External links
- Faculty profile at the University of British Columbia
- Donald Dutton publications indexed by Google Scholar
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Donald G. Dutton | |
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| Born | October 9, 1943 |
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| Alma mater | University of Toronto (PhD, 1970) |
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| Discipline | Psychology |
| Sub-discipline | Social psychology,Intimate partner violence |
| Institutions | University of British Columbia |
Donald George Dutton (born October 9,1943) [1] is a Canadian psychologist who is known for his work on traumatic bonding and misattribution of arousal. [2] [3] He is an expert on forensic psychology who has served as an expert witness in legal cases,including in the prosecution of O. J. Simpson. [4] [5] [6]
He received his Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Toronto in 1970,and is currently Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychology at the University of British Columbia. [7] [8]
Dutton's research interests include the psychology of violence,social science epistemology,criminal justice,social psychological explanations for clinical syndromes,and personality disorders. [8]
In a famous experiment on misattribution of arousal,Dutton and Arthur Aron found that subjects were more sexually attracted to an experimenter when crossing a rickety bridge. [3] [9]
Along with his co-author Susan Painter,Dutton coined the term "traumatic bonding", [2] [10] referring to emotional attachments which "develop from two specific features of abusive relationships:power imbalances and intermittent good-bad treatment". [11] [12]
Dutton is known for his research on intimate partner violence and the psychology of abusive behavior. [5] In 1979,he co-founded the Assaultive Husbands Project,a court-mandated treatment program for men convicted of spousal assault in Vancouver. [5] Dutton has been outspoken about the reality of domestic violence,that despite stereotypes it is actually perpetrated by both men and women. [4]
Dutton has authored or co-authored several books on domestic violence,including The Batterer:A Psychological Profile (1995,with Susan Golant),The Abusive Personality:Violence and Control in Intimate Relationships (1998),and Rethinking Domestic Violence (2006). [5] [13] The Batterer has been translated into French,Spanish,Dutch,Japanese,and Polish. [14]
The second edition of The Abusive Personality (2007) received positive reviews in academic journals. A review in the Journal of Family Therapy described it as providing "a clear,concise,authoritative and inspiring account of the empirical,theoretical and treatment literatures on relationship abusiveness." [13] The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry reviewed the work, [15] as did the academic journal Choice. [16]
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