Clark McCauley, professor of psychology at Bryn Mawr College and co-director of the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, will give a lecture at the University of Mary Washington on Monday, November 19. The talk, “More Than Smart Bombs: the Psychology of Suicide Terrorism,” will take place at 7:30 p.m. in Jepson Hall, Room 100. The event, which is part of the James Farmer Speaker Series, is free and open to the public.
Dr. McCauley is a co-editor of “The Psychology of Ethnic and Cultural Conflict” and co-author of “Why not Kill Them All? The Logic and Prevention of Mass Political Murder.” He also is a consultant and reviewer for the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation for research on dominance, aggression and violence. He is a member of the Policy Committee of the International Association of Applied Psychology, chair of the association’s Subcommittee on Ethnopolitical Violence and editor of the new journal “Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict.”
Dr. McCauley received his bachelor’s degree from Providence College and his master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include stereotypes and the psychology of group identification, group dynamics and intergroup conflict, and the psychological foundations of ethnic conflict and genocide.
For more information about the lecture, contact the Department of Psychology at (540) 654-1554.