Paul Rozin Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor of Psychology Office: 112 Eisenlohr 3810 Walnut St. Mail Address: Department of Psychology University of Pennsylvania 3815 Walnut St. Philadelphia, PA. 19104-6196 215-898-7632 rozin@psych.upenn.edu

TEACHING:
In the 2000 Fall term, I'll be teaching:
Psychology 1  Intro.Exp.Psyc., MW 1-3, Stiteler B6
Psychology 1, Intro Exp. Psyc., MW 8-10, Penn Advance Video
Approaches to the understanding of the mind and behavior of humans and animals. Emphasis on both the current state of knowledge and the process of discovery. Topics covered include brain and behavior, dreams and psychoanalysis, learning, sensation and perception, memory, thinking, appetite, and interpersonal relations. This course includes an in-class "lab."

for course syllabus for Psychology 1, click here

College 100, How do you know?,  Logan Hall tbd.  TuTh 4:30-6:00

For the course syllabus for fall, 2000, click here.

        This course is devoted to understanding how we advance knowledge and understanding over the broad range of academic disciplines.  A central concern is to further understanding of how a case is "made" for a particular claim.  The nature of "evidence" will be at the forefront of the course.  The problem of how do you know? is explored via two-week presentations by five different faculty members, from five very different disciplines.  In each module, the faculty member, using original source readings related to his or her own work, demonstrates how progress is made within his or her discipline.  The course integrator (Paul Rozin), who attends all lectures, extracts common themes, provides background including a short introduction to statistics, and leads students in an exercise exploring the pathway from a scientific finding to its presentation in the media.  The class meets for two hours of lecture each week and one hour of discussion.

Faculty for Fall 2000:
Paul Rozin, Integrator
Rebecca Bushnell, English
Ian Lustick, Political Science
Judith Rodin, Psychology (and President)
Ingrid Waldron, Biology
Dennis de Turck, Mathematics

Faculty for Spring 2001:
Paul Rozin, Integrator
Susan Sidlauskas,  Art History
Jeremy Sabloff, Anthropology
Kim Scheppele,  Law
Nancy Bonini, Biology
Robert Geigengack,  Geology

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Cultural Psychology. Acquisition of likes and dislikes for foods, nature and development of the magical belief in contagion, cultural evolution of disgust, ambivalence to animal foods, lay conception of risk of infection and toxic effects of foods, interaction of moral and health factors in concerns about risks, relation between people's desires to have desires and their actual desires (including the problem of internalization), acquisition of culture, nature of cuisine, cultural evolution. Research carried out in USA, France, Japan and India.

SELECTED REFERENCES
    Rozin, P., Haidt, J., & McCauley, C.R. (1993). Disgust. In M. Lewis and J. Haviland (Eds.), Handbook of Emotions, pp. 575-594. New York: Guilford.
    Rozin, P., & Nemeroff, C.J. (1990). The laws of sympathetic magic: A psychological analysis of similarity and contagion. In J. Stigler, G. Herdt & R.A. Shweder (Eds.), Cultural Psychology: Essays on comparative human development (pp. 205-232). Cambridge, England: Cambridge.
    Rozin, P., Fischler, C., Imada, S., Sarubin, A., & Wrzesniewski, A.  (1999).  Attitudes to food and the role of food in life: Comparisons of Flemish Belgium, France, Japan and the United States.  Appetite,  33, 163-180.
    Rozin, P. (1999).   Food is fundamental, fun, frightening, and far-reaching.  Social Research, 66, 9-30. To download a Word version of this paper click here.
    Rozin, P., Lowery, L., Imada, S., & Haidt, J.  (1999).  The CAD triad hypothesis: A mapping between three moral emotions (contempt, anger, disgust) and three moral codes (community, autonomy, divinity).  Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 76, 574-586.
 

Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict
 

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