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Dorwin Cartwright

Psychology

#1005

World Rank

#1250

Historical Rank

#615

USA Rank

Social Psychology

#135

World Rank

#145

Historical Rank

#77

USA Rank

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PhD Psychology University of Iowa
Masters Psychology University of Iowa
Bachelors Psychology University of Iowa

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According to Wikipedia, Dorwin Philip Cartwright was an American social psychologist, and considered one of the founders of the field of group dynamics. Cartwright's research and writing topics included the mathematical foundations of group dynamics, the sources of social power, the nature of group structure and the causes of risk taking in groups. He was a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan for 31 years.

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Dorwin Cartwright's Published Works

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Published Works

Structural balance: a generalization of Heider's theory. (1956) (2193)
Field Theory in Social Science: Selected Theoretical Papers (1951) (2084)
Handbook of organizations (1966) (1744)
Group dynamics, research and theory (1955) (1083)
Studies in Social Power. (1960) (1011)
Group dynamics, 3rd ed. (1968) (301)
Influence, Leadership, Control (1965) (218)
Risk taking by individuals and groups: An assessment of research employing choice dilemmas. (1971) (199)
Achieving Change in People: Some Applications of Group Dynamics Theory (1951) (185)
Some Principles of Mass Persuasion (1949) (156)
Group dynamics: Research and theory, 2nd ed. (1960) (145)
A Study of a Rumor: Its Origin and Spread (1948) (141)
Contemporary social psychology in historical perspective. (1979) (123)
Determinants of scientific progress: The case of research on the risky shift. (1973) (119)
A quantitative theory of decision (1943) (90)
Relation of Decision-Time to the Categories of Response (1941) (71)
Some Neglected Variables in Contemporary Conceptions of Decision and Performance (1964) (51)
Analysis of Qualitative Material (1988) (47)
The effect of interruption, completion, and failure upon the attractiveness of activities. (1942) (45)
Decision-time in relation to the differentiation of the phenomenal field. (1941) (41)
On the Coloring of Signed Graphs. (1968) (33)
Ambivalence and indifference in generalizations of structural balance (1970) (33)
A graph theoretic approach to the investigation of system‐environment relationships† (1977) (30)
The number of paths and cycles in a digraph (1966) (29)
Public Opinion and Propaganda (1954) (27)
Group Dynamics and the Individual (1957) (27)
THE RELIABILITY OF LIFE‐HISTORY STUDIES* (1939) (25)
CHAPTER 3 – BALANCE AND CLUSTERABILITY: AN OVERVIEW (1979) (22)
Social Psychology in the United States During the Second World War (1948) (20)
On SPSSI's first twenty years. (1956) (16)
A Projective Method for the Diagnosis of Group Properties (1953) (16)
On visual speed (1938) (14)
A note on a matrix criterion for unique colorability of a signed graph (1967) (11)
STRUCTURAL BALANCE: A GENERALIZATION OF HEIDER'S THEORY1 (1977) (11)
Formalization and Progress in Psychology (1940). (1997) (11)
Studies in imagery and identity. (1983) (11)
The Number of Lines in a Digraph of Each Connectedness Category (1961) (7)
Some Things Learned: An Evaluative History of the Research Center for Group Dynamics2 (1958) (7)
A note on Freud's 'instincts and their vicissitudes'. (1959) (6)
Group Dynamics: Research and Theory (1954) (6)
Two Theories of Visual Speed (1942) (4)
A guide to public opinion polls. (1945) (3)
FURTHER EVIDENCE RELEVANT TO THE ASSESSMENT OF i.t.a. (1967) (2)
The Issue of "Power"@@@The Uses of Power: 7 Cases in American Politics@@@The Ethic of Power: The Interplay of Religion, Philosophy, and Politics@@@Power and Democracy in America@@@Studies in Social Power (1964) (2)
Public Opinion Polls and Democratic Leadership (1946) (2)
Integrating Theory and Practice@@@A Review of Kurt Lewin's Field Theory in Social Science@@@Resolving Social Conflicts (1989) (2)
Training for human relations: an interim report. (1955) (1)
Basic and Applied Social Psychology (1949) (1)
Review of Psychoanalysis and group behavior. (1953) (1)
Psychological forces in the determination of decision-time and Dr. Blumenfeld's criticism. (1942) (1)
Review of Love Problems of Adolescence. (1941) (0)
Strikes Are Preventable (1949) (0)
The Kurt Lewin Memorial Award Presentation (1978) (0)
Review of Tensions affecting international understanding. (1951) (0)
GROUP DYNAMICS AND EDUCATION (1970) (0)
Review of Facts and theories of psychoanalysis. (1940) (0)
GROUP DYNAMICS AND EDUCATION:RESEARCH AND PRACTICE IN THE UNITED STATES (1970) (0)
Memories of the days shortly before and after Lewin's death (2004) (0)
Review of A guide to public opinion polls. (1945) (0)
Review of Psychology of personality, Crooked personalities in childhood and after, The art of being a person, and Social forces in personality stunting. (1940) (0)
11 – GROUP DYNAMICS AND THE INDIVIDUAL (1985) (0)
The research center for group dynamics : a report of five years' activities and a view of future needs (1950) (0)
Volume Information (1974) (0)
Theory and Practice (2009) (0)
From Cells to Societies. (1957) (0)
Resources for World‐Wide Research in the Human Sciences (1947) (0)
Of what does consistency consist (1962) (0)

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