| Activity | Date of Birth: 3rd February 1953
University Qualifications:
BA University of Natal
History, Psychology, Theology, 1970-1972
BA Hons Psychology, 1973
M.A By research. "Cross-cultural conformity & field dependence". 1974-1975
M.Sc Econ London School of Economics, University of London
(Distinction) By research, essays and examination. Thesis: "The relative contribution of verbal, vocal and visual cues to person perception". 1975-1976
MSc University of Strathclyde
By research. Thesis: "Sex and class factors in the perception of social episodes". 1976-1977
D.Phil University of Oxford
By research. Thesis: "Person-Situation Interaction: Preference and Perception". 1977-1981
D.Sc University of London
Based on selected publications. 1991
D.Litt University of Natal. 1997
Based on selected publications.
Professional Career:
University Lecturer in Psychology, Pembroke College, Oxford, and member of the SCR, 1980-1982
Lecture in Psychology, University College London, 1981-1987
Reader in Psychology, University College London, 1988-1992
Professor of Psychology, University College London 1992 -
Adjunct Professor of Psychology: Norwegian School of Management, 2009-
Visiting Lecturer in Psychology, Department of External Studies, Oxford, 1978-1989
Visiting Professor: University of Hong Kong, 1994-1997
Visiting Professor: (Total Oil Marine Professor of Management) Henley Management College, 1999-2005
External Lecturer in Psychology, Dorset House School of Occupational Lecturing Therapy, 1977-1981; Police Training Centre, Eynsham, 1978-1981; Oxford; Community Nursing Centre, Radcliffe Hospital Oxford, 1979-1982; University of Miami MBA course, 1982-1984; Birkbeck College, 1986-1987, Hong Kong University, 1991-1996.
External Examiner: London School of Economics; Middlesex Polytechnic; Royal Holloway and Bedford New College; Nene College, Exeter University (MSc: Economic Psychology; City University (MSc: Psychometrics) Royal Holloway (MSc Social Psychology) Makerere University (Uganda) University of Malaysia (Kota Kinabalu)
AFFILIATIONS
Fellow of the British Psychological Society
External Affiliate of the American Psychological Association
President of the Society for the Study of Individual Differences (2003-2005) (Elected by members)
Member of the European Association for the Study of Personality
Chartered Organisational Psychologist; Chartered Health Psychologist
Member of the Japanese Psychological Association
AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Natal Education Department Merit Award (for a 1st in Psychology and Theology), 1971
Rotary International Fellowship (for a year's study at any university in the world), 1975-6.
Wolfson College Oxford Graduate Scholarship, 1979-81.
Oxford Postgraduate Union Travelling Scholarship, 1980.
Tregaskis Research Bequest: University of London, 1982/1983
Mahesh Desai Memorial Lecturer: University of York, 1983
Commonwealth Visiting Fellowship to Australia, 1984
Professor Dame Lillian Penson Memorial Scholarship to do research in the West Indies, 1986.
Who's Who, 1998.
Elected President: International Society for the Study of Individual Differences 2003-2005
Total Oil Marine Visiting Professor of Management; Henley Management College 2000-2006
Adjunct Professor of Management: Norwegian Business School 2009-
Elected Fellow of the Leadership Trust 2010
Elected Academician of the Learned Society of the Social Sciences 2010
British Psychological Society Academic Contribution to Practice Award 2011
PRODUCTIVITY
Most productive social psychologist in the world 1980-1989. Ref: Gordon, R. & Vicari, P. (1992). Eminence in Social Psychology. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 18, 25-38.
Second most productive psychologist in the world (1986-1990). Ref: Garfield, E. (1992). Psychology Research, 1986-1990. Current Contents, 41, 5-15.
Second most productive psychologist in the world (1990-1994). APS Observer, Vol 9, No 1, based on
ISI Science Indicator Database, 1990-1994.
One of the 75 researchers who are APA members and on the ISI list of highly cited researchers. June 2004.
One of twenty of the only highly cited members of University College London. June 2005.
Current h impact statistics 49 by ISI; 62 by Google Scholar; 84 by Publish and Perish
Citations to ones work: peer reviewed journals: 11,000; papers, books & chapters 25,000.
Sources: A Furnham's CV.
Compiled by Mike Maskill, BPS Archivist for the History of Psychology Centre. |
| PublishedWorks | Total number of publications: 826 (as at 2012)
A full publication list is available upon request
50 most recent publications (2012)
Furnham AF,Shagabutdinova K (2012) Sex differences in multiple intelligence in self and others: A replication in Russia. International Journal of Psychology..
Swami V,Furnham AF (2012) Political paranoia and conspiracy theories..
Wilson E,Chan PS,Furnham A (2012) What to wear? The influence of attire on perceived professionalism in two occupations: Dentists and Lawyers. Journal of Applied Social Psychology..
Swami V,Furnham AF (2012) The effects of symmetry and personality on aesthetic preferences. Imagination, Cognition and Personality..
Avila C,Furnham AF,McClelland A (2012) The Influence of Distracting Familiar Vocal Music on Cognitive Performance of Introverts and Extraverts. Psychology of Music..
Furnham AF,Cater-Leno V (2012) Psychiatric literacy and the conduct disorders. Research in Developmental Disability..
Baguma P,Furnham AF (2012) Attributions for, and the perceived effects of, poverty in East Africa..
Furnham AF (2012) Justice at work..
Furnham AF (2012) Emotional Intelligence. Emotional Intelligence..
Furnham AF,Telford K (2012) Lay theories of, and public attitudes towards, mental illness. Mental Health..
Furnham A (2012) The Psychology of unemployment: Laying people off in a recession..
Furnham AF,Boo HC,McClelland A (2012) Individual differences and the susceptibility to the influence of anchoring cues. Journal of Individual Differences..
Furnham AF,Moutafi J (2012) Personality, age and fluid intelligence. Australian Journal of Psychology..
Furnham AF (2012) Passion in Organisations..
Furnham AF (2012) Intelligence and intellectual styles., 173 - 192.
Furnham AF,Winceslas J (2012) Psychiatric literacy and the personality disorders. Psychopathology, 45, 29 - 41.
Furnham AF,Lester D (2012) The development of a short measure of character strength. European Journal of Psychological Assessment..
Furnham AF,Davidson L (2012) Sex differences in beliefs about bulimia nervosa. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology., 47, 67 - 77.
Cioffi R,Coluccia A,Ferretti F,Lorini F,Saggino A,Furnham A (2012) A psychometric study of quality perception questionnaire. Swiss Journal of Psychology..
Furnham AF,Dihn A,Wilson E (2012) Lay understandings of the defence mechanisms: The role of personality traits and gender. Psychology ,Health and Medicine..
Furnham AF,Trickey G,Hyde G (2012) Bright aspects to dark side traits: Personality disorders and work success. Personality and Individual Differences..
Loo P-W,Wong S,Furnham A (2012) Mental Health Literacy: A cross-cultural study from Britain, Hong Kong and Malaysia. Asia-Pacific Journal of Psychiatry..
Furnham AF,McClelland A,Mansi A (2012) Selecting your boss: Sex, age, IQ and EQ factors. Personality and Individual Differences..
Furnham AF,Strait L,Hughes D (2012) Modern Heath Worries and personality. Personality and Mental Health..
Furnham AF,Bedi R,Swami V (2012) Predictors of job satisfaction among general practitioners of South Asian descent in Britain..
Furnham AF (2012) Workaholism..
Swami A,Furnham AF (2012) Personality and Aesthetic experiences..
Kirkcaldy B,Furnham AF,Siefen R (2012) Health and educational performance among young migrants. International Journal of Adolescent Medical Health..
Furnham AF,Wilson E,Telford K (2012) The meaning of money: The validation of a short money- type measure. Personality and Individual Differences..
Furnham AF,Blythe C (2012) Schizophrenia literacy: The effect of direct experience with the illness. Psychiatry Research..
Furnham AF,Dadabhoy H (2012) Beliefs about, behavioural manifestations and treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder. Psychiatry Research..
Furnham AF,Paltzer S (2012) The portrayal of men and women in British television advertisements: A review of 7 studies published over a 12 year period. Journal of Mass Communication and Journalism..
Dobbs S,Furnham A,McClelland A (2011) The effect of background music and noise on the cognitive test performance on introverts and extraverts. Applied Cognitive Psychology., 25, 307 - 313.
Avila C,Furnham A,McClelland A (2011) The Influence of Distracting Familiar Vocal Music on Cognitive Performance of Introverts and Extraverts. Psychology of Music.
Von Stumm S,Chung A,Furnham A (2011) Creative ability, creative ideation, and latent classes of creative achievement: What is the role of personality? Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts., 5, 107 - 114.
Furnham AF,Kirkcaldy B,Siefen R (2011) The effects of gender on physical and psychological well-being and life satisfaction among an adult population. International Journal of Child Health and Human Development.(3), 307 - 320.
Furnham A (2011) Personality and approaches to learning.
Furnham A (2011) Selecting a medical practitioner..
Furnham A (2011) Culture explored through content analysis.
Ackerman P,Chamorro-Premuzic T,Furnham A (2011) Trait complexes and academic achievement. British Journal of Educational Psychology..
Swami V,Waters S,Furnham A (2011) Perceptions and metaperceptions of self and partner physical attractiveness. Personality and Individual Differences.
Furnham A,Mainaud L (2011) The effect of French television sexual programme content on the recall of sexual and non-sexual advertisements. Journal of Sex Research.
Furnham A (2011) Proof reading as an index of crystallised intelligence. Educational Psychology.
Swami V,Kannan K,Furnham AF (2011) Positive body image: inter-ethnic and rural-urban differences among an indigenous sample from Malaysian Borneo. International Journal of Social Psychology..
Furnham AF,Levitas J (2011) Factors that motivate people to have cosmetic surgery. Canadian Journal of Plastic Surgery..
Furnham AF,Sarwar T (2011) Beliefs about attention-deficit hyperactive disorder. Counselling Psychology Quarterly., 24, 301 - 311.
Furnham AF,Hutson E,McClelland A (2011) The effect of gender on canned laughter television programme appreciation. North American Journal of Psychology., 13, 391 - 402.
Furnham AF,Cook R,Martin N,Batey M (2011) Mental health literacy among university students. Journal of Public Mental Health., 10, 198 - 210.
Kirkcaldy B,Furnham AF,Siefen R (2011) Culture, Psychopharmacology and Well-being., 51 - 77.
Szymanowitz A,Furnham A (2011) Gender differences in self-estimates of general, mathematical, spatial and verbal intelligence. Four meta analyses. Learning and Individual Differences., 21, 493 - 504. |