years between 1947 and 1976. Complexity of information-processing was significantly reduced in speeches made in months preceding the outbreak of war (1948, 1956, 1967, and 1973), except in the case of the USSR. Israel, w…
Indices of World Tension in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (The Bulletin) was founded shortly after the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Japan. Its founders were primarily scientists who had been involved in the projects leading to the development of nuclear weapons. Shocked by this dramatic evidence of the potentially disastrous effects of science upon human survival, they formed a group dedicated to publicizing the technical and social issues involved. The Bulletin pub…
Integrative complexity in the corresponding of literary figures
Intimations of mortality
This article tested the hypothesis that a "terminal drop" in cognitive functioning occurs a few years prior to death. Letters written during the last 10 years of life were selected from the published correspondence of 18 eminent individuals and scored for integrative complexity--a variable which is related to the degree of integration and differentiation in information processing. The overall analysis supported the terminal drop hypothesis. The p…
APA presidential addresses
Comment II
Nonimmediacy Scoring of Archival Materials
After Ernesto Che Guevara left Cuba in the summer of 1965, a controversy arose as to whether his action was caused by a split, political or personal, between him and Fidel Castro. This study applies nonimmediacy scoring (Wiener and Mehrabian, 1968), designed to measure psychological distance and positive or negative affect from nonobvious aspects of verbal discourse, to references made by Castro concerning Guevara before and after the latter's de…
Performance Ratings of Canadian Prime Ministers
60 political scientists, all specializing in Canadian studies. Those PMs who were seen as having faced difficult problems during their term were most likely to be positively evaluated. Ratings of current prestige were significantly and positively correlated with perceived strength, activeness, innovativeness, flexibility, effectiveness as party leader, overall accomplishment, and lack of honesty with the public. The greatest PMs were Sir John A. …
Changes in Integrative Complexity Prior to Surprise Attacks
Previous archival analyses of governmental communications show a decrease in integrative complexity prior to the outbreak of war between nations. No such decrease is found when a conflict is resolved through peaceful negotiation. Integrative complexity is a structural measure, based on the source's recognition of alternative perspectives and several dimensions (differentiation), and the combination of these perspectives and dimensions in synthesi…
Leadership Performance in Crisis
Journal Article Leadership Performance in Crisis: The Longevity-Complexity Link Get access Michael D. Wallace, Michael D. Wallace University of British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Peter Suedfeld Peter Suedfeld University of British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Quarterly, Volume 32, Issue 4, December 1988, Pages 439–451,…
Are simple decisions always worse
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