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Robert F. Bales

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#150

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#200

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#79

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Bachelors Psychology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Robert Freed Bales was an American social psychologist. He specialized in small group interpersonal interaction and developed the SYMLOG method of group observation. Biography Bales was born in Ellington, Missouri on March 9, 1916. He received a B.A. and M.S. in sociology from the University of Oregon. In 1945 he received a Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University. Bales then became a professor at Harvard, working in the university's Laboratory of Human Relations. In 1950, Bales published a book titled Interaction Process Analysis: A Method for the Study of Small Groups in which he described in great detail his musings of human interaction within small groups.

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Robert F. Bales's Published Works

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Family, socialization and interaction process (1956) (2361)
Personality and Interpersonal Behavior. (1971) (809)
Interaction process analysis (1976) (771)
Interaction process analysis; a method for the study of small groups. (2013) (703)
Phases in group problem-solving. (1951) (641)
A set of categories for the analysis of small group interaction. (1950) (590)
Working papers in the theory of action (1981) (536)
Channels of communication in small groups. (1951) (436)
Symlog, A System for the Multiple Level Observation of Groups (1979) (434)
Cultural differences in rates of alcoholism. (1946) (262)
Small Groups: Studies in Social Interaction. (1956) (210)
Some findings relevant to the great man theory of leadership. (1954) (180)
Developmental Trends in the Structure of Small Groups (1953) (155)
The general inquirer: A computer system for content analysis and retrieval based on the sentence as a unit of information (2007) (149)
Seating Position and Small Group Interaction (1963) (104)
Family, Socialization and Interaction Process. Glencoe, IL (The Free Press) 1955. (1955) (104)
Interaction of individuals in reconstituted groups. (1953) (94)
Social Interaction Systems: Theory and Measurement (1999) (92)
How People Interact in Conferences (1955) (72)
The Value Profile: A Factor Analytic Study of Value Statements* (1969) (63)
The Therapeutic Role of Alcoholics Anonymous as Seen by a Sociologist (1944) (45)
Diagnostic use of the interaction profile. (1965) (44)
Sociometric Status Patterns and Characteristics of Interaction (1956) (33)
Symlog Case Study Kit: With Instructions for a Group Self Study (1980) (32)
The Consistency of Subject Behavior and the Reliability of Scoring in Interaction Process Analysis (1953) (32)
Review of Sociology: Analysis of a Decade. (1958) (27)
Notes on "Role Differentiation in Small Decision-Making Groups": Reply to Dr. Wheeler (1957) (25)
Comment on Herbert Blumer's Paper (1966) (22)
The "Interaction Recorder" (1948) (19)
Personality and interpersonal behavior / Robert Freed Bales (1970) (19)
Social Therapy for a Social disorder‐Compulsive Drinking (1945) (11)
The "fixation factor" in alcohol addiction: An hypothesis derived from a comparative study of Irish and Jewish social norms (1980) (10)
Some Statistical Problems in Small Group Research (1951) (5)
Some Group Interaction Models (1952) (4)
Behaviour in Groups (1996) (3)
Perspectives and Theory (1970) (3)
Planning an Observation Room and Group Laboratory (1954) (3)
Social Interaction Systems: Theory and Measurement: Book review. (2000) (3)
Conceptual Frameworks for Analysis of Social Interaction Comments on Four Papers (1962) (2)
Bales's Interaction Process Analysis 1950 (1991) (1)
Symposium on Interaction in Laboratory and Field Settings. (1976) (1)
Reprinted from Scientific American : conferences, etc (1949) (0)
Introduction (1976) (0)
Higher Degrees in Sociology Conferred in 1944 (1945) (0)
TASK AND SOCIOEMOTIONAL ROLES, LEADERSHIP AND LEADERSHIP EFFECTIVENESS Les Prince Management Centre, University of Aston (2006) (0)
The Alcoholic Woman: Case Studies in the Psychodynamics of Alcoholism. (1949) (0)
Motivational engineering; a feat. (1958) (0)
Value Profile 1969 (1991) (0)

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