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Irving Kirsch

Irving Kirsch

Title: Professor Emeritus


Departmental Program: Clinical

E-mail: irving.kirsch@plymouth.ac.uk

Phone: 44 (0)1752 232506

Department of Psychology
406 Babbidge Road, Unit 1020
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-1020

Preferred Means of Contact: E-mail

 

Research Interests:

  • Expectancy
  • Placebo effects
  • Hypnosis
  • False Memory
  • Automaticity

Representative Publications:

  • Kirsch, I., Moore, T.J., Scoboria, A., & Nicholls, S.S. (2002). The emperor's new drugs: An analysis of antidepressant medication data submitted to the FDA. Prevention and Treatment. Available on the World Wide Web: http://www.journals.apa.org/prevention/volume5/pre0050023a.html
  • Scoboria, A., Mazzoni, G., Kirsch, I., & Milling, L.S. (2002). Immediate and persisting effects of misleading questions and hypnosis on memory reports. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 8, 26-32.
  • Kirsch, I. (2001). The altered states of hypnosis. Social Research, 68, 795-807.
  • Kirsch, I., & Braffman, W. (2001). Imaginative suggestibility and hypnotizability. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 10, 57-61.
  • Kirsch, I., & Lynn, S. J. (1999). Automaticity in clinical psychology. American Psychologist, 54, 504-515.

Other:

  • North American Editor: Contemporary Hypnosis.
  • University of Connecticut Faculty Excellence Award in Teaching,
  • President, APA Division 30 (Psychological Hypnosis) 1993-1994.
  • National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences "Grammy" award nomination: Best Comedy Recording, 1974, The Missing White House Tapes, produced by Irving Kirsch and Vic Dinnerstein.