Emmanuel Silvestre
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I have been teaching Social Psychology, Group Dynamics and Social Research in international universities for more than 25 years, and I have been Chairperson of a Department of Psychology. I have earned a Ph.D. in Psychology from the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium) through an experimental social psychology dissertation on the effects of dissonance on motivation for selective exposure to information. This dissertation was published on a book (Marin, 1981), scientific journals and on several international conferences.
In 1994, I did an academic tour of several U.S. universities lecturing on racial prejudice, magical beliefs that may help prevent HIV risk behavior, and folkloric psychotherapy. The first of these lectures was based on a book that I first authored, containing the results of a research on child prostitution in the Dominican Republic that I conducted for UNICEF. Furthermore, I have abundant experience on new instructional techniques as the UNICEF’s Visualization in Participatory Programs (VIPP).
Since 2000, I have been doing market research with Hispanic populations for several consumer package products, financial, and international institutions in New York, New Jersey, Los Angeles, Chicago, D.C., and Miami.
Primary Interests:
- Applied Social Psychology
- Attitudes and Beliefs
- Causal Attribution
- Culture and Ethnicity
- Health Psychology
- Organizational Behavior
- Prejudice and Stereotyping
- Research Methods, Assessment
Books:
- Batería CPM (First Author: M. Morales), Mérida, Venezuela: Universidad de Los Andes, 1983.
- La Neo Prostitucion Infantil en República Dominicana (First Author). Santo Domingo: UNICEF, 1999 (First Edition 1993).
Journal Articles:
- Contribuciones de la Psicología Social a la Educación. Boletín de la AVEPSO, 1982, 5 (2).
- Evaluación de un Programa Integral de Prevención del Alcoholismo y la Neurosis. Revista Latinoamericana de Psicología. 1980, 12 (1).
- La consistencia cognoscitiva como variable motivacional en psicología social. Revista del Colegio de Médicos del Estado Mérida, 1975, 13 (35).
Other Publications:
- Cultural Identity and Racial Self Prejudice. Visiting Lecture. Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University, 1994.
- Effets de la Dissonance, la Sécurité et l'Expectative sur la Motivation pour l'Exposition Sélective. Ph.D. Dissertation, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, 1978.
- Índices Verbales de Tensión Psicológica como Medida de la Disonancia Cognoscitiva. Issues from Centro de Investigación Psicológica, No. 5, Mérida: Universidad de Los Andes, 1977.
- Efecto de la Seguridad, Niveles de Disonancia y Expectativa sobre la Conducta de Búsqueda de Información. Issues from Centro de Investigación Psicológica, No. 3, Mérida: Universidad de Los Andes, 1978.
- Efecto de la persuasión y la externalidad sobre el ahorro de combustible. Revista Interamericana de Psicología. 1983, Vol. 17, No. I.
- Violencia y Explotación Sexual Contra Niños y Niñas en República Dominicana. In G. Leal. Violencia y Explotación Sexual Contra Niños y Niñas en América Latina y El Caribe. Montevideo: Instituto Interamericano del Niño-OAS-IDB, 2000.
- Magical Internality and Child Prostitution. Visiting Lecture. Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University, 1994.
- Folkloric Psychotherapy in the Dominican Republic. Visiting Lecture. Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University, 1994.
- Degree of Development and Distance as Related to Mutual Perceptions and Attitudes Among Students in Seven American Countries (First Author: J. M. Salazar). Paper presented at VI International Congress of Cross cultural Psychology, Aberdeen, Scotland, July, 1982.
- Niveles de disonancia cognoscitiva y evitación de información. In G. Marín. La Psicología Social en Latinoamérica (Vol. II). México: Trillas, 1981.
Courses Taught:
- Attribution and Magic Internality
- Group Dynamics
- Research Design and Analysis
- Social Psychology
Emmanuel Silvestre
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