The writer (John Ray)



My identity as a psychologist

After an early education at Innisfail State Rural School and Cairns State High School, I taught myself for senior school, matriculating in 1963. I promptly enrolled in a B.A. degree course at the the University of Queensland in Brisbane, graduating in 1968. I took the degree with a major in psychology. I then moved to Sydney (in New South Wales, Australia) and took my M.A. in psychology from the University of Sydney in 1969.



I took my Ph.D. from the School of Behavioural Sciences at Macquarie University in 1974, specializing in social psychology.



The universities of Queensland and Sydney are "sandstone" universities, Australia's closest approach to the Ivy League.

I first tutored in psychology at Macquarie University and then from 1971 on taught sociology at the University of NSW. I taught mainly social psychology in my 14 years as a university teacher

In January 1975 I was accepted as a member of the American Psychological association

I have over the years had published over 200 papers in the social science journals --mostly in psychology journals. I was most published in the Journal of Social psychology

In August, 2022, I was most surprised to learn that my academic journal articles are still widely read despite the most recent of them having been written 30 years before that. One reason for the relatively widespread attention they receive is that I have written on quite a range of different subjects.

Here are twenty-three lists of my articles under various classifications:

Racism

Conservatism

Authoritarianism

Achievement motivation

Neuroticism and anxiety

Dogmatism and mental rigidity

Alienation

Social Class

Criminology

Environmentalism

Analytical philosophy

A-B personality and heart disease

Questionnaire acquiescence

Survey research methods

India

Scotland

South Africa

Dutch Follies

Critiques of other writers

Articles of libertarian interest

Articles relevant to Eysenck's theories

Articles using the "Directiveness" scale

Table of contents for my book Conservatism as heresy

The topical lists above do not at all however exhaust the topics I have written on. They are simply the topics on which I have written most. There are other topics on which I have written one or two papers only. See my complete list of publications (in order of publication date) for these.



NOTE:

You can also access my Unpublished academic articles and articles written for the internet only.



For lists of blog postings from me, see

DISSECTING LEFTISM,
TONGUE-TIED,
EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL,
GREENIE WATCH,
POLITICAL CORRECTNESS WATCH, and
AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

I update those frequently.


Much less often, I update Paralipomena , A Coral reef compendium and an IQ compendium. I also put up occasional updates on my Personal blog and most days I gather together my most substantial current writings on THE PSYCHOLOGIST.


Email me here (Hotmail address). My Home Pages are here (Academic) or here (Personal). My annual picture page is here; My home page supplement; Menu of my longer writings; Subject index to my shorter notes