138:, a neural network that analyzes text, and the Galileo suite of programs used to measure beliefs and attitudes. The Rand Corporation surveyed numerous social science approaches for measuring attitudes and indicated in a 2009 report that "One of the more interesting approaches to communication and attitude change we found was Joseph Woelfel’s metric multidimensional scaling approach, which is called Galileo. In many ways, Woelfel’s theory was the closest that any social science approach came to providing the basis for an end-to-end engineering solution for planning, conducting, and assessing the impact of communications on attitudes and behaviors."
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calculate the effect of those expectations on the aspirations of the individuals. In the process, the project developed the
Wisconsin Significant Other Battery (WISOB) to identify specific significant others for any individual and to measure their educational and occupational expectations for him or her.
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Tracing scientific thought via two ancient Greek networks (Athenian and Ionian), Woelfel's 2013 book further considers how concepts are formed first by the collective and then communicated to individual minds through interaction among individuals. In this book he argues the lack of progress exhibited
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in 1963. He obtained his Ph.D. in
Sociology, also from the University of Wisconsin, in 1968. Throughout his studies he minored in philosophy. After acting as an instructor at Canisius College (1965–1966) and as a research associate at University of Wisconsin during his studies, Woelfel began work as
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Although the role of significant others' expectations in influencing the attitudes of individuals had been long theorized, the
Wisconsin Significant Other project was the first research to identify the specific significant others for a set of individuals, measure their expectations directly, and
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Yugoslavia, and Senior fellow at the Rockefeller Institute of Government at the State University of New York. He received the Alise-Bohdan Wynar Research Paper Award from the Association for Library and Information Science Education in December 2001 and the Jesse M. Shera Award for
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as a visiting professor, where he was then hired as an associate professor in 1979. In 1981 he was promoted to professor and in 1982 acted as chair of the
Department of Communication. In 1988 he was director of research and founding fellow of the Institute for the Study of Information Science.
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in the social sciences is due to inadequacy of the underlying
Athenian philosophy that continues to pervade the social sciences; he then shows how human processes can successfully be studied using the same methods used to study physical phenomena.
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Woelfel's early work focused on attitude formation and change. At the
University of Wisconsin he worked with Archie O. Haller and Edward L. Fink on the "Significant Other Project," a project originated by Haller as part of the larger
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Woelfel, J., Holmes, R. A., Cody, M. J., & Fink, E. L. (1988). "A multi-dimensional scaling based procedure for designing persuasive messages and measuring their effects." In G. A. Barnett & J. Woelfel (Eds.),
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Woelfel, J. (1997). "Social science applications of nonequilibrium thermodynamics: Science or poetry? Procedures for the precise measurement of energy in social systems." In G. A. Barnett and L. Thayer (Ed.s),
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Freiberger beiträge zur interkulturellen und wirtschaftskommunikation: A forum for general and
Intercultural business communication. Vol. 3. The role of communication in business transactions and relationships
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Woelfel, J., Barnett, G. A., Pruzek, R., Zimmelman, R. (1989). "Rotation to simple processes: The effect of alternative rotation rules on observed patterns in time-ordered measurements."
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This research later developed into a more general theory of attitude formation called
Galileo theory. Woelfel was instrumental in developing computer software such as
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Woelfel, J., & Stoyanoff, N. J. (2007). "The
Galileo System: A rational alternative to the dominant paradigm for social science research." In M. Hinner (Ed.),
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Woelfel, J., Fink, E. L., Cai, D. A., Anderson, K., Iacobucci, A., & Wang, H. (2023). "Inertia in cognitive processes: the case of the COVID-19 vaccine."
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Finally, he moved to University at Buffalo as professor and chair (1989–1995) of the Department of Communication and has remained as professor (since 1995).
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Woelfel, J., Newton, B., Holmes, R., Kincaid, D. L., & Lee, J.-Y. (1986). "Effects of compound messages on global characteristics of Galileo spaces."
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Woelfel, J., Cody, M. J., Gillham, J., & Holmes, R. A. (1980). "Basic premises of multidimensional attitude change theory: An experimental analysis."
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Woelfel, J., & Kincaid, D. L. (1987). "Dialogue on the nature of causality, measurement, and human communication theory." In D. L. Kincaid (Ed.),
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Woelfel, J., & Saltiel, J. (1978). "Cognitive processes as motions in a multi-dimensional space: A general linear model." In F. Casmir (Ed.),
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Woelfel, J., & Barnett, G. A. (1992). "Procedures for controlling reference frame effects in the measurement of multidimensional processes."
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Woelfel, J., & Danes, J. E. (1980). "Multidimensional scaling model for communication research." In P. Monge & J. N. Capella (Eds.),
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Woelfel, J. (1987). "Development of the western model: Toward a reconciliation of eastern and western perspectives." In D. L. Kincaid (Ed.),
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Woelfel, J. (1988). "The Galileo System: A theory and method for analyzing cognitive processes." In J. C. Mancuso and M. L. G. Shaw (Eds.),
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Larson, Eric V.; Richard E. Darilek; Daniel Gibran; Brian Nichiporuk; Amy Richardson; Lowell H. Schwartz; Cathryn Quantic Thurston (2009).
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Woelfel, J. (1975). "Theoretical issues and alternatives: A theory of occupational choice." In J. S. Picou, & R. E. Campbell (Ed.s),
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Woelfel, J., Richards, W., & Stoyanoff, N. J. (1993). "Conversational networks." In W. Richards and G. A. Barnett (Eds.)
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