Seth Kalichman

Seth Kalichman
Occupation	Professor
Known for	Sexual Compulsivity Scale
Academic background
Influences	Nicoli Nattrass
Academic work
Era	21st Century
Discipline	Social psychology
Sub discipline	Community psychologist
Institutions	University of Connecticut
Main interests	HIV/AIDS
Notable works	Denying AIDS: Conspiracy Theories, Pseudoscience, and Human Tragedy

Seth C. Kalichman is a clinical community psychologist and professor of social psychology at the University of Connecticut, who researches HIV/AIDS prevention and care.

Kalichman is the director of the Southeast HIV/AIDS Research & Education Project in Atlanta, Georgia and Cape Town, South Africa, the editor of the journal AIDS and Behavior and the author of Denying AIDS: Conspiracy Theories, Pseudoscience, and Human Tragedy, an examination of HIV/AIDS denialism. Royalties from the book fund antiretroviral drugs for people with HIV/AIDS in Africa.

Kalichman spent a year infiltrating HIV denialist groups. He argues that denialism is often a coping strategy, and that followers are often anti-government, anti-establishment, and prone to cognitive distortions; he says that leaders in denialism exhibit paranoid personality disorder. He began researching denialism after reading the work of Nicoli Nattrass.

He is the developer of the Sexual Compulsivity Scale.

External links

• University of Connecticut, faculty
• AIDS and Behavior on Springer.com
• Kalichman's 'Denying AIDS' blog
• - video interview with Kalichman
• Interview with Kalichman on Little Atoms