Daryl J. Bem

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Daryl J. Bem

Daryl J. Bem (* 1938 in Denver , Colorado ) is an American social psychologist .

Life

He teaches at Cornell University in Ithaca , New York State . Bem graduated from Reed College with a bachelor's degree in physics in 1960 and received his PhD in social psychology from the University of Michigan in 1964 .

Bem is the originator of the self-awareness theory and the "Exotic Becomes Erotic" theory. He has also been engaged in research into parapsychological phenomena. According to Brem's self-perception theory, which is often contrasted with Leon Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance , people derive their attitudes from their own behavior. For example, a person who, when asked , would give an eulogy for Fidel Castro would then have a more positive attitude towards him than before.

With the "Exotic Becomes Erotic" theory, Bem presented a theory to explain the origin of the respective sexual orientation of people, which seeks to integrate both developmental and biological knowledge: Adults are sexually interested in the sex that they had in their childhood and early years Youth appeared as the stranger, more exotic and was filled with aversive emotions such as fear, loathing or even disgust. Finally, during puberty , the emotional and physiological arousal associated with these emotions would be sexualized and thus lead to a heterosexual or homosexual orientation.

In February 2011 he published a study in which he claims to have found that people have access to future knowledge . The study is, however, controversial in the scientific community. A research team led by psychologist Richard Wiseman , who replicated Bems' study, could not find any evidence for his thesis.

From his marriage to Sandra Bem , née Lipsitz (1944-2014), Bem has two children. The couple separated in 1994, the couple did not divorce and remained connected.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daryl J. Bem: "Exotic becomes Erotic. A developmental theory of sexual orientation." ( Memento of the original from April 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 2.9 MB) In: Psychological Review 103 (1996) 2, pp. 320-335. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / dbem.ws
  2. ^ Spiegel.de: Psychologists dispute: Researchers are outraged by clairvoyance study , accessed on April 1, 2011
  3. ^ The Guardian: Backwards step on looking into the future , accessed May 20, 2011
  4. ^ Robin Marantz Henig: The Last Day of Her Life . nytimes.com, May 14, 2015, accessed October 2, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Bem, Daryl J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American social psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Denver , Colorado