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Institution
Hope College
Current Position
John Dirk Werkman Professor of Psychology
Highest Degree
Ph.D. in Psychology from University of Iowa, 1967
Research Interests
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David Myers
Department of Psychology
Hope College
P.O. Box 9000
Holland, Michigan 49422-9000
U.S.A.
Home Page
Phone: (616) 395-7730
Fax: (616) 395-7121
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Professor Myers is interested in social psychology, psychology and religion, and personal and societal well-being. His scientific articles have appeared in more than two dozen journals, including Science, Psychological Bulletin, Psychological Science, and the American Psychologist. His work on group polarization has been honored with the Gordon Allport Prize from Division 9 of the American Psychological Association. Professor Myers is author of several leading psychology textbooks, and he has served as consulting editor to the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and to the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
He is the author of five trade books, The Pursuit of Happiness (Avon), The American Paradox: Spiritual Hunger in an Age of Plenty (Yale, 2000), and A Quiet World: Hearing Loss and How to Live with It (Yale, 2000), Intuition: Its Powers and Perils (Yale, 2002), and What God has Joined Together: A Christian Case for Gay Marriage (HarperSanFrancisco, 2005). He has also authored five books dealing with psychological research and religious beliefs, and articles in more than three dozen magazines, from Christian Century to Scientific American.
In addition to his activities in psychology, Professor Myers has chaired his city's Human Relations Commission, helped found a Community Action Center that assists poverty-level families, become an advocate for people with hearing loss, and supported his wife Carol in her web-based efforts to increase understanding of Saint Nicholas. Most noontimes he can be found playing the point in a pick-up basketball game.
 Books:
 A Quiet World: Living with Hearing Loss
- Exploring Psychology (a brief textbook for introductory psychology)
- Exploring Social Psychology (a brief text for social psychology)
- Intuition: Its Powers and Perils
- Psychology (a comprehensive textbook for introductory psychology)
- Psychology Through the Eyes of Faith
- Social Psychology (a textbook for social psychology)
- The American Paradox: Spiritual Hunger in an Age of Plenty
- The Pursuit of Happiness: Who is Happy, and Why
- What God Has Joined Together: A Christian Case for Gay Marriage
Other Publications:
- Carol Myers' Saint Nicholas Web Site
- David's Assistive Listening Web Site
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