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Curtis Dunkel | |
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| Education | University of Nebraska–Lincoln |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Social psychology, personality psychology |
| Institutions | Western Illinois University |
| Thesis | The role of identity in the encoding and memory of trait adjectives (2002) |
| Doctoral advisor | Joseph C. LaVoie |
Curtis Scott Dunkel is an American psychologist and former professor in the Department of Psychology at Western Illinois University, where he was granted tenure in August 2012. [1] His research has covered topics such as death anxiety [2] and the general factor of personality. [3]
Dunkel has authored a controversial paper with far-right activist Emil Kirkegaard (and Michael Woodley and Jonatan Pallesen) about Jewish intelligence that cites the work of antisemitic evolutionary psychologist Kevin MacDonald. [4] In 2024, Dunkel left his position at Western Illinois University. [4] Dunkel's paper has been discredited. [5]
