Robert Richardson Sears
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American child psychologist and educator, former dean at Stanford University
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Robert Richardson Sears's Degrees
- PhD Psychology University of Chicago
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Robert Richardson Sears was an American psychologist who specialized in child psychology and the psychology of personality. He was the head of the psychology department at Stanford and later dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences there, continued the long-term I.Q. studies of Lewis Madison Terman at Stanford, and authored many pivotal papers and books on various aspects of psychology.
Robert Richardson Sears's Published Works
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Published Works
- Frustration and aggression (1939) (2037)
- Patterns of child rearing (1957) (1254)
- Minor Studies of Aggression: VI. Correlation of Lynchings with Economic Indices (1940) (368)
- Identification and child rearing (1966) (319)
- Some child-rearing antecedents of aggression and dependency in young children. (1953) (236)
- A theoretical framework for personality and social behavior. (1951) (185)
- The Gifted Group in Later Maturity (1995) (178)
- Relation of early socialization experiences to self-concepts and gender role in middle childhood. (1970) (167)
- Relation of early socialization experiences to aggression in middle childhood. (1961) (167)
- Patterns of Child Rearing. (1959) (155)
- Survey of objective studies of psychoanalytic concepts. (1943) (155)
- Sources of life satisfactions of the Terman gifted men. (1977) (128)
- Experimental Studies of Projection: I. Attribution of Traits (1936) (94)
- Effect of father separation on preschool children's doll play aggression. (1946) (90)
- Your ancients revisited: A history of child development (1975) (88)
- Experiments on motor conflict. I. Types of conflict and their modes of resolution (1938) (84)
- Psychological principles: II. (1939) (80)
- Ordinal Position in the Family as a Psychological Variable (1950) (67)
- Identification with parents as a determinant of doll play aggression. (1956) (63)
- An experimental study of hypnotic anesthesia. (1932) (54)
- Factors determining substitute behavior and the overt expression of aggression (1939) (53)
- Effects of cup, bottle and breast feeding on oral activities of newborn infants. (1948) (49)
- Experiments on motor conflict. II. Determination of mode of resolution by comparative strengths of conflicting responses (1941) (40)
- Emotion and conduct in adolescence (1940) (40)
- Initiation of the repression sequence by experienced failure. (1937) (35)
- Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis. (1958) (35)
- Sex differences in the projective doll play of preschool children. (1946) (34)
- Functional abnormalities of memory with special reference to amnesia. (1936) (34)
- II. Non-aggressive reactions to frustration. (1941) (33)
- Adolescent Aggression: A Study of the Influence of Child-Training Practices and Family Interrelations. (1960) (31)
- Minor Studies of Aggression: V. Strength of Frustration-Reaction as a Function of Strength of Drive (1940) (31)
- Relation of fantasy aggression to interpersonal aggression. (1950) (29)
- INFLUENCE OF METHODOLOGICAL FACTORS ON DOLL PLAY PERFORMANCE1 (1947) (27)
- Clinical training facilities: 1947; a report from the Committee on Graduate and Professional Training. (1947) (25)
- Effect of optic lobe ablation on the visuo-motor behavior of goldfish. (1934) (24)
- Minor Studies of Aggression: I. Measurement of Aggressive Behavior (1940) (23)
- Experimental Studies of Projection: II. Ideas of Reference (1937) (21)
- Relation of cup feeding in infancy to thumb-sucking and oral drive. (1950) (21)
- Symposium on genetic psychology. 3. Effects of frustration and anxiety on fantasy aggression. (1951) (18)
- Content analysis of Mark Twain's novels and letters as a biographical method (1978) (17)
- Comparison of interviews with questionnaires for measuring mothers' attitudes toward sex and aggression. (1965) (13)
- Survey of objective studies of psychoanalytic concepts : a report (1942) (12)
- Mid-life development. (1979) (11)
- HYSTERICAL ANESTHESIA, ANALGESIA AND ASTEREOGNOSIS: EXPERIMENTAL STUDY (1933) (11)
- HYSTERICAL ANESTHESIA, ANALGESIA AND ASTEREOGNOSIS (1933) (10)
- Inhibitions, symptoms and anxiety; The Problem of Anxiety. (1937) (9)
- In Defense of Privacy (1968) (6)
- Socialization in America. (1939) (4)
- Psychology of the Child (1943) (4)
- PERSONALITY THEORY: THE NEXT FORTY YEARS (1959) (4)
- Episodic Analysis of Novels. (1973) (4)
- Clinical psychology in the military services. (1944) (4)
- Important Prospect: International Conference on the Ecotourism Equation: Measuring the Impacts, to be held at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA, during 12–14 April 1996 (1995) (4)
- Annual report of the Policy and Planning Board of the American Psychological Association: 1948. (1948) (3)
- L. M. Terman, pioneer in mental measurement. (1957) (3)
- A learning plateau due to conflicting methods of practice. (3)
- Review of An Elementary Psychology of the Abnormal. (1934) (3)
- A Treatment of Worth. (1969) (3)
- Obituary: Maud Merrill James (1888-1978). (1979) (2)
- Sex in the Adolescent Years: New Directions in Guiding and Teaching Youth. (1968) (2)
- Radio and journalism in the dissemination of child development information. (1948) (2)
- A New School of Life Span (1980) (2)
- A dynamic theory of personality. (1935) (2)
- Obituary: Harry Frederick Harlow (1905-1981). (1982) (2)
- The individual and his society: The psychodynamics of primitive social organization. (1940) (1)
- Graduate training facilities; general information; clinical psychology. (1946) (1)
- Invisible Anatomy: A Study of Nerves, Hysteria and Sex (1946) (1)
- Paul Randolph Farnsworth (1899-1978). (1979) (1)
- Separation in Apes and Children. (1974) (1)
- Clinical training facilities; 1947. (1947) (1)
- The psychology of human conflict: The clash of motives within the individual. (1939) (1)
- Fixation and regression. (1942) (1)
- Lives in Berkeley. (1982) (1)
- Annual Report of the Policy and Planning Board of the American Psychological Association: 1949. (1949) (1)
- The multiple department concept. (1970) (1)
- Quinn McNemar (1900–1986). (1988) (1)
- The Growth of Conscience (1960) (0)
- Mama Can't Hang You in the Closet No More! (1975) (0)
- Chapter I: Personality and Motivation (1944) (0)
- Peers vs Parents. (1970) (0)
- Projection and dreams. (1942) (0)
- Poetry as Defense. (1973) (0)
- Research in dementia precox. (1937) (0)
- The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence. (1938) (0)
- Discussion: personality and social psychology. (1966) (0)
- Behind the Door of Delusion. (1934) (0)
- Textbook of abnormal psychology. (1935) (0)
- Distortions of sexuality. (1942) (0)
- Two problems a new center might end (1968) (0)
- The Problem of Mental Disorder. (1935) (0)
- Appendix: The Society for Research in Child Development Committee on Preservation of Historical Materials in Child Development, 1977-1983 (1985) (0)
- Aggression . John Paul Scott. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1958. xi + 149 pp. Illus. $3.75. (1958) (0)
- Personality development in contemporary culture. (1948) (0)
- Outline of abnormal psychology. (1939) (0)
- Chronicle of Futility (1984) (0)
- Review of New introductory lectures on psychoanalysis; Psychoanalysis today: Its scope and function; and Modern man in search of a soul. (0)
- Schools as Laboratories in General and Professional Education (1947) (0)
- Democracy, fascism, and communism. (1939) (0)
- Erotic behavior of children. (1942) (0)
- Neo-Behaviorism and Learning Theory (1981) (0)
- A primitive society: The Ashanti. (1939) (0)
- In Celebration of Fathers. (1971) (0)
- TANGLED UP IN TIME AND SPACE (1996) (0)
- Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards for 1977 (1973) (0)
- Textbook of abnormal psychology (2nd ed). (1939) (0)
- Identification, sex-typing, and guilt (1959) (0)
- Human development: The adult years and aging. (1979) (0)
- That's what we wanted to know. (1979) (0)
- Review of The Psychology of Belief. (1938) (0)
- Psychology's Genetic Half. (1961) (0)
- The Inner World of Childhood. (1967) (0)
- Adolescent theory grows up. (1971) (0)
- Personality and Motivation (1944) (0)
- Keeping a Sound Mind. (1936) (0)
- Memorial Resolution for Lewis Madison Terman 1877-1956 (1974) (0)
- Errors in Sex-role Behavior. (1971) (0)
- Training for dissemination in child welfare. (1944) (0)
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