October 25-27, 1990
Columbia, Missouri
Thursday-Saturday October 25-27, 1990
The conference began as usual with a Thursday evening social gathering, followed by paper presentations and discussion on Friday and Saturday:
- Steven R. Brown, Kent State University and Margaret Mathieson, University of Leicester, The operantcy of practical criticism
- Dan Thomas, Wartburg College, and Larry Baas, Valparaiso University, Ronald Reagan in the public mind
- James C. Rhoads, Jr. and Milan T.W. Sun, Kent State University, The Altemeyer “Right-Wing Authoritarian” Scale: A Q methodological look
- Patrick Peritore, University of Missouri, India’s environmental crisis: A Q methodology elite attitude study
- Hung Kyu Kim, Hankook University of Foreign Studies, Korea, Q methodology and advertising research in Korea
- John Merrill, Louisiana State University, The Stephenson/Merrill proposal for a new journalism curriculum
- Albert D. Talbott and Haven Simmons, University of Iowa, Journalists in the movies: A preliminary study of the perceptions of journalists and law enforcement officers in nine films
- Karen Dennis, Francis Scott Key Medical Center and Johns Hopkins University, Weight control self-efficacy
- Bernie Murchison, University of Queensland, Australia, Attitudes toward media coverage of the Fitzgerald inquiry on corruption in Queensland: A Q study
- Leonard Barchak, McNeese State University, The forgotten symphonies: PR and marketing study of the Lake Charles Symphony Orchestra
- Panel Discussion:, What to do when the journals reject your Q study
- Banquet Address: Larry Fuhrer, Chairman and President, Presidential Services, Inc., Chicago
- Patricia Kay Felkins, Loyola University of Chicago and Irvin Goldman, University of Windsor, Myth, representation and communication in the image of John Kennedy
- Paul Grosswiler, Towson State University, Q Methodology study of Marshall McLuhan’s theory of visual and acoustic preferences in media, aesthetics and ideology
- Ana C. Garner, University of Iowa, Safety communication: Toward an understanding of passenger attention to safety information on airplanes
- Joanne Gallivan, University College of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Gender differences in the psychology of humour
During the conference, the Stephenson Research Center was presented with a microfiche of William Stephenson’s 1929 psychology dissertation Mental tests and their relation to the central factor, University of London.