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Warren Thorngate is an emeritus Professor of Social Psychology, Statistics and Decision Making at Carleton University in Ottawa, ON, Canada. He received his degrees in Mathematics and Psychology from the Universities of California and British Columbia. Thorngate has taught at universities around the world, including Carnegie Mellon University in USA and Tehran University in Iran. An associate editor of three journals, he is also a former president of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology and newsletter editor of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making. He is the author of more than 100 research articles. His senior authored book, “Judging Merit” (2009, with the late Robyn Dawes and Margaret Foddy) explores the pathologies of contests and competitions such as those governing academic survival. He is currently writing a book on the ecology of problems and the limits of time.

Life before Psychology Born in 1944 in

How he became a Psychologist and why a Social Psychologist? After highschool he thought he would be a highschool teacher. After getting accepted for a Bachelors degree in University of California at Santa Barbara, he tried to be a musician and a film editor, but as fate has it, he ended up being a social psychologist. His education at a glance

• 1963 Andres Segovia Master Class in Guitar, Berkeley, California
• 1966 B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara (Psychology major, Mathematics minor
• 1968 M.A., University of British Columbia (Thesis topic: Social motivation and group decision making)
• 1971 Ph.D., University of British Columbia (Dissertation topic: Memory processes in multi-cue probability learning)

Teaching innovations

• Development of “The Campus in a Box” for distance education
• Workshops on the production of inexpensive education videos
• Development of computer simulations of psychological and social phenomena for class demonstrations in three courses
• Development of class exercises in speaking, writing and rhetoric for a course on conceptual research in social psychology
• Participant, Study Group on Teaching and Learning in the Social Sciences
• Development of interactive research methods and statistics course on CD ROM
• Development of Introduction to Social Psychology course for television
• Development of the Carleton University Master of Management Studies programme offered through the Qeshm Institute of Higher Education, Tehran, Iran
• Writing workshops: Getting published in Western journals. Tehran University, 2005, 2006, 2007

Current research

• Computer simulations of contests and group decision making procedures
• Studies of attentional economics of information production and consumption
• Development of evidential statistics and Ordinal Pattern Analysis
• Studies of user reactions to Labour Market Information
• The ecology of problems and limits of time

Community work

• Developing Time Bank in Almonte, Canada

Teaching career at a glance

• 1987-present Professor, Psychology Dept., Carleton University
• 2004-present Adjunct professor, Psychology Department, Tehran University, Iran
• 2001 Distinguished Visiting Professor, Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
• 1999 Distinguished Visiting Professor, Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland
• 1999 Visiting Professor, Iran Language Institute
• 1998 Distinguished Visiting Professor, Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland
• 1997 Visiting Professor, Hormoz International University, Qeshm, Islamic Re-public of Iran
• 1995 Distinguished Visiting Professor, Institute for Research in Planning and Development, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
• 1994 Exchange Professor, la Universidad de la Habana, Cuba
• 1990 Distinguished Visiting Scholar, LaTrobe University, Melbourne, Australia
• 1986 Exchange Professor, Psychology Department, Leningrad State University
• 1986 Exchange Professor, Psychology Department, University of Warsaw
• 1985-87 Professor, Psychology Dept. and School of Business, Carleton University
• 1979-85 Associate Professor, Psychology Dept., Carleton University (tenure granted 1981)
• 1977-78 Visiting Professor, Departments of Computer Science and Zoology, Uni-versity of California, Berkeley;
• 1976-79 Associate Professor, Psychology Dept., University of Alberta;
• 1970-76 Assistant Professor, Psychology Dept., University of Alberta (tenure granted 1975);
• 1963-70 Various research assistantships with Professors Charles McClintock, David Messick, Art Wingfield, Michael Humphreys, and Robert Knox.

Few of his research articles