Anthony Pratkanis

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Anthony Pratkanis Biography

Pratkanis was born on April 2, 1957 in Portsmouth Virginia. In 1979 Pratkanis graduated from Eastern Mennonite College with a Bachelor of Science in psychology, sociology and social work. Following that he went to Ohio State University and earned his Master of Science and Ph.D. in 1984. Pratkanis interests are applied social psychology; attitudes and beliefs; communication, language; group processes; intergroup relations; persuasion, social influence; prejudice and stereotyping.

Pratkanis commenced his teaching career at Carnegie Mellon University in 1984 where he taught courses in advertising and, human behaviour. In 1987 he moved to the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he took up the position of Professor in the Psychology Department of the Social Services Division where he teaches four courses – Introduction to Social Psychology, Social Influence, Social Psychology of Autocracy and Democracy, and Social Psychology of Flim Flam. Pratkanis received the UCSC Excellence in Teaching Award for his courses Social Influence and Social Psychology, and was named the Psychology Class of 2005 Most Revered Professor.

Pratkanis is often cited in the mainstream news media on presidential campaigns, Fraud, social influence, war and Propaganda. In 1995 he appeared on Oprah Winfrey’s television show as an expert on social influence. He has been quoted or cited by The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, CNN, Dateline NBC, and CBS News and the South China Morning Post – the largest English speaking Hong Kong Newspaper.

Pratkanis has consulted for civic groups, government and law enforcement agencies, regulatory bodies and the United States Military. In 2002 he won a Telly award for his work as a scientific consultant on the AARP video Weapons of Fraud, aimed at reducing the number of senior Americans becoming victims of scams. He has worked with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, FINRA (formerly NASD), and law enforcement agencies on strategies for preventing economic Fraud crimes. The United States Military has enlisted Pratkanis to assist with countering Propaganda of terrorists and dictators, and reducing conflict in war zones. He has also assisted the National Association of Attorneys General’s Tobacco Litigation Group as an expert on consumer behaviour.

In 2004 Pratkanis received an excellence in teaching award and was named the most revered professor by the psychology class of 2005.

Pratkanis’ research interest is “social influence – how the social world determines attitudes and beliefs and how, in turn, those individual beliefs affect the social world.” His research program has investigated such topics as the delayed effects of persuasion, attitudes and memory, groupthink, affirmative action, subliminal influence, persuasion and democracy, and influence tactics such as the pique technique, phantoms, the projection tactic, the 1-in-5 prize tactic, expert snare, and altercasting. Pratkanis is listed as a co-author on 15 papers published in scientific journals, and is a founding editor of the Journal Social Influence, first published in 2006. He is an editor of Attitude Structure and Function, The Science of Social Influence, past editor of The Journal of Social Psychology, and a past associate editor for the Journal of Consumer Psychology. His research papers have been translated into 10 different languages.

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