Dan Landis

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Dan Landis (born July 20, 1936 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; full name Daniel R. Landis ) is an American psychologist . Dan Landis is an Affiliate Professor of Psychology at the University of Hawaii at Hilo and Manoa . Previously, he was Professor of Psychology, Director of the Center for Applied Research and Evaluation and former Dean of the Liberal Arts College at the University of Mississippi . He was instrumental in founding the International Academy for Intercultural Research , where he holds the position of Treasurer and Executive Director.

Life

Daniel Landis was born on July 20, 1936 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, to Edythe and Samuel Landesberg. Edyte's father, Morris Volovick, was a well-known Russian-born cantor who attended High Holy Day masses in various locations in the eastern half of the United States, despite being blind from birth. Edythe was orphaned at the age of seven when her mother fell victim to the Spanish flu of 1918. Morris could not raise five children (ages seven to under a year) by himself, so he sent his children to relatives and orphanages.

Shortly after Landis was born, his parents separated and he was raised as an only child by his now single mother. Due to his frequent illnesses and lung problems, he and his mother moved to Arizona shortly after the start of the Second World War because of the more pleasant climate. Edythe found work in one of the numerous Army Air Force bases around Phoenix; Landis became the key child long before the term was created.

After completing school, Landis studied Psychology at Arizona State College (ASC) with a focus on psychotherapy and experimental psychology. His studies were heavily influenced by two faculty members, philosopher Vernon Dolphin and developmental psychologist Rachel Stutsman Ball. In 1957, he received his Bachelor of Science and Masters degree from Temple University , while teaching classes for mixed-ethnic children with developmental disabilities. In 1959, he accepted a PhD in experimental psychology at Wayne State University in Detroit , where he met his wife, Rae Morris. He wrote his dissertation on visual perception, a topic that he later pursued in the context of large combat zones at the Franklin Institute Research Laboratories in Philadelphia . During his time in Philadelphia, Landis designed the first specialist journal devoted to intercultural research, the International Journal of Intercultural Relations (IJIR), and was editor-in-chief for 35 years. The IJIR sees itself as an interdisciplinary platform for intercultural research.

His time as a professor at the Psychology Department at Purdue University in Indianapolis was followed by a sabbatical year, which he was invited to spend at the East-West Center in Honolulu writing the Handbook of Intercultural Training. From 1984 until his retirement in 2002 he was Dean of Liberal Arts, then Professor at the University of Mississippi, where he taught a.o. a. social psychology, cross-cultural training and human sexuality. He has published on the subject of intercultural relationships and worked with a Masters student, Gloria Fisher, and Mickey Dansby at the Defense Equal Opportunity Institute (DEOMI) to develop a new benchmark for measuring an environment that offers equal opportunities. This measure, the Military Equal Opportunity Climate Measure (MEOCS), became the standard measure in the army and parts of it are still in use today. He continued to work at MEOCS to adjust the scale to non-military environments and researched injustice and discrimination against ethnic groups in the military justice system.

A small group of intercultural researchers founded the International Academy for Intercultural Research in 1997 , whose official journal became the International Journal of Intercultural Relations. Landis was elected the Academy’s first president and held that position for five years.

Research priorities

  • Intercultural relationships
  • Cross-cultural training

Publications

Anthologies

  • Handbook of intercultural training. Volume 1: Issues in Theory and Design Pergamon Press, New York 1983. ISBN 0-08-027533-8 .
  • Handbook of intercultural training. Volume 2: Issues in Training Methodology Pergamon Press, New York 1983. ISBN 0-08-027534-6 .
  • Handbook of intercultural training. Volume 3: Area Studies in Intercultural Training Pergamon Press, New York 1983. ISBN 0-08-027535-4 .

Essays, contributions, articles

  • Black-Guttman, D./Chesterton, P./Landis, D .: Cross-cultural application of the University Equal Opportunity Climate Survey. in Journal of Intercultural Studies, 1997/18, 177–186.
  • Black-Guttman, D./Chesterton, P./Landis, D .: Measuring equal opportunity climate in Australian universities. in Journal of Institutional Research in Australasia, 1998/7 (2), pp. 72-77.
  • Editor's foreword in International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 1977/1, pp. 7-11.
  • Globalization, migration into urban centers, and cross-cultural training. in International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 2008/32, pp. 337-348.
  • Fundamental principles for preparing intercultural research journal articles (with apologies to Harry F. Harlow). International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 2011/35 (6), pp. 695–698.
  • Landis, D./Albert, R. (Eds.): Handbook of ethnic conflict: International perspectives. Springer, New York 2012.
  • Landis, D./Bakir, A./Moore, M./Noguchi, K./O'Shea, W .: Life in the virtual office: The effect of culture and ethnicity on work-group productivity. in P. Boski / F. van de Vijver / A. Chodynicha (eds.): New directions in cross-cultural psychology Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw 2002, pp. 365–382.
  • Landis, D./Brislin, RW / Hulgus, JF: Attributional training versus contact in acculturative training: A laboratory study. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 1985/15, pp. 466-482.
  • Landis, D./Brislin, RW / Tzeng, OCS / Thomas, JA: Some effects of acculturative training: A field study. International Journal of Group Tensions, 1985/15, pp. 69-91.
  • Landis, D./Dansby, M./Hoyle, M .: Race and procedural justice: The case of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Armed Forces and Society, 1998/24, pp. 183-220.
  • Landis, D./Dansby, M./Tallarigo, R .: The use of climate measurement in intercultural relations training. in D. Landis / R. Bhagat (Ed.): Handbook of intercultural training (2nd edition) Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, California 1996, pp. 244-263.
  • Landis, D./Day, HR / McGrew, PL / Miller, AB / Thomas, JA: Can a Black “culture assimilator” increase racial understanding? Journal of Social Issues, 1976/32, pp. 169-184.
  • Landis, D./Hayman, JL / Hall, WS: A multidimensional analysis procedure for measuring self-concept in poverty area classrooms. Journal of Educational Psychology, 1971/62, pp. 93-103.
  • Landis, D./McGrew, PL / Triandis, HC: Behavioral intentions and norms of urban school teachers. in GK Verma / C. Bagely (Ed.): Race and education across cultures Heinemann, London, England 1975, pp. 117-144.
  • Landis, D./O'Shea, W .: Cross-cultural aspects of passionate love: An individual differences analysis. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 2000/31, pp. 754-779.
  • Landis, D./Solley, CM: Classical conditioning to a negative after image. Psychological Record, 1965/15, pp. 553-560.
  • Landis, D./Triandis, HC / Adamopoulous, J .: Habit and behavioral intentions as predictors of social behavior. Journal of Social Psychology, 1978/108, pp. 227-237.
  • Silver, CA / Jones, JM / Landis, D .: Decision quality as a measure of visual display effectiveness. Journal of Applied Psychology, 1966/50, pp. 109-113.
  • Tzeng, OCS / Landis, D .: Three-mode multidimensional scaling with points of view solutions. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 1978/13, pp. 181-213.

Editorships

  • International Journal of Intercultural Relations

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ International Academy for Intercultural Research
personal data
SURNAME Landis, Dan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Landis, Daniel R.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American psychologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia, Pennsylvania