Irving Janis
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- PhD Psychology Columbia University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Irving Lester Janis was an American research psychologist at Yale University and a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley most famous for his theory of "groupthink" which described the systematic errors made by groups when making collective decisions. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Janis as the 79th most cited psychologist of the 20th century.
Irving Janis's Published Works
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Published Works
- Decision Making: A Psychological Analysis of Conflict, Choice, and Commitment (1977) (4251)
- Groupthink: Psychological Studies of Policy Decisions and Fiascoes (1982) (2501)
- Victims Of Groupthink (1972) (1973)
- Communication And Persuasion (1953) (1894)
- Communication and Persuasion: Psychological Studies of Opinion Change (1982) (1731)
- Victims of Groupthink: A psychological study of foreign-policy decisions and fiascoes. By Irving L. Janis. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972. viii + 276 pp. Map, illustrations, chart, notes, sources, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $7.95; paper $4.50.) (1973) (1394)
- Effect of fear-arousing communications. (1953) (585)
- Effects of Fear Arousal on Attitude Change: Recent Developments in Theory and Experimental Research1 (1967) (474)
- The influence of role playing on opinion change. (1954) (427)
- Reduction of psychological stress in surgical patients (1975) (415)
- Personality and Persuasibility. (1960) (267)
- Sex differences and personality factors related to persuasibility. (1959) (259)
- Book Reviews: Psychological Stress. Psychoanalytic and Behavioral Studies of Surgical Patients (1959) (232)
- Crucial Decisions: Leadership in Policymaking and Crisis Management (1989) (200)
- An experimental study of psychological resistance to fear-arousing communications. (1962) (193)
- Comparison of the Effectiveness of Improvised Versus Non-Improvised Role-Playing in Producing Opinion Changes (1956) (189)
- Personality correlates of susceptibility to persuasion. (1954) (188)
- Decision Making: A Psychological Analysis of Conflict (1980) (180)
- Decision Making during International Crises (1987) (170)
- THE INFLUENCE OF INCENTIVE CONDITIONS ON THE SUCCESS OF ROLE PLAYING IN MODIFYING ATTITUDES. (1965) (168)
- Personality and Persuasibility (1982) (160)
- Stress and frustration (1971) (155)
- The American Soldier (1950) (153)
- Emergency decision making: a theoretical analysis of responses to disaster warnings. (1977) (153)
- Effectiveness of emotional role-playing in modifying smoking habits and attitudes. (1965) (146)
- Resistance to “Counterpropaganda” Produced by One-Sided and Two-Sided “Propaganda” Presentations (1953) (140)
- Personality differences associated with responsiveness to fear-arousing communications. (1954) (135)
- The role of social support in adherence to stressful decisions. (1983) (132)
- FACILITATING EFFECTS OF "EATING-WHILE-READING" ON RESPONSIVENESS TO PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATIONS. (1965) (113)
- Air war and emotional stress (1951) (106)
- The American soldier: Combat and its aftermath. (Studies in social psychology in World War II), Vol. 2 (1949) (101)
- A Behavioral Assessment of Persuasibility: Consistency of Individual Differences' (1956) (101)
- 13 – A Conflict-Theory Approach to Attitude Change and Decision Making1 (1968) (99)
- The relationship between attitudes toward conclusions and errors in judging logical validity of syllogisms. (1943) (90)
- A follow-up study on the long-term effects of emotional role playing. (1968) (87)
- The Social Power of Health‐Care Practitioners as Agents of Change (1979) (85)
- GROUP IDENTIFICATION UNDER CONDITIONS OF EXTERNAL DANGER. (1963) (84)
- Counter-norm attitudes induced by consonant vs. dissonant conditions of role-playing. (1965) (76)
- Increasing adherence to a stressful decision via a motivational balance-sheet procedure: A field experiment. (1975) (76)
- Anxiety indices related to susceptibility to persuasion. (1955) (74)
- Psychologic effects of electric convulsive treatments; I. Post-treatment amnesias. (1950) (68)
- Air War and Emotional Stress: Psychological Studies of Bombing and Civilian Defense (1976) (67)
- Coping with Decisional Conflict (1976) (62)
- GROUPTHINK AND GROUP DYNAMICS: A SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF DEFECTIVE POLICY DECISIONS* (1973) (57)
- A Practical Guide for Making Decisions (1980) (56)
- Facilitating effects of daily contact between partners who make a decision to cut down on smoking. (1971) (54)
- Personality : dynamics, development, and assessment (1969) (53)
- Decision Making--A Psychological Analysis of Conflict, Choice, and Commitment. (1978) (53)
- A coefficient of imbalance for content analysis (1943) (53)
- Problems of Theory in the Analysis of Stress Behavior (1954) (52)
- The effects of electroconvulsive treatments on memory efficiency. (1951) (52)
- Effects of anticipation of forthcoming information on predecisional processes. (1969) (50)
- Decisional conflicts: a theoretical analysis (1959) (45)
- Psychologic effects of electric convulsive treatments; changes in affective disturbances. (1950) (41)
- Counseling on personal decisions : theory and research on short-term helping relationships (1982) (40)
- Quality of U.S. Decision Making during the Cuban Missile Crisis (1989) (39)
- Psychologic effects of electric convulsive treatments; II. Changes in word association reactions. (1950) (33)
- Effects of Preparatory Communications on Reactions to a Subsequent News Event (1951) (33)
- Stress, Attitudes, and Decisions: Selected Papers (1982) (32)
- The Influence of Threat Appeals on Selective Learning of the Content of a Persuasive Communication (1954) (30)
- Problems of International Crisis Management in the Nuclear Age (1986) (30)
- Why does eating while reading facilitate opinion change?—An experimental inquiry (1965) (27)
- The reduction of intergroup hostility: Research problems and hypotheses (1959) (26)
- Short-Term Counseling: Guidelines Based on Recent Research (1983) (26)
- Persuasibility and emotional disorder. (1959) (25)
- Hypervigilant reactions to threat (1982) (24)
- The American Soldier: Adjustment During Army Life and Combat and Its Aftermath. (1949) (22)
- THE RELIABILITY OF A CONTENT ANALYSIS TECHNIQUE (1943) (22)
- 16 – A paradoxical effect of stress: unrepression (1958) (21)
- Meaning and the Study of Symbolic Behavior (1943) (19)
- Effects of a new type of psychological treatment on smokers' resistance to warnings about health hazards. (1974) (19)
- Coping patterns among patients with life-threatening diseases. (1985) (18)
- Selective interest in communications that could arouse decisional conflict: a field study of participants in the draft-resistance movement. (1970) (12)
- Stress Inoculation in Health Care (1989) (12)
- Psychodynamic Aspects of Adjustment to Army Life (1945) (11)
- A supplementary test based on free associations to Rorschach responses. (1946) (10)
- V. MEMORY LOSS FOLLOWING ELECTRIC CONVULSIVE TREATMENTS (1948) (8)
- An analysis of psychological and sociological ambivalence: nonadherence to courses of action prescribed by health-care professionals. (1980) (8)
- Educational Desegregation as a Context for Basic Social Science Research (1956) (7)
- Psychological Problems of A-Bomb Defense (1950) (7)
- When Fear Is Healthy (1968) (7)
- Dyadic Interaction And Adaptation To The Stresses Of College Life. (1973) (3)
- Some implications of recent research on the dynamics of fear and stress tolerance. (1969) (3)
- Personality Differences in Decision Making under Stress (1980) (3)
- Decision Counseling: Theory, Research, and Perspectives for a New Professional Role (1978) (2)
- Investigating sources of error in the management of crises: theoretical assumptions and a methodological approach (1987) (2)
- Professional roles, norms, and ethics--A social psychological viewpoint. (1965) (1)
- 22 – Survey findings: preoperative fear and postoperative adjustment (1958) (1)
- 25 – Psychological preparation (1958) (1)
- Current trends in psychology : readings from American scientist (1977) (1)
- 3 – The psychoanalytic study of surgery (1958) (1)
- Classics in Political Psychology (1991) (1)
- 17 – Summary of part I: Major psychodynamic hypotheses (1958) (1)
- Ellinwood, E. H., Jr. "Perception of faces: disorders in organic psychopathological states." Psychiatric Quarterly, 1969, 43(October): 622-646 (1970) (0)
- 7 – Causes and consequences of intellectual denial (1958) (0)
- Emery, F. E. Freedom and Justice within Walls: The Bristol Prison Experiment. New York: Barnes and Noble (Studies in Social Ecology and Pathology series), 1970, 110 pp., $5.00 (1970) (0)
- 9 – Awaiting the operation (1958) (0)
- Emotional impact of the A-bomb. (1951) (0)
- 14 – Affective disturbances during prolonged convalescence (1958) (0)
- Education for survival. (1951) (0)
- 2 – Values and limitations of psychoanalytic research (1958) (0)
- Apprehensiveness among the urban population. (1951) (0)
- 26 – Summary of part II: conclusions from behavioral research (1958) (0)
- 18 – Scope and theoretical background (1958) (0)
- Aftermath of the atomic disasters. (1951) (0)
- 13 – Constructs for a theory of reactive elation (1958) (0)
- Epstein, A. L. Matupit: Land, Politics, and Change among the Tolai of New Britain. Berkeley: University of California, 1970, 335 pp., $8.75, L.C. 78-81777 (1970) (0)
- 11 – Emotional relief during early convalescence (1958) (0)
- 19 – Methods: case studies and survey research (1958) (0)
- 4 – The patient's premonitions (1958) (0)
- Problems of disaster control. (1951) (0)
- Attitude change and the resolution of motivational conflicts (1959) (0)
- 5 – Superego mechanisms (1958) (0)
- Aggression and wartime morale. (1951) (0)
- Fear and emotional adaptation. (1951) (0)
- 10 – Causes and consequences of exaggerated fears (1958) (0)
- 21 – Behavioral sequelae of low anticipatory fear (1958) (0)
- 8 – Arousal of affiliative needs (1958) (0)
- 20 – Behavioral sequelae of high anticipatory fear (1958) (0)
- Elms, Alan C., ed. Role Playing, Reward, and Attitude Change. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1969, 232 pp., $2.50 (1970) (0)
- 23 – Effective and ineffective reassurances (1958) (0)
- Scope of the inquiry. (1951) (0)
- 12 – Attitudes toward danger-control authorities (1958) (0)
- 15 – Constructs for a theory of reactive depression (1958) (0)
- 24 – Causes of resentment (1958) (0)
- Memory loss following electric convulsive treatment. (1948) (0)
- Training and emotional inoculation. (1951) (0)
- 6 – A crucial preoperative session (1958) (0)
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