GABRENYA JR., William K.

William K. GABRENYA JR.}

Contact Information

Professor
Industrial Organizational Psychology
College of Psychology and Liberal Arts
710, 273
Phone: 8879
Email: gabrenya@fit.edu

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Industrial Organizational Psychology

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Research & Project Interests

Dr. Gabrenya’s research interests include cultural psychology, political psychology, sociology of science, modernization, indigenous psychologies and Chinese culture.

Keywords

International Student Adjustment
Cross-Cultural Differences
Social Class
Cross-Cultural Organizational Psychology

Professor
Industrial Organizational Psychology, College of Psychology and Liberal Arts

Personal Overview

-International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology

-Society for Cross-Cultural Research

-Asian Association for Social Psychology

-American Psychological Association
-Division 8: Personality and Social Psychology
-Division 9: Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues

-Southeastern Psychological Association

Educational Background

A.B. Ohio University 1974
M.A. University of Missouri-Columbia 1977
Ph.D. University of Missouri-Columbia 1979

Professional Experience

Chair, Undergraduate Psychology Program, Florida Institute of Technology

Postdoctoral Fellowship:
Ohio State University,
Behavioral Sciences Laboratory

Overseas appointment:
National Taiwan University, Department of Psychology

Dr. Gabrenya teaches undergraduate and graduate courses including cross-cultural psychology, culture and psychology, research methods and social psychology.

Professional activities include editor of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology's Cross-Cultural Psychology Bulletin and chair of the IACCP Publications Committee. He is the Webmaster for IACCP, the Society for Cross-Cultural Research and the School of Psychology.

Courses Taught
-Cross-Cultural Psychology
-Culture and Psychology
-Research Methods
-Social Psychology
-Undergraduate Seminars

Current Research

Cultural differences in cybersex and other forms of internet sexuality.

Selected Publications

Gabrenya, W. K., Jr., Kung, M.-C., & Chen, L.-Y. (2006). Understanding the Taiwan Indigenous psychology movement: A sociology of science approach. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 37(6), 597-622.

Gabrenya, W. K., Jr. (2004). A sociology of science approach to understanding indigenous psychologies. In B. N. Setiadi, A. Supratiknya, W. J. Lonner, & Y. H. Poortinga (Eds.), Ongoing Themes in Psychology and Culture (pp. 131-149). Jakarta: International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology.

Gabrenya, W.K. Jr. (2001). IACCP Online Directory and Member Information Database [Computer program]. Melbourne: IACCP.

Gabrenya, W.K. Jr. (1999). Psychological Anthropology and the levels of analysis problem: We married the wrong cousin. In J.C. Lasry, J. Adair and K. Dion (Eds.), Latest contributions to Cross-Cultural Psychology (pp.333-351). The Netherlands: Swets
and Zeitlinger.

Gabrenya, W.K. Jr. and Hwang, K.K. (1996). Chinese social interaction: Harmony and hierarchy on the good earth. In M. H. Bond (Ed.), The handbook of Chinese Psychology (pp. 309-321). Hong Kong: Oxford University Press.