Chuck Huff
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Chuck Huff received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Princeton University in 1987 and was an NIH post-doctoral fellow with the Committee for Social Science Research in Computing at Carnegie Mellon University. He has been teaching and doing research at St. Olaf College since 1988.
Chuck has taught Psychology at William & Mary, Princeton, St. Olaf, and Carnegie Mellon. He has taught courses in Computers and Society at Carnegie Mellon, St. Olaf College, and The George Washington University. He has also taught courses in Philosophy at the University of South Florida. During the 1994-1995 academic year he was a research scientist at George Washington University as a member of a national task force to set standards for teaching ethical and social issues in computing in the computer science curriculum. In 2003-2004 he was a visiting fellow in computer science at Demontfort University in Leicester, UK.
He has published research on moral reasoning, on gender and computing, on the social effects of electronic interaction, on the uses of computing in education, and on teaching about the social and ethical issues associated with computing.
He is on the editorial board of several journals associated with social issues in computing. He was on an August 2008 panel of the National Academy of Engineering to survey the state of the art on ethics education in research ethics and engineering ethics.
He is currently on sabbatical at the Hochschule für Philosophie in Munich, Germany, working on an NSF funded investigation of the life stories of moral exemplars in computing in the UK and Scandinavia, using a virtue theory framework to understand the life experiences, skills, and choices that led the each exemplar to become an influential model of ethical behavior in the field of computing.
Primary Interests:
- Applied Social Psychology
- Ethics and Morality
- Gender Psychology
- Internet and Virtual Psychology
- Organizational Behavior
- Political Psychology
- Self and Identity
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Books:
- Huff, C. W., & Finholt, T. (Eds.). (1994). Social issues in computing: Putting computers in their place. McGraw-Hill.
Journal Articles:
- Darley, J. M., & Huff, C. W. (1990). Heightened damage assessment as a result of the intentionality of the damage-causing act. British Journal of Social Psychology, 29, 181-188.
- Epley, N., & Huff, C. W. (1998). Suspicion, affective response, and educational benefit as a result of deception in psychology research. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 24, 759-768.
- Huff, C. W. (2002). Gender, software design, and occupational equity. SIGCSE Bulletin: Inroads, 34, 112-115.
- Huff, C. W., Barnard, L., & Frey, W. (in press). Good computing: A pedagogically focused model of virtue in the practice of computing (part 2). Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society.
- Huff, C. W., Barnard, L., & Frey, W. (2008). Good computing: A pedagogically focused model of virtue in the practice of computing (part 1). Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, 6(3), 246-278.
- Huff, C. W., & Brown, R. (2004). Integrating ethics into a computing curriculum: A case study of the Therac-25. In A. Akera & W. Aspray (Eds.), Using history to teach computer science and related disciplines (pp. 255-277). Washington DC: Computing Research Association.
- Huff, C. W., & Cooper, J. (1987). Sex bias in educational software: The effect of designers' stereotypes on the software they design. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 17, 519-532.
- Huff, C. W., & Frey, W. (2005). Moral pedagogy and practical ethics. Science and Engineering Ethics, 11, 389-408.
- Huff, C. W., & Martin, D. (Dec. 1995). Computing consequences: A framework for teaching ethical computing. Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery, 38(12), 75-84.
- Huff, C. W., Sproull, L., & Kiesler, S. (1989). Electronic communication and organizational commitment: Tracing the relationship in a city government. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 19, 1371-1391.
- Winter, D., & Huff, C. W. (1996). Adapting the Internet: Comments from a women-only electronic forum. American Sociologist, 27(1), 30-54.
Other Publications:
- Huff, C., Johnson, D., & Miller, K. (2004). Virtual harms and real responsibility. In L. Brennan & V. Johnson (Eds.), Social, ethical, and policy implications of information technology (pp. 98-116). Idea Group Inc. Publishers.
- Huff, C. W. (2004). Unintentional power in the design of computing systems. In T. W. Bynam & S. Rogerson (Eds.), Computer ethics and professional responsibility (pp. 98-106). London: Basil Blackwell.
- Huff. C. W., Fleming, J. F., & Cooper, J. (1991). The social basis of gender differences in human-computer interaction. In C. D. Martin (Ed.), In search of Gender-free paradigms for computer science education (pp. 19-32). Eugene, OR: ISTE Research Monographs.
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Chuck Huff
Department of Psychology
St. Olaf College
1520 St. Olaf Avenue
Northfield, Minnesota 55057
United States of America
- Phone: (507) 646-3169
