Harold Takooshian
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Professor of Psychology and Urban Studies, Emeritus
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Harold Takooshian has been a member of the faculty at Fordham University since 1975, having begun his college teaching career at age 23. He has taught in both the U.S. and in South America. He was named a U.S. Fulbright Scholar to the USSR in 1987-88, and to Russia (fall of 2013) at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow.
Dr. Takooshian is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, and has served as a national officer or President of Psi Chi (1993-2000), President of APA Divisions of International Psychology (2003) and General Psychology (2007), chair of the New York group of SPSSI, and a representative of APA to the United Nations. In 2010 Psi Chi honored Dr. Takooshian with the Florence L. Denmark National Faculty Advisor Award:
Dr. Takooshian's research interests focus on applied social/personality psychology, industrial psychology, applied psychometrics, attitude survey research methods, urban psychology, ethnicity and feminism, cross-cultural psychology, and student excellence. He is known for his encouragement of students' independent research, having sponsored over 200 student publications or conference publications.
Primary Interests:
Applied Social Psychology
Attitudes and Beliefs
Culture and Ethnicity
Gender Psychology
Helping, Prosocial Behavior
Organizational Behavior
Personality, Individual Differences
Research Methods, Assessment
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Takooshian, H., Bedrosian, D., Cecero, J.J., Chancer, L., Karmen, A., Rasenberger, J., Rosenthal, A.M., Sliwa, C., Skoller, C.E., & Stephen, J. (2005). Remembering Catherine "Kitty" Genovese: A public forum. Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless, 14, 63-77.
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Takooshian, H., & O'Connor, P. J. (1984). When apathy leads to tragedy: Two Fordham professors examine "Bad Samaritanism." Social Action & the Law, 10(1), 26-27.
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Takooshian, H., Mrinal, N., & Mrinal, U. (1999). Research methods for studies in the field. In L. L. Adler & U. P. Gielen (Eds.), Cross-cultural topics in psychology (2nd ed., pp. 29-46). Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers.
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Urban Psychology
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Journal Articles:
Guzewicz, T. D., & Takooshian, H. (1992). Development of a short-form scale of public attitudes toward homelessness. Journal of Social Distress & the Homeless, 1(1), 67-79.
Reynolds, R. I., & Takooshian, H. (1988). Where were you August 8, 1985? Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 26(1), 23-25.
Rieber, R. W., Takooshian, H., & Iglesias, H. (2002). The case of Sybil in the teaching of psychology. Journal of Social Distress & the Homeless, 11(4), 355-360.
Takooshian, H. (2003). Counseling psychology's wide new horizons. The Counseling Psychologist, 31(4), 420-426.
Takooshian, H. (2005). Reviewing 100 years of cross-national work on intelligence. PsycCRITIQUES, 50(12).
Takooshian, H. A., & Stuart, C. R. (1983). Ethnicity and feminism among American women: Opposing social trends? International Journal of Group Tensions, 13, 100-105.
Takooshian, H., & Newman, S. (1998). Recognizing excellent psychology students. International Journal of Psychology, 367-369.
Takooshian, H., & O'Connor, P. J. (1984). When apathy leads to tragedy: Two Fordham professors examine "Bad Samaritanism." Social Action & the Law, 10(1), 26-27.
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Takooshian, H., & Rieber, R. W. (1996). Political correctness and social distress in academe: What's old, what's new, what's right and what's left? Journal of Social Distress & the Homeless, 5(2), 99-109.
Takooshian, H., Bedrosian, D., Cecero, J.J., Chancer, L., Karmen, A., Rasenberger, J., Rosenthal, A.M., Sliwa, C., Skoller, C.E., & Stephen, J. (2005). Remembering Catherine "Kitty" Genovese: A public forum. Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless, 14, 63-77.
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Takooshian, H., & Trusov, V. P. (1992). Post-Soviet psychology. In U. P. Gielen, & L. L. Adler (Eds.), Psychology in international perspective: 50 years of the International Council of Psychologists (pp. 54-69). Lisse, Netherlands: Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers.
Takooshian, H., & Verdi, W. M. (1995). Assessment of attitudes toward terrorism. In L. L. Adler, & F. L. Denmark (Eds.), Violence and the prevention of violence (pp. 33-43). Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers.
Takooshian, H., Mrinal, N., & Mrinal, U. (1999). Research methods for studies in the field. In L. L. Adler & U. P. Gielen (Eds.), Cross-cultural topics in psychology (2nd ed., pp. 29-46). Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers.
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Courses Taught:
Advanced Industrial Psychology
Advanced Library Research
Computers in Social Science
Culture and Community
Forensic Psychology
History and Systems of Psychology
Industrial-Organizational Psychology
Introduction to Research
Law and Psychology
Management
Personality
Personnel Psychology
Psychological Testing
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Psychology in Criminal Justice
Social Psychology
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Urban Psychology
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Takooshian, H., Bedrosian, D., Cecero, J.J., Chancer, L., Karmen, A., Rasenberger, J., Rosenthal, A.M., Sliwa, C., Skoller, C.E., & Stephen, J. (2005). Remembering Catherine "Kitty" Genovese: A public forum. Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless, 14, 63-77.
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The Kitty Genovese Memorial Conference: 50 years later"
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Takooshian, H., Mrinal, N., & Mrinal, U. (1999). Research methods for studies in the field. In L. L. Adler & U. P. Gielen (Eds.), Cross-cultural topics in psychology (2nd ed., pp. 29-46). Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers.
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