Dr. James Rhoads, Westminster College professor of political science, presented a paper at the annual meeting of The International Society of Political Psychology July 7-10 in San Francisco.

Rhoads presented "The Quantization of Subjectivity" with the paper's co-author, Dr. Steven Brown from Kent State University.

The paper argues that the human sciences have grown restive with regard to conventional research practices and conclusions, which are typically based on variable analysis, reductionism, objective procedures and explained variance, with large numbers of observations being assumed necessary.

Brown and Rhoads contend that the social sciences should move to adopt more current scientific thinking. In their paper, conventional efforts to measure authoritarian personality provide the pretext for revisiting the parallels between Q methodology and quantum theory.

Rhoads, who joined the Westminster faculty in 1992, earned his undergraduate and master's degrees and Ph.D. from Kent State University.

Contact Rhoads at (724) 946-7255 or e-mail jrhoads@westminster.edu for additional information.

Dr. James Rhoads