Jüri Allik (born 3 March 1949 in
Tallinn,
Estonia), is an
Estonian
psychologist
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.
Career
Allik holds
Ph.D. degrees in psychology both from the
University of Moscow,
Russia (1976) and
University of Tampere,
Finland (1991). Spending his academic career at the
University of Tartu (with the exception of a stint at the
University of Jyväskylä, Finland), he became
Professor of
Psychophysics
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in 1992, and is since 2002 Professor of
Experimental Psychology
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. He was also the head of the University of Tartu's Department of Psychology and the chairman of the Estonian Science Foundation (2003-2009), as well as an editor of the Estonian English-language social science and humanities journal ''Trames''.
Allik's contributions to international psychology lie mainly in two areas:
visual perception and
eye movement, and the comparative study of
collectivism vs.
individualism. Within Estonia and in
Estonian
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* Estonians, people from Estonia, or of Estonian descent
* Estonian language
* Estonian cuisine
* Estonian culture
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, he has also published highly critical work on
Sigmund Freud, the
history of psychology, the
measuring of science productivity, the transition of science, and
quality control
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.
Allik was both President (1988–1994) and Vice President (1994–2001) of the . He is a Foreign Member of the
Finnish Academy of Science and Letters,
Academia Europaea, and
Estonian Academy of Sciences.
Personal life
Jüri Allik is married to psychologist
Anu Realo
Anu Realo (born 15 February 1971) is an Estonian personality and cross-cultural psychologist. She is Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Warwick, the United Kingdom, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Tartu, ...
.
Selected recent publications
* Allik, J., Realo, A., Mõttus, R., Borkenau, P., Kuppens, P., & Hřebíèková, M. (2012)
Person-fit to the five factor model of personality Swiss Journal of Psychology, 71(1), 35–45. DOI 10.1024/1421-0185/a000066.
*Allik, J., & McCrae, R.R. (2004). Towards a geography of personality traits: patterns of profiles across 36 cultures. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 35, 13–28.
*Allik, J., & Realo, A. (2004). Individualism-collectivism and social capital. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 35, 29–49.
*Allik, J., Toom, M., & Luuk, A. (2003). Planning of saccadic eye movement direction and amplitude. Psychological Research, 67, 10–21.
*Kreegipuu, K., & Allik, J. (2003). Perceived onset time and position of a moving stimulus. Vision Research, 43, 1625–1635.
*McCrae, R.R. & Allik, J. (Eds.), The Five-Factor Model Across Cultures. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2002.
*Aavik, T. & Allik, J. (2002). The structure of Estonian personal values: A lexical approach. European Journal of Personality, 16, 221–235.
*Realo, A. & Allik, J. (1999). A cross-cultural study of collectivism: A comparison of American, Estonian, and Russian students. Journal of Social Psychology, 139, 133–142.
*Toomela, A. & Allik, J. (1999). Components of verbal working memory. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22 (1), 110–111.
*Allik, J. (1999). Perceiving emmattered form. Trames, 3 (53/48), 81–98.
References
*''reference the
"Jüri Allik" Estonian wikipedia article''
External links
Profileat
Google Scholar
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1949 births
Living people
Estonian scholars
Estonian psychologists
People from Tallinn
Academic staff of the University of Tartu
Recipients of the Order of the White Star, 4th Class