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Federico Javaloy, Ph.D.

Federico Javaloy, Ph.D., has been a Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Barcelona since 1990. His doctoral thesis (1983) was on the "Psychology of fanaticism." From that emerged a book (Introduction to the Study of  Fanaticism, 1984) and diverse articles. He has been particularly interested in cults and fundamentalist fanaticism, a subject to which he has devoted himself in different articles in magazines. He obtained research assistance to study cults at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1988. The study of fanaticism and cultism has led him to analyze these phenomena in terms of social movements, on which he has published a book, Collective Behavior and Social Movements (2001). (fjavaloy@ub.edu)

Federico Javaloy, Ph.D., es Catedrático de Psicología Social de la Universidad de Barcelona desde 1990. Elaboró su tesis doctoral sobre “Psicología del fanatismo”, 1983, de la que surgieron un libro (Introducción al estudio del fanatismo, 1984) y diversos artículos. Se ha interesado particularmente por el fanatismo sectario y fundamentalista, tema al que se ha dedicado en distintos artículos en revistas. Obtuvo una ayuda de investigación para estudiar las sectas en la Universidad de California, Berkeley, en 1988. El estudio del fanatismo y el sectarismo le ha conducido a la investigación de estos fenómenos en el marco de los movimientos sociales, sobre los que ha publicado un libro (Comportamiento colectivo y movimientos sociales, 2001).

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