Research interests
1) Cognitive history (psychology of historical beliefs), 2), Psychology of ownership, 3) Cross-cultural psychology, 4) Statistical methods, 5) Peace research, 6) History of psychology.

Recent publications
Rudmin, F. (1999). Norwegian short-form of the Marlowe-Crowne social desirability scale. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 40.

(1997). Will the real Euro-centrists please stand up? Cross-Cultural Psychology Bulletin, 30 (4), 4-5.

(1997). Questions of U.S. hostility towards Canada: A cognitive history of blind-eye perception. Undercurrent, Fall.

(1997). William McDougall. In N. Sheehy, A.J. Chapman, W. Conroy (Eds.), Biographical dictionary of psychology (pp. 370-371). London: Routledge.

(1996). Cross-cultural correlates of the ownership of private property: Zelman's gender data revisited. Cross-Cultural Research, 30, 115-153.

(1996). (First author with W. Kilbourne). The meaning and morality of voluntary simplicity: History and hypotheses on deliberately denied materialism. In R.W. Belk, N. Dholakia, and A. Venkatesh (eds.), Consumption and marketing: Macro dimensions (pp. 166-215). Cincinnati, OH: South-Western College Pub.

(1995). Cross-cultural correlates of the ownership of private property: Two studies of Murdock's data. Journal of Socio-Economics, 24, 345-373.

(1995). Imagine cross-cultural psychologists understanding their own cultures. Cross-Cultural Psychology Bulletin, 29 (3), 4- 8.

(1995). Cognitive history: On historical beliefs as motivation for war. An informal introduction. Impuls (Oslo), 49 (4), 41-44.

(1995). Cross-cultural correlates of war: Four studies. Peace Psychology Review, 1 (2), 197-221.

(1994). Gender differences in the semantics of ownership: A quantitative phenomenological survey study. Journal of Economic Psychology, 15, 487-510.

(1994). (Second author with M. Richins). Materialism and economic psychology. Journal of Economic Psychology, 15, 217-231.

(1994). Cross-cultural psycholinguistic field research: Verbs of ownership and possession. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 25, 114-132.

(1993). Bordering on aggression. Hull, Quebec: Voyageur Press.

(1993). Dispossession for semiotic distance: The objective facts of ownership in the eye of White Fang. In R. Kevelson (ed.), Flux, complexity, and illusion: Semiotics and the human sciences (vol. 6, pp. 391-406). New York: Peter Lang.

(1993). Pythagoras: The first cross-cultural psychologist. Cross- Cultural Psychology Bulletin, 27 (4), 4-5

(1993). Property. In W.J. Lonner and R.S. Malpass (eds.), Psychology and Culture (chap. 7, pp. 55-58). Needham Heights, Mass: Allyn and Bacon.

(1993). Cognitive history: Proposal for a new subfield. Cross- Cultural Psychology Bulletin, 27 (1), 21. [Reprinted in Peace Research, 25 (2), 99-100. Reprinted in ISPP News, 4 (2), 7.]

(1993). William McDougall in colonial Borneo: An early applied social psychology of peace. Cross-Cultural Psychology Bulletin, 26 (4), 9-11.

(1993). Ownership of economic property: McClelland's 1961 cross-cultural data. Psychological Reports, 73, 794.

(1993). (First author with C. Summers) Psychologists petition against preparation for war. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 33, 134-136.

(1992). Frege's semiotics sampled: The sense and reference of the verb "own". In R. Kevelson (ed.), Law and the Human Sciences (pp. 357-373). New York: Peter Lang.

(1992). (First editor with M. Richins). Meaning, measure and morality of materialism. Provo, UT: Association for Consumer Research.

(1992). Materialism and militarism: Tocqueville on America's hopeless hurry to happiness. In F.W. Rudmin and R. Richins (eds.), Meaning, measure and morality of materialism (pp. 110-112). Provo, UT: Association for Consumer Research.

(1992). Cross-cultural correlates of the ownership of private property. Social Science Research, 21, 57-83.

(1992). Cross-cultural correlates of the ownership of private property: A look from another data base. Anthropologica, 34, 71-88.

(1991). Having: A brief history of metaphor and meaning. In R.P. Malloy (ed.), Law and economics and the semiotic process, a special issue of Syracuse Law Review, 42, 163-179.

(1991). Ownership as agency, and the crystallization of property. In R. Kevelson (ed.), Action and agency: Fourth Round Table on Law and Semiotics (pp. 263-276). New York: Peter Lang Publishers.

(1991). To have possessions: A handbook on ownership and property, special edited issue of Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, 6 (6).

(1991). "To own is to be perceived to own": A social cognitive look at the ownership of property. Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, 6 (6), 85-104.

Rudmin, F. (1990). Seventeen early peace psychologists. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 31, 12-43.

Rudmin. (1990). The economic psychology of Leon Litwinski: A program of cognitive research on possession and property. Journal of Economic Psychology, 11, 307-339.

(1990). Review of The Notebooks by Fritz Heider, edited by M. Benesh- Weiner. Canadian Journal of Behavioral Science, 22, 219- 221.

(1990). Cross-cultural correlates of war. Peace Research, 22 (3), 33-44.

(1990). Offensive light infantry forces at Fort Drum, New York: Why should Canadians care? Queen's Quarterly, 96, 886-917. [Reprinted 1990, Whig-Standard Magazine, 11 (3), 4-13. Excerpted 1990, Harper's, 281 (1683), 25-26.]

(1990). Alexander Chamberlain: Canadian pioneer of cross-cultural psychology. Cross-Cultural Psychology Bulletin, 24 (2), 4- 8.

(1990). Ernest Beaglehole. Cross-Cultural Psychology Bulletin, 23 (4), 19-20.

(1990). Review of "The Notebooks" by Fritz Heider, edited by M. Benesh- Weiner. Canadian Journal of Behavioral Science, 22, 219- 221.

(1990). The economic psychology of Leon Litwinski (1887-1969): A program of cognitive research on possession and property. Journal of Economic Psychology, 11, 307-339.

(1990). German and Canadian data on motivations for ownership: Was Pythagoras right? In M.E. Goldberg, G. Gorn and R.W. Pollay (eds.), Advances in Consumer Research (vol.17, pp. 176-181). Provo, UT: Association for Consumer Research.

(1989). Heider's cognitive theory of ownership and the problem of unnamed and unrecognized property relationships. In R. Kevelson (ed.), Law and Semiotics (vol. 3, pp.321-334). New York: Plenum Press.

(1989). Analysis vs. action: Reviews of "Out of Weakness" (by A.B. Schmookler) and "INFACT Brings GE to Light". Peace Research, 21 (4), 35-40. [Reprinted 1989, Science for Peace Bulletin, 9 (2), 17-18.]

(1989). (Second author with P. Boski). Ichheiser's theories of personality and person perception: A classic that still inspires. Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior, 19, 263-296.

(1989). The pleasure of serendipity in historical research: On finding "stereotype" in Morier's (1824) Hajji Baba. Proceedings of the XXIst Annual Meeting of Chieron, Queen's University, June, 1989, pp.14-23. [Reprinted 1989, Cross-Cultural Psychology Bulletin, 23 (1&2), 8-11.]

(1989). (First author with H.L. Ansbacher). Anti-war psychologists: Alfred Adler. Psychologists for Social Responsibility Newsletter, 8 (4), 8. [Reprinted 1990, Individual Psychology Newsletter, 38 (1), 12-13.]

(1988). Ipsative dependence and a solution: Monte Carlo study of Gordon's Survey of Interpersonal Values. Psychological Reports, 63, 1005-1006.

(1988). Dominance, social control and ownership: A history and a cross- cultural study of motivations for private property. Behavior Science Research, 22,130-160.

Rudmin et al. (1987). Gustav Ichheiser in the history of social psychology. British Journal of Social Psychology, 26, 165-180.

(1987). Property crime victimization: Impact on self, on attachment and on territorial dominance? Canadian Psychological Association Highlights, 9 (2), Victims of Crime Supplement, 4.

(1987). (First author with J.W. Berry). Semantics of ownership: A free- recall study of property. Psychological Record, 37, 257- 268.

(1987). (First author with R. Trimpop, I. Kryl, P. Boski). Gustav Ichheiser in the history of social psychology: An early phenomenology of social attribution. British Journal of Social Psychology, 26, 165-180.

(1987). Speech reception thresholds for digits. Journal of Auditory Research, 27, 15-21.

(1986). History of peace psychology: Comment on Morawski and Goldstein (1985). American Psychologist, 41, 586-588.

(1986). (Second author with H. Osser). Metacognition, social context, and personal factors in arithmetic problem solving. In S.B. Newstead, S.H. Irvine, & P.L. Dann (eds.), Human assessment: Cognition and motivation (pp.155-177). Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff.

(1986). Psychology of ownership, possession and property: A selected bibliography since 1890. Psychological Reports, 58, 859- 867. [Reprinted 1987, IAREP Newsletter, (March), 17-27.]

(1985). William McDougall in the history of social psychology. British Journal of Social Psychology, 24, 75-76

(1985). Historical note on the development of possessive pronouns. Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 50, 298-299.

(1984). Dichotic alignment, phonetic and language variables as predictors of SSW performance. Journal of Otolaryngology, 13, 87-94.

(1984). Brief clinical report on visual reinforcement audiometry with deaf infants. Journal of Otolaryngology, 13, 367-369.

(1984). Parent's report of stress and articulation oscillation as factors in a preschooler's disfluencies. Journal of Fluency Disorders, 9, 85-88.

(1983). (First author with N. Normandin). Experimental dichotic tests in French modeled on SSW Test design. Human Communication Canada, 7, 348-360.

(1983). False air-bone gap. Ear and Hearing, 4, 106-107.

(1983). The why and how of hearing /s/. The Volta Review, 85, 263-269.

(1983). Canadian speech audiometry: Word discrimination lists for minority languages. Human Communication Canada, 7, 98-100.

(1983). (Second author with D. Bonnycastle). Aural rehabilitation self- help group. Human Communication Canada, 7, 176-178.

(1982). (First author with M. Cales). Comparison of English and French versions of a dichotic auditory perception test (SSW) on normal bilingual subjects. Journal of Auditory Research, 22, 200- 204.

(1982). (First author with J. Katz). Dichotic onset and offset parameters on the SSW Test. In D. Arnst and J. Katz (eds.), Central auditory assessment: The SSW Test development and clinical use, (pp. 158-170). San Diego: College Hill Press.

(1981). Phonetic factors in the dichotic alignment of the Staggered Spondaic Word Test. Journal of Auditory Research, 21, 247- 254.

(1981). 2k Hz earmold design. Hearing Instruments, 32 (12), 25,23.

(1979). Development of a Japanese SSW Test. Audiology Japan, 22, 36-40.

Submitted manuscripts
(under review). (First author with Frode Svartdahl). Webmaster motivations: Who makes and maintains websites and why? Submitted to Behavior Research Methods, Instruments & Computers.

(under review). (2nd author with K. Oestvik). Bullying and hazing in the Norwegian Army: Two studies of prevalence, social contexts, attributions, and beliefs. Submitted to Military Psychology.

Recent conference presentations
(1998). Students' attitudes towards history. Presented at 40th annual meeting of the Ontario Educational Research Council, Toronto, December, 1998.

(1998). National self-identity, iconoclastic facts, and film: A questionnaire study of cognitive history. Presented at the International Society for Political Psychology, Montreal, July, 1998.

(1998). A cognitive history of popular American beliefs in conspiracy theory. Presented at the International Society for Political Psychology, Montreal, July, 1998.

(1998). How historical misbeliefs are rationalized. Poster presented at the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, Ann Arbor, June, 1998.

(1998). How Hitler heard history: A hermeneutic study of Mein Kampf. Presented at the Canadian Peace Research and Education Association, Ottawa, June, 1998.

(1998). (2nd author with H. Nicol and R. Dobbin). Unlikely allies: Can sustainable development in the Barents Region learn from the Caribbean Basin experience? Presented at the University of Umeý's Research Seminar on Sustainable Development in the Barents Region, Umeý, Sweden, March, 1998.

(1997). (first author with F. Svartdal). Collaborative net-knowledge and the motivations of web masters. Poster presented at the University of Toronto's OISE conference on Computer Support for Collaborative Learning, December, 1997.

(1997). Cognitive history as the ideal interdisciplinary project. Presented at International Conference on Project-Organisation as a Form of Study at Universities, Roskilde University, Denmark, September, 1997.

(1997). The new masks around the campfire: The attribution of agency to corporations. Presented at the Society for the Advancement of Socio- Economics, Montreal, July, 1997.

(1997). People vs. property rights: Covenant of manumission and property redemption. Presented at the Society for the Advancement of Socio- Economics, Montreal, July, 1997.

(1997). (Second author with J. Opdal). Entrepreneurs in a prisoners' dilemma: A study of network, trust, and market forces. Presented at the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, Montreal, July, 1997.

(1997). U.S. war plans under the microscope: The presumptions of planning for war. Presented at the Canadian Peace Research and Education Assoc., Toronto, May, 1997.

(1997). (first author with S. Sorensen and R. Richardson). Nationalism and rigidity in historical beliefs: Memories of movies as measures of cognitive history. Presented at the Canadian Peace Research and Education Assoc., Toronto, May, 1997.

(1996). (second author with M.-C. Merametdjian). The acculturation of Somali refugees in Arctic Norway. Presented at the XXVI International Congress of Psychology, Montreal, August, 1996.

(1996). Cognitive history: Disbelieving the unbelievable. Poster presented at the XXVI International Congress of Psychology, Montreal, August, 1996.

(1996). Cognitive history: Je me souviens. Poster presented at XIII Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, Montreal, August, 1996.

(1996). Four-fold taxonomy of acculturation: A critical review. Presented at XIII Congress of the International Association for Cross- Cultural Psychology, Montreal, August, 1996.

(1996). The role of cognitive history in the Bosnian civil war. Presented at the Canadian Peace Research and Education Association meeting, St. Catherine's, Ontario, June 1996.

(1996). Cognitive history of the Bosnian civil war: A review of interview data. Poster presented at 60th Anniversary Convention of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI), Ann Arbor, May, 1996.

(1996). (co-author with K.B. Knutsen, B.E. Olsen, H. Smith-Meyer, and F.H. Vikan). Warming the north for business. Presented at 9th Nordic Conference on Small Business Research, Lillehammer, May, 1996.

(1995). Blind-eye behavior: A cognitive history of Canadian avoidance of American threat. Presented at Organization for the Study of the National History of Canada, Ottawa, November, 1995.

(1995). Cross-cultural correlates of the ownership of private property. Presented at International Association for Research in Economic Psychology conference, Bergen, August, 1995.

(1995). Cross-cultural correlates of war. Presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Peace Research and Education Association, Montreal, June, 1995.

(1994). A history of cross-cultural research on private property and a restoration of archived data. Poster presented at XXV Annual Meeting of Cheiron, Montreal, June, 1994.

(1993). Refusing to sign a peace petition. Presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for Political Psychology, Boston, July, 1993.

(1993). Chicken Little vs. the three monkeys: An introduction to cognitive history. Presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for Political Psychology, Boston, July, 1993.

(1993). Fort Drum in the continuing history of U.S. military preparations against Canada. Presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Peace Research and Education Association, Ottawa, June, 1993.

(1993). Possessions as ego-props for buffering existential anxiety. In A. Ahuvia (org.), "Theory development in macro-marketing science: Marketing and materialism", presented at the American Marketing Association 1993 Winter Educators' Conference, Newport Beach CA, February, 1993.

(1992). (first author with J. Handelman). The corporation and property. Presented a conference on Corporate Crime: Ethics, Law and the State, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, November, 1992.

(1992). Ownership vs. consumption: Do I possess my car or do I consume it? In F.W. Rudmin (org.), "The meaning and misuses of 'consume', 'consumer', 'consumption'". Presented at the joint conference of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics and the Society for Economic Anthropology, University of California, Irvine, March, 1992.

(1992). Survey and critique of cross-cultural research in marketing and consumer behavior. In M.M. Young (org.), "Cross-cultural consumer behavior I: Processes of consumer acculturation", symposium presented at the American Marketing Association 1992 Winter Educators' Conference, San Antonio, February, 1992.

(1991). Validating Heider's cognitive theory of ownership. In F.W. Rudmin (org.), "Panel on the psychology of possession and ownership", symposium presented at the joint conference of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics and the International Association for Research in Economic Psychology, Stockholm, June, 1991.

(1991). Cross-cultural correlates of the ownership of property: Reanalysis and review of six comparative data bases. Poster presented at the joint conference of the Society for the Advancement of Socio- Economics and the International Association for Research in Economic Psychology, Stockholm, June, 1991.

(1991). Using archived data for holocultural research: Two example studies of correlates of private property. Presented at the 31st Annual Conference of the Northeastern Anthropological Association, Waterloo, Ontario, March, 1991.

(1990). William James and the instinct theory of property: How science worked, sort of. In F.W. Rudmin (org.), "Centennial Symposium for William James's Principles of Psychology", presented at the XXII Annual Meeting of Cheiron, Westfield, Massachusetts, June, 1990.

(1990). Cross-cultural correlates of war. Presented at the Social Responsibility Section meeting at the annual Convention of the Canadian Psychological Association, Ottawa, June, 1990.

(1990). Inherent hostility in ownership: An historic debate on peace. In F.W. Rudmin (org.), "Pursuing peace through history and theory", symposium presented at the annual convention of the Canadian Psychological Association, Ottawa, June, 1990.

(1989). Ichheiser on international relations: The pessimism of social cognitive realism. In I. Vari-Szilagyi and F. Rudmin (org.), "The work of Gustav Ichheiser (1897-1969)", symposium presented at First European Congress of Psychology, Amsterdam, July, 1989.

(1989). Cognitive theories of ownership: Property law as social perception. In F.W. Rudmin (org.), "Psychology of property and possession: Review perspectives and future prospects", symposium presented at First European Congress of Psychology, Amsterdam, July, 1989.

(1989). Cross-validation of Simmons' and Murdock's ethnographic codings of property variables. In F.W. Rudmin (org.), "Cross-cultural perspectives on property and possession", symposium presented at 2nd Regional Conference of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, Amsterdam, June, 1989.

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