Stanley A. Mulaik

	Stanley A. Mulaik	(404) 894-6222
	Cognitive, Engineering, and Industrial/Organizational
	Ph.D. (1963) Clinical Psychology University of Utah

Professor Emeritus of Psychology

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My current fields of interest include personality and individual differences, and psychometrics and statistics, including factor analysis, linear structural equations analysis, psychometric test theory, philosophy of science and statistics, and philosophy of causality and objectivity.

Affiliations
American Psychological Society (Fellow)
American Psychological Association (Fellow)
Psychometric Society
Philosophy of Science Association
Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology (Past President)
Editor, Multivariate Behavioral Research

Selected Publications

• Mulaik, S. A. (2004). Objectivity in science and structural equation modeling. In David Kaplan (Ed.) The Sage Handbook of Quantitative Methodology for the Social Sciences. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Pp. 425-446.
• Mulaik, S. A. (2001). The Curve-fitting problem: An objectivist view. Philosophy of Science, 68, 218-241.
• Mulaik, S. A., Raju, N. S., Harshman, R. A. There is a time and a place for significance testing. In L. L.  Harlow, S.A. Mulaik, &  J.H. Steiger,  (Eds.)  What if there were no significance tests? Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 65-115.
• Mulaik, S.A. (1995). The metaphoric origins of objectivity, subjectivity and consciousness in the direct perception of reality. Philosophy of Science, 62, 283-303.
• Carlson, M., & Mulaik, S.A. (1993). Trait ratings from descriptions of behavior as mediated by components of meaning. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 28, 111-159.
• Mulaik, S.A. (1986). Toward a synthesis of deterministic and probabilistic formulations of causal relations by the functional relation concept. Philosophy of Science, 53, 313-332.
• Mulaik, S.A., & McDonald, R.P. (1978). The effect of additional variables on factor indeterminacy in models with a single common factor. Psychometrika, 43, 177-192.
• Mulaik, S.A. (1972). The foundations of factor analysis. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company.

Frequently Taught Courses
PSY 4406 Psychological Statistics (Undergraduate)
PSY 4424 Personality Theory (Undergraduate)
PSY 6630 Psychometric Theory
PSY 7101 Multivariate Statistics I
PSY 7102 Multivariate Statistics II
PSY 7103 Linear Causal Modeling

Contact Information

Dr. Stanley A. Mulaik School of Psychology Georgia Institute of Technology 654 Cherry Street Atlanta, GA 30332-0170

Telephone: (404) 894-6222 Fax: (404) 894-8905 E-mail: Office Location: B75 J.S. Coon Bldg.