Ralph L. Rosnow, Ph.D.

 

Email:  rosnow@temple.edu
Phone: (610) 688-4837

Interests: How people make sense of their experiential world, moral meaning on experience, and how people justify their inferences and conclusions. I have studied this aspect of human nature in the context of rumor and gossip, interpersonal acumen, and attitude and impression formation. Other interests include artifacts and their control, contrasts and correlational indices of effect size, and ethical dilemmas in research.

Ralph L. Rosnow, Ph.D., is Bolton Professor, Emeritus, at Temple University In Philadelphia, PA, where he taught in the Psychology Department for 34 years and directed the doctoral program in social and organizational psychology. He has also taught research methods and social psychology at Boston University and Harvard University and was a visiting professor at the London School of Economics.

His work has mainly focused on the imposition of meaning on our experiential world, as explored within the conceptual framework of contextualism, the psychology of rumor and gossip, attitude and social cognition, interpersonal acumen, experimental artifacts and moral dilemmas in human research, and the statistical justification of scientific conclusions. He is also very interested in focused data analysis and effect size indicators.

His B.Sc. is from the University of Maryland , M.A. from George Washington University, and Ph.D. in psychology from American University in Washington, DC. He has served on editorial boards of journals and encyclopedias and (with Robert E. Lana) was the General Editor of Oxford Univ. Press's Reconstruction of Society Series. He has been a Fellow of AAAS and APA since 1970 and a Charter Fellow of APS since 1988. He and his wife, Mimi Rosnow, reside in Radnor, PA.

For more information, visit http://astro.temple.edu/~rosnow/index_files/Page372.html