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Research Interests and Publications

Professor Sundberg retired in 1993. Since coming to Oregon in 1952, Sundberg has published on cross cultural studies, boredom, life history assessment and analysis, creativity, nonverbal communication, values, and future time perspectives, and has written extensively on general clinical, personality and community topics.

Dr. Sundberg is no longer accepting new students.

Sundberg, N.D., Latkin, C.A., Farmer, R.F., & Saoud, J. (1991). Boredom in young adults: Gender and cultural comparisons. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 22, 209-223.

Sundberg, N.D., Hadiyono, J.P., Latkin, C.A., & Padilla, J. (1995). Cross-cultural prevention program transfer: Questions regarding developing countries. Journal of Primary Prevention, 15(4), 361-376.

Sundberg, N.D. (2001). In W.E. Craigshead & C.B. Nemeroff (Eds.) Encyclopedia of psychology and behavioral science (3rd Ed.). New York: John Wiley & Sons. Entries on Biographical Data (Vol. 1, pp. 209-210), Boredom (Vol. 1, pp. 226-228), Buffering Hypothesis (Vol 1, pp. 245-246), Fundamental Attribution Error (Vol 2, pp. 607-609).

Sundberg, N.D., Winebarger, A.W., & Taplin, J.R. (2002). Clinical Psychology: Evolving theory, practice and research. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall. (Russian translation, 2006)

Arrow, H. & Sundberg, N. D. (2004) International identity: Definitions, development, and some implications for global conflict and peace. In B. N. Setiadi, A. Supratiknya, W. J. Lonner & Y. H. Poortinga (Eds.), Ongoing themes in psychology and culture: Selected papers from the sixteenth congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, July 15-19, 2002. (pp. 55-69). IACCP, Yogyakarta: Kanisius.

Sundberg, N.D. (2006) Chance and choice, change and continuity. In S. Strack & B. N. Kinder (Eds.) Pioneers of personality science: Autobiographical perspectives.  Pp. 355-386. New York: Springer Publishing Co.