Scott Plous
Biographic Data
| ID | 5380386 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Scott Plous |
| GIVEN NAMES | Scott |
| FAMILY NAME | Plous |
| SIGNATURE | PLOUS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wesleyan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 107 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Internationalizing undergraduate psychology education: Trends, techniques, and technologies
How can we best internationalize undergraduate psychology education in the United States and elsewhere? This question is more timely than ever, for at least 2 reasons: Within the United States, educators and students seek greater contact with psychology programs abroad, and outside the United States, psychology is growing apace, with educators and students in other nations often looking to U.S. curricula and practices as models. In this article, …
Animal research in psychology
Racial and Gender Biases in Magazine Advertising: A Content-Analytic Study
Recent evidence suggests that racial and gender biases in magazine advertisements may be increasing. To explore this possibility, a content analysis was performed on 10 years of fashion advertisements drawn from magazines geared toward White women, Black women, or White men ( N = 1,800 advertisements from 1985–1994). The results indicated that (a) except for Black females in White women's magazines, African Americans were underrepresented in Whit…
Attitudes toward the use of animals in psychological research and education: Results from a national survey of psychologists
Animal research has played a central role in psychology, yet its clinical value and ethical propriety have recently come under attack. In an effort to assess current thinking on this controversial subject, a mail survey was sent to 5,000 randomly selected members of the American Psychological Association. Responses were received from 3,982 individuals, and the results showed (a) majority support for animal studies involving observation or confine…
Psychological Mechanisms in the Human Use of Animals
American society uses millions of animals each day for food, recreation, and a variety of other purposes, yet psychologists—in contrast to other social scientists—have devoted very little attention to studying how people think about their use of animals. In this article, I propose that many factors supporting the use of animals are psychological in nature and are therefore legitimate topics for psychological research. After a brief review of rese…
The Role of Animals in Human Society
Although it is virtually impossible to live in American society without relying on animals to some extent, psychologists have been slow to study the role animals play in human society. The present articles are intended to redress this lack of coverage and to stimulate future research in this area. Three general topics are examined: human‐animal relations, the debate over animal rights and animal research, and issues pertaining to companion animal…
The psychology of judgment and decision making
The Nuclear Arms Race: Prisoner's Dilemma or Perceptual Dilemma
Traditionally, the most common game-theoretic model of the Soviet-US nuclear arms race has been an iterated Prisoner's Dilemma. According to such a model, on any given trial both superpowers are better off arming regardless of what the other side chooses, but if both sides arm the outcome is less desirable than had both sides reduced their supply of weapons. Although Soviet and US preferences resembled a Prisoner's Dilemma throughout much of the …
Disarmament, Arms Control, and Peace in the Nuclear Age: Political Objectives and Relevant Research
The present paper differentiates the political objectives of nuclear disarmament, nuclear arms control, and peace, and it selectively reviews psychological research relevant to each of these areas. The term nuclear disarmament—originally intended to indicate the complete elimination of nuclear weapons—is now commonly used to describe the reduction of any militarily operational nuclear weapons. Nuclear arms control, or the regulation of the nuclea…
Perceptual Illusions and Military Realities: Results from a Computer-Simulated Arms Race
Traditionally, the most common game-theoretic model of the nuclear arms race has been the Prisoner's Dilemma, in which participants are bound in conflict by the structure of the situation. Recent evidence suggests, however, that the nuclear arms race may be better approximated by a “Perceptual Dilemma” arising from discrepant perceptions of various outcome utilities. The present experiment compared the effects of two strategies, a matching strate…
Psychological and Strategic Barriers in Present Attempts at Nuclear Disarmament: A New Proposal
The acute problem with respect to nuclear weapons is not their existence, but their numbers. Six strategic and psychological difficulties inherent in current solutions to this problem are examined, followed by a new and somewhat different proposal. The new proposal consists of a 10-year, bilateral agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union, coupled with a multilateral endorsement of the agreement open to all other countries. In the …
Perceptual Illusions and Military Realities: The Nuclear Arms Race
Past research on game theory has used the Prisoner's Dilemma as a model of the nuclear arms race between the superpowers. According to such a model, the United States and the Soviet Union are always better off individually by arming, but if both superpowers arm, the outcome is lower in utility than if both countries disarm. Using survey data from the United States Senate and surrogate Soviet political elites, supplemented by a review of American …
Psychological Mechanisms in the Human Use of Animals
American society uses millions of animals each day for food, recreation, and a variety of other purposes, yet psychologists—in contrast to other social scientists—have devoted very little attention to studying how people think about their use of animals. In this article, I propose that many factors supporting the use of animals are psychological in nature and are therefore legitimate topics for psychological research. After a brief review of rese…
Racial and Gender Biases in Magazine Advertising: A Content-Analytic Study
Recent evidence suggests that racial and gender biases in magazine advertisements may be increasing. To explore this possibility, a content analysis was performed on 10 years of fashion advertisements drawn from magazines geared toward White women, Black women, or White men ( N = 1,800 advertisements from 1985–1994). The results indicated that (a) except for Black females in White women's magazines, African Americans were underrepresented in Whit…
Perceptual Illusions and Military Realities: The Nuclear Arms Race
Past research on game theory has used the Prisoner's Dilemma as a model of the nuclear arms race between the superpowers. According to such a model, the United States and the Soviet Union are always better off individually by arming, but if both superpowers arm, the outcome is lower in utility than if both countries disarm. Using survey data from the United States Senate and surrogate Soviet political elites, supplemented by a review of American …
Perceptual Illusions and Military Realities: Results from a Computer-Simulated Arms Race
Traditionally, the most common game-theoretic model of the nuclear arms race has been the Prisoner's Dilemma, in which participants are bound in conflict by the structure of the situation. Recent evidence suggests, however, that the nuclear arms race may be better approximated by a “Perceptual Dilemma” arising from discrepant perceptions of various outcome utilities. The present experiment compared the effects of two strategies, a matching strate…
The Role of Animals in Human Society
Although it is virtually impossible to live in American society without relying on animals to some extent, psychologists have been slow to study the role animals play in human society. The present articles are intended to redress this lack of coverage and to stimulate future research in this area. Three general topics are examined: human‐animal relations, the debate over animal rights and animal research, and issues pertaining to companion animal…
The Nuclear Arms Race: Prisoner's Dilemma or Perceptual Dilemma
Traditionally, the most common game-theoretic model of the Soviet-US nuclear arms race has been an iterated Prisoner's Dilemma. According to such a model, on any given trial both superpowers are better off arming regardless of what the other side chooses, but if both sides arm the outcome is less desirable than had both sides reduced their supply of weapons. Although Soviet and US preferences resembled a Prisoner's Dilemma throughout much of the …
Psychological and Strategic Barriers in Present Attempts at Nuclear Disarmament: A New Proposal
The acute problem with respect to nuclear weapons is not their existence, but their numbers. Six strategic and psychological difficulties inherent in current solutions to this problem are examined, followed by a new and somewhat different proposal. The new proposal consists of a 10-year, bilateral agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union, coupled with a multilateral endorsement of the agreement open to all other countries. In the …
Psychological and Strategic Barriers in Present Attempts at Nuclear Disarmament: A New Proposal
The acute problem with respect to nuclear weapons is not their existence, but their numbers. Six strategic and psychological difficulties inherent in current solutions to this problem are examined, followed by a new and somewhat different proposal. The new proposal consists of a 10-year, bilateral agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union, coupled with a multilateral endorsement of the agreement open to all other countries. In the …
Perceptual Illusions and Military Realities: The Nuclear Arms Race
Past research on game theory has used the Prisoner's Dilemma as a model of the nuclear arms race between the superpowers. According to such a model, the United States and the Soviet Union are always better off individually by arming, but if both superpowers arm, the outcome is lower in utility than if both countries disarm. Using survey data from the United States Senate and surrogate Soviet political elites, supplemented by a review of American …
Perceptual Illusions and Military Realities: Results from a Computer-Simulated Arms Race
Traditionally, the most common game-theoretic model of the nuclear arms race has been the Prisoner's Dilemma, in which participants are bound in conflict by the structure of the situation. Recent evidence suggests, however, that the nuclear arms race may be better approximated by a “Perceptual Dilemma” arising from discrepant perceptions of various outcome utilities. The present experiment compared the effects of two strategies, a matching strate…
Disarmament, Arms Control, and Peace in the Nuclear Age: Political Objectives and Relevant Research
The present paper differentiates the political objectives of nuclear disarmament, nuclear arms control, and peace, and it selectively reviews psychological research relevant to each of these areas. The term nuclear disarmament—originally intended to indicate the complete elimination of nuclear weapons—is now commonly used to describe the reduction of any militarily operational nuclear weapons. Nuclear arms control, or the regulation of the nuclea…
Psychological Mechanisms in the Human Use of Animals
American society uses millions of animals each day for food, recreation, and a variety of other purposes, yet psychologists—in contrast to other social scientists—have devoted very little attention to studying how people think about their use of animals. In this article, I propose that many factors supporting the use of animals are psychological in nature and are therefore legitimate topics for psychological research. After a brief review of rese…
The Role of Animals in Human Society
Although it is virtually impossible to live in American society without relying on animals to some extent, psychologists have been slow to study the role animals play in human society. The present articles are intended to redress this lack of coverage and to stimulate future research in this area. Three general topics are examined: human‐animal relations, the debate over animal rights and animal research, and issues pertaining to companion animal…
The psychology of judgment and decision making
The Nuclear Arms Race: Prisoner's Dilemma or Perceptual Dilemma
Traditionally, the most common game-theoretic model of the Soviet-US nuclear arms race has been an iterated Prisoner's Dilemma. According to such a model, on any given trial both superpowers are better off arming regardless of what the other side chooses, but if both sides arm the outcome is less desirable than had both sides reduced their supply of weapons. Although Soviet and US preferences resembled a Prisoner's Dilemma throughout much of the …
Attitudes toward the use of animals in psychological research and education: Results from a national survey of psychologists
Animal research has played a central role in psychology, yet its clinical value and ethical propriety have recently come under attack. In an effort to assess current thinking on this controversial subject, a mail survey was sent to 5,000 randomly selected members of the American Psychological Association. Responses were received from 3,982 individuals, and the results showed (a) majority support for animal studies involving observation or confine…
Animal research in psychology
Racial and Gender Biases in Magazine Advertising: A Content-Analytic Study
Recent evidence suggests that racial and gender biases in magazine advertisements may be increasing. To explore this possibility, a content analysis was performed on 10 years of fashion advertisements drawn from magazines geared toward White women, Black women, or White men ( N = 1,800 advertisements from 1985–1994). The results indicated that (a) except for Black females in White women's magazines, African Americans were underrepresented in Whit…
Internationalizing undergraduate psychology education: Trends, techniques, and technologies
How can we best internationalize undergraduate psychology education in the United States and elsewhere? This question is more timely than ever, for at least 2 reasons: Within the United States, educators and students seek greater contact with psychology programs abroad, and outside the United States, psychology is growing apace, with educators and students in other nations often looking to U.S. curricula and practices as models. In this article, …
Psychology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Disarmament (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Human-Animal Interaction Studies (4 works)