Research
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Latest papers
Psychosocial issues in isolated and confined extreme environments.
Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2021 · senior author
The Creative Brain Under Stress: Considerations for Performance in Extreme Environments.
Frontiers in psychology · 2020 · senior author
The data on psychological adaptation during polar winter-overs in Sub-Antarctic and Antarctic stations.
Data in brief · 2020
Latest funding
- $117,000
Predictors and consequences of ethnopolitical warfare
SSHRC · 2001 · Principal investigator
- $96,990
Studies of ethnic violence: cognition, emotion, values, attribution, and social perception
SSHRC · 1998 · Principal investigator
- $17,000
Evaluating leaders' cognitive management strategies: relating the complexity of information processing to decisional environment and quality of outcome
SSHRC · 1996 · Co-investigator
8 publications.
Psychosocial issues in isolated and confined extreme environments.
Palinkas LA, Suedfeld P
The Creative Brain Under Stress: Considerations for Performance in Extreme Environments.
Vartanian O, Saint SA, Herz N, Suedfeld P
The data on psychological adaptation during polar winter-overs in Sub-Antarctic and Antarctic stations.
Nicolas M, Martinent G, Suedfeld P, Gaudino M
Pathogens and politics: further evidence that parasite prevalence predicts authoritarianism.
Murray DR, Schaller M, Suedfeld P
The cognitive processing of politics and politicians: archival studies of conceptual and integrative complexity.
Suedfeld P
Changes in the hierarchy of value references associated with flying in space.
Suedfeld P, Legkaia K, Brcic J
Invulnerability, coping, salutogenesis, integration: four phases of space psychology.
Suedfeld P
Erikson's "components of a healthy personality" among Holocaust survivors immediately and 40 years after the war.
Suedfeld P, Soriano E, McMurtry DL, Paterson H, Weiszbeck TL, Krell R
Predictors and consequences of ethnopolitical warfare
Principal investigators: Suedfeld, Peter
Keywords: Ethnic violence; resilience; coping; content analysis
Studies of ethnic violence: cognition, emotion, values, attribution, and social perception
Principal investigators: Suedfeld, Peter
Keywords: Ethnic violence; decision-making; naive psychology; integrative complexity; coping
Evaluating leaders' cognitive management strategies: relating the complexity of information processing to decisional environment and quality of outcome
Principal investigators: Wallace, Michael
Keywords: Leadership; decision making; information management; problem solving; crisis management; conflict resolution; war
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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