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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1996 - CPA Donald O. Hebb Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology as a Science, Canadian Psychological Association (CPA)
  • 1988 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Social Sciences
  • 1972 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Peter Suedfeld is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research primarily spans psychology and social sciences, with a strong focus on social psychology, physiology, sociology and political science, experimental and cognitive psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.

The scientist's work explores various topics, including:

  • Spaceflight effects on biology
  • Adventure sports and sensation seeking
  • Cultural differences and values
  • Space exploration and technology
  • Human-automation interaction and safety
  • Creativity in education and neuroscience
  • Neural and behavioral psychology studies

Peter Suedfeld has published extensively, contributing to frequent venues such as:

  • Journal of Applied Social Psychology
  • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Acta Astronautica
  • Data in Brief

Recent significant publications authored or co-authored by them include:

  • "Psychosocial issues in isolated and confined extreme environments," 2021, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • "The Creative Brain Under Stress: Considerations for Performance in Extreme Environments," 2020, Frontiers in Psychology
  • "The tougher the environment, the harder the adaptation? A psychological point of view in extreme situations," 2021, Acta Astronautica
  • "The data on psychological adaptation during polar winter-overs in Sub-Antarctic and Antarctic stations," 2020, Data in Brief
  • "Political Violence, from Riot to Terrorism to Genocide: Four Analyses," 2020, Political Psychology

Their frequent collaborators include Richard Crisp, Nancy E. Adler, Bárbara Anderson, Lisa G. Aspinwall, and Robert A. Baron, each having co-authored multiple publications together.

Peter Suedfeld has been recognized with several awards, such as the CPA Donald O. Hebb Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology as a Science from the Canadian Psychological Association in 1996, being named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1988 within the Academy of Social Sciences, and recognition as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association since 1972.

Best Publications

  • Integrative Complexity of Communications in International Crises

    Peter Suedfeld;Philip Tetlock

  • Psychological effects of polar expeditions.

    Lawrence A Palinkas;Peter Suedfeld

  • Motivation and personality: Conceptual/integrative complexity

    Peter Suedfeld;Philip E. Tetlock;Siegfried Streufert

  • Revolutionary leaders: Long-term success as a function of changes in conceptual complexity.

    Peter Suedfeld;A. Dennis Rank

  • Perceived safety from crime in the urban environment

    Laura J. Loewen;Gary Daniel Steel;Peter Suedfeld

  • Multigenerational perspectives on coping with the Holocaust experience : An attachment perspective for understanding the developmental sequelae of trauma across generations

    Dan Bar-On;Jeanette Eland;Rolf J. Kleber;Robert Krell

  • Psychology and culture during long-duration space missions ☆

    Nick Kanas;Gro Mjeldheim Sandal;Jennifer E. Boyd;Vadim I. Gushin

  • The environmental psychology of capsule habitats.

    Suedfeld P;Steel Gd

  • Pathogens and politics: further evidence that parasite prevalence predicts authoritarianism.

    Damian R. Murray;Mark Schaller;Peter Suedfeld

  • Motivation and personality: The conceptual/integrative complexity scoring manual

    Gloria Baker-Brown;Elizabeth J. Ballard;Susan Bluck;Brian de Vries

  • War, Peace, and Integrative Complexity: Un Speeches on the Middle East Problem, 1947–1976

    Peter Suedfeld;Philip E. Tetlock;Carmenza Ramirez

  • Cognitive and Arousal Effects of Masking Office Noise

    Laura J. Loewen;Peter Suedfeld

  • Conceptual structure, information search, and information utilization.

    Streufert S;Suedfeld P

  • Petitioner's Attire and Petition Signing by Peace Demonstrators: A Field Experiment1

    Peter Suedfeld;Stephen Bochner;Carol Matas

  • Reactions and attributes of prisoners in solitary confinement.

    Peter Suedfeld;Carmenza Ramirez;John Deaton;Gloria Baker-Brown

  • Cognitive Managers and Their Critics

    Peter Suedfeld

  • The Cognitive Processing of Politics and Politicians: Archival Studies of Conceptual and Integrative Complexity

    Peter Suedfeld

  • Changes in Integrative Complexity Prior to Surprise Attacks

    Peter Suedfeld;Susan Bluck

  • Personality theory and information processing

    Harold Martin Schroder;Peter Suedfeld;James Bieri

  • Reactions to Societal Trauma: Distress and/or Eustress

    Peter Suedfeld

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip E. Tetlock
Philip E. Tetlock University of Pennsylvania
Susan Bluck
Susan Bluck University of Florida
Stanley Coren
Stanley Coren University of British Columbia
Gro M. Sandal
Gro M. Sandal University of Bergen
Gloria R. Leon
Gloria R. Leon University of Minnesota
Holger Ursin
Holger Ursin University of Bergen
Janet Metcalfe
Janet Metcalfe Columbia University
Mark Schaller
Mark Schaller University of British Columbia
Lawrence M. Ward
Lawrence M. Ward University of British Columbia
David G. Winter
David G. Winter University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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