Seth C. Kalichman

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Seth C. Kalichman is an American clinical community psychologist and professor of social psychology at the University of Connecticut who specializes in the prevention and treatment of HIV / AIDS . Its h-index is 101.

Kalichman received his PhD from the University of South Carolina in 1990 . He is the director of the Southeast HIV / AIDS Research & Education Project in Atlanta and Cape Town ; Editor of the scientific journal AIDS and Behavior and author of Denying AIDS: Conspiracy Theories, Pseudoscience, and Human Tragedy , a work on AIDS denial . The proceeds from book sales will be used to fund antiretroviral drugs for people living with HIV / AIDS in Africa.

Kalichman spent a year infiltrating HIV denial organizations. He argues that denial is often a coping strategy and that adherents are often anti-government and anti-"establishment" and prone to cognitive bias . He also argues that the leading science deniers have paranoid personality disorders . He began researching science denial after reading the work of Nicoli Nattrass.

He is the developer of the Sexual Compulsivity Scale.

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  1. ↑ Seth C. Kalichmann , Profile in Google Scholar . Retrieved February 13, 2019.
  2. ↑ Anthony Lemelle: Seth Kalichman, Denying AIDS: Conspiracy Theories, Pseudoscience, and Human Tragedy . In: Springer New York (Ed.): Journal of African American Studies . 13, No. 3, September 2009, ISSN  1936-4741 , pp. 361-364. doi : 10.1007 / s12111-009-9098-1 .
  3. ↑ John P. Moore: The dangers of denying HIV . In: Nature . 459, No. 7244, May 14, 2009, p. 168. bibcode : 2009Natur.459..168M . doi : 10.1038 / 459168a .
  4. ↑ a b c d James Wortman: Debunking the "Beehive" of AIDS Denialism . In: POZ , August 3, 2009.
  5. ↑ Matt Palmquist: Looking Back In Anger . In: Miller-McCune , November 3, 2009. Archived from the original on November 6, 2009. 
  6. ↑ Deborah MacKenzie: Living in denial: Why sensitive people reject the truth . In: New Scientist , May 19, 2010.
  7. ↑ Seth C. Kalichman; David Rompa: The Sexual Compulsivity Scale: Further Development and Use With HIV-Positive Persons . In: Journal of Personality Assessment . tape 76 , no. 3 , 2001, p. 379-395 , doi : 10.1207 / S15327752JPA7603_02 .
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SURNAME Kalichman, Seth C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American clinical community psychologist and professor of social psychology at the University of Connecticut
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century