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PhD Sociology University of Chicago
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According to Wikipedia, Gerald Marwell was an American sociologist, social psychologist and behavioral economist. He was most recently Professor of Sociology at New York University. He is best known for his innovative work on problems of collective action, cooperation, social movements, compliance-gaining behavior, adolescence and religion.

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Economists free ride, does anyone else? : Experiments on the provision of public goods, IV (1981) (1137)
The critical mass in collective action (1993) (960)
A Theory of the Critical Mass. I. Interdependence, Group Heterogeneity, and the Production of Collective Action (1985) (842)
Experiments on the Provision of Public Goods. I. Resources, Interest, Group Size, and the Free-Rider Problem (1979) (715)
Social Networks and Collective Action: A Theory of the Critical Mass. III (1988) (563)
THE PARADOX OF GROUP SIZE IN COLLECTIVE ACTION: A THEORY OF THE CRITICAL MASS. II. * (1988) (512)
The critical mass in collective action : a micro-social theory (1993) (490)
Self-esteem : its conceptualization and measurement (1976) (477)
Dimensions of Compliance-Gaining Behavior: An Empirical Analysis (1967) (420)
A Theory of the Critical Mass (1991) (405)
Experiments on the Provision of Public Goods. II. Provision Points, Stakes, Experience, and the Free-Rider Problem (1980) (282)
Whatever Happened to Critical Mass Theory? A Retrospective and Assessment* (2001) (162)
The Reliability of Products of Two Random Variables (1978) (119)
Withdrawal and reward reallocation as responses to inequity (1972) (114)
THE PERSISTENCE OF POLITICAL ATTITUDES AMONG 1960s CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS (1987) (113)
MOBILIZING TECHNOLOGIES FOR COLLECTIVE ACTION (2003) (103)
Geographic constraints on women's careers in academia. (1979) (101)
Cooperation: An Experimental Analysis (1975) (100)
Cooperation in a Three-Person Prisoner's Dilemma. (1972) (89)
The Organization of Role-Relationships: A Systematic Description (1970) (86)
Minimizing Differences in a Maximizing Difference Game. (1969) (48)
The social nature of psychological research : the psychological experiment as a social interaction (1968) (43)
Cooperation and Interpersonal Risk. (1971) (39)
Stimulus control in the experimental study of cooperation. (1968) (38)
Experiments on the Provision of Public Goods by Groups III: Nondivisibility and Free Riding in "Real" Groups (1980) (35)
Adolescent Powerlessness and Delinquent Behavior (1966) (34)
Compliance‐Gaining Behavior: A Synthesis and Model* (1967) (34)
We Still Don't Know if Strict Churches are Strong, Much Less Why: Comment on Iannaccone (1996) (31)
Volunteers for Peace. (1966) (28)
A Critique of Contemporary American Sociology (1993) (28)
Secularization by any other name (2003) (26)
Why ascription? Parts of a more or less formal theory of the functions and dysfunctions of sex roles. (1975) (26)
Dynamics of idealism : [white activists in a Black movement (1973) (23)
Chapter 9 – Altruism and the Problem of Collective Action (1982) (23)
TAKING AND THE DISRUPTION OF COOPERATION1 (1971) (20)
Avoidance of risk as a determinant of cooperation. (1971) (19)
COLLECTIVE ACTION THEORY AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS RESEARCH (2011) (18)
Reach and selectivity as strategies of recruitment for collective action: A theory of the critical mass, V* (1991) (18)
Are "trivial" games the most interesting psychologically? (1968) (14)
PROBLEMS OF OPERATIONAL DEFINITIONS OF "EMPATHY," "IDENTIFICATION" AND RELATED CONCEPTS. (1964) (12)
Toward the development of an empirically based theory of role relationships. (1968) (11)
Party, Region and the Dimensions of Conflict in the House of Representatives, 1949–1954 (1967) (10)
Status Congruence and Associativeness: A Test of Galtung's Theory (1977) (10)
Pacifist strategy and cooperation under interpersonal risk. (1973) (9)
Sociology : perspectives and applications (1976) (9)
Reward and Punishment as Influence Techniques for the Achievement of Cooperation under Inequity (1970) (9)
Taking and the disruption of cooperation. (1971) (8)
Sex differences in a cooperative task (1970) (8)
Cooperation and interpersonal risk: Cross-cultural and cross-procedural generalizations (1972) (7)
The paradox of group size (1993) (7)
Departmental Demography and Reputational Success: The Fall and Rise of Top Sociology Departments 1950–1980 (2012) (6)
Comment on Scott and El-Assal (1970) (5)
Comment on "An Examination of Recent Hypotheses About Institutional Inbreeding" By Hargens and Farr (1974) (5)
Conflict over proposed group actions: a typology of cleavage (1966) (4)
VISIBILITY IN SMALL GROUPS. (1963) (4)
A General Theory of Gender Preferences For Children (2013) (3)
Criteria and Contingencies of Success in a Radical Political Movement1 (1971) (3)
Attitudes toward Parental Use of Promised Rewards to Control Adolescent Behavior (1967) (3)
The Critical Mass in Collective Action: The critical mass and the problem of collective action (1993) (3)
Some Notes on the Concept and Experimental Study of Cooperation (1971) (2)
Child-Rearing Experience and Attitudes Toward the Use of Influence Techniques* (1969) (2)
Experimental Use of Points or Money as Reinforcers: Does What is Risked Make a Difference? (1972) (1)
Reply: Theory Is Not a Social Dilemma (1994) (1)
Role allocation and differentiation through time in medium-sized groups. (1968) (1)
Types of Past Experience with Potential Work Partners (1966) (1)
Review Essay: Targeting the Critical Mass@@@The Critical Mass in Collective Action: A Micro-Social Theory. (1994) (1)
Departmental Demography and Reputational Success: The Fall and Rise of Top Sociology Departments 1950–1980 (2012) (0)
CHAPTER 3 – THE FIRST EXPERIMENTS: INEQUITY AND COOPERATION (1975) (0)
The Critical Mass in Collective Action: The dynamics of production functions (1993) (0)
Selectivity in social networks (1993) (0)
CHAPTER 4 – COOPERATION AND INTERPERSONAL RISK (1975) (0)
Revisiting the Family Life Cycle Hypotheses: Age, Life Course, and Church Attendance in Middle and Older Age (2008) (0)
Residence Location, Geographic Mobility, and the Attainments of Women in Academia. Institute for Research on Poverty Discussion Papers No. 359-76. (1976) (0)
For God or Family? Age and Family Life Course Effects on Church Attendance in Middle and Older Age (2005) (0)
Who's Worried about the Environment? (1970) (0)
CHAPTER 6 – ACHIEVING COOPERATION UNDER RISK: PROTECTION AND COMMUNICATION (1975) (0)
CHAPTER 8 – ACHIEVING COOPERATION UNDER RISK: PACIFISM (1975) (0)
CHAPTER 1 – INTRODUCTION: THE STUDY OF COOPERATION (1975) (0)
The Critical Mass in Collective Action: Unfinished business (1993) (0)
Joseph R. Gusfield, The Culture of Public Problems: Drinking-Driving and the Symbolic Order. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981. Pp. xiv+263. $20.00 (1983) (0)
CHAPTER 9 – CONCLUSIONS AND SPECULATIONS (1975) (0)
Family Life Cycle Revisited: Age and Life Course Effects on Church Attendance at 'Conventional' and Middle Age (2013) (0)
The Critical Mass in Collective Action: Reach and selectivity as strategies of recruitment (1993) (0)
CHAPTER 7 – ACHIEVING COOPERATION UNDER RISK: RELATIONS BETWEEN PEOPLE (1975) (0)
Review Essay: Providing for the Common Good@@@The Critical Mass in Collective Action: A Micro-Social Theory. (1994) (0)
Building blocks: goods, groups, and processes (1993) (0)
Cooperation and the Human Group (2021) (0)
Reply to Shippee (1980) (0)
Dynamics of Idealism: White Activists in a Black Movement. (1973) (0)
Social networks: density, centralization, and cliques (1993) (0)
CHAPTER 2 – METHODS: MEASUREMENT AND EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN (1975) (0)
Dynamics of Idealism: Volunteers for Civil Rights 1965-1982 (1997) (0)
CHAPTER 5 – COOPERATION AND INTERPERSONAL RISK: TESTS FOR GENERALITY (1975) (0)

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