Merrill Carlsmith
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American psychologist
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Merrill Carlsmith's Degrees
- PhD Psychology Stanford University
- Bachelors Psychology University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, James Merrill Carlsmith was an American social psychologist perhaps best known for his collaboration with Leon Festinger and Elliot Aronson in the creation and development of cognitive dissonance theory. He also worked extensively with Mark Lepper on the subject of attribution theory. With Jonathan L. Freedman and David O. Sears he wrote the textbook, Social Psychology .
Merrill Carlsmith's Published Works
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- Single parents, extended households, and the control of adolescents. (1985) (707)
- Performance expectancy as a determinant of actual performance. (1962) (467)
- Some effects of guilt on compliance. (1969) (321)
- Communicator credibility and communication discrepancy as determinants of opinion change. (1963) (298)
- Effect of the severity of threat on the devaluation of forbidden behavior. (1963) (295)
- Some hedonic consequences of the confirmation and disconfirmation of expectancies. (1963) (236)
- The stare as a stimulus to flight in human subjects: a series of field experiments. (1972) (177)
- Studies in forced compliance. I. The effect of pressure for compliance on attitude change produced by face-to-face role playing and anonymous essay writing. (1966) (156)
- Effects of eye contact and verbal content on affective response to a dyadic interaction. (1968) (127)
- Sexual Maturation, Social Class, and the Desire to Be Thin Among Adolescent Females (1984) (111)
- Effect of initial selling price on subsequent sales. (1969) (110)
- Ambient temperature and the occurrence of collective violence: a new analysis. (1979) (106)
- Sexual development, age, and dating: a comparison of biological and social influences upon one set of behaviors. (1981) (74)
- Protecting Abused and Neglected Children (1988) (71)
- Eye contact and gaze aversion in an aggressive encounter. (1973) (66)
- Educational correlates of early and late sexual maturation in adolescence. (1982) (61)
- The effects of expectancy on volunteering for an unpleasant experience. (1963) (39)
- Experimental Analysis of the Factors Determining Obedience of Four-Year-Old Children to Adult Females. (1970) (31)
- Children's obedience to adult requests: interactive effects of anxiety arousal and apparent punitiveness of the adult. (1974) (18)
- Experimental analysis of a duopoly situation from the standpoint of mathematical learning theory (1962) (12)
- HEIGHT AND INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT (1984) (5)
- Black Control of Adolescent Dating (1984) (3)
- Lincoln's Doctor's Dog. (1964) (1)
- 9 LINEAR GROWTH DURING PUBERTY: IMPACT OF PUBERTAL DEVELOPMENT (1981) (0)
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