Pedersen’s research activities include
- Translation and administration of a 500 item multi-scaled inventory in Indonesia
- Malaysia and Singapore; survey research on Malaysian student attitudes for the Japanese newspaper Yomuri Shimbun
- Co-Director of Research for a 10 day intercultural communication laboratory for 60 Japanese/ U.S. intercultural communication experts at Nihonmatsu
- Japan funded by the Lily Foundation
- Re-entry research among LASPAU students from Brasil
- Director of Research on Sex-role Stereotypes in Higher Education on an HEW grant
- Director of a 3 year NIMH mental health training program
- Two National Science Foundation travel grants to present papers at the Pacific Science Association meetings in New Zealand and the Philippines
- National Science Foundation 6 year grant to study the re-entry adjustment of engineers returning to Taiwan after study abroad
- National Institute of Education grant to develop a measure of crosscultural counseling skill
- State of New York Department of Social Services grant to develop mental health training materials on unaccompanied refugee minors
- A two year Harvard Institute for International Development project in Indonesia to evaluate and up-grade training at Bank Rakyat Training Centers
- A National Association of Foreign Student Affairs grant for a research conference in November, 1992 on the Reentry of ASEAN and Pacific Island Students
- An Asian Foundation grant to co-organize a conference in Penang
- Malaysia on constructive conflict management in a cultural context
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