Primary Interests:
- Attitudes and Beliefs
- Ethics and Morality
- Health Psychology
- Interpersonal Processes
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Personality, Individual Differences
- Social Cognition
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I am interested in the relation of belief and knowledge to action. Learning the circumstances under which attitudes (your own or those of significant others) will predict behavior and learning which attitudes are relevant to behavior is a continuing preoccupation that has expressed itself in diverse research. Two recent examples are a study of alcohol expectancies and beliefs about fetal vulnerability as influences on drinking in pregnant women and a study of the effects of moral reasoning and personal efficacy training on children's ethical conduct.
Journal Articles:
- Firestone, I. J., Lichtman, C. M., & Colamosca, J. V. (1975). Leader effectiveness and leadership conferral as determinants of helping in a medical emergency. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 31(2), 343-348.
- Gardin, H., Kaplan, K. J., Firestone, I. J., & Cowan, G. A. (1973). Proxemic effects on cooperation, attitude, and approach-avoidance in a Prisoner's Dilemma game. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 27(1), 13-18.
- Glass, D. C., Horwitz, M., Firestone, I., & Grinker, J. (1963). Birth order and reactions to frustration. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 66(2), 192-194.
- Grier, L. K., & Firestone I. J. (1999). The effects of an intervention to advance moral reasoning and efficacy. Child Study Journal, 28(4).
- Hankin, J. R., Firestone, I. J., Sloan, J. J., Ager, J. W., Sokol, R. J., & Martier, S. S. (1994). Time series analyses reveal differential impact of the Alcohol Warning Label by drinking level. Applied Behavioral Science Review, 2(1), 47-59.
- Linkey, H. E., & Firestone, I. J. (1990). Dyad dominance composition effects, nonverbal behaviors, and influence. Journal of Research in Personality, 24(2), 206-215.
- Lucas, T., Alexander, S., Firestone, I., & LeBreton, J. M. (2007). Development and initial validation of a procedural and distributive just world measure. Personality and Individual Differences, 43(1), 71-82.
Courses Taught:
- Attitude Theory and Attitude Change
- Environment Perception and Behavior
- Honors Research Seminar
- Interpersonal Processes and the Environment
- Life Span Development of Behavior
- Psychology of Personality
- Research Methods for Social Psychology
- Research Methods in Psychology
- Social Psychology (Honors)
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Ira Firestone
Department of Psychology
Wayne State University
5057 Woodward Avenue
Detroit, MI 48202
United States
Phone: (313) 577-2819
Fax: (313) 577-7636