Biographical Overview - Lloyd S. Etheredge

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1 Biographical Overview - Lloyd S. Etheredge Lloyd S. Etheredge (B.A Oberlin College; M.A and Ph. D Yale University) is a political scientist, psychologist, and teacher who does research and organizes projects (especially, using new communications technology) for the development of rapid learning systems and to contribute fresh and creative thinking about domestic and international problems. Dr. Etheredge has taught at MIT (where he received a graduate teaching award), Yale University, the University of California at Berkeley, Duke University, Swarthmore and Oberlin Colleges, the University of Toronto, and other academic institutions. He has served as Director of Graduate Studies for International Relations at Yale, with administrative responsibility for multidisciplinary professional training. He was awarded a Fellowship to the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences ( ) and elected as a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science in In the early 1990s, he worked with Joshua Lederberg and others to outline a strategic plan to use the emerging global Internet to accelerate scientific innovation. Their work (supported by UNESCO, the World Health Organization, and the Richard Lounsbery and Sprint Foundations,) created a prototype of regularly scheduled global Internet colloquia and was the basis for the Science Without Borders service at the New York Academy of Sciences and the global videocast system at the National Institutes of Health ( Dr. Etheredge edited two volumes (1998, 2000) of the scientific papers of his former MIT colleague, Ithiel de Sola Pool, surveying our growing knowledge of the potential impacts of new communications technology on social, economic, and political processes and its creative potential. As a political psychologist, Dr. Etheredge has made two original scientific contributions: 1.) To the study of decision making, learning, barriers to learning, and forecasting in international relations (drawing upon cases in American foreign policy and its war/peace decisions). His research, using quantitative methods, clarifies links to personality and has proposed a new, psychologically refined and predictive theory of hubris as a non-learning (and often recycling) baseline of poweroriented actors, including predictions of their likely misperceptions and mistakes; 2.) To develop a new, integrated, behavioral science paradigm to connect the dots and explain causal links of the psychodramas, ideologies, barriers to rationality and learning and other societal problems in hierarchical systems. The emerging neuroscience paradigm makes several ideological truth claims (e.g., concerning economic growth) testable; and it also makes new, testable predictions about unrecognized (cross-primate) brain mechanisms implicated in societal problems. (For example: a submission/ followership syndrome, activated by hierarchical psychodramas and brain systems linked to the visual cortex, and including effects on cognitive processing, motivation, posture, the endocrine system, stress, and health). The paradigm implies a new theory of social, political and economic participation in hierarchical systems and lower status populations and predicts that faster, creative solutions to a range of societal problems may be possible. His work also has:

2 3.) Developed the policy sciences (Lasswell) tradition to ground societal learning and public policy in an evolving multidisciplinary study of human nature. He has reviewed cumulative learning about individual behavior in public policy (e.g., The Case of the Unreturned Cafeteria Trays); developed a new paradigm of hierarchical power/psychodrama and recycling, non-rational behavior (discussed above), and suggested lines of cross-disciplinary investigation for new neuroscience/public policy research programs ( Grand Challenges: Mapping the Brain-Mind Connection of Emotion and Politics for the National Science Foundation). 4.) Developed prototypes and experimental (including IT) projects and theories about the design of rapid learning national and international systems, including theories about intelligence and wisdom as achievements of both individuals and system design (e.g., Wisdom and Public Policy ) in A Handbook of Wisdom: Psychological Perspectives, Sternberg and Jordan (Eds.) (Cambridge University Press, st 2005). For example: For the conduct of 21 century international relations he has contributed ideas to improve the professional application of behavioral science to national intelligence (e.g., online at at II.D) and to the Reinventing Public Diplomacy and Smart Global Health projects of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He has contributed to the Rapid Learning Health System project (RWJ Foundation) for large N databases of electronic health records; to strategic planning for international human rights; to a World Academy of Art & Science report to Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon surveying new ideas (including applications of new communications technology) to accelerate progress; and to other projects. Dr. Etheredge is the author or editor of four books and many other publications. He has served as Ittelson Consultant to the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry and received a Distinguished Public Service Award from the U. S. Department of State (1998). He has been a consultant or reviewer for the MacArthur Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the Canada Council and the MIT, University of California, and University of Chicago Presses, and many professional journals. He is a member of the American Political Science Association, a Life Member of the American Psychological Association, and a member of AAAS, the Internet Society, the New York Academy of Sciences and other professional societies. He is Founding Member of the International Society for Political Psychology and of the Society for the Policy Sciences. Since the early 1990s he also has developed research and projects at the Policy Sciences Center, Inc., a public foundation established in New Haven, CT in Reference copies of Dr. Etheredge s working and foundation papers and scientific publications are online at and -2-

3 DATE OF BIRTH: May 31, 1946 CURRICULUM VITAE (Brief) Lloyd S. Etheredge CITIZENSHIP: ADDRESS: United States of America 7106 Bells Mill Rd. Bethesda, MD (301) (o); (301) (h) URL: EDUCATION Yale University Ph.D. (Political Science) 1974 Yale University M. Phil. (Political Science) 1972 Yale University M.A. (International Relations) 1970 Oberlin College B.A. (Economics, Honors) 1968 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Director, International Scientific Networks and Government Learning Projects, Policy Sciences Center Inc. (a public foundation), New Haven, CT; ; Consultant, Visiting Associate Professor/Scholar: Oberlin College, American University, Duke University, Swarthmore College, University of Toronto, ( ) Director of Graduate Studies for International Relations, Yale University; Visiting Professor and Associate Professor, Research Fellow/Scholar: Survey Research Center, University of California, Berkeley, Mills College, Rockefeller Institute of Government (SUNY- Albany) ( ) Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, Associate Professor (Visiting), School of Organization and Management, Yale University, Spring, 1982 Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ; Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Departments of Psychology and Political Studies, University of Manitoba, ; Lecturer,

4 FIELDS OF INTEREST Behavioral science and government learning rates (domestic and international); new communications/ information technology and the design of rapid learning systems; emerging applications of neuroscience to national security and domestic policy; policy sciences. PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS (partial list) Fellow - World Academy of Art & Science (elected, ); American Political Science Association ( ; Chair, Helen Dwight Reid Award Committee, 1989); American Psychological Association (elected, Life Member, ); International Society for Political Psychology (Founding Member, ; Governing Council, , Editorial Board, , Nominations Committee, 1993, Chair, Harold D. Lasswell Award Committee, 1996); International Studies Association ( ; Information Technology Planning Committee, ; ISA Channel Committee, ); American Economic Association ( ); Joint Program for Conflict Resolution (with Islamic Mental Health Association; Advisory Board, ); Fellow, AAAS ( ); Internet Society ( ); New York Academy of Sciences ( ); Policy Sciences Center, Inc. (Trustee, ); Society for the Policy Sciences (Founding Member ; Executive Board, ). FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS Fellow - World Academy of Art & Science (elected, 2004) U.S. Department of State. Secretary s Open Forum Distinguished Public Service Award, Ittelson Consultant, Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry - Committee on International Relations, Fall, 1988 Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Fellowship, Teaching Excellence Award, MIT Graduate Student Association, 1979 National Institute of Mental Health Traineeship Award, Yale Psychological Study of Politics Program, , PUBLICATIONS 1 1. Books and Book Chapters Wisdom in Public Policy in Robert Sternberg and Jennifer Jordan (Eds.), A Handbook of 1 A more complete list and reference copies of working papers and reports of my foundation projects are available online at and -2-

5 Wisdom: Psychological Perspectives (NY: Cambridge, University Press, 2005), pp A Strategy for Human Rights: Five Internet Projects That Can Change the World in George J. Andreopoulos (Ed.) Concepts and Strategies for International Human Rights (NY: Peter Lang, 2002), pp (Ed.) Humane Politics and Methods of Inquiry: Selected Writings of Ithiel de Sola Pool (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 2000). Editor s introductions and What s Next: The Intellectual Legacy of Ithiel de Sola Pool, pp (Ed.), Politics in Wired Nations: Selected Papers of Ithiel de Sola Pool. (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1998). "Human Rights Education and the New Telecommunication Technology" in George Andreopoulos and Richard Claude (Eds.), Human Rights Education for the Twenty-First Century (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997), pp "On Being More Rational Than the Rationality Assumption: Nuclear Deterrence, Public Drama Requirements, and the Agenda for Learning," in Eric Singer and Valerie M. Hudson (Eds.), Political Psychology and Foreign Policy (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992), pp Can Governments Learn?: American Foreign Policy and Central American Revolutions (NY: Pergamon Press, 1985). "Government Learning: An Overview," in Samuel Long (Ed.), Handbook of Political Behavior, Vol. 2, (NY: Plenum Press, 1981), pp A World of Men: The Private Sources of American Foreign Policy (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1978). 2. Monographs and Papers in Refereed Journals (partial list) "The Scientific Scandal of the 1980s," Political Psychology 15:1 (1994), pp "Wisdom and Good Judgment in Politics," Political Psychology, 13:3 (1992). pp "President Reagan's Counseling," Political Psychology, 5:4 (1984), pp "The Hypnosis Model of Power," in Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Science, 3:3 (1980), pp

6 "Hardball Politics: A Model," Political Psychology, 1:1 (Spring, 1979), pp "Personality Effects on American Foreign Policy, : A Test of Interpersonal Generalization Theory," American Political Science Review, 72:2 (June, 1978), pp The Case of the Unreturned Cafeteria Trays (Washington: American Political Science Association, 1976). PROPOSAL AND MANUSCRIPT REVIEWS (Partial list) American Journal of Political Science American Political Science Review Canada Council Canadian Journal of Political Science Comparative Politics Journal of Conflict Resolution Journal of Interdisciplinary History MacArthur Foundation (consultant) MIT Press National Science Foundation Policy Sciences Political Psychology University of California Press University of Chicago Press June

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