In 1999, he was the guest editor for an issue of ACM focusing on persuasive technologies. In 1998, Fogg published a peer-reviewed paper, Persuasive Computers: Perspectives and Research Directions, which included a section that 'proposes ethical responsibilities for designers of persuasive computers and captology researchers, and discusses the importance of educating about persuasion.' His Masters thesis, 'Terms of Address Among Latter-Day Saints' and 'Names Mormons Use for Jesus: Contexts and Trends' were both published by the Deseret Language and Linguistics Society Symposium in February 1990 and March 1991, respectively. Career įrom 1992 to 1993, Fogg was 'one of the founders of the Student Review, Brigham Young University's independent student newspaper' and 'taught English and design at BYU.' While at BYU, Fogg published eight short stories and poems in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought Sunstone, 'a quarterly journal of Mormon experience, scholarship, issues, and art' and other Mormon-affiliated publications.

He earned a second Masters and a PhD in Communications from Stanford, where he served as a teaching assistant to Philip Zimbardo. Fogg has a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in English from Brigham Young University. At the age of eighteen, Fogg went to Peru for a two-year mission. He later grew up in Fresno, California, where he was raised in a Mormon family with six siblings. Education įogg was born in 1963 in Dallas.

He is the founder and director of the Stanford Behavior Design Lab, formerly known as the Persuasive Technology Lab. Captology (Persuasive Technology), Behavior Designīrian Jeffrey Fogg (born August 7, 1963) is an American social scientist and author who is a research associate and adjunct professor at Stanford University.

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