Matthew Whoolery, Ph.D.
I am a professor of psychology at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. I have a Master's Degree in Counseling and a Ph.D. in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology from Brigham Young University. I teach courses including: Personality Theories, Psychological Assessment, Psychosocial Issues for Refugees, Good & Evil across Cultures & Time, Social Psychology, Personal Growth and Adjustment, etc. My research interests lie in theoretical psychology, including values in psychological assessment, self-esteem vs. other-esteem, and a Taoist alternative to the assumptions of western psychotherapy. I also am engaged in cross-cultural research between American and Arab populations. I have been at AUC since August 2004.
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Selected Publications * Recent Scholarly Presentations
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Whoolery, M. (under final
review).
Are
children morally inferior to adults? ALIF: Journal of Comparative Poetics.
Slife, B.D. & Whoolery, M. (2006). Are psychology’s main theories and methods
biased against its main consumers? Journal of Theism and Psychology.
Whoolery, M., Kotb, H., Iskander, A., Saydein, M., Wissa, A., Shata, S., &
Farnawany, S. (2006). The best
of both worlds: The work/family dilemma for female Arab students. In
Contemporary Issues in Higher Education in Egypt. Cairo, Egypt: American
University in Cairo Press.
Slife, B.D., Mitchell, L.J., & Whoolery, M. (2004).
A theistic approach to
therapeutic community: Non-naturalism and the Alldredge Academy. In P.S.
Richards & A.E. Bergin (Eds.). Casebook for a spiritual strategy for counseling
and psychotherapy. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.
Slife, B.D. & Whoolery, M. (2003). Understanding
disciplinary significance: The story of Allen Bergin’s 1980 article on values.
In R. Sternberg (Ed.) The anatomy of impact: What has made the great works of
psychology great? Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.
Whoolery, M. & Slife, B.D. (2002). Instructors manual for taking sides: Clashing
views on controversial psychological issues, 12th Ed. Guildford, CT:
McGraw-Hill.
Burlingame, G.M., Mosier, J.I., Wells, M.G.,
Atkin, Q.G., Lambert, M.J., Whoolery, M. & Latkowski, M. (2001).
Tracking the influence of mental health treatment:
The development of the Youth Outcome Questionnaire. Clinical Psychology and
Psychotherapy, 8, 361-379.
Recent Scholarly Presentations
Kotb, H. and Whoolery, M. (2006). Perception of parental rejection and its impact on personality for Egyptians. International Conference on Parental Rejection and Acceptance. Istanbul, Turkey, July 2006.
Whoolery, M., Saydein, M. & Farnawany, S. (2006). The Tao of Psychology. Presented at the Annual Conference of the American Psychological Association in New Orleans, August 2006.
Whoolery, M., Kotb, H., Iskander, A., Saydein, M., & Wissa, A. & Jackson, A. (2006). The Work/Family Dilemma for Female Arab Students. Paper presented at the Conference of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology in Isle of Spetses, Greece, July 2006.
Whoolery, M., Kotb, H., Iskander, A., Saydein, M., Wissa, A., Farnawany, S. & Shata, S. (2006). The Work/Family Dilemma for Female AUC Students: A Pilot Study. Paper presented at the Higher Education and Research in Egypt: The Way Forward on April 3, 2006 at the American University in Cairo, Egypt.
Whoolery, M. (2006). Going back to the Chalk and Chalkboard: Problems with the New Technologies and their Effect on Pedagogy. Paper presented at the Learning to Learn Conference March 11, 2006 in Cairo, Egypt. Sponsored by the Egyptian Society for Developing Skills of Special Needs Children.\
Whoolery, M. & Slife, B. (2005). Assessing the Values of Psychological Assessment. Paper presented at the biennial conference of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology. Cape Town, South Africa, June 2005.
Whoolery, M. (2002). Truth and Agency in Education. Presented at the Annual Conference of the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association, April 6, 2002, Park City, Utah
Whoolery, M., Slife, B.D., & Mitchell, L.J. (2002) Creating a theoretical space for spiritual interventions: The Alldredge Academy. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Association for the Behavioral and Social Sciences in Las Vegas, Nevada in February 2002.
Whoolery, M. & Wiggins, B. (2002). Hedonism and its hold on education. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Association for the Behavioral and Social Sciences in Las Vegas, Nevada in February 2002
Whoolery, M. & Stelter, J. (2001). Deconstructing self-esteem. Presented at the annual conference for the American Psychological Association. August, 2001, San Francisco, CA.
Master's Thesis: The Test-Retest Reliability and Internal Consistency of the Youth Outcome Questionnaire (1997)
Doctoral Thesis: Assessing the Values of Psychological Assessment (2004)
Contact Information
Dr. Matthew Whoolery
American University in Cairo
Psychology Department
113 Kasr El Aini Street
Box 2511
Cairo 11511 EGYPT
20.2.797.6770
Office: 110 Social Science Building
mwhoolery@aucegypt.edu