Vincent Edward Price is an American communication studies scholar, currently serving as the 10th president of

Duke University Duke University is a Private university, private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity, North Carolina, Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1 ...

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since July 2017. He previously served as provost of the

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from 2009 to 2017.

Education

Price received a

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, ''

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'', with a major in English from

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in 1979. He received a

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communication Communication is commonly defined as the transmission of information. Its precise definition is disputed and there are disagreements about whether Intention, unintentional or failed transmissions are included and whether communication not onl ...

in 1985 and a

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in communication in 1987, both from

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. His doctoral dissertation was on mass communication, titled ''Effects of communicating group conflicts of opinion: an experimental investigation'' (1987).

Career

Price was the chair of the Department of Communication Studies at the

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prior to his tenure at the University of Pennsylvania. While at Penn he held the positions of Interim Provost, Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs, Chair of the Faculty Senate, and Associate Dean of the

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. Price served as the

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of the '' Public Opinion Quarterly'' from 1997 to 2001. Price was announced as the 10th President of

on December 2, 2016, and he assumed office on July 1, 2017. Since 2017, Price has served as a trustee of the National Humanities Center at

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. Since 2017 he has lived in the J. Deryl Hart House, the official residence for Duke's presidents. Price wrote a book entitled ''Public Opinion'' in 1992. It was reviewed in the '' Public Opinion Quarterly'' by John P. Robinson, of the

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, who called it an "indispensable and insightful guide to the historical and intellectual roots of our profession". The book is 92 pages long and examines and contrasts the ideas of

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and

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with current laboratory findings of

group dynamics Group dynamics is a system of behaviors and psychological processes occurring within a social group (''intra''group dynamics), or between social groups ( ''inter''group dynamics). The study of group dynamics can be useful in understanding decision ...

and

cognitive psychology Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of human mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and reasoning. Cognitive psychology originated in the 1960s in a break from behaviorism, whi ...

. The book examines a lack of consensus on the definition of "

public opinion Public opinion, or popular opinion, is the collective opinion on a specific topic or voting intention relevant to society. It is the people's views on matters affecting them. In the 21st century, public opinion is widely thought to be heavily ...

". Robinson wrote that, "The work establishes Price as a major contributor to a field that has yet to address adequately many of the fundamental issues that he has articulated."

Selected works

*''Public Opinion'' SAGE, 1992

Awards and honors

*The International Communication Association's K. Kyoon Hur Dissertation Award. *The American Association in Journalism and Mass Communication's Nafziger-White Dissertation Award. *The University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts' Excellence in Education Award. *The World Association for Public Opinion Research's Robert M. Worcester Award. *The American Association for Public Opinion Research's Award of Recognition.

References

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Education

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Selected works

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