Daniel R. Stalder
Department of Psychology
University of Wisconsin--Whitewater
800 W. Main St.
Whitewater, Wisconsin 53190
U.S.A.
Phone: (262) 472-5419
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Current research: Need for closure and cognitive dissonance theory, including in political and close-relationship contexts.Recent award: 2009 Social Psychology Network Action Teaching Award: Honorable Mention Select recent conference presentations: Stalder, D. R., & Amon, M. (2008, May). Reducing divorce risk through premarital consideration of "for worse": Preliminary evidence. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago. Stalder, D. R. (2008, May). Using social psychology instruction to reduce bias, defensiveness, and conflict. Poster session presented at the annual Teaching Institute of the Association for Psychological Science and Society for the Teaching of Psychology, Chicago. Stalder, D. R. (2007, August). Political orientation, group-centrism, and subfactors of need for closure. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco. Stalder, D. R. (2006, May). Why does social comparison reduce dissonance? Evidence for social validation. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago. Select recent community presentations: Stalder, D. R. (2008, October). Politics, personality, and hypocrisy: Using psychology to understand political perceptions, behavior, and party differences. Invited for the Fall 2008 Fairhaven Lecture Series at UW--Whitewater. Stalder, D. R. (2008, September). The power of the group: Negative and positive group influences on individuals in political, bystander, and other interpersonal contexts. Given as part of the 'Visions and Expressions' lectures at the University of Wisconsin--Waukesha.
 Journal Articles:
- Stalder, D. R. (in press). Competing roles for the subfactors of need for closure in committing the fundamental attribution error. Personality and Individual Differences.
- Stalder, D. R. (2009). Political orientation, hostile media perceptions, and group-centrism. North American Journal of Psychology, 11, 383-399.
- Stalder, D. R. (2008). Revisiting the issue of safety in numbers: The likelihood of receiving help from a group. Social Influence, 3, 24-33.
- Stalder, D. R. (2007). Need for closure, the Big Five, and public self-consciousness. Journal of Social Psychology, 147, 91-94.
- Stalder, D. R. (2005). Learning and motivational benefits of acronym use in introductory psychology. Teaching of Psychology, 32, 222-228.
- Stalder, D. R. (2002). Mathematicians, attributional complexity, and gender. Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, 8, 149-159.
- Stalder, D. R. (2001). Counting teachers' mistakes: A mistake game. Problems, Resources, and Issues in Mathematics Undergraduate Studies, 11, 281-285.
- Stalder, D. R. (2001). The use of discrimination indices in constructing course exams: A question of assumptions. Teaching of Psychology, 28, 278-280.
- Stalder, D. R. (2000). Does logic moderate the fundamental attribution error? Psychological Reports, 86, 879-882.
- Stalder, D. R., & Baron, R. S. (1998). Attributional complexity as a moderator of dissonance-produced attitude change. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75, 449-455.
- Stalder, D. R., & Stec, D. A. (2007). Topical and applied interests of introductory psychology students. Journal of Instructional Psychology, 34, 226-233.
Other Publications:
- Stalder, D. R. (1996). [Review of the book Individualism and collectivism: Theory, method, and applications]. Contemporary Psychology, 41, p. 1219.
- Stalder, D. R. (1994, September/October). Like a bridge over troubled scholars. Center Scope, 21, p. 3.
- Stalder, D. R., & Stalder, S. S. (1996). [Review of the book Mathematical thinking and problem solving]. Contemporary Psychology, 41, p. 80.
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