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In 2002 Furnham published ''Growing up with Advertising'' which is available on the [[Social Affairs Unit]] website. In the publication Furnham argues that those who wish to introduce regulations to protect young people from the advertising of products do not have evidence that young people are at risk from advertising. Furnham states that learning how to handle advertisements is educative and a useful part of growing up.<ref> Social Affairs Unit
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[http://socialaffairsunit.org.uk/digipub/content/view/10/27/Growing up with Advertising],accessed January 19 2009.</ref>
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Revision as of 13:26, 19 January 2009

Background

Adrian Furnham is Professor of Psychology at University College London.

Biographical Information

History

  • 1995 D.Litt Natal University
  • 1991 D.Sc London University
  • 1981 D.Phil Oxford University
  • 1977 M.Sc Strathclyde University
  • 1976 M.Sc Econ London University
  • 1974 B.A Hons,M.A Natal University


Current activities

Furnham's current interests include: organisational psychology; psychometrics, especially personality assessment; complementary medicine; cross-cultural psychology, especially mental health and migration; economic socialisation.[1]

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Publications, Contact, Resources and Notes

Publications

In 2002 Furnham published Growing up with Advertising which is available on the Social Affairs Unit website. In the publication Furnham argues that those who wish to introduce regulations to protect young people from the advertising of products do not have evidence that young people are at risk from advertising. Furnham states that learning how to handle advertisements is educative and a useful part of growing up.[4]

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Resources

Notes

  1. UCL Department of Psychology Adrian Furnhan, accessed January 6 2009.
  2. Advertising Education Forum AEF Academic Network (AAN), accessed 1 August 2007.
  3. Social Affairs Unit About us,accessed January 19 2009.
  4. Social Affairs Unit up with Advertising,accessed January 19 2009.