Bartholomew, Robert E.: - Robert Bartholomew holds a Masters Degree in sociology from The State University of New York at Albany, and a Ph.D. in sociology from James Cook University in Queensland, Australia. He is an authority on mass psychology: rumors, panics, scares, hysterias and social delusions. Dr. Bartholomew's articles have appeared in more than fifty scholarly publications including the British Medical Journal, British Journal of Psychiatry, Canadian Medical Association Journal, Medical Journal of Australia, The International Journal of Social Psychiatry, and Psychological Medicine. A former university instructor and researcher, he has conducted fieldwork among the Malay people in Malaysia and taught Aborigines in outback Australia. Dr. Bartholomew was a journalist for several New York State radio stations, including WGY, Schenectady, one of the largest stations in the United States. He has been interviewed for articles that were featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The New Yorker. He has also been interviewed on the History Channel. A licensed high school teacher, his book Hoaxes, Myths & Manias: Why We Need Critical Thinking (2003) was endorsed by Robert J. Sternberg, then President of the American Psychological Association. Dr. Bartholomew is the co-author (with Hilary Evans) of Panic Attacks: Media Manipulation and Mass Delusion (2004) which Steven Poole of The Guardian calls "entertaining...detailed and informative." His book Exotic Deviance is a groundbreaking study on the misclassification of mental disorders in non-Western cultures. Professor Arthur Kleinman, chairman of the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard University, calls it "clear, competent and comprehensive."