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Harold Mendelsohn

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#1696

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#1911

Historical Rank

#601

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PhD Sociology University of Chicago
Masters Sociology University of Chicago
Bachelors Sociology University of Chicago

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According to Wikipedia, Harold Mendelsohn was an American social psychologist who taught in the Mass Communications Department at the University of Denver from 1962 to 1988. During his tenure he also held a number of administrative positions in the University. He served as Chairman of the Mass Communications Department from 1970 to 1978, Dean of the Social Sciences Faculty beginning in 1984, and was Director of the University's Center for Mass Communications Research and Policy from 1962 to 1983.

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Harold Mendelsohn's Published Works

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"Mix a Little Folly with Your Wisdom"--Horace@@@Children and Television.@@@Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. (1987) (1501)
Minorities and the Police: Confrontation in America (1969) (196)
SOME REASONS WHY INFORMATION CAMPAIGNS CAN SUCCEED (1973) (176)
Minorities and the police (1968) (161)
Polls, television, and the new politics (1970) (73)
WESTERN VOTING AND BROADCASTS OF RESULTS ON PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION DAYELECTION DAY BROADCASTS AND TERMINAL VOTING DECISIONS (1966) (37)
The people choose a President : influences on voter decision making (1976) (27)
Which shall it be: mass education or mass persuasion for health? (1968) (23)
Broadcast vs. personal sources of information in emergent public crises: The presidential assassination (1964) (20)
Voter Decision Making 1972 and 1974 (1976) (13)
Behaviorism, Functionalism, and Mass Communications Policy (1974) (10)
A Survey of Fulbright Award Recipients: Cross-cultural Education and its Impacts (1955) (10)
Voter Selectivity, Partisanship, and the Challenge of Watergate (1974) (8)
Socio-Psychological Perspectives on the Mass Media and Public Anxiety (1963) (8)
Socio-Psychological Construction and the Mass Communication Effects Dialectic (1989) (8)
MEASURING THE PROCESS OF COMMUNICATIONS EFFECT (1962) (7)
Minorities and the Police: Confrontation in America. (1971) (7)
Comment on Spitzer's “. . . A comparison of six investigations” (1964) (5)
Media Campaigns and Crime Prevention: An Executive Summary. (1982) (4)
What to Say to Whom in Social Amelioration Programming. (1969) (4)
Operation Gap-Stop; A Study of the Application of Communication Techniques in Reaching the Unreachable Poor. (1968) (3)
The Use of Libraries and the Conditions that Promote Their Use. A Report to the National Advisory Commission on Libraries. (1967) (2)
The Neglected Majority: Mass Communications and the Working Person. (1971) (2)
Social Need or Sacred Cow?—A Sociological Perspective (1978) (2)
A sociological approach to certain aspects of mental deficiency. (1954) (2)
Entertainment as a Sociological Enterprise (2014) (2)
Delusions of Technology (1979) (2)
ARE TRAFFIC SAFETY MESSAGES REALLY ON TARGET (1967) (1)
MASS COMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH IN THE SERVICE OF THE PUBLIC (1964) (1)
Lessons From a National Media Prevention Campaign (1986) (1)
Public Television and Political Broadcasting: A Matter of Responsibility. (1970) (1)
WHICH SHALLITBE:MASS EDUCATIONOR MASS PERSUASIONFOR HEALTH? (1968) (1)
More about the Police@@@Varieties of Police Behavior@@@The People and the Police@@@Minorities and the Police (1969) (1)
Operatin g Gap-Stop. A Study of the Application of Communications Techniques in Reaching the Unreachable Poor. Final Report. Vol. I. (1968) (0)
Book Review:Television and Politics: Its Uses and Influence. Jay G. Blumler, Denis McQuail (1970) (0)
Communication Yearbook 2.Brent D. Ruben (1980) (0)
The Effect of Autistic Pressure and Institutional Structure on Preference In a Choice Situation (1952) (0)
POLITICS, POLLS, AND PUBLICS: EMPIRICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE 1972 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION (1973) (0)
THE ROLE OF PUBLIC OPINION IN THE DESEGREGATION CONTROVERSY (1957) (0)
COMMUNICATIONS THEORY REVISITED (1970) (0)
Book reviews (1970) (0)
Book Review: The Play Theory of Mass Communication (1967) (0)
QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF INTERVIEW PROTOCOLS (1958) (0)
EFFECTS OF TELEVISION ON SOCIAL AND POLITICAL BEHAVIOR: SOME REASONS WHY INFORMATION CAMPAIGNS CAN SUCCEED (1972) (0)
Communist Broadcasts to Italy (1952) (0)

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