Michael Commons
#4,862
Most Influential Person Now
American behavoiral scientist
Michael Commons's AcademicInfluence.com Rankings
Michael Commonspsychology Degrees
Psychology
#238
World Rank
#346
Historical Rank
#163
USA Rank
Developmental Psychology
#14
World Rank
#15
Historical Rank
#9
USA Rank
Cognitive Psychology
#299
World Rank
#312
Historical Rank
#87
USA Rank
Download Badge
Psychology
Why Is Michael Commons Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Michael Lamport Commons is a theoretical behavioral scientist and a complex systems scientist. He developed the model of hierarchical complexity. Life and work Michael Lamport Commons was born in 1939 in Los Angeles and grew up in Hollywood. Commons holds two B.A.s from University of California at Los Angeles , one in mathematics, the other in psychology. He earned his M.A., and M.Phil. and in 1973 received his Ph.D., in psychology from Columbia University. Currently, he is Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center , and Director of the Dare Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Michael Commons's Published Works
Number of citations in a given year to any of this author's works
Total number of citations to an author for the works they published in a given year. This highlights publication of the most important work(s) by the author
Published Works
- The effect of delay and of intervening events on reinforcement value (2013) (777)
- Beyond Formal Operations: Late Adolescent and Adult Cognitive Development (1984) (257)
- Adult information processing: Limits on loss. (1993) (237)
- Hierarchical Complexity of Tasks Shows the Existence of Developmental Stages (1998) (231)
- Models and methods in the study of adolescent and adult thought (1990) (142)
- Systematic and metasystematic reasoning: A case for levels of reasoning beyond Piaget's stage of formal operations. (1982) (101)
- Organizing Components into Combinations: How Stage Transition Works (2002) (81)
- The Origins of Behaviorism (1999) (77)
- The shape of development (2005) (76)
- Matching and maximizing accounts (1982) (75)
- Introduction to the Model of Hierarchical Complexity and Its Relationship to Postformal Action (2008) (72)
- Using Rasch scaled stage scores to validate orders of hierarchical complexity of balance beam task sequences. (2008) (64)
- The Romance of American Psychology: Political Culture in the Age of Experts (1997) (64)
- Four Postformal Stages (2002) (60)
- Presenting the Formal Theory of Hierarchical Complexity (2008) (57)
- Society and the Highest Stages of Moral Development. (1992) (48)
- What Postformal Thought Is, and Why It Matters (2008) (48)
- Sex Offenders of the Elderly: Classification by Motive, Typology, and Predictors of Severity of Crime (2007) (45)
- The benefits of attachment parenting for infants and children: A behavioral developmental view. (2010) (44)
- Expert witness perceptions of bias in experts. (2004) (42)
- “Equal access” without “establishing” religion: The necessity for assessing social perspective-taking skills and institutional atmosphere (1990) (38)
- Introduction to the model of hierarchical complexity. (2007) (34)
- Behavioral approaches to pattern recognition and concept formation (2019) (34)
- Comparisons and applications of developmental models (1989) (31)
- The Development of Hierarchically Complex Equivalence Classes (1993) (31)
- The model of hierarchical complexity as a measurement system (2014) (30)
- Computational and Clinical Approaches to Pattern Recognition and Concept Formation: Quantitative Analyses of Behavior (1990) (30)
- A comparison and synthesis of Kohlberg's cognitive-developmental and Gewirtz's learning-developmental attachment theories. (1991) (29)
- A multidomain study of adult development. (1989) (29)
- Discriminative properties of reinforcement schedules (1981) (29)
- Professionals' attitudes towards sex between institutionalized patients. (1992) (28)
- Atmosphere and stage development in the workplace. (1993) (25)
- Replacing Maslow’s needs hierarchy with an account based on stage and value. (2015) (24)
- Informed Consent: Do You Know It When You See It? (2006) (24)
- Does the model of hierarchical complexity produce significant gaps between orders and are the orders equally spaced? (2014) (23)
- The Relation Between Formal Operational Reasoning and Academic Course Selection and Performance Among College Freshmen and Sophomores (1982) (23)
- Leadership, cross‐cultural contact, socio‐economic status, and formal operational reasoning about moral dilemmas among Mexican non‐literate adults and high school students (2006) (22)
- Preserved and impaired memory functions in elderly adults (1993) (22)
- Formal, systematic, and metasystematic operations with a balance-beam task series: A reply to Kallio's claim of no distinct systematic stage (1995) (19)
- A pilot Rasch scaling of lawyers' perceptions of expert bias. (2006) (18)
- A quantitative behavior-analytic theory of development (2011) (16)
- The stage of development of a species predicts the number of neurons (2014) (16)
- Decision rules and signal detectability in a reinforcement-density discrimination. (1979) (16)
- There is only one stage domain (2014) (15)
- Telephone scatologia. Comorbidity with other paraphilias and paraphilia-related disorders. (2002) (15)
- Clinical Approaches to Adult Development (1996) (14)
- A complete theory of empathy must consider stage changes (2001) (14)
- Cultural Progress is the Result of Developmental Level of Support (2008) (14)
- A complete theory of human evolution of intelligence must consider stage changes (2002) (13)
- Editors' Introduction to the Special Issue on Postformal Thought and Hierarchical Complexity (2008) (13)
- Using Precision Teaching with Direct Instruction in a Summer School Program. (2009) (13)
- The construction and validation of a developmental test for stage identification: Two exploratory studies. (2014) (13)
- Consider Stages of Development in Preventing Terrorism: Does Government Building Fail and Terrorism Result when Developmental Stages of Governance are Skipped? (2007) (13)
- Introducing a new stage for the model of hierarchical complexity: A new stage for reflex conditioning (2014) (12)
- A model of stage change explains the average rate of stage of development and its relationship to the predicted average stage ("smarts") (2014) (12)
- Personal questions on cross-examination: a pilot study of expert witness attitudes. (2001) (11)
- The Connection Between Postformal Thought and Major Scientific Innovations (2008) (11)
- Fear of malpractice liability and its role in clinical decision making. (1991) (11)
- A complete theory of tests for a theory of mind must consider hierarchical complexity and stage (2003) (11)
- Telephone Scatologia: Comorbidity and Theories of Etiology (2001) (11)
- Measuring an Approximate g in Animals and People (2006) (11)
- Clinicians' perceptions of boundaries in Brazil and the United States. (2006) (11)
- The Connection between Postformal Thought, Stage Transition, Persistence, and Ambition and Major Scientific Innovations (2011) (11)
- Signal Detection : Mechanisms, Models, and Applications (2013) (11)
- A Quantitative Behavioral Model of Developmental Stage Based upon the Model of Hierarchical Complexity (2001) (11)
- Stress and the forensic psychiatrist: a pilot study. (2003) (11)
- Forensic experts' perceptions of expert bias. (2012) (11)
- Biological determinants of reinforcement (1988) (11)
- Applying Hierarchical Complexity to Political Development (2008) (9)
- The Power Therapies: A proposed mechanism for their action and suggestions for future empirical validation (2000) (9)
- A Short History of the Society for Quantitative Analyses of Behavior (2001) (9)
- Moral state of reasoning and the misperceived "duty" to report past crimes (misprision). (1995) (9)
- Withholding, seducing, and threatening: a pilot study of further attorney pressures on expert witnesses. (2001) (8)
- Stage of pricing strategy predicts earnings: A study of informal economics. (2015) (8)
- "Telling tales out of court": a pilot study of experts' disclosures about opposing experts. (2000) (7)
- Neural Network Models of Conditioning and Action (2018) (7)
- Expert witness travel dilemmas: a pilot study of billing practices. (1998) (7)
- What are the relationships between four notions of stage change (2014) (7)
- Illuminating Major Creative Scientific Innovators With Postformal Stages. (2006) (7)
- Expert witness billing practices revisited: a pilot study of further data. (2001) (6)
- Using SAFMEDS and direct instruction to teach the model of hierarchical complexity (2014) (6)
- Toward defining order 16 and describing its performance for the model of hierarchical complexity (2014) (6)
- Introduction: Attaining a New Stage (2002) (6)
- BEHAVIORAL DEVELOPMENT BULLETIN (2007) (6)
- "Certainty" and expert mental health opinions in legal proceedings. (2012) (6)
- How Early Negative Caregiving Experiences Relate to Stage of Attachment (2007) (5)
- How reinforcers age aggregated in reinforcement density discrimination and preference experiments (1982) (5)
- Implications of Hierarchical Complexity for Social Stratification, Economics, and Education (2008) (5)
- Advances in the model of hierarchical complexity (MHC) (2014) (5)
- Concrete, abstract, formal, and systematic operations as observed in a "Piagetian" balance-beam task series. (2010) (5)
- Quantitative Analyses of Behavior. Volume IV. Discrimination Processes (1985) (5)
- Correspondence between some life-span, stage theory developmental sequences of stages and levels (2014) (5)
- The small effects of non-hierarchical complexity variables on performance. (2014) (5)
- Hierarchical complexity in physics (2014) (5)
- The Hierarchical Complexity View of Evolution and History (2008) (4)
- Using a computer-based precision teaching program to facilitate learning of complex material: The case of the model of hierarchical complexity. (2015) (4)
- The Sufficiency of Reinforcing Problem Solutions for Transition to the Formal Stage (2015) (4)
- The stage-value model: Implications for the changing standards of care. (2015) (4)
- Stage of Development and Million Dollar per Year Earning From Sales (2015) (4)
- Account of operant conditioning based on coordinating three procedural steps of respondent conditioning processes. (2016) (4)
- A Pilot Study of Job Satisfaction in Massachusetts Judges (2011) (4)
- Developmental behavior analytic therapy: Easier done than said (2014) (4)
- Selectionism and Stage Change: The Dynamics of Evolution, I (2008) (3)
- Understanding terrorism: A behavioral developmental approach (2019) (3)
- Stacked Neural Networks Must Emulate Evolution's Hierarchical Complexity (2008) (3)
- The Interaction Between Stage and Value (2015) (3)
- Stages of infant development, as illustrated by responses to the peek-a-boo game. (2007) (3)
- Perceptions of boundaries and cultural influences in Qatar (2013) (3)
- Toward a Cross-Species Measure of General Intelligence (2008) (3)
- On humanizing the expert witness: a proposed narrative approach to expert witness qualification. (2010) (3)
- Folk Psychology and Criminal Law: Why We Need to Replace Folk Psychology with Behavioral Science (2011) (3)
- Measuring Developmental Outcomes in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) (2017) (3)
- Recognizing Specialized Terminology Presented Through Different Modes (2003) (3)
- Differences and similarities in cross-cultural perceptions of boundaries: a comparison of results from two studies. (2012) (3)
- Redefining Telephone Scatologia: Treatment and Classification (2001) (3)
- Bringing About Changes in Workplace Behavior (2007) (3)
- Relationship among measures within the social and moral development domain (2014) (3)
- Signal Detection: Mechanisms, Models and Applications. Volume 11 of the Quantitative Analysis of Behavior Series (1992) (3)
- Stars that crash. (2014) (3)
- Reinforced Correct Answers to Next Stage Problems Produced the Highest Stage Performance in Traditional Nonliterates Found in the World (2015) (2)
- Predicting criminality with social perspective taking, attachment relationship, anger, impulsivity and depression (2019) (2)
- Domain-Specific Increases in Stage of Performance in a Complete Theory of the Evolution of Human Intelligence (2008) (2)
- Trading forensic and family commitments. (1996) (2)
- Employee management using behavioral developmental theory. (2018) (2)
- The State of the Art on Perry and Epistemological Development? An Introduction (2004) (2)
- The Meta-Cross-Paradigmatic Order and Stage 16. (2016) (2)
- Stages of Investing Generated Using the Model of Hierarchical Complexity (2015) (2)
- Changing Stage for Students, Teachers and Schools (2007) (2)
- Speciation of Superions from Humans: Is Species Cleansing the Ultimate Form of Terror and Genocide? (2007) (2)
- A developmental and evolutionary theory of punishment (2019) (1)
- Empathy: Its ultimate and proximate bases does not consider developmental changes. Commentary on Preston and de Waal (2002) (1)
- Adaptive Neural Networks Accounted for by Five Instances of “Respondent-Based” Conditioning (2019) (1)
- Using Matching “Smarts” and Interest to Successfully Address Depression Caused by Existential Crisis (2019) (1)
- Analyzing single subject data for showing intervention effectiveness. (2015) (1)
- Introduction to the special sections on Standard Celeration Charting and speech-language pathology. (2015) (1)
- Qualitative Analysis of Behavior, Vol. 11: Neural Network Models of Conditioning and Action (1991) (1)
- Order of Hierarchical Complexity ("Stage") of Items Used to Measure Forensic Experts' Perceptions of Expert Bias Predicts the Amount of Bias (2015) (1)
- Genetic Engineering and the Speciation of Superions from Humans (2008) (1)
- Developmental behavior analytic therapy: Procedures and case studies. (2014) (1)
- A Proposal for Correcting Serious Flaws in Current Theories of Intelligence. (1997) (1)
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorders: Additional Perspective (1995) (1)
- Introduction to the Special Issue on Terrorism (2007) (1)
- PRESENTING THE FORMAL THEORY OF HIERARCHICAL (2008) (1)
- More than a "valuable scorecard". (1986) (1)
- Positive adult development intersects social and behavioral science. (2016) (1)
- Do forensic practitioners distinguish between testifying and consulting experts? A pilot study. (2012) (1)
- Further Issues in Stage Metrics (2009) (1)
- How Are the Processes by Which People Become Attached Influenced by Stage of Development (2007) (1)
- The fundamental issues with behavioral development. (2016) (1)
- Foraging : Quantitative Analyses of Behavior, Volume Vi (2013) (0)
- A good conversation about Skinner's psychological program. (2003) (0)
- Cross-Cultural Perceptions of Boundaries Questionnaire (2015) (0)
- Comparisons of Animal “Smart” Using The First Four Stages of the Model of Hierarchical Complexity (2020) (0)
- Why Not "Crying It Out" Part 2: Can Certain Infant Care Practices Cause Excessive Stress? (2013) (0)
- Possible Components of Mindfulness (2016) (0)
- Iconographies supplémentaires de l'article : A developmental and evolutionary theory of punishment (2019) (0)
- The assessment context of self-understanding. (1991) (0)
- What Animals Never Operantly Coordinate Actions with Sensory Input: (603982013-063) (2007) (0)
- How do We Know (1988) (0)
- Positive Adult Development: The Importance of Understanding the Higher Stages. (2004) (0)
- Acquisition of new-stage behavior. (2005) (0)
- Expert Professionalism as Judged by Experts: An Empirical Pilot Study (2011) (0)
- Hierarchical Complexity and Approximate G (2006) (0)
- Commentary on a new model for strategy development for strategy development combining categorical data analysis with growth modeling (2014) (0)
- What Archeological Evidence tells us about the Stage of Reasoning of Hominids as they Evolved: (604012013-084) (2004) (0)
- Biological Determinants of Reinforcement : Biological Determinates of Reinforcement (2014) (0)
- A Pilot Study of Expert Witness Attitudes (2001) (0)
- A REINFORCEMENT-DENSITY DISCRIMINA TION (2005) (0)
- Using Hierarchical Complexity to Determine How Smart Animals Are: (603992013-072) (2006) (0)
- Four Forces That Prevent Change in Organizations: How to Become an Innovative Organization (2017) (0)
- Institutional Atmosphere, Individual Development, and the Higher Moral Stages. (1992) (0)
- Clinicians imagine a patient's view: Rating disclosures of confidential information. (2011) (0)
- Bioethics in a violent world: Introduction (2019) (0)
- Attorney Preparedness as Judged by Experts: An Empirical Pilot Study (2011) (0)
- Why Not "Crying It Out" Part 1: The Science That Tells Us That Responsiveness is Key (2013) (0)
This paper list is powered by the following services:
Other Resources About Michael Commons
What Schools Are Affiliated With Michael Commons?
Michael Commons is affiliated with the following schools:
