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Phone: (651) 999-5830
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Office: Suite 101, Midway Center
Mark F. Stasson, Ph.D., University of Illinois
RESEARCH AREAS: Group processes, decision making, social influence, relations between attitudes and behavior, applied social psychology.
TEACHING AREAS: Social Psychology, History & Systems, Data Analysis, General Psychology, Research Design, Group Dynamics, Community Psychology.
Mark Stasson joined the Metropolitan State faculty in 2001. His educational history includes a Bachelor of Science
degree in Psychology and Sociology from the University of Wisconsin, and the Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Psychology
from the University of Illinois (Major in social psychology; minors in quantitative and industrial/organizational psychology).
He worked at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) for 12 years, teaching various courses in social psychology
and statistics/methodology at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. At VCU he also served as director of undergraduate
studies (primary administrator for a program serving 1000 psychology majors) and as the director of the Ph.D. program in Social Psychology.
Dr. Stasson's earlier research focused on social influence in groups: how group discussion and decision procedures affect
decision making and problem solving, and how individuals' attitudes, opinions, and decision making strategies are affected by
group interactions. He has also conducted research on the relation between attitudes and behavior and on individual decision
making processes. His published research has appeared in several journals including Psychological Science,
the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Social Psychology Quarterly,
Group Dynamics, the Journal of Applied Social Psychology, and Small Group Research.
Dr. Stasson's recent research has been in three areas: (1) individual difference factors (e.g., individualism-collectivism,
achievement motivation, etc.)in group dynamics, particularly in the social loafing and social influence paradigms;
(2) social-cognitive factors in health behaviors; and (3) measurement of personality and individual differences. He has been
active in working with undergraduate programs such as Psychology Club and Psi Chi. He belongs to many professional organizations
such as APA, APS, SPSP, SESP, MPA (both of them), and ASA. His primary teaching areas at the present time are general psychology,
social psychology, data analysis/applied statistcs, quantitative research methods, and history & systems.
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