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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Robert Paul Abelson was a Yale University psychologist and political scientist with special interests in statistics and logic. Biography He was born in New York City and attended the Bronx High School of Science. He did his undergraduate work at MIT and his Ph.D. in psychology at Princeton University's Department of Psychology under John Tukey and Silvan Tomkins.
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Published Works
- SCRIPTS, PLANS, GOALS, AND UNDERSTANDING (1988) (5001)
- Scripts, plans, goals and understanding: an inquiry into human knowledge structures (1978) (4098)
- Psychological status of the script concept. (1981) (1660)
- Theories of cognitive consistency: a sourcebook. (1968) (1196)
- Script processing in attitude formation and decision making. (1976) (788)
- Knowledge and Memory: The Real Story (1995) (780)
- Affective and semantic components in political person perception. (1982) (684)
- Statistics As Principled Argument (1995) (648)
- Decision making and decision theory (1985) (516)
- Scripts, Plans and Knowledge (1975) (501)
- A Variance Explanation Paradox: When a Little is a Lot (1985) (461)
- A Variance Explanation Paradox : When a Little is a Lot (1985) (445)
- Differences Between Belief and Knowledge Systems (1979) (384)
- Velocity relation : satisfaction as a function of the first derivative of outcome over time (1991) (345)
- Modes of resolution of belief dilemmas (1959) (337)
- A patient by any other name--clinician group difference in labeling bias. (1974) (259)
- Knowledge Structures (1986) (255)
- The semantics of asking a favor: How to succeed in getting help without really dying. (1972) (250)
- Social Information Processing and Survey Methodology. (1987) (242)
- Multidimensional scaling of facial expressions. (1962) (237)
- Symbolic psycho‐logic: A model of attitudinal cognition (2007) (236)
- Beliefs Are Like Possessions (1986) (236)
- Knowledge structures in the organization and retrieval of autobiographical memories (1985) (232)
- Efficient Utilization of Non-Numerical Information in Quantitative Analysis General Theory and the Case of Simple Order (1963) (224)
- Whatever Became of Consistency Theory? (1983) (193)
- Group entitativity and group perception: associations between physical features and psychological judgment. (1999) (188)
- Contrast tests of interaction hypothesis. (1997) (183)
- Presidential prototypes (1980) (156)
- Perceptions of the Collective Other (1998) (156)
- The Relative Weighting of Position and Velocity in Satisfaction (1991) (128)
- On the Surprising Longevity of Flogged Horses: Why There Is a Case for the Significance Test (1997) (126)
- Beliefs, Reasoning and Decision-making: Psycho-logic in Honor of Bob Abelson (1994) (122)
- Beliefs as possessions: A functional perspective. (1989) (119)
- The additive constant problem in multidimensional scaling (1956) (111)
- ESP and ESB: Belief in Personal Success at Mental Telepathy (1976) (111)
- Conjunctive explanations: When two reasons are better than one. (1984) (105)
- Subjective Acceptance of Verbal Generalizations (1966) (104)
- 2 – Are Attitudes Necessary? (1972) (94)
- CONCEPTS FOR REPRESENTING MUNDANE REALITY IN PLANS (1975) (91)
- The Quasi-Acceleration Relation: Satisfaction as a Function of the Change of Velocity of Outcome Over Time (2008) (83)
- Attempts to improve the accuracy of self-reports of voting. (1992) (83)
- Computer Simulation of Individual Belief Systems1 (1965) (82)
- A COMPUTER SIMULATION MODEL OF COMMUNITY REFERENDUM CONTROVERSIES (1963) (79)
- The Social Psychology of Music (1958) (77)
- Contrast Tests of Interaction Hypotheses (2001) (76)
- Development of a Peer-Rating Measure of Aggression (1961) (74)
- Candidates, issues, and strategies (1964) (66)
- Cognitive consistency; motivational antecedents and behavioral consequents (1966) (63)
- Negative persuasion via personal insult (1967) (60)
- THE SUBJECTIVE USE OF INDUCTIVE EVIDENCE. (1965) (57)
- THE SIMULMATICS PROJECT (1961) (56)
- Candidates, issues, and strategies : a computer simulation of the 1960 and 1964 Presidential Elections (1965) (54)
- Cognitive Irreversibility in a Dissonance- Reduction Situation. (1970) (51)
- The Strength of Conjunctive Explanations (1987) (47)
- A Technique and a Model for Multi-Dimensional Attitude Scaling (1954) (47)
- The distinctive political views of hate-crime perpetrators and white supremacists. (1999) (44)
- Humor as a disturbing stimulus. (1959) (42)
- Does a Story Understander Need a Point of View? (1975) (41)
- Personality correlates of persuasibility in children. (1959) (41)
- Knowledge structures and causal explanation. (1988) (41)
- CHAPTER 13 – SOCIAL CLUSTERS AND OPINION CLUSTERS (1979) (40)
- Attentional mechanisms in children's devaluation of a forbidden activity in a forced-compliance situation. (1973) (38)
- Conjunctive explanations of success and failure: The effect of different types of causes. (1989) (35)
- Social inference as a function of the number of instances and consistency of information presented. (1973) (32)
- Mathematical Models in Social Psychology (1967) (31)
- Experiments With People: Revelations From Social Psychology (2003) (29)
- The Influence of Judges' Attitudes in Three Methods of Attitude Scaling (1955) (26)
- A note on the Neyman-Johnson technique (1953) (26)
- Sex Differences in Predictability of College Grades (1951) (23)
- A personal perspective on social cognition. (1994) (23)
- Vulnerability of Contrast Tests to Simpler Interpretations: An Addendum to Rosnow and Rosenthal (1996) (22)
- Language variables affecting the persuasiveness of simple communications. (1967) (16)
- A "derivation" of Richardson's equations (1963) (16)
- The Role of Event Prototypes in Categorization and Explanation (1992) (14)
- Artificial Intelligence and Literary Appreciation: How Big Is the Gap? (1987) (13)
- Searle's argument is just a set of Chinese symbols (1980) (11)
- SPECTRAL ANALYSIS AND THE STUDY OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN THE PERFORMANCE OF ROUTINE, REPETITIVE TASKS (1953) (10)
- Implicational Molecules: A Method for Extracting Meaning from Input Sentences (1969) (10)
- Comment on “group shift to caution at the race track” (1973) (9)
- A factor analytic study of cartoon humor among psychiatric patients (1958) (9)
- Research Tools: Scaling and Measurement Theory (1957) (7)
- Magnitude of Effects (2012) (6)
- Imagining the purpose of imagery (1979) (6)
- Canvassing for peace : a manual for volunteers (1970) (5)
- Computers, polls, & public opinion—Some puzzles & paradoxes (1968) (5)
- The Reasoner and the Inferencer Don’t Talk Much to Each Other (1975) (5)
- The statistician as viper: Reply to McCauley and Stitt (1973) (4)
- Mathematics for psychologists : examples and problems (1956) (4)
- A Postscript on the 1964 Election (1965) (4)
- Chapter VII: Research Tools: Scaling and Measurement Theory (1957) (3)
- Going after PARRY (1981) (2)
- Using semantic memory to find vs create a mood (1974) (2)
- Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contributions. (2010) (2)
- Reply to Douglas Davis. (1981) (2)
- Goal-Related Inferences in Comprehension (2013) (2)
- SCALING THEORY: A REVIEW OF DEVELOPMENTS FROM 1954 TO 1957* (1957) (1)
- Critical comment on learning and the principle of inverse probability. (1954) (1)
- Familiar Old Wine: Great New Bottle@@@Statistics as Principled Argument (1997) (1)
- Intelligent verbal behavior. (1972) (1)
- Commentary Points (1983) (1)
- Opinion and Attitude. (1956) (1)
- Articulation of Results: Ticks and Buts (2012) (0)
- Slaying the Paper Tiger. (1973) (0)
- Admit Society to the Club (1966) (0)
- "Velocity relation: Satisfaction as a function of the first derivative of outcome over time": Correction. (1991) (0)
- STRUCTURAL REORGANIZATION FOLLOWING ACCEPTANCE OF IMBALANCE-REDUCING COMMUNICATIONS (1960) (0)
- Ants don ' t have Friends { Thoughts on Socially Intelligent AgentsKerstin DautenhahnDepartment of Cybernetics (1997) (0)
- A plus to PRloop. (1964) (0)
- COMBINING THE VIRTUES OF THE STANDARD ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE PROCEDURE AND THE NEYMAN‐JOHNSON TECHNIQUE (1951) (0)
- Diary of a Young Field. (1985) (0)
- Political Choice: Plums and Lemons? (1983) (0)
- Book reviews (1964) (0)
- Intelligent Verbal Behavior (1972) (0)
- Abroad with Multiple R. (1958) (0)
- In the Eye of the Beholder. (1989) (0)
- STRUCTURAL FACTORS IN THE ACCEPTANCE OF IMBALANCE-REDUCING COMMUNICATIONS (1960) (0)
- Election Simulation (1965) (0)
- Book Reviews : Handbook of Social Psychology. Edited by Gardner Lindzey. Cambridge: Addison-Wesley, I954. Vol. I (pp. 588 + x). $8.50 (1956) (0)
- Taking the Edge Off Adversity: The Psychological Immune System (2014) (0)
- Generality of Effects (2012) (0)
- A Bayesball Problem (1989) (0)
- A Nonlinear Guide to a Psychologist's Life. (1985) (0)
- Styles of Rhetoric (2012) (0)
- Take Note (2004) (0)
- Book Review:Applications of Information Theory to Psychology. Fred Attneave (1960) (0)
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