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Rob P. Epstein (6 de abril de 1955 en Nuevo Brunswick, Nueva Jersey) es un cineasta, productor y guionista estadounidense galardonado con dos premios Óscar al mejor documental largo por las películas The Times of Harvey Milk y Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt.
Robert P. Epstein (born April 6, 1955), is an American director, producer, writer, and editor. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature, for the films The Times of Harvey Milk and Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt.
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Epstein was born on June 19, 1953, in Hartford, Connecticut, into a Jewish family. He went to Conard High School in West Hartford where he was first introduced to computer programming and hacking through the school's IBM 1620, one of the first computers owned by a US High School. Epstein went to Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, where he ma...
In 1976, Epstein enrolled in the Master's program of Community and Clinical Psychology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. There he studied the experimental analysis of behavior under Professor A. Charles Catania. While at graduate school, Epstein personally reached out to the then-retired B.F. Skinner, and convinced him to begin pigeo...
After receiving his PhD, Epstein founded the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies in 1981. For nine years, he served as the center's executive director while conducting research and teaching at the University of Massachusetts Boston, Northeastern University, Simmons College (Massachusetts), the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Boston Uni...
Generativity Theory
While at Harvard in the 1980s, Epstein introduced the idea of "Generativity Theory", a quantitative, predictive theory of creativity in both animals and people, derived from research he had conducted with pigeons, children, and adults. His 2000 book, The Big Book of Creativity Games, includes exercises for increasing creativity.
Vulnerability Theory of Emotional Bonding
In various writings, Epstein has been a strong advocate of the view that people can deliberately learn to love each other, and he has proposed a formal, predictive theory of how love grows in couples. His theory is based in part on research he has conducted on how love arises in arranged marriages in multiple cultures worldwide. In 2013, he published a study summarizing this research. At a class on intimate relationships he taught at University of California, San Diego, he gave extra credit t...
Sexual continuum
Epstein has conducted large-scale studies on sexual orientation that confirm assertions made by Sigmund Freud, Alfred Kinsey, and others that (a) sexual orientation lies on a continuum, (b) bisexuality is the natural norm for human beings, and (c) most people claim to be straight because of social pressure.His psychometric test on sexual orientation is available in multiple languages online.
Search Engine Manipulation Effect
In 2013, Epstein discovered a phenomenon he termed the Search Engine Manipulation Effect (SEME), an internet-influence effect that could give a dominant search engine company the power to determine the outcome of close elections. He presented his theory in seminars at Stanford University, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, and the International Convention of Psychological Science in Vienna, Austria. He published these findings in the peer-reviewed scientific journa...
Search Suggestion Effect
In experiments begun in 2016, Epstein determined that search suggestions—and the suppression of negative search suggestions—can also be used to manipulate votes and opinions, a phenomenon he termed the Search Suggestion Effect (SSE). He has expressed concern that this effect could be used by Big Tech companies to influence peoples' opinions with impunity. He described this theory in detail during a 2017 seminar at the Stanford School of Engineering.
Criticism of Google
Epstein has been an outspoken critic of Google and has proposed methods for reducing the threat that Big Tech poses to free-and-fair elections. In 2012, he said that Google could rig the 2016 United States presidential election and that search engine manipulation was "a serious threat to the democratic system of government". In 2016, he wrote in Huffington Post magazine that Google had "a fundamentally deceptive business model". In a 2017 article, Epstein criticized efforts by companies such...
Epstein has five children and lives in Vista, California.His wife Misti was killed in a car accident in 2019, ending a marriage that began in 2012.
Notebooks: B. F. Skinner (editor) (1980), ISBN 0-13-624106-9Skinner for the Classroom: Selected Papers (editor) (1982), ISBN 0-87822-261-8Cognition, Creativity, and Behavior: Selected Essays (1996), ISBN 0-275-94452-2Creativity Games for Trainers (1996), ISBN 0-07-021363-1Rob P. Epstein (6 de abril de 1955 en Nuevo Brunswick, Nueva Jersey) es un cineasta, productor y guionista estadounidense galardonado con dos premios Óscar al mejor documental largo por las películas The Times of Harvey Milk y Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt.
Rob Epstein es un director, productor y guionista norteamericano, nacido el 6 de abril de 1955, en Nueva Jersey. A los 19 años, Rob se mudó de su natal Nueva Jersey a San Francisco, a bordo de un autobús y con poco dinero, para encontrar su propio camino.
End Game is a 2018 American short documentary film by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman about terminally ill patients in a San Francisco hospital meeting medical practitioners seeking to change the perception around life and death.
El celuloide oculto es un documental estadounidense de 1995 dirigido y escrito por Rob Epstein y Jeffrey Friedman, que analiza la historia de la presencia y el tratamiento a personajes homosexuales en el cine de las grandes productoras de Hollywood.
