Papers Presented at Professional Meetings:

1995-2000

1975-1994

1995-2000

The Effectiveness of State AIDS Policy Choices on the Incidence of AIDS." Paper presented at the 1999 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. (co-authored w/ S. Peterson)

Evolutionary Biology and the 2000 Presidential Primaries. Paper presented at the 1999 annual meeting of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences, Atlanta, Sept.).

Cross-Cultural Analysis of the Role of Physical Appearance in Candidate Appraisal. Paper presented at the 1999 annual
meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Salt Lake City, June.

Good Genes and Issue Agreement in Candidate Appraisal. Paper presented at the 1999 annual meeting of the Midwest
Political Science Association. Chicago, April. (with Margaret Curran, Carmen Strungaru).

"Ethnic Diversity, Population Size and Charitable Giving at the Local Level." Paper prepared for presentation at the Reimers Foundation conference, Welfare, Ethnicity and Altruism. Bad Homburg, Germany, Feb. 12, 1999.

"C-Span, Gender, Party and the Persuasive Effects of a Presidential Speech on the Use of Miliatry Force." Prepared for
presentation at the 1998 meeting of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences. Boston. Sept. 3-6. (w/ D. Ivers, M. Curran)

"Physical Appearances and Viability for Male and Female Candidates." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the
American Political Science Association. Boston, September. (with Margaret Curran, Carmen Strungaru).

"Male/Female Differences in Leadership Appraisal." Paper presented at the 1998 meeting of the International Society for
Human Ethology, Vancouver, August.

"The Role of Facial Appearance in Assessments of Candidate Electability." Paper presented at the 1998 annual meeting of the Midwestern Political Science Association. Chicago, April, 1998.

"The Processsing of Men's and Women's Health Policy Issues: National Breast and Prostate Cancer Screening Guidelines." Paper presented at the 1997 Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Norfolk, VA, November 5-8.


Co-authored with Gloria Schubert "Physical Appearance and Candidate Viability." Paper presented at the 1997 Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association, Philadelphia, November 13-15.

"The Impact of State Policy on the Incidence of AIDS." Paper presented at the Northeastern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA Nov. 15, 1996.

"Dialect, Sex and Risk Effects on Judges' Questioning of Counsel in Oral Argument." Presented at Conference on Risky
Transactions, Kinship and Ethnicity, Reimers Foundation, Bad Hamburg, Germany, Sept. 23-25, 1996.

"Risk and Ethnic Exclusivity in Partner Selection in the Context of AIDS." Presented at Conference on Risky Transactions, Kinship and Ethnicity, Reimers Foundation, Bad Hamburg, Germany, Sept. 23-25, 1996.

"Public Policy and the Prevention of AIDS". Presented at the 1996 Joint Meeting of the Association of Politics and the Life Sciences & International Political Science Association Research Committee # 12, July 25-27, 1996, Alfred, NY.

"The Impact of State AIDS Policy on the Course of the Epidemic." Paper presented at the Northeastern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Newark, NJ Nov. 11, 1995

"The Civic Consequences of Population Aging." Paper presented at the 1995 Annual Meeting of the International Society of  Political Psychology. Washington, DC July 7, 1995

"Risk and Reaction in Public Policy: An Analysis of Early State Legislative Behavior in Response to the AIDS Epidemic."
Paper presented at the April, 1995 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago.

"State HIV/AIDS Legislation: Threat, Risk and Politics." Paper presented at the March 1995 Annual Meeting of the
Southwestern Political Science Association, Dallas. S. Peterson co-authored.

"The role of sex and emotional response in indoctrinability: Experimental evidence on the 'rally-round-the-flag' effect."
Presented at the Max Planck Society, Institute for Human Ethology symposium "Ideology, Warfare and Indoctrinability",
Ringberg Castle, Germany; January 1995.

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1975-1994

"Political culture and public health strategies in state policy responses to AIDS." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the
Northeastern Political Science Association, Providence, R.I., November,1994.

"Toward comparative primate research in political science." Presented at the World Congress of the International Political Science Association, Berlin, August 1994. Co-authored with M. Levitt.

"Predicting state AIDS policy spending." Paper presented at the American Political Science Association Meeting, New York, September 1994. Co-authored with S. Peterson.

"Status and attention in local television news on state elections: The 1994 Democratic gubernatorial primaryin Illinois."
Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, New York, September 1994. Co-authored with D. Balash, P. Holaves, D. Ivers, H. Wurf, P. Stewart, and M. Tweed.

"AIDS policy in the American states: A research note." Paper presented at the 1993 Annual Meeting of the Northeastern
Political Science Association, "Dominance and attention in media coverage of the 1992 primary elections." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, 1993. Co-authored with D. Balash, D. Ivers, M. Levitt, G. Soltan, P. Stewart, and V. Soni.

"Realpolitik as a male primate strategy." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, March 1993, Mexico.

"Network news and C-SPAN presentation of candidates in the 1992 primary elections." Paper presented at the Public Affairs Video Archives conference, Purdue University, West Lafayette, November 1992.

"Affect display in oral argument and dissensus in Supreme Court decision making." Paper presented at the American Political Science Association annual meeting, September 1992. Co-authored with S. Wasby, G. Schubert, and S. Peterson.

"Oral argument and Supreme Court opinions: toward an analysis of linkages." NSF Oral Argument Project Paper No. 10. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association, Rhode Island, November 1991. Principal author; co-authored with S. Peterson, S. Wasby, G. Schubert.

"Patterns of oral argument and case outcomes in the Supreme Court: 1969 and 1970 terms." NSF Oral Argument Project Paper No. 9. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, August 1991. Principal author; with S. Peterson, S. Wasby, G. Schubert.

"Dissensus and unanimity in Supreme Court decision making." NSF Oral Argument Project Paper No. 8. Paper presented at the World Congress of the International political Science Association, Buenos Aires, July 1991. Principal author; co-authored with S. Peterson, S. Wasby, G. Schubert.

"Judicial involvement and leadership in oral argument." NSF Oral Argument Project Paper No. 7. Paper presented at the
Meeting of the International Society for Political Psychology, Helsinki, July 1991. Principal author; co-authored with S.
Peterson, S. Wasby, G. Schubert.

"Patterns in Supreme Court oral argument." NSF Oral Argument Project Paper No. 6. Paper presented at the Meeting of Law and Society Association, Amsterdam, June 1991. Co-authored with S. Peterson, S. Wasby, G. Schubert.

"The Supreme Court's use of per coriam dispositions: The connection to oral argument." NSF Oral Argument Project Paper No. 5. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 1991. Co-authored with S. Peterson, S. Wasby, G. Schubert.

"Justices' participation in Supreme Court oral argument." NSF Oral Argument project Paper No. 3. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Seattle, March 1991. Co-authored with S. Peterson, S. Wasby, G. Schubert.

"Vocal affect expression in Supreme Court oral argument." NSF Oral Argument Paper Project No. 2. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of The American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, February 1991. Principal author; co-authored with S. Peterson.

"Age and cautiousness in political decision making." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, 1990.

"Studying Supreme Court oral argument." NSF Oral Argument Paper Project No. 1. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, 1990. Co-authored with S. Peterson, G.Schubert, S. Wasby.

"The interaction of vocal and verbal channels in agonistic human behavior: Tactics in oral argument." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Society for Human Ethology/Animal Behavior Society Binghamton, NY, June 1990.

"Oral argument and size of majority in Supreme Court decision making." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the New York State Political Science Association, 1990.

"Measuring affect display in elite political behavior." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, 1989.

"Political decision making and AIDS policy." Presented at the World Congress of the International Political Science
Association, 1988.

"Hierarchy and democracy in small group decision making." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of Midwest Political
Science Association, Chicago, April 1988.

"Politics under the microscope: Observational methods in political research." Paper presented to an IPSA Research Committee conference on Biology and Politics, Warsaw, Poland, June 14-19, 1987.

"Judicial behavior in oral argument: A psycholinguistic analysis." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political
Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 1987.

"Status differentiation and equality of participation in small group political decision-making." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, New Orleans, 1985. Co-authored with T.C. Wiegele and S.M. Hines.

"Age and political behavior in collective decision-making." Paper presented at the World Congress of the International Political Science Association, Paris, July 1985. Co-authored with T.C. Wiegele and S.M. Hines.

"Dominance and influence in small group decision-making: An ethological approach to verbal and paralinguistic aspects of behavior." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., Aug. 30 - Sept. 2, 1985.

"Instrumentation and measurement in direct observational field research." Presentation for workshop on biobehavioral methods at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., 1984.

"Human vocalizations in agonistic political encounters." Paper presented at the World Congress of the International
Primatological Society, Nairobi, Kenya, July, 22-27, 1984.

"Dominance and influence in small group decision-making." Paper presented at a conference on "Ethological Contributions to Research in Political Science" held in Tutzing, West Germany, June 25-28, 1984.

"Observational methods and the study of the courts." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the New York State Political Science Association, Albany, April, 6-7, 1984.

"Conversational behavior and the measurement of social dominance in small group political decision-making." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Birmingham, November 1983.

"Dominance and political behavior." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, 1983.

"An ethological approach to analyzing the interaction process in small group legislative decision-making." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Denver, September 1982.

"Political impacts of life-extending technologies: A preliminary assessment." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the
American Political Science Association, Denver, September 1982.

"Toward a psychobiological model of malnutrition and political violence." Paper presented at the XII World Congress of
International Political Science Association, Brazil, 1982.

"Food for peace? The political impact of U.S. PL 480 food aid." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Cincinnati, March 1982.

"Famine and politics: Political adaption in populations under nutritional stress." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, New York, September 1981.

"Trade dependence and health status in Latin America." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Philadelphia, March 1981.

"Malnutrition and political violence." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Denver, March 1981.

"National attributes and the IGO participation: The effects of capacity to act on foreign policy." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association, New Haven, 1980.

"The impact of international food aid on world malnutrition." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Los Angeles, 1980.

"The politics of malnutrition." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Toronto, 1979.

"Cooperation and the conflict in South and Southeast Asia: A comparative analysis." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, 1978.

"Regional trends in intergovernmental organization." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies
Association, Washington, D.C., 1978.

"Asian regional organizations, functionalism, and the theory of collective goods." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, 1975. Co-authored with Michael Haas.

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