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Richard Ofshe

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#915

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#335

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Richard Ofshe's Degrees

PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Sociology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Richard Jason Ofshe is an American sociologist and professor emeritus of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is known for his expert testimony relating to coercion in small groups, confessions, and interrogations.

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Richard Ofshe's Published Works

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The Consequences of False Confessions: Deprivations of Liberty and Miscarriages of Justice in the Age of Psychological Interrogation (1998) (287)
Making monsters : false memories, psychotherapy, and sexual hysteria (1994) (280)
The Impact of Behavioral Style and Status Characteristics on Social Influence: A Test of Two Competing Theories (1981) (118)
The Process of Status Evolution (1970) (112)
The Decision to Confess Falsely: Rational Choice and Irrational Action (2008) (107)
Inadvertent hypnosis during interrogation: false confession due to dissociative state; mis-identified multiple personality and the Satanic cult hypothesis. (1992) (97)
The Social Psychology of Police Interrogation: The Theory and Classification of True and False Confessions (2008) (83)
Two Against One. (1969) (74)
Crowding Studies and Urban Life: A Critical Review (1975) (62)
Coerced confessions: The logic of seemingly irrational action. (1989) (51)
Utility and choice in social interaction (1970) (37)
Recovered-memory therapy and robust repression: influence and pseudomemories. (1994) (35)
Thought Reform Programs and the Production of Psychiatric Casualties (1990) (33)
Attacks on peripheral versus central elements of self and the impact of thought reforming techniques. (1986) (31)
Making monsters (1998) (30)
The Myth of Repressed Memory@@@Making Monsters: False Memories, Psychotherapy, and Sexual Hysteria@@@Victims of Memory: Incest Accusations and Shattered Lives@@@Return of the Furies: An Investigation into Recovered Memory Therapy (1995) (27)
The Truth About False Confessions and Advocacy Scholarship (2008) (22)
The Social Development of the Synanon Cult: The Managerial Strategy of Organizational Transformation* (1980) (20)
Empathy, Communication Efficiency, and Marital Status (1968) (18)
Using the Innocent to Scapegoat Miranda: Another Reply to Paul Cassell (1998) (12)
Social Choice and Utility in Coalition Formation (1969) (11)
The effectiveness of pacifist strategies: a theoretical approach (1971) (10)
Interpersonal behavior in small groups (1973) (8)
Making Grossly Damaging but Avoidable Errors: The Pitfalls of the Olio/Cornell Thesis. (1994) (7)
The sociology of the possible (1977) (7)
Choice behavior in coalition games (1970) (7)
The Light on Synanon: How a country weekly exposed a corporate cult--and won the Pulitzer Prize (1980) (7)
Testing a Measurement Model (1969) (5)
"What Are We to Make of All This?" Reply to Berger and Zelditch (1983) (5)
Social Structure and Social Control in Synanon (1974) (4)
Missing the Forest for the Trees: A Response to Paul Cassell's 'Balanced Approach' to the False Confession Problem (2008) (3)
Coercive Persuasion and Attitude Change (2014) (3)
Scope Conditions and Crucial Tests: Reply to Greenstein (1981) (3)
Cognitive Consistency and Language Behavior (1970) (2)
Making monsters (2020) (1)
A Comparative Study of Two Scaling Models: Paired Comparisons and Scalogram Analysis* (1970) (1)
Interpersonal Behavior in Small Groups. (1975) (0)
Letters to the editor (1994) (0)
The Ways Out: Utopian Communal Groups in an Age of Babylon.John R. Hall (1980) (0)
Book Review:The Social Psychology of Minority Influence. Gabriel Mugny, Juan A. Perez, Vivian Waltz Lamongie (1992) (0)
Letters to the editor (1993) (0)
Mirror of Man: Readings of Sociology and Literature.@@@The Sociology of the Possible. (1971) (0)
Book Review:Cooperation: An Experimental Analysis. Gerald Marwell, David R. Schmitt (1976) (0)

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