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William A. McConochie, PhD.
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McConochie, PhD.
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PPRI Publications

Dr. McConochie has written up his research findings in several manuscripts that are all available on this web site. They can be downloaded for personal use but not for resale.

Our publications are described below and include both documents and videos you can view online, download, or order. You'll need Adobe Reader to view our documents. Videos are in Quicktime format.

1. Warmongering and Warmongering-Proneness as Psychological Traits : A peer-reviewed professional research paper on warmongering and warmongering-proneness as psychological traits. Includes scores for G. W. Bush, John Kerry, Jimmy Carter, Gandhi, Mandela, Hitler, and others.

74 pp.

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2. Religious Beliefs for War, Peace and Species Survival . 45- page peer-reviewed paper on religious beliefs, two types that underlie war and peace alternately in the service of species survival. Are there grounds for a meta-religion? 45 pp. PDF
3. Making Peace: Psychological Origins of Violence-Proneness, Warmongering and a New Democracy . 286-page peer reviewed book manuscript. 31 chapters on these topics, research findings providing empirically supported theory on these three topics, all of which are related to each other. Copies of this book manuscript can be printed and bound for sale by the author in volume, e.g. for use in teaching. 286 pp.
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4. Political Psychology Research Instrument manual . A manual of 22 psychological trait measures used in research. Reliability and validity statistics and scale items. Scales for warmongering, warmongering-proneness, sustainability endorsement, human rights endorsement, religious fundamentalism, kindly religious beliefs, public democracy endorsement and many others. Four main scales are translated into French, German and Spanish. 67 pp.
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  Political Psychology Research Instrument manual-- Translated (Survey only). To help facilitate international research, key psychological trait surveys have been tranlated into several languages. German
Spanish
French
5. Political philosophy review and comment paper : A review of the history of political philosophy to show similarities between major recommendations by great philosophers and the current mission of PPR, Inc. Would Jean Jacques Rousseau approve of a scientific approach to designing government? Would Jeremy Bentham have liked a political party based on public opinion polling? 27 pp PDF
6. Research Report #1 Summer '06: Value of Religion. A study of the personal value of religion to persons of fundamentalist and kindly religious beliefs types and endorsement of meta-religion services. Implications for political campaigning. 18 pp
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7. Research Report #2 Fall '06: Government Service Preferences. A study of what citizens want from government ; attitudes about political parties; interest in a new party; relations to political traits of pro-social and anti-social import. What the people want from government and which types of people don't care. Implications for raising tax revenues and allocating government funds. 20 pp
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8. Authoritarianism Endorsement Scale -- MANUAL 10 pp
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9. Warmongering and related traits essay . 5 pp.
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10. Comment on April 16,2007, Virginia Tech student homicide. Short essay . 1 pp.
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11. Research Report #4: A Comprehensive Measure of Warmongering as a multifaceted but primarily unitary trait; Response sets as a concern in questionnaire construction. 12 pp.
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12. Essay: Working Model for a World Meta-religion, (WMR). 9 pp.
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13. Video: The Psychology of Violence, Warmongering and a New Democracy, Part I: Lecture
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14. Video: The Psychology of Violence, Warmongering and a New Democracy, Part II: Q&A
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15. Manual for the McConochie 44-item Warmongering Scale; A Multifaceted but primarily unitary measure of warmongering as a psychological trait.

8 pp.
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16. Research Report #5: Sixteen Variable Study: Antisocial Traits, Religious beliefs and Desired Government Features.

7 pp.
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17. Exploration of the Victoroff Oppression Questionnaire

13 pp.
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18. Ten questions about the meaning of democracy;

Answers informed by the science of political psychology.

4 pp.
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19. Manual for McConochie Constructive Leadership Attitudes Scale (McCLAS) The scale is a tool to help size up candidates for political office, with the intention of protecting nations from anti-social political leadership and promoting pro-social leadership.

3 pp.
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20. Essay on Psychologist Ethics This paper consists of highlight opinions and suggestions arising out of involvement with Psychologists for Social Responsibility during 2007 and 2008. For PsySR I interviewed retired military personnel and a professional interrogator. I wrote a white paper based and this and with the help of another PsySR member rewrote sections of the APA code of ethics to address areas that implicitly permitted psychologists to participate in illegal and immoral activities requested by their employer.

4 pp.
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21. Life and Death Ethical Issues for Psychologists: Protecting yourself and your profession from corruption and murder. This brief essay was inspired by papers, speeches, testimony and discussions by psychologists at the Berlin conference of the International Congress of Psychologists, July, 2008.  It presents questions for psychologists in nations around the world, which can be answered via research.

2 pp.
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22. Five Horsemen of the Apocalypse; An Evolutionary Species Survival Theory of War and Peace. This paper presents a theory of warmongering and related traits as one aspect of a species survival mechanism.  The other aspect of this mechanism is a cluster of pro-social traits, including human rights endorsement.  These two trait clusters are proposed as an oscillation between warring and peaceful activity in human societies depending on population stresses on life-support resources.

12 pp.
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