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Carmi Schooler
Senior
Research Scientist & Graduate Professor
Ph.D.
New York University, 1959
Office:
4105 Art-Sociology Building
Phone: 301 405-6438
Email:
cschooler@socy.umd.edu
Departmental Specialty Areas:
Social Psychology
Carmi Schooler
joins us from the National Institute of Mental
Health’s (NIMH) Laboratory of Socio-environmental
Studies where he was employed since 1959.
During this time, he published extensively on topics
ranging from cognition to
social structural effects on psychological
functioning. Several of the articles emerged
from his collaborative study with
Dr. Melvin Kohn
(Johns Hopkins University) on
how occupational conditions affect self-direction
and distress.
Currently
Dr. Schooler is involved in several longitudinal
research projects. Because the findings of the third
(1994) wave of the occupation study, which Dr.
Schooler conducted. have important consequences for
understanding the psychology of aging, he has come
to be widely recognized as an expert on this issue
and is continuing research in this area.. Dr. Schooler is also heavily involved in cross-cultural
extensions of the occupational study. One extension
examines the longitudinal interrelationships among
social change, occupational conditions and
psychological functioning in rural Mali. Another
examines similar interrelationships in Japan. In
Fall 2008, he will be working under a two month
fellowship from the Japanese government to further
pursue this latter research project.
Although Dr. Schooler does not consider himself a
statistician, years of analyzing survey data have
made him very proficient in applying Structural
Equation Modeling (SEM) to a variety of
sociological, psychological and even biological
issues as well as in guiding others in
the use of this statistical approach. He also has
extensive expertise on carrying out social
psychological and cognitive experiments. A research
study with
Jeff Lucas examines
culture, social structure, and psychological
functioning in an experimental setting.
Courses Taught:
Sociology 660: Theories of Social Psychology
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