WHO AM I?

Author

I write textbooks. So far, two have been published, both in the field of personality.

Theories of Personality: Understanding Persons is now in its 5th edition. If you are a teacher and want to look at this or if you need support for your classes using this book, please contact the publisher directly. Prentice Hall is much better equipped to answer your questions than I am! Their web address: http://www.prenticehall.com However, if you want to make suggestions about future revisions, please contact me. (See the "contacts" bar above.)

I've also published Personality: Description, Dynamics, and Development (W. H. Freeman, publisher). Again, if you need support for this textbook, the publisher is the one to contact. Their web address: http://www.whfreeman.com

When you consider the two books, with multiple editions and translations into French, Portuguese, and Russian, my bookshelf is fun!

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Psychology Professor

I've been teaching at The Sage Colleges -- primarily at Russell Sage College in Troy, New York -- since 1979. Among the courses I teach are these: Personality, Social Psychology, Introduction to Psychology, and Seminar. (See the "course notes" menu tab above.) To see my biography on the college website, go to my faculty bio page.

We faculty at The Sage Colleges tried to overcome the restrictions of the U. S. Supreme Court's Yeshiva Decision by attempting to form a union of Sage faculty a few years ago, but were turned down by the National Labor Relations Board, despite a very strong majority of faculty who signed collective bargaining cards. It is an oddity of law that faculty in private colleges, like the one where I teach, fall under federal labor laws, while those who teach in public colleges are ruled by state laws (which, in New York and many other states, are much more favorable to collective bargaining for college faculty). According to the NLRB, like the Yeshiva faculty, Sage faculty are managers, and so not eligible to form a labor union (unless the college administration would voluntarily recognize a union -- which they decidedly, with a team of lawyers to back up their refusal, did not do).

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Upstate New Yorker

Seasons pass quickly by ... summer is just around the corner.

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and more...

Here are some personal connections that I have mentioned to some of my friends. I put the links here, to make things easy:

• The Gardener's Supply Company (where I've gotten most of the fun tools for my vegetable and flower garden): http://www.gardeners.com
• Seeds of Change is a great source for organic seeds for vegetables (I especially like the "dinosaur kale"), herbs, and flowers: http://www.seedsofchange.com/
• The First Unitarian Society of Schenectady, where I'm exploring spiritual questions in a context that acknowledges human individuality and intelligence, without the limitations of my earlier dogmatic religious training: http://fussonline.org/
• Photographs of the area around Troy and upstate New York where I work and live, photographed by Jim Flosdorf (who also sells them in large print format): http://www.jfpan.com/

My supervisors watch what's coming out of the computer...

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