Robert Sommer

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Robert Sommer is affiliated with the following schools: McMaster University, University of California, Davis, University of Miami

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According to Wikipedia, Robert Sommer is an internationally known Environmental Psychologist and held the position of Distinguished Professor of Psychology Emeritus at the University of California, Davis. Sommer wrote 14 books and over 600 articles, he was best known for his book Personal Space: The Behavioral Basis of Design , which discusses the influence of the environment on human activities.

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A Practical Guide to Behavioral Research: Tools and Techniques (1980) (516)
Personal space : the behavioral basis of design (1970) (404)
Studies in Personal space (1959) (339)
Invasions of Personal Space (1966) (245)
Tight spaces; hard architecture and how to humanize it. (1974) (202)
Small group ecology. (1967) (180)
Is There a Schizophrenic Language (1960) (144)
Leadership and Group Geography (1961) (133)
Seating arrangements and status. (1967) (125)
Social Interaction On a Geriatrics Ward (1958) (124)
Further Studies of Small Group Ecology (1965) (116)
Social Facilitation Effects in Shopping Behavior (1992) (103)
Further Studies of Preferred Tree Shapes (1999) (98)
The Distance for Comfortable Conversation: A Further Study (1962) (95)
Reply from Sommer and Sommer. (1984) (93)
Mystery in Milwaukee. Early intervention, IQ, and psychology textbooks. (1983) (91)
The behavioral ecology of supermarkets and farmers' markets (1981) (89)
Social design: Creating buildings with people in mind (1983) (81)
The Soft Classroom (1980) (68)
Mental Mapping of Two Supermarkets (1982) (67)
Surveying Householder Response to Street Trees (1990) (64)
An Exploratory Study of Preferred Tree Form (1995) (64)
The Ecology of Privacy (1966) (62)
Urban tree-planting programs — A model for encouraging environmentally protective behavior (1998) (58)
THE ISOLATED DRINKER IN THE EDMONTON BEER PARLOR. (1965) (50)
Man's Proximate Environment (1966) (47)
The End Of Imprisonment (1976) (47)
Body image and self-concept in schizophrenia. An experimental study. (1960) (46)
Further Cross-National Studies of Tree Form Preference (1997) (46)
Social Effects on Duration in Restaurants (1997) (46)
Social Benefits of Resident Involvement in Tree Planting: Comparison with Developer-Planted Trees (1994) (46)
Price Savings to Consumers at Farmers' Markets (1980) (46)
Distance constancy in schizophrenic patients. (1958) (43)
Consumer acceptance of cosmetically imperfect produce. (1990) (40)
Classroom Ecology (1967) (38)
The Hawthorne dogma. (1968) (37)
Intimacy Ratings in Five Countries (1968) (33)
The mind's eye : imagery in everyday life (1978) (31)
Social Facilitation Effects in Coffeehouses (1989) (31)
Student Images of Agriculture: Survey Highlights and Recommendations. (1986) (30)
: Designing and Space Planning for Libraries: A Behavioral Guide (1980) (29)
What Do We Learn at the Zoo (1972) (29)
DISCIPLINE AND FIELD OF STUDY: A SEARCH FOR CLARIFICATION (2000) (29)
The Social Benefits of Resident Involvement in Tree Planting (1994) (29)
Incorporating Published Autobiographies into the Abnormal Psychology Course (2001) (28)
Trees and Human Identity. (2003) (28)
Symptoms of Institutional Care (1960) (27)
Autobiographies of former mental patients. (1960) (27)
A bibliography of mental patients' autobiographies: an update and classification system. (1998) (27)
Family advocacy and the mental health system: The recent rise of the alliance for the mentally ill (2005) (27)
The New Red Barn: A Critical Look at the Modern American Prison (1973) (27)
An Experimental Investigation of the Action Research Approach (1987) (27)
The soft classroom 17 years later (1992) (26)
Existential isolation as a correlate of clinical distress, beliefs about psychotherapy, and experiences with mental health treatment. (2019) (23)
Teaching common associations to schizophrenics. (1962) (23)
Seating patterns and group task (1967) (22)
Zoomorphy: Animal Metaphors for Human Personality (2011) (22)
Autobiographies of mental health clients: Psychologists' uses and recommendations. (1999) (22)
HOUSEHOLDER EVALUATION OF TWO STREET TREE SPECIES (1989) (21)
Credit for Comments, Comments for Credit (2007) (20)
THE CHAIN OF CHRONICITY (1961) (20)
Dual dissemination: writing for colleagues and the public. (2006) (20)
Assaultiveness and two types of Rorschach color responses. (1958) (19)
The resident researcher: An alternative career model centered on community (1993) (19)
Dissemination in action research (2009) (19)
Patients who grow old in a mental hospital. (1959) (19)
A survey of the California Alliance for the Mentally Ill. (1986) (18)
COLLECTIVE ACTION THEORY AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS RESEARCH (2011) (18)
The Factor Structure of Street Tree Attributes (1989) (18)
Alienation and Mental Illness (1958) (17)
The use of autobiography in psychotherapy. (2003) (17)
A bibliography of mental patients' autobiographies, 1960-1982. (1983) (17)
Autism, Emphasis, and Figure-Ground Perception (1956) (16)
Bicyclists' Response to Urban Bikeways (1976) (16)
Quality of Farmers' Market Produce: Flavor and Pesticide Residues (1982) (16)
Consumer Behavior At Bulk Food Bins (1985) (15)
The Ecology of Study Areas (1970) (15)
Action Research: From mental hospital reform in Saskatchewan to community building in California. (1999) (14)
Perceptual autism in children. (1957) (14)
A Virtual Lab in Research Methods (2003) (14)
Customer Characteristics and Attitudes at Participatory and Supermarket Cooperatives (1983) (14)
Benchmarks in environmental psychology (1997) (14)
The schizophrenic no-society. (1962) (14)
Comparison of Four Methods of Street Tree Assessment (1993) (14)
Study Habits and Introversion-Extroversion (1966) (13)
Courage, Justice, and Practical Wisdom as Key Virtues in the Era of COVID-19 (2021) (13)
Teaching Psychology in Estonia, USSR (1991) (13)
Crime and vandalism in university residence halls: A confirmation of defensible space theory (1987) (13)
Slide Ratings of Street Tree Attributes: Some Methodological Issues and Answers (1993) (13)
The effects of rewards and punishments during perceptual organization. (1957) (12)
Farmers’ Markets as Community Events (1989) (12)
[Parenthood and psychiatric hospitalization]. (2001) (12)
Farmers' markets please their customers (1980) (12)
Gas Station Psychology (1991) (11)
The Dreaded Essay Exam (2009) (11)
Serving Two Masters: Center for Consumer Research at the University of California, Davis, 1976-1992 (1994) (11)
Letter-writing in a mental hospital. (1958) (11)
On writing "little papers." (1959) (11)
Self-survey of family organization (2005) (10)
SHOPPING AT THE CO-OP (1998) (10)
Students show low awareness of agricultural careers (1986) (10)
Autobiographies of former mental patients, addendum. (1961) (10)
Spatial Parameters in Naturalistic Social Research (1971) (10)
Reading Areas in College Libraries (1968) (10)
The psychology of environmental problems. 2nd Edition: Deborah Du Nann Winter and Susan M. Koger; Lawrence Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ: 2004, 287pp., retail price ca. $39.00 (2004) (9)
The Personality of Vegetables: Botanical Metaphors for Human Characteristics (1988) (9)
Semantic Profiles of Zoos and Their Animals (2008) (9)
Perception and Monetary Reinforcement: I. the Effects of Rewards in the Tactual Modality (1956) (9)
The new look on the witness stand. (1959) (9)
A sociometric study of admission wards in a mental hospital. (1961) (9)
Visitors to mental hospitals; a fertile field for research. (1959) (9)
COMPARISON OF FARMERS' MARKET, AND SUPERMARKET PRODUCE: TOMATOES AND BELL PEPPERS (1979) (9)
Sex differences in the retention of quantitative information. (1958) (8)
Patient housing options as viewed by parents of the mentally ill. Housing Committee, California Alliance for the Mentally Ill. (1986) (8)
Mental health professionals' attitudes toward the family's role in care of the mentally ill. (1989) (8)
The Social Psychology of Cramming (1968) (8)
Collaborative Research with a Family Support Organizationl. (1992) (8)
Faculty Awareness of Textbook Prices (1988) (8)
ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION IN PRAIRIEVILLE: EFFECT OF CHANGE IN TYPE OF OUTLET ON DRINKING IN A SMALL TOWN. (1964) (7)
A user‐based method for rating street trees (1992) (7)
Street Tree Location and Sidewalk Management Preferences of Urban Householders (1992) (7)
Perception of traffic guidance signs containing conflicting symbol and direction information. (1986) (7)
Camp Brothels: Forced Sex Labour in Nazi Concentration Camps (2009) (7)
Resident Involvement in Inspecting Trees for Dutch Elm Disease (1998) (7)
Self-Help That Works: Resources to Improve Emotional Health and Strengthen Relationships (2013) (7)
COMPARING APPLES AND ORANGES (1984) (7)
The Cheapest Apartments in Town (1973) (7)
Consciences in the Marketplace: The Role of Cooperatives in Consumer Protection (1991) (7)
The Desk or the Bed (1968) (7)
Utilization Issues in Environment-Behavior Research (1997) (7)
The Social Psychology of the Cell Environment (1971) (7)
Some Costs and Pitfalls in Field Research (1971) (7)
Status of APE projects (2001) (6)
Release of the Guilty to Protect the Innocent (1991) (6)
Implications of privacy needs and interpersonal distancing mechanisms for space station design (1985) (6)
Consumer Cooperatives and Worker Collectives (1984) (6)
Perception and Monetary Reinforcement: Ii. the Effects of Rewards and Punishments in the Visual Modality (1956) (6)
Twenty Years of Teaching Evaluations: One Instructor's Experience (1981) (6)
Local Use of Survey Data: Impact of Research Findings on Farmer's Markets (1985) (6)
Working Effectively with Groups (1960) (6)
A parents' survey of problems faced by mentally ill daughters. (1987) (6)
Space-Time on Prairie Highways (1967) (5)
The Mind's Eye (1978) (5)
ANCHOR-EFFECTS AND THE SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL. (1965) (5)
Textbook Prices and Their Implications for Social Sciences Librarians (1990) (5)
Farmers' markets are good for downtown (1983) (5)
Areas of Value Difference: I. A Method for Investigation (1954) (5)
The schizophrenic no-society revisited. (1984) (5)
VALUES IN ALCOHOLICS AFTER LSD-25. (1963) (5)
Two decades of marijuana attitudes: the more it changes, the more it is the same. (1988) (5)
On the Brown adaptation of the Rosenzweig P-F for assessing social attitudes. (1954) (5)
Pesticide Advertising in Farm Journals (1982) (5)
Classroom Ecology and Acquaintanceship (1989) (5)
A content analysis of Richard Dadd’s art (1999) (5)
Funeral Co-Op Members' Characteristics and Motives (1985) (5)
Agreement Among Arborists, Gardeners, and Landscape Architects in Rating Street Trees (1992) (5)
The Use of Survey Results by Democratically Controlled Organizations (1986) (4)
Action Research is Formative: Research at the Saskatchewan Hospital, 1 95 7-61 (1983) (4)
Joint Research Project (in progress): Draft Standard for Determining the Thermal Stress of Glass and Glass-Glass PV Modules (BIPV) in the Construction Industry (2022) (4)
Funeral Price Disclosure in an Urban Market (1985) (4)
A comparison of produce prices in Costa Rica: farmers' markets, produce markets and supermarkets (1992) (4)
Literal versus Metaphorical Interpretations of Scale Terms: A Serendipitous Natural Experiment (1991) (4)
Administrative advisory committees at the University of California at Davis (1992) (4)
Office Politics in a State Legislature (1988) (4)
Farmers' markets—myths and realities (1979) (4)
Development of the zoological garden and mental hospital. (2008) (4)
Psychology in the wilderness. (1961) (4)
Prices of Unpackaged and Packaged Foods (1985) (4)
Standing out from the crowd: personalization of graduation attire. (1986) (4)
Rorschach M responses and intelligence. (1958) (4)
Perceived psychopathology in Richard Dadd's art (1998) (4)
The district attorney's dilemma: Experimental games and the real world of plea bargaining. (1982) (4)
Paid to Teach and …: Internal Contradictions of Studio Art at a Research University (1999) (4)
Field Guide to Mushrooms of Western North America (2012) (4)
Anatomy of a Coed Residence Hall. (1972) (4)
Ambiguities in the role of clinical psychologist in a mental hospital. (1958) (4)
An Evaluation of Tree Descriptions in a Popular Garden Guide (1996) (3)
The mental hospital in the small community. (1958) (3)
Promoting The Staff Library (1960) (3)
Decorations for the Classroom (1972) (3)
Study Conditions in Student Residences. (1969) (3)
Displaced persons: the elderly patients in a large mental hospital. (1958) (3)
Social and Educational Benefits of a Community Shade Tree Program: A Replication (1995) (3)
Occupational Therapists as Specialists in Mental Hospitals (1958) (3)
The role of the nurse in psychological testing. (1958) (3)
Study Carrels Re-Examined (1967) (3)
Spatial orientation in the cubicle (2007) (3)
PRICES IN LARGE AND SMALL COOPERATIVES (1983) (3)
The Dendro-Psychoses of J.O. Quantz (2001) (3)
A Fish Who Studies Water (1990) (3)
Rorschach animal responses and intelligence. (1957) (3)
Tom Wolfe on Modern Architecture: Further Comparison of New Journalism and Social Science (1984) (3)
The burnt-out chairman. (1973) (3)
Areas of Value Difference: II. Negro-White Relations (1954) (3)
Sons and daughters of parents in a support organization (1986) (2)
A Model Experiment in Occupational Therapy (1960) (2)
Professionalization and Occupational Therapy (1961) (2)
Price savings at California consumer co-ops (1981) (2)
Cooperatives and consumer research: A bridge needs two supports (1985) (2)
COOKING SKILLS OF GERIATRIC PATIENTS † (1959) (2)
The Estonian Turg and the California Certified Farmers' Market (1991) (2)
Stopping Sanitation Problems at Salad Bars (1985) (2)
Association Methods in Anthropology (1960) (2)
Ernst Josephson's art before and after a breakdown (2000) (2)
In memoriam: Humphry Osmond (2004) (2)
Student Feedback in Writing Textbooks (1980) (2)
Collaborative research with a family support organization. (1992) (2)
Teaching After Retirement (2014) (2)
Community programs promote tree care (1997) (2)
The Social Relations of Hospitalized Alcoholics * (1963) (2)
Going to the city: a study of geographic parochialism (1985) (2)
Consumer protection programs in food cooperatives. (1983) (1)
An evaluation of a mental health week program. (1958) (1)
Thorstein Veblen and Dementia praecox. (2007) (1)
Clothing factors in energy conservation (1987) (1)
Color–Shape Connotations of Geometric Figures (2004) (1)
Cost and programme availability in co‐operative pre‐schools (1989) (1)
Effects of Pleasant and Unpleasant Verbal Stimuli upon Perceptual Learning in Young Children (1984) (1)
Tom and Erving Visited Las Vegas New Journalism and New Sociology Compared (1975) (1)
The Mushroom Curriculum: Using Natural History to Teach Psychology (1989) (1)
Perceived Psychopathology in a Painter's Work (2004) (1)
Public Involvement with Elms and Other Species (2000) (1)
GIS-based genetic algorithm optimization tool for supporting land use and land management restructuring (2007) (1)
How a Coding Error Sparked Short-Term Reform at a Custodial Mental Hospital (2013) (1)
Weightlessness and Interaction Distance (1992) (1)
Interference between Pictorial Symbols and Arrows in Highway Guidance Signs (1984) (1)
The Liebig Laboratory and Liebig Museum in Giessen (1931) (1)
The death mask of Justus von Liebig (1934) (1)
Colleagues and Criticism. (1960) (1)
Still Optimistic about Environmental Psychology. (1984) (1)
Disturbing Noise in a Mental Hospital (1960) (1)
Implications for patient well-being in hospital design. (1966) (1)
A Note on 'Graphonyms' (1977) (1)
Toward a Better Buffet (1987) (1)
Why I Will Continue to Eat Corn Smut (1995) (1)
Group Activities for the O.T. (1959) (1)
Male-Female Double Standards of Fifty Male Students (1956) (1)
Environmental Psychology in the U.S.S.R. (1982) (1)
Experiments in Active Autism (1956) (1)
When an occupational therapist is the only therapist. (1959) (1)
Views of a mental hospital. (1962) (1)
Tolerance of deviance as affected by label, act, and actor (1988) (1)
The etymology of psychosis. (2011) (1)
Perception of traffic guidance signs containing conflicting symbol and direction information : Ergonomics, 1986, 29.5, 699–711 (1987) (0)
The Dear Departing (1962) (0)
Breaking the White-Collar Barrier. (1987) (0)
Student attitudes after a psychiatric hospital tour. (2006) (0)
Don't Expect Me to Wear a Necktie. (1996) (0)
Architecture for Researchers (1961) (0)
Book Review: Scenes from Institutional Life (1960) (0)
Finding BURIED TREASURE in the Hospital (1961) (0)
The Depth of the Carpet. (1974) (0)
Art from Flotsam: Marrying art and ecology (2013) (0)
Insider's View of the Joint. (1978) (0)
Packing Them In: Part of the Punishment: (384242004-001) (1981) (0)
SAY IT WITH TAPE (1962) (0)
Landscapes of Fear. Yi-fu Tuan (1980) (0)
Review of On Becoming a Person. (1962) (0)
Speaking of Places - Disappearing Act: Front-Yard Bricolage along the Pacific Coast (2007) (0)
The Feminine Perspectives of Henry Adams' Esther (2014) (0)
The Logitech mouse story (2002) (0)
Say it with tape. (1962) (0)
James V. McConnell (1925-1990): Obituary. (1991) (0)
Chih-chun Tang Impassion or Hysteria : The Affecting and Touching Space in Thomas Hardy (0)
Behavioral Problems at a Student Managed Salad Bar (1993) (0)
Morel Tales: The Culture of Mushrooming.By Gary Alan Fine. Harvard University Press, 1998. 324 pp (1999) (0)
Computer pre-order food co-ops offer savings in return for time and labor (1981) (0)
Prison's Contemporary Problems@@@Sane Asylum@@@The Prison: Policy and Practice@@@The End of Imprisonment@@@Prisoners among Us: The Problem of Parole@@@Punishing Criminals: Concerning a Very Old and Painful Question (1978) (0)
Book Review: Defensible Space by Oscar Newman. London: The Architectural Press. 1972. pp.264. £4·95 (1974) (0)
Le Grand Rabbin Lazare Wogue (1817-1897) (1989) (0)
De-emphasis on Cooperatives in Introductory Economics Textbooks (1989) (0)
Building internal knowledge networks in the multinational corporation : a study of international research and development (1992) (0)
The Distorting Lens of Psychology's Individualism and a Social Realist Alternative (2021) (0)
Beyond an abstract and technical conception of psychotherapy: The indispensable role of practical wisdom (2022) (0)
Animal Metaphors for Human Personality (2011) (0)
The Aesthetics of Doom: Nature, Science, and Art in Henry Adams's Dynamic Theory of History (2021) (0)
Coping with Imprisonment, N. Parisi (Ed.). Sage Publications, London (1982) (1986) (0)
Linking agricultural and consumer Cooperatives — A strategy for cooperative development (1988) (0)
Action research is formative: research at Saskatchewan Hospital, 1957-61. (1983) (0)
Rick Tilman. Thorstein Veblen and the Enrichment of Evolutionary Naturalism. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007. 343 pp. $49.95 (cloth). ISBN 978‐0‐8262‐1714‐1 (2008) (0)
The private residence explored. (1986) (0)
The New Evaluator Cookbook. (1971) (0)
Consumer co-ops: Alternative economic and social units (1982) (0)
Socialist competition: The guarantee of success (1975) (0)
A Contract with the Earth, Newt Gingrich, Terry L. Maple (Eds.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore (2007), 227pp., $20 Hardcover, ISBN: 978-0-8018-8780-2 (2008) (0)
Barter for This Book (1991) (0)
Every woman adores a Fascist , The boot in the face , the brute Brute heart of a brute like you (2016) (0)
Book Review (2000) (0)
A model for successful job placement of residents in small board-and-care facilities. (1990) (0)
Action Research: Enhancing Application (2016) (0)
Faint Image of the Environment. (1974) (0)
The controller looks at cost distribution. (1956) (0)
Going to to the city east of the Sierra Nevada: further investigation of geographic parochialism (1989) (0)
Whatever Became of the Environment (1972) (0)
Murals. The anti-graffiti art form. (1981) (0)
Hospital or Prison (1966) (0)
Macro and Wide-Angle Views of Groups. (1989) (0)
[Cooperation between ward and hospital laboratory]. (1984) (0)
Reviewer's Rejoinder. (1974) (0)
Review Article: Beat the Horse Dead, but He Rises Again (1977) (0)
Stateville: The Penitentiary in Mass Society.@@@The End of Imprisonment. (1980) (0)

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