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Research Interests<\/h4>\n

Individual and group decision making, social and educational issues of technology use, Third World development, social psychology, research methods and statistics.<\/p>\n

Publications<\/h4>\n

Book chapters <\/strong><\/h4>\n

Thorngate, W., Rojas, A., & Francini. M. (1995). The CIDE\/REDUC case study. In P. McConnell (Ed.), Making a difference: Measuring the impact of information on development. Ottawa: International Development Research Centre, pp 31-48.<\/p>\n

Thorngate, W. (1995). Some thoughts on measuring the effects of information. In P. McConnell (Ed.), Making a difference: Measuring the impact of information on development. Ottawa: International Development Research Centre, pp 195-200.<\/p>\n

Thorngate, W., & Balson, D. (1995). Can computer conferencing be effective for information policy formation? In P. McConnell (Ed.), Making a difference: Measuring the impact of information on development. Ottawa: International Development Research Centre, pp 211-236.<\/p>\n

Thorngate, W., & Bagherian, F. (1995) Distance education and technology: The Campus in a Box. In T. Ebtekar (Ed.), International Seminar on Technological Education (Vol. 2). Tehran: Supreme Council for Technical Education, pp 335-342.<\/p>\n

Thorngate, W., Hotta, M., & McClintock, C. (1996). Bingo! The case for cooperation revisited. In Tolman, C., Cherry, F., & Van Hejiwek, R. & Lubek, I. (Eds.), Problems of Theoretical Psychology. New York: Springer.<\/p>\n

Thorngate, W., & Bagherian, F. (1996). Instructional television: The Canadian experience and its relevance for Iran. Improving Public education in Iran. Ministry of Education of the Islamic Republic of Iran.<\/p>\n

Thorngate, W. (1997). More than we can know: The attentional economics of Internet use. In S. Kiesler (Ed.), Culture of the Internet. Mawah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.<\/p>\n

Thorngate, W., & Bagherian, F. (1999). The political economy of attention and the limits of pedagogical technologies. In L. Easton & D. Hyttenraugh (Eds.) Technology\/pedagogy\/politics: Critical visions of new technologies in education. University of Calgary. http:\/\/www.mtroyal.ab.ca\/critical_visions\/papers\/Thorngate_Bagherian. htm <\/a><\/p>\n

Thorngate, W. (2005). The luster of clusters: A cautionary tale. In L. Shavinina (Ed.), Silicon Valley North: A high-tech cluster of innovation and Entrepreneurship . (pp. 339-346).New York: Elsevier.<\/p>\n

Foddy , M., Thorngate, W., & Dawes R. (2006, in preparation). Judging Merit . Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.<\/p>\n

Journal articles <\/strong><\/h4>\n

Thorngate, W. (1988). On the evolution of adjudicated contests and the principle of invidious selection. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 1, 5-16.<\/p>\n

Thorngate, W., & Klejner, B-A. (1990) Developing countries and communications: A Latin American example. Proceedings of the Third Symposium on Computer Mediated Communication, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario 15-17 May, 395-403.<\/p>\n

Thorngate, W., & Hotta, M. (1990). Expertise and information retrieval. Knowledge: Creation, Diffusion, and Utilization, 11, 237-247.<\/p>\n

Thorngate, W. (1990). The economy of attention and the development of psychology. Canadian Psychology, 21, 62-70.<\/p>\n

Thorngate, W. (1990). Got a minute? Attentional limits revisited. Canadian Psychology, 21, 97-101.<\/p>\n

Thorngate, W. (1991). Patterns of computer communication: A report on Brucella Network activity. In J. Frank (Ed.), Networking in Brucellosis Research. Tokyo: United Nations Univesity Press.<\/p>\n

Thorngate, W. (1993). A change of heart: Uses of qualitative gerontology. Canadian Journal on Aging, 12, 244-250.<\/p>\n

Thorngate, W., & Hotta, M. (1995) Life and luck: Survival of the fattest. Simulation and Gaming. 5-16.<\/p>\n

Thorngate, W. (1999). Forget me not: Some comments on self-esteem among Alzheimer’s sufferers. Culture and Psychology, 5, 33-39.<\/p>\n

Bagherian, F,,& Thorngate, W. (2000). Horses to water: Student use of course newsgroups. First Monday, 5 (August),<\/p>\n

Thorngate, W. (2000). Teaching social simulation with Matlab. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 3-1,<\/p>\n

Thorngate, W. (in press 2001). The social psychology of policy analysis. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, 3 85-112.<\/p>\n

Geva-May I., & Thorngate, @. (2003).\u00a0 Reducing anxiety and resistance in policy and program evaluations:\u00a0 A socio-psychological analysis.\u00a0 Evaluation:\u00a0 The International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 9 (2), 205-232.<\/p>\n

Wang, Z., & Thorngate W. (2003) Sentiment and social mitosis:\u00a0 Implications of Heider’s Balance Theory.\u00a0 Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 6(3), http:\/\/jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk\/6\/3\/2.html<\/p>\n

Thorngate, W., & Tavakoli, M. (2005) In the long run:\u00a0 Biological versus economic rationality. Simulation & Gaming., 36 (1) 9-26.<\/p>\n

Thorngate, W., Tavakoli, M., Niu, J., Bagherian, F., Pournaghash, S., & DiFonzo, N. (2005, under review). As others see us:\u00a0 National stereotypes in the United States, Canada, China and Iran.\u00a0 Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.<\/p>\n

Thorngate, W. (in press, 2006). The seductive danger of visual metaphors:\u00a0 It’s about time.\u00a0 Culture and Psychology, 12 (2).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"people-type":[88],"yoast_head":"\nWarren Thorngate - Psychology<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/psychology\/people\/warren-thorngate\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/psychology\/people\/warren-thorngate\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/psychology\/people\/warren-thorngate\/\",\"name\":\"Warren Thorngate - 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