Speakers

Doctor of Psychology
Professor
Head of the Department of Psychology,
Moscow State Regional Institute of Humanities and Social Studies
Kolomna, Russia

Regina Ershovа’s research interests include Personality Psychology and Social Psychology.
She was Co-Organizer of The International Seminar, titled To the 50th anniversary of the first obedience experiments of Stanley Milgram (Kolomna-Moscow, 2010).
Under her guidance (R. Ershova, E. Enina, 2009-2010) the replication of Poskocil’s experiment (The College Classroom as a Learning Environment, 1977) had been conducted.
She organized and headed a study of the Preschool Children Conformity (R. Ershova, S. Panina, 2010).

Leading scientific fellow
(Lomonosov Moscow State University, Belgorod National Research University),
Chief of laboratory of quantitative psychology
(Moscow City University of Psychology and Education),
Russia

Scientific interests: quantitative psychology, psychosemantics, applications of chaos theory and nonlinear systems theory, political psychology, comparative studies, personality, psychodiagnostics. The author and co-author of 7 books, and more than 200 publications.

Independent researcher, USA,
PhD in physics from MIT

After a few years in physics, he noticed the encroachment of office politics. He published on the topics of obedience and conformity, surprised about the lack of a societal follow-up on Milgram’s findings. He continued with survey research on scientific co-authorship, finding that a majority of papers in physics and pathology had inappropriate authors added to the byline and that current authorship guidelines were not preferred by the scientific membership. His current research interests include the short term memory experimental results of Murdock, memory tests for Alzheimer’s disease and optimized piano practice.

Leading scientific fellow,
Lomonosov Moscow State University,
Russia

Alexander Voiskounsky is affiliated with the Psychology Department, Lomonosov MSU since 1969, with a 5-year long break in mid-seventies when he was affiliated with the Institute of Psychology, Academy of Sciences (Moscow).
A. Voiskounsky is the first Russian (and former Soviet) psychologist to get interested in the CMC area. His earliest research in the field was held in 1984, and first publications (in Russian) refer to 1986 and 1987, when no access to global computer networks was available in his country. The research was carried on with the local area networks‘ users.
The full list of his academic publications includes over 300 positions.
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Ph.D. in Biology
Associate Professor of Psychology,
Department of Psychology
State Academic University for the Humanities
SPSSI-Russia Chair
Moscow, Russia

Since 1990 Alexander Y. Voronov has been a pioneer in disseminating Stanley Milgram’s and his followers’ obedience research in USSR (and then in Russia) and in teaching of experimental Social Psychology using American programs at Russian State University for the Humanities, Lomonosov Moscow State University, State Academic University for the Humanities and at several Moscow high schools and lycées. For further information, please see here

Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University

P.H. was born in Budapest, Hungary.
He left Hungary after the 1956 Revolution.
Received B.A. in Sociology at the London School of Economics (1959) and Ph.D. at Princeton University (1963).
Taught at Harvard between 1963-1968; at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst between 1968-2000.
He is the author or editor of 15 books.
His major areas of interest: communist political systems, totalitarianism, political violence, the political attitude of Western intellectuals and the sociology of literature.

Adjunct faculty,
Georgetown University,
Washington, DC, USA

Author of groundbreaking books on leader-follower relationships and the forthcoming book on Intelligent Disobedience. Board Member of the International Leadership Association and Chairman Emeritus of the Congressional Management Foundation.

PhD, Professor of Communication Science,
Aix-Marseille University
France

He is deputy director of the Research Institute in Information and Communication Sciences (IRSIC).
He is also the author of several books on media psychology and media influence.
His recent articles have been published in Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Journal of Personality, Journal of Advertising Research, Celebrity Studies, Social Behavior and Personality, European Review of Applied Psychology…
Scientifically, he directed (with Jean-Leon Beauvois, Dominique Oberlé and Laurent Bègue) a transposition of the Milgram experiment in the context of a real game show on television.
This scientific research was the subject of several television programs that have been highly publicized in several countries (France, Switzerland…): video 1, video 2.
Didier Courbet’s Web page.

Distinguished Research Professor,
Pace University,
New York City, USA

Florence L. Denmark is an internationally recognized scholar and policy maker.
She received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and has 6 honorary degrees and numerous awards, including one for Outstanding Lifetime Contributions to Psychology.
A past president of the APA, Eastern Psychological Association (EPA), Psi Chi and International Council of Psychologists (ICP), Denmark holds fellowship status in the APA, EPA, the Association for Psychological Science, and the Society of Experimental Social Psychology.
Denmark is currently the main NGO representative to the UN for the ICP as well as a representative for the International Association for Applied Psychology. She serves on the UN Executive Committees of Ageing, Mental Health, and Family.

PhD, Adjunct professor at New York Institute of Technology,
USA

Edward Erdos received his Ph.D. in philosophy from NYU and a Master’s in psychology from the New School in 1975.
Milgram’s work resonates deeply since he was born in Hungary in 1939 to Jewish parents who immigrated to the US in 1940 just as the Nazi juggernaut clamped shut.
He taught for years before financial pressures forced a career change.
The 2009 issue of American psychologist with Jerry Burger’s replication of Milgram’s experiment inspired him to resume the work he started in 1973. He has done extensive research with the assistance of Stuart Levine of Bard College.
He is a contributor to publications, conferences and lectures and is actively continuing his research and writing.

PhD, Professor of Social Psychology
Emeritus Dean
Bard College
Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
USA

Teaching and scholarly interests reside in the domain of social influence and obedience to authority.
M.A. from the New School for Social Research; study with Solomon Asch.
PhD from the State University of New York at Albany (thesis advicers were Abraham Luchins and Josef Seph Steger).
At Bard College since 1964 and served as the dean of the college from 1980 to 2001. Developed and taught for a dozen years the obedience to authority seminar for undergraduate psychology majors and also in the human rights program at the college.

PhD, Researcher, Activist, Program Planning and Evaluation
Recently Asst. Vice President Research Women in Need Inc.
Currently: Consultant

Dr. Lewis’ work integrates grassroots research activism with social science research rigor to develop community programs and test impact. Research faculty appointments included Psychology Department, Princeton University and Columbia School of Public Health. Her mission – to bring evidence-based programs and capacity to nonprofit human services included serving as Asst VP of Research for Women In Need Inc., Chief of Research for Urban Resource Institute both leading inner city nonprofits servicing homeless families and/or survivors of domestic violence. Dr. Lewis chaired the Behavioral Science Implementation and Evaluation Committee at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene overseeing evidence based programming for HIV prevention. Having Stanley Milgram as a professor remains unforgettable to her.

Adjunct professor,
Clinical Psychology MA Program,
Teachers College Columbia University, USA

David Mantell is a forensic clinical psychologist
who consults to the courts in New England
primarily on child protection and criminal
prosecution matters in physical and sexual
abuse cases.
He received his master’s degree at Teachers
College Columbia University in Counseling
Psychology in 1965 and his Ph.D. in Clinical
Psychology at the Ludwig Maximillian
University, Munich in 1972.
During 9 years as a research psychologist at
the Max-Planck Institute of Psychiatry in
Munich, Dr. Mantell conducted research and
published on the late effects of concentration
camp incarceration, PTSD in Vietnam Veterans,
the psychosocial and psychological correlates
of decisions to resist induction into the US
Armed Forces versus volunteer for combat in
the Vietnam War and the social psychology of
compliance and refusal behavior in the
Milgram experiment.

Psychologist,
Private Practice,
USA

Dr. Jeffrey S. Shaw received his Ph.D. in Psychology in 1985 and worked as a Quantitative Market Researcher from 1985 to 1992. During that time he obtained additional training in Clinical Psychology and obtained his license as a Psychologist in 1989. Since 1992 he has had a Private Practice as a Clinical Psychologist in Midtown Manhattan. His approaches focus on Cognitive Psychology and Modern Psychoanalysis.
He has written a book entitled Psychopedia: 181 Life Principles to help You Become Happier and More Successful, released earlier this year, available on Amazon.
He also hosted an internet radio show for six weeks this year on voiceamerica.com.
He was an Adjunct Associate Professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business from 1979 to 2006.

Professor,
National Research University – Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia

Scientific interests: complicology (creating constructive, destructive and diagnosing difficulties and problems by humans for each other), help and counteraction in social interactions, thinking, complex problem solving

Adjunct Psychology Professor at Marymount Manhattan College NYC
President, Manhattan Psychological Association
Chair, Psychology Section Steering Committee of the New York Academy of Sciences
USA

Graduate Student with Stanley Milgram (Social Psychology program) at City University of New York. Participant in research project on Crowds (he was the crowd crystal) and Milgram’s CBS study on media violence

PhD, Professor of Psychology & Urban Studies and the Director of the Organizational Leadership Program,
Fordham University, New York City
USA

He is on the faculty of Fordham University since 1975. He completed his PhD in Psychology in 1979 at CUNY with Stanley Milgram. He is a researcher, teacher, consultant, and U.S. Fulbright Scholar to Russia in 2013, whose work is described in Marquis’ Who’s Who in the World.
With APA, he is co-founder (1984) and past-Chair of the SPSSI-New York group, co-founder (1997) and past-President of the APA Division of International Psychology, and has served with the United Nations as a representative of the APA (2003-2008), and Chair of the NGO Habitat Committee on Human Settlements (2008-2010).