- Stuart Appelle
Dr. Stuart Appelle is a professor and writer, with an interest in topics dealing with anomalous perception, including hypnotic experience, and reports of
unidentified flying objects andalien abduction .Biography
Born in 1944, Stuart Appelle began his graduate work in
experimental psychology at thePennsylvania State University . He received hisPh.D. fromGeorge Washington University in 1972. In addition to teaching at SUNY Brockport, he has held teaching or research positions atGeorge Washington University , Mount Vernon College, and the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry (Department of Pediatrics).Appelle is currently professor of
psychology at SUNY Brockport. A former chairman of the Department of Psychology, he has also served as interim Dean of the School of Letters and Sciences, Associate Dean of the School of Letters and Sciences, and as the director of Brockport's graduate program in Liberal Studies. He is now Dean of the School of Letters and Sciences.Professor Appelle's research has focused on visual and tactual
perception , and in particular onobject orientation . He introduced the concept of the oblique effect, a construct that is routinely presented in perception textbooks, and broadly cited in the research literature. He is author of more than 40 articles and book chapters, more than 80 entries in the reference text "Engineering Data Compendium: Human Perception and Performance", and has presented papers at more than 20 professional meetings.In addition to these administrative activities, Appelle is an active scholar whose research focuses on perception, and the nature of conscious experience. His work in these areas has been widely published, spanning theoretical problems in the senses, applied work related to blind and developmentally delayed populations, and topics of popular interest such as hypnosis and anomalous experience (e.g. accounts of unidentified flying objects and alien abductions). Dean Appelle is a member of nine professional organizations including the
American Psychological Association , theAmerican Psychological Society ,Psychonomic Society , and the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis.External links
* [http://www.ufoevidence.org/Researchers/Detail109.htm UFO Researchers & People, Stuart Appelle]
* [http://www.brockport.edu/letters/appelle.html About Dr. Stuart Appelle]
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