Gerald Zuriff
Professor of Psychology
Office: 007B Knapton Hall
Office Hours: by appointment
Phone: (617) 868-7806
Email: gzuriff@wheatoncollege.edu
Degrees
Ph.D., Harvard University
B.A., Columbia University
Main Interests
behaviorism, psychoanalysis, public policy in relation to psychology
Research Interests
philosophy of psychology, especially behaviorism and psychoanalysis; public policy on mental disorders
Teaching Interests
learning, perception, systems of psychology, psychoanalysis, culture wars, ethics,senior seminar
Other Interests
None
Student Projects
independent studies on ADD, childhood sexual abuse, battered wife syndrome
Selected Publications, Creative Work or Performances
Behaviorism: A Conceptual Reconstruction (New York: Columbia University Press)
"Extra Examination Time for Students with Learning Disabilities" Applied Measurement in Education, 2000, 13 (1), 99-117.
"Theoretical Inference and the New Psychoanalytic Theories of Infancy" The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 1992, 61 (1), 18-36.
"Is Racial & Ethnic Diversity Educationally Beneficial?" World and I, 2002, August 271-287.