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PhD Psychology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Psychology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Mahlon Brewster Smith was an American psychologist and past president of the American Psychological Association. His career included faculty appointments at Vassar College, New York University, University of California, Berkeley, University of Chicago and University of California, Santa Cruz. Smith had been briefly involved with the Young Communist League as a student at Reed College in the 1930s, which resulted in a subpoena by the U.S. Senate in the 1950s. That activity caused him to be blacklisted by the National Institute of Mental Health for ten years without his knowledge.

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Field Theory in Social Science: Selected Theoretical Papers. (1951) (2146)
The Achieving Society. (1964) (930)
Opinions and Personality. (1956) (552)
The Art of Asking Questions (1951) (433)
Opinions and personality (1957) (342)
Moral reasoning of young adults: political-social behavior, family background, and personality correlates. (1968) (331)
RACE AND BELIEF: AN OPEN AND SHUT CASE. (1965) (166)
The American Soldier (1950) (153)
Selfhood at risk: Postmodern perils and the perils of postmodernism. (1994) (130)
A Map for the Analysis of Personality and Politics (1968) (129)
The Personal Setting of Public Opinions: A Study of Attitudes Toward Russia (1947) (121)
Perspectives on Selfhood. (1978) (110)
The American soldier: Combat and its aftermath. (Studies in social psychology in World War II), Vol. 2 (1949) (101)
Explorations in competence: a study of Peace Corps teachers in Ghana. (1966) (96)
Social Psychology and Human Values (1969) (95)
The community and the community mental health center. (1966) (94)
A time to speak : on human values and social research (1970) (88)
Socialization Correlates of Student Activism1 (1969) (84)
Research strategies toward a conception of positive mental health. (1959) (72)
Hope and despair: keys to the socio-psychodynamics of youth. (1983) (66)
Some Navajo Indian opinions about alcohol abuse and prohibition: a survey and recommendations for policy. (1988) (63)
"Mental Health" reconsidered: A special case of the problem of values in psychology. (1961) (58)
Is experimental social psychology advancing (1972) (54)
The Authoritarian Personality: A Re‐Review 46 Years Later (1997) (49)
Personal values as determinants of a political attitude. (1949) (47)
Is Psychology Relevant to New Priorities (1973) (43)
Personal values in the study of lives. (1963) (41)
Psychology and the future. (1978) (38)
The Authoritarian Personality: A Re-Review (1997) (35)
Psychology in the Public Interest: What Have We Done? What Can We Do? (1990) (33)
A path analysis of an adolescent drinking behavior model derived from problem behavior theory. (1989) (31)
Some perspectives on ethical/political issues in social science research. (1976) (31)
An experimental exploration of the psychoanalytic process; exemplification of a method. (1956) (30)
Some Features of Foreign-Student Adjustment (1955) (29)
Social Amnesia: A Critique of Contemporary Psychology. (1997) (28)
Moral foundations in research with human participants. (2003) (24)
Nationalism, Ethnocentrism, and the New World Order (1992) (23)
A Factorial Study of Morale Among Peace Corps Teachers in Ghana1 2 (1963) (22)
The American Soldier: Adjustment During Army Life and Combat and Its Aftermath. (1949) (22)
Perspectives on Human Development, Family, and Culture: List of tables (2009) (21)
An analysis of two measures of "authoritarianism" among Peace Corps teachers. (1965) (21)
Cross-Cultural Education as a Research Area (1956) (21)
Social-Psychological Aspects of Student Activism (1970) (20)
The Metaphor (and Fact) of War (2002) (20)
Optima of mental health; a general frame of reference. (1950) (20)
Social Psychology, Science, and History: So What? (1976) (19)
Competence and Adaptation. (1974) (19)
Psychology and Humanism (1982) (19)
A Dialectical Social Psychology? Comments on a Symposium (1977) (18)
Humanism and Behaviorism in Psychology: Theory and Practice. (1978) (18)
Can There Be A Human Science (2017) (17)
Realistic Empathy: A Key to Sensible International Relations (2004) (16)
Opinions, Personality, and Political Behavior (1958) (16)
For a Significant Social Psychology: The Collected Writings of M. Brewster Smith (2003) (16)
Social Psychology and Human Values: Selected Essays (1982) (14)
The American Soldier and its critics: What survives the attack on positivism? (1984) (13)
Sigmund Koch as critical humanist. (2001) (13)
Kurt Lewin Memorial Address, 1986: War, Peace, and Psychology (1986) (13)
The Shaping of American Social Psychology (1983) (12)
Psychology and Values (1978) (12)
Adolescent treatment. Implications for assessment, practice guidelines, and outcome management. (1995) (12)
Henry A. Murray (1893-1988) (1990) (12)
A note on the validity of Sanford's authoritarian-qualitarian scale. (1952) (12)
Political psychology and peace: A half-century perspective. (1999) (11)
Psychology in the public interest. (1992) (11)
William James and the psychology of self. (1993) (11)
A Perspective for Further Research on Cross‐Cultural Education1 (1956) (11)
Toward scientific and professional responsibility. (1954) (10)
Beyond Aristotle and Galileo: Toward a contextualized psychology of persons. (1988) (9)
The development and reliability of the Recovery Attitude and Treatment Evaluator-Questionnaire I (RAATE-QI). (1995) (9)
The development and reliability of the RAATE-CE. (1992) (9)
The phenomenological approach in personality theory: some critical remarks. (1950) (8)
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES (1968) (8)
Logical consistency and attitude change. (1966) (8)
McCarthyism: A Personal Account (1986) (8)
Motivation, communications research, and family planning. (1965) (7)
"Human Science"-Really! (1994) (7)
“Personality and Social Psychology”: Retrospections and Aspirations (2005) (7)
About postmodernism: Reply to Gergen and others. (1995) (6)
Review of The authoritarian personality. (1950) (6)
An Ambiguous Case for Humanistic Psychology (1966) (6)
A group research project on the dynamics and measurement of opinion. (1947) (6)
Statement by SPSSI on current IQ controversy: Heredity versus environment. (1969) (6)
Comment on Davies's "Maslow and Theory of Political Development" (1991) (5)
Some Problems of Strategy in Environmental Psychology (1977) (5)
Comment on O'Donohue and Dyslin (1996) (5)
Conflicting values affecting behavioral research with children. (1967) (5)
Positive Psychology: Documentation of a Burgeoning Movement@@@Handbook of Positive Psychology (2003) (5)
Attitudes, values, and selfhood. (1980) (4)
Henry A. Murray (1893–1988). (1989) (4)
The revolution in mental-health care— A “bold new approach”? (1968) (4)
The American Psychological Association and social responsibility. (1992) (4)
Primary care: choices and opportunities for racial/ethnic minority populations in the USA and UK--a comparative analysis. (1999) (4)
Psychology and war-avoidance: On Blight's blighted view. (1988) (4)
Review of The nature of prejudice. (1955) (4)
Stuart W. Cook (1913-1993): Obituary. (1994) (4)
A PSYCHOLOGIST'S PERSPECTIVE ON PUBLIC OPINION THEORY (1971) (4)
Obituary: Robert W. White (1904-2001). (2001) (3)
Measuring Mental Health Needs. (1993) (3)
The case of Brew. (2005) (3)
The Wrong Drummer (1988) (3)
Thoughts for Peace at a Time of Doubt (2008) (3)
Three textbooks: A special review (1966) (3)
Comment on the “Implications of Separating Opinions from Attitudes” (1954) (3)
Preventing Adolescent Relapse: A Guide for Parents, Teachers and Counselors (1992) (3)
Comment on White's Paper (1973) (3)
International Collaboration in Social Psychology: Some Reflections on the Ibadan Conference (1968) (3)
SELECTION 27 – Activism and Apathy in Contemporary Youth* (1972) (3)
Microgenesis of narrative competence during preschool interactions: Effects of the relational context (2009) (3)
Studying People: A Primer in the Ethics of Social Research. (1989) (3)
Beyond Journalistic Scouting: Evaluation for Better Programs (1975) (3)
Surgeons and others and HIV (1988) (3)
The Sociogenesis of Evil (2007) (2)
The SSRC and psychology. (1953) (2)
War, Peace, and Psychology (2017) (2)
The Revolution in Mental-Health Care (2017) (2)
Psychology in a Liberal Education (1951) (2)
Robert W. White (1904-2001): Humanistic Psychologist (2002) (2)
Retirement policy. (1988) (2)
Psychology and the decline of positivism: The case for a human science. (1991) (2)
Anthropology and Psychology. (1954) (2)
The Open and Closed Mind . Investigations into the nature of belief systems and personality systems. Milton Rokeach. Basic Books, New York, 1960. xv + 447 pp. $7.50. (1960) (2)
Social psychology: An integrative interpretation. (1951) (2)
Atomic Energy for Military Purposes The Official Report on the Development of the Atomic Bomb Under the Auspices of the United States Government ( The Smyth Report ) (2005) (2)
Qualities of Community Life. Roger G. Barker and Phil Schoggen. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 1973. xiv, 562 pp., illus. $35. Jossey-Bass Behavioral Science Series (1974) (2)
Is social psychology social (2004) (2)
Social Research to Test Ideas. Selected writings of Samuel A. Stouffer. Free Press (Macmillan), New York, 1962. xxxi + 314 pp. $8.50 (1962) (2)
Metapsychology, Politics, and Human Needs (2017) (2)
Comment on "The case of William McDougall." (1989) (2)
Aspects of the Personological System of Henry A. Murray (1982) (2)
The Metaphorical Basis of Selfhood (2017) (2)
Allport and Murray on Allport’s Personality (1993) (1)
Of Prophecy and Privacy. (1957) (1)
Value Dilemmas and Public Health: A Psychologist's Perspective (1986) (1)
Humanistic Psychology (1990) (1)
The plausible assessment report: A phrenological example. (1986) (1)
Personality in Politics: A Conceptual Map, with Application to the Problem of Political Rationality (1968) (1)
The American Psychological Association in relation to social responsibility and social justice. (2018) (1)
Review of Toward a general theory of action. (1953) (1)
Review of Personology: Method and content in personality assessment and psychobiography. (1993) (1)
Allport, Murray, and Lewin on personality theory: Notes on a confrontation. (1971) (1)
A history of psychology; Portraits of pioneers in psychology, vol. 2; and Putting psychology in its place: An introduction from a critical historical perspective (1998) (1)
Special review: Some recent texts in social psychology. (1953) (1)
Historical Perspectives on Social Psychology: Non-American Views (1996) (1)
Two Interesting Books@@@Cousins and Strangers: Comments on America by Commonwealth Fund Fellows from Britain, 1946-1952@@@Foreign Students and Higher Education in the United States (1957) (1)
Recent Developments in the Field of Social Psychology (1961) (1)
A Forgotten Classic: Murphy's Integrative View of Personality. (1995) (1)
Psychology and the Decline of Positivism: The Case for a Human Science (2019) (1)
The Future of International Exchange Programs (1956) (1)
"Ethics and advocacy": Rejoinder. (1985) (1)
Irving L. Janis (1918-1990): Obituary. (1992) (1)
the apa commission on accelerating black participation in psychology (cabpp) (1970) (1)
Candidates For Division Elections (1986) (1)
A semi-aquarian view of (mental) health planning. (1988) (1)
Competence & adaptation. (1974) (1)
Air war and psychological stress: Psychological studies of bombing and civilian defense. (1952) (1)
All cohaerence gone. (1986) (1)
Some recent texts in social psychology. (1953) (0)
Perspectives on Human Development, Family, and Culture: Foreword (2009) (0)
First of Five Articles Submitted under the Title: Bridging for Peace: Theory and Action for the 1980's (1984) (0)
Review of Language and communication. (1952) (0)
Value Dilemmas and Public Health (2017) (0)
A Good Reader in Political Psychology (1995) (0)
Conflicting values affecting behavioral research with children. (1967) (0)
Some Applications of Behavioural Research . Rensis Likert and Samuel P. Hayes, Jr., Eds. UNESCO, Paris, 1957. 333 pp. $3.25. (1958) (0)
Gordon Allport: His Unique Contributions to Contemporary Personality and Social Psychology: (463452008-231) (1969) (0)
Every Family Needs a C.E.O.: What Mothers and Fathers Can Do About our Deteriorating Families and Values. (1996) (0)
Social Science as Civic Discourse: Essays on the Invention, Legitimation, and Uses of Social Theory. (1994) (0)
Humanistic social science: A personal perspective. (1981) (0)
Race: Social Science Is Relevant? (1970) (0)
All About Children's Competence to Consent. (1984) (0)
Kardiner and the culture-and-personality movement. (1990) (0)
Comments on Jervis (1989) (0)
Review of Theory and problems of social psychology. (1949) (0)
Perspectives on Human Development, Family, and Culture: The emerging global psychology movement: Lessons from Arab psychology (2009) (0)
Mental Health: What Kind of Information? (1961) (0)
Editorial note: This anniversary number. (1956) (0)
Nicholas Hobbs (19151983). (1985) (0)
Social psychology and group processes. (1952) (0)
Two Cheers for McDougall. (1980) (0)
James, William (1842–1910) (2001) (0)
On two good books not reviewed. (1965) (0)
Race and Belief: an open and shut case 1 (1972) (0)
The human group. (1951) (0)
Review of Readings in social psychology. (1948) (0)
A report on a foot survey of school children. (1948) (0)
Past, Present, and Future: The Behavioral Sciences. (1971) (0)
Teenage Social Distance Scale (2018) (0)
Perspectives on the history of American psychology (1992) (0)
Two Interesting Books: Foreign Students and Higher Education in the United States (1957) (0)
Comment on Ellen Herman's Commentary (2010) (0)
Political Psychology à la Lasswell. (1982) (0)
More Certainty than Doubt. (1989) (0)
Through the rearview mirror: Historical reflections on psychology (2001) (0)
The Widening Circle of Genocide: Review. (1995) (0)
Good Sense on Research Ethics. (1981) (0)
Behavioral Cluster Analysis of Food Consumption: Associations with Comparatively Healthier Food Choices (2012) (0)
The new Look in Evaluation and Policy Research. (1987) (0)
Encounter Groups and Humanistic Psychology (2017) (0)
Personology born again. (1984) (0)
Psychopathology and Politics in U.S. Foreign Policy. (1987) (0)
Introduction for Kurt Lewin Memorial Award: Robert Kahn (1989) (0)
A Psychological Perspective on Social Change Since World War II. (1997) (0)
Genocide and Moral Disobedience: Evil and Resistance to Evil in Psychological Perspective. (1991) (0)
SSRC: Its 50-Year History. (1975) (0)
Skinner at Seventy-Five@@@Reflections on Behavorism and Society (1979) (0)
Birchites Visited and McCarthyites Revisited. (1964) (0)
A Classic of Thanatology. (2006) (0)
Measure of a Man: Social Research to Test Ideas . Selected writings of Samuel A. Stouffer. Free Press (Macmillan), New York, 1962. xxxi + 314 pp. $8.50. (1962) (0)
Nego and White Children. A Psychological Study in the Rural South. E. Earl Baughman and W. Grant Dahlstrom. Academic Press, New York, 1968. xxiv + 572 pp., illus. $15 (1969) (0)
A Selective Case for Progress in the Social Sciences. (1987) (0)
Brewster smith replies to James MacKay. (1980) (0)
Mass Behavior in Battle and Captivity: The Communist Soldier in the Korean War.William C. Bradbury , Samuel M. Meyers , Albert D. Biderman (1970) (0)
Reply to Reiff. (1970) (0)
On rereading Proust. (1967) (0)
Ethical implications of population policies: a psychologist's view. (1972) (0)
International Conference on Social Psychological Research in Developing Countries (1967) (0)
Is there a Problem of Evil (1979) (0)
Rokeach book unfairly dismissed. (1975) (0)
Psychology's philosophical underpinnings examined. (2008) (0)
Values, politics, and psychology. (2000) (0)
A Reasoned Wish-List for Behavioral/Social Science. (1989) (0)
Report of an Unusual Project: The Workshop Way with Foreign Students (1956) (0)
A Social Psychologist in the Corridors of Power. (1968) (0)
Access to ethnonationalism. (1998) (0)
Peasant Characterology: Method vs Insight? (1971) (0)
Psychology's Funding Priorities: (1989) (0)
Review of Color Blind. (1947) (0)
Teenage Attitudes towards Other Teenagers Pretest Measure (2018) (0)
Absolutists and Pragmatists Save the Republic. (1961) (0)
BOOKS, 1943–1950 (2005) (0)
Academic Freedom in a Climate of Insecurity: Some Perspectives (1953) (0)
CHRISTIE, RICHARD, and MARIE JAHODA (Eds.). Studies in the Scope and Method of "The Authoritarian Personality": Continuities in Social Research. Pp. 279. Glencoe, Ill.: Free Press, 1954. $4.50 (1954) (0)
Hermeneutics of selfhood (1996) (0)
Perspectives on Human Development, Family, and Culture: Selected international publications by Çiğdem Kağıtçıbaşı (2009) (0)
Exploring affect: Introduction (1995) (0)
Nevitt Sanford (1909-1995): Obituary. (1997) (0)
Epilogue: Social Psychology as Human Science (2017) (0)
Is junk food promoted through sport? 'Here's how we see it..' capturing children's and parents perspectives of the food environment in sport. (2010) (0)
Another View of Final Solutions: Biology, Prejudice, and Genocide. (1994) (0)
A Taxonomist in Africa (1962) (0)

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