David Rosenhan | Academic Influence

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David Rosenhan

Psychology

#462

World Rank

#625

Historical Rank

#308

USA Rank

Clinical Psychology

#226

World Rank

#229

Historical Rank

#94

USA Rank

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David Rosenhan's Degrees

PhD Psychology Columbia University
Bachelors Mathematics Brooklyn College

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According to Wikipedia, David L. Rosenhan was an American psychologist. He is best known for the Rosenhan experiment, a study challenging the validity of psychiatry diagnoses. Biography Rosenhan received his Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics in 1951 from Yeshiva College, his master's degree in economics in 1953 and his doctorate in psychology in 1958, both from Columbia University. As further described in his obituary published by the American Psychological Association , "Rosenhan was a pioneer in applying psychological methods to the practice of law, including the examination of expert witnesses, jury selection, and jury deliberation." He was a professor of law and of psychology at Stanford University from 1971 until his retirement in 1998. Before joining the Stanford Law School faculty, he was a member of the faculties of Swarthmore College, Princeton University, Haverford College, and the University of Pennsylvania. He also served as a research psychologist at the Educational Testing Service. He later became a professor emeritus in law and psychology at Stanford University. Rosenhan was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and various psychological societies, including the APA, and had been a visiting fellow at Wolfson College at Oxford University.

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David Rosenhan's Published Works

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On being sane in insane places (1973) (1985)
Affect and Altruism. (1973) (267)
Observation and rehearsal as determinants of prosocial behavior. (1967) (193)
Affect moderates self-gratification and altruism. (1974) (180)
The joys of helping: Focus of attention mediates the impact of positive affect on altruism. (1981) (162)
Effects of success and failure on children's generosity. (1973) (158)
Focus of Attention Mediates the Impact of Negative Affect on Altruism. (1980) (133)
Effects of the 1989 San Francisco earthquake on frequency and content of nightmares. (1992) (129)
Inadmissible evidence and juror verdicts. (1981) (119)
Mood and helping: Mood as a motivator of helping and helping as a regulator of mood. (1991) (112)
The contextual nature of psychiatric diagnosis. (1975) (85)
Preaching and practicing: effects of channel discrepancy on norm internalization. (1968) (52)
The effects of age, sex, and socioeconomic class on responsiveness to two classes of verbal reinforcement1 (1965) (48)
Learning Theory and Prosocial Behavior. (1972) (48)
Abnormal psychology, 3rd ed. (1995) (42)
Affect and expectation. (1966) (41)
Notetaking can aid juror recall (1994) (41)
Hypnosis in the unhypnotizable: a study in rote learning. (1963) (37)
Effects of social class and race on responsiveness to approval and disapproval. (1966) (36)
Hyponosis: expectation, susceptibility, and performance. (1963) (34)
THE EFFECT OF BRIEF SOCIAL DEPRIVATION ON SOCIAL AND NONSOCIAL REINFORCEMENT. (1963) (29)
Foundations of abnormal psychology (1971) (28)
Mood states and prosocial behavior. (1989) (25)
SOME ORIGINS OF CONCERN FOR OTHERS1 (1968) (22)
THE EFFECTS OF AGE, SEX, AND SOCIOECONOMIC CLASS ON RESPONSIVENESS TO TWO CLASSES OF VERBAL REINFORCEMENT. (1964) (18)
Distinguishing the dimensions of valence and belief consistency in depressive and nondepressive information processing (1988) (16)
ON PREFERENCE FOR HYPNOSIS AND HYPNOTIZABILITY. (1964) (15)
Warning third parties: the ripple effects of Tarasoff. (1993) (12)
Hypnosis and Personality: A Moderator Variable Analysis (1969) (10)
Theory and research in abnormal psychology (1969) (8)
The Kindnesses of Children. (1969) (4)
A PROCESS STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF DEPROL ON DEPRESSION (1961) (3)
Naysaying and the California Psychological Inventory. (1962) (3)
Double alternation in children’s binary choice responses (1966) (3)
ALONENESS AND TOGETHERNESS AS DRIVE CONDITIONS IN CHILDREN1 (1966) (3)
Casebook and study guide, Abnormal psychology, third edition (1995) (3)
Determinants of Altruism: Observations for A Theory of Altruistic Development. (1969) (2)
When Does a Diagnosis Become a Clinical Judgment (1979) (2)
Psychological abnormality and law. (1983) (2)
PREACHING AND PRACTICING: THE EFFECTS OF CONSISTENCIES AND DISCREPANCIES IN TUITION AND EXAMPLE ON NORM INTERNALIZATION AND VIOLATION1 (1967) (2)
Obituary: Perry London (1931-1992). (1993) (1)
BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION AND RACIAL INTEGRATION (1966) (1)
THE EFFECTS OF SOCIAL CLASS AND RACE ON RESPONSIVENESS TO APPROVAL AND DISAPPROVAL1 (1965) (1)
Pressure to Conform and Logical Problem Solving (1963) (1)
Madness: In the Eye of the Beholder. (1968) (0)
AFFECT AND EXPECTATION1 (1964) (0)
The Square, The Cool, The Life, and Those Bars. (1974) (0)
DOUBLE ALTERNATION IN CHILDREN'S BINARY CHOICE RESPONSES1 (1966) (0)
When hotwords fail. (1988) (0)
Abnormal Psychology: Study Guide (1989) (0)
The Ethical Dilemmas of Research and Practice. (1988) (0)
You Don’t have to be Mad to Work Here. You Don’t Even have to be Mad to be in Here ... (1996) (0)
Psychiatric diagnosis. (1973) (0)
44 – On Being Sane in Insane Places (1974) (0)
Pseudoempiricism: Who Owns the Right to Scientific Reality? (1991) (0)
Week 8: Popular Articles (2014) (0)
ON PREFERENCE FOR HYPNOSIS AND HYPNOTIZABILITY1 (1964) (0)
Abnormality : study guide (1997) (0)

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