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Gerald T. Gardner

Behavioral Science Department
University of Michigan-Dearborn
Dearborn, Michigan 48128
(313)-593-5520

Present Position

Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan-Dearborn

Education

Rockefeller University, New York, N.Y., Postdoctoral Fellow, 1971
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Ph.D., 1970, (Experimental Psychology)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, B.A., 1965

Areas of Specialization

A. Environmental psychology: 1. Applications of behavioral science knowledge to the understand-ing and solution of global and regional environmental problems (pollution, resource depletion, population). 2. The effects of physical environments on human behavior (environmental stressors, architecture and design). B. Human behavior and public policy.

Professional Experience

Visiting Research Scholar, Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University, 1980-1981. Visiting Fellow, Program on Energy and Behavior, Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale
University, 1979.
Lecturer in Environmental Studies, U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1978.
Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan-Dearborn, 1974-1982 (on leave 1979-1981).
Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan-Dearborn, 1971-1974.

Publications

Gardner, G. Review of Environment, Ethics, and Behavior: The Psychology of Valuation and Degradation. Bazerman, M. et al. (Eds.). San Francisco: New Lexington Press, 1997. In Environment, 1998, 40, 29.
Gardner, G., & Stern, P. Environmental Problems and Human Behavior. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon, Inc., 1996.
Gardner, G., & Gould, L. Public perceptions of the risks and benefits of technology. Risk Analy-sis, 1989, 9,225-242.
Gould, L., Gardner, G., DeLuca, D., Tiemann, A., Doob, L., & Stolwijk, J. Perceptions of Technological Risks and Benefits. New York, N.Y.: The Russell Sage Foundation, 1988.

Publications (Contd.)

Stolwijk, A., DeLuca, D., Gould, L., Horowitz, W., Doob, L., Gardner, G., & Tiemann, A. Public perception of technological risk. In F. Homburger (Ed.), Safety Evaluation and Regulation of Chemicals (2). Basel, Switzerland: S. Karger, 1985.
Gardner, G., Tiemann, A., Gould, L., DeLuca, D., Doob, L., & Stolwijk, J., Risk and benefit perceptions, acceptability judgements, and self-reported actions toward nuclear power. J. of Social Psychology, 1982, 116, 179-197.
Stern, P., & Gardner, G. The place of behavior change in the management of environmental problems. Zietschrift fUr Umweltpolitik, Feb. 1981, 213-240.
Gould, L., Gardner, G., & Stern, P. Conflicting academic and policy-making perspectives on the "energy crisis." In G. Daneke (Ed.), Energy, economics and environment: Toward a comprehen. perspect. New York: Lexington Books, in press.
Stern, P., & Gardner, G. Psychological research and energy policy. American Psychologist, 1981, 36, 329-342.
Stem, P., & Gardner, G. Habits, hardware, and energy conservation. Comment in American Psychologist, 1981, 36, 426-42 8.
Stem, P., & Gardner, G. A review and critique of energy research in psychology. Social Science Energy Review, 1980, 3, 1-71.
Gardner, G. Effects of federal human subjects regulations on data obtained in environmental stres-sor research. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1978, 36, 628-634.
Gardner, G., & Joseph, D. Parallel processing at "deep" perceptual levels. Bulletin of the Psy-chonomic Society, 1975, 76, 658-660.
Gardner, G. Evidence for independent parallel channels in tachistoscopic perception. Cognitive Psychology, 1973,4, 130-155.
Shiffrin, R., Gardner, G., & Allmeyer, D. On the degree of attention and capacity limitations in visual processing. Perception & Psychophysics, 1973, 14, 231-236.
Gardner, G. Parallel perceptual processing and decisional strategies: A reinterpretation of the Shaw & LaBerge effect. Perception & Psychophysics, 1973, 13, 517-518.
Shiffrin, R., & Gardner, G. Visual processing capacity and attentional control. Journal of Exper-imental Psychology, 1972, 93, 72-82.
Weintraub, D., & Gardner, G. Emmert's Laws: Size constancy vs. optical geometry. American Journal of Psychology, 1970, 83, 40-54.
Gardner, G., & Weintraub, D. Tracking afterimage shrinkage during fading. Perception & Psychophysics, 1968,3, 361-363.

Papers and Convention Presentations

Gardner, G, & Stern, P.: Environmental problems and human behavior. Symposium on "Teaching courses on psychology and the environment," American Psychological Association Conven-tion, Toronto, August 1996.
Gardner, G., Tiemann, A., Gould, L., DeLuca, D., Doob, L., & Stolwijk, J. Risk and benefit perception, acceptability and personal action: A pre-study. The Risk Perception Confer-ence, Eugene, Oregon, December, 1980.
Gardner, G. (Chair), Social science research and energy policy: lssues and problems. Symposi-um, American Psychological Association Convention, New York, New York, September
1979.
Gardner, G. The role of the behavioral and social sciences in a national program of ocean pollu-tion research. Written for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin. (NOAA), Envi-ronmental Assessment Office, May 1978.

Fellowships and Awards

Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in Environmental Affairs, 1979, (see 2nd. entry under "Prof. Exp." on p. 1 U.S. Public Health Service Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1970-1971

Research Grants and Experience

Principal Investigator, interdisciplinary project on public perceptions of technological risks (com-pletion of project below). Funding: The Exxon Education Foundation, 1985-1986.
Senior Investigator, interdisciplinary project on public perceptions of technological risks, Institu-tion for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University. Funding: General Electric Research and Development Center, Northeast Utilities, and the National Science Foundation. 1979-1985.
Senior Investigator, research project on the promotion of residential energy conservation, I.S.P.S., Yale University. Funding: Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities and U.S. De-partment of Energy, 1979-1980.
Co-Principal Investigator, research on the psychological effects of environmental noise, U. of M., Ann Arbor (with D. Weintraub). Funding: UM-D research grant, 1976-1978.
Principal Investigator, research on visual attention. Funding:
1974-1975 National Institutes of Mental Health
1973-1974 Rackham Research Grant (U.M. Ann Arbor)
1971-1972 Rackham and Office of Resh. Admin. Grants

Teaching Activities: Preparations

Environmental Psychology, (the applications of behavioral science knowledge to the under-standing and solution of global resource, pollution, and population problems)
Environment, Architecture, and Design (major theories and research findings on effects of physi-cal environments--both natural and human-made--on human behavior)
Laboratory in Environmental Psychology, (applied psychology research on environmental problems)
Technological Risks and Society
Introduction to Psychology as a Natural Science
Statistics and Experimental Design

Consulting Experience

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Washington, D.C., Task Force on Ocean Pollution Research Program, 1978.

Invited to do Reviewing for:

National Science Foundation
New York State Sea Grant Research Program
Wiley, Inc.
Allyn & Bacon, Inc.
Psychology Review
Risk Analysis
Environment (see above)