Background
Rind was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Bruce Rind
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He then attended Temple University, earning a master"s degree, followed by a Doctor of Philosophy in psychology in 1990.
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Rind has also written about factors that affect persuasion in advertising and tipping. As a teenager, Rind was a standout chess player, rising to be the top-rated player in Pennsylvania as an adult. Rind received his bachelor"s degree from the College of William and Mary.
His dissertation examined factors in the persuasiveness of advertising.
Rind taught courses at Temple until 2007. He has since resided in Leipzig, Germany.
Sex research
The following year, Rind, Tromovitch and Robert Bauserman published a peer reviewed meta-analysis of 59 studies using the self-reported experiences of child sexual abuse by 35,703 college students. The results questioned the scientific validity of the single term child sexual abuse, suggesting a variety of different labels for sexual contact between adults and non-adults based on factors such as age and the degree to which the child was forced or coerced into participating.
Rind and his co-authors, P. Tromovitch and R. Bauserman, subsequently became the center of a controversy.
The study was heavily criticized by victims of child rape and sexual assault, mental health professionals who work with victims of sexual abuse, social conservatives and religious fundamentalists. In 1999, both the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate passed a resolution condemning specific published scholarship. Author Thomas Doctorate. Oellerich called the study "politically incorrect" but "scientifically correct".
lieutenant has been suggested that the Rind et al. controversy demonstrates that employing the naturalistic fallacy leads to situations in which empirical descriptions of nature are seen as dictating moral conclusions.
Rind and sociologist Richard Yuill of Glasgow University have also published detailed criticism of attempts to classify the construct hebephilia as a mental disorder, and suggested hebephilia be listed in the DSM V, coded as a condition that results in significant social problems today. Rind has also studied factors which persuade restaurant customers to leave larger tips.
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The American Psychological Association did not defend the peer reviewed study or note the need for scientists to be able to publish research findings even if the findings are unpopular. Rind has defended other sex researchers, such as Ray Blanchard, whose work also has been criticized outside the field of sex research.
