Bryn Mawr College

Rachel C. Hale Professor of Mathematics and the Sciences
Co-Director, Solomon Asch Center for the Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Clark Richard McCauley
Department of Psychology
Dalton Hall
Bryn Mawr College
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
Phone: 610-526-5017
Fax: 610-526-7476

 

Please send any questions or comments to Clark McCauley.

Courses
Experimental Psychology 102
Social Psychology 208
Psychological Measurement and Testing 305
Cognitive Issues in Personality and Social Psychology 398
VITA

Selected Publications

 

Clark McCauley (B.S. Biology, Providence College, 1965; Ph.D. Social Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, 1970) is Rachel C. Hale Professor of Sciences and Mathematics and co-director of the Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict at Bryn Mawr College.  His research interests include the psychology of group identification, group dynamics and intergroup conflict, and the psychological foundations of ethnic conflict and genocide.  He is founding editor of the journal Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict: Pathways toward Terrorism and Genocide.  

 

Other Research Interests

• What does it mean to essentialize a group, our own or others, and how does essentializing enable killing by category? 
• What is the role of emotions (disgust, humiliation, anger) in intergroup conflict, and what is the relation between interpersonal emotions and intergroup emotions?
• How can polling be used to track variation over time in support for terrorism?
• What is the process of radicalization that leads individuals from support for terrorism to acts of terrorism?
• Psychology of Terrorism