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Theodore R. Sarbin

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PhD Psychology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Psychology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Theodore Roy Sarbin was an American psychologist and professor of psychology and criminology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He was known as "Mr. Role Theory" because of his contributions to the social psychology of role-taking.

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Narrative Psychology: The Storied Nature of Human Conduct (1986) (1889)
Hypnosis: A Social Psychological Analysis of Influence Communication (1972) (370)
Contributions to role-taking theory: I. Hypnotic behavior. (1950) (257)
Storylines: Craftartists’ Narratives of Identity (2000) (183)
On Self‐Deception (1981) (169)
Dissociative identity disorder and the sociocognitive model: recalling the lessons of the past. (1999) (161)
Failure of a moral enterprise: attitudes of the public toward mental illness. (1970) (146)
The depth of hypnosis. (1938) (144)
Constructing the social (1994) (139)
Clinical Inference And Cognitive Theory (1960) (138)
Studies in social identity (1983) (134)
Varieties of Scientific Contextualism (1993) (127)
A Contribution to the Study of Actuarial and Individual Methods of Prediction (1943) (113)
Future time perspective: its relation to the socialization process and the delinquent role. (1968) (109)
A preface to a psychological analysis of the self. (1952) (100)
Place identity as a component of self: An addendum (1983) (97)
Ontology recapitulates philology. The mythic nature of anxiety. (1968) (93)
Hypnosis and psychopathology: replacing old myths with fresh metaphors. (1979) (83)
The logic of prediction in psychology. (1944) (78)
HYPNOSIS FROM THE STANDPOINT OF A CONTEXTUALIST (1977) (77)
On the futility of the proposition that some people be labeled "mentally ill". (1967) (72)
Believed-in imaginings : the narrative construction of reality (1998) (70)
Schizophrenia: Medical Diagnosis or Moral Verdict? (1980) (66)
Dimensions and patterns of adolescence antisocial behavior. (1968) (63)
The historical background of the concept of hallucination (1967) (49)
The Poetics of Identity (1997) (49)
Contributions to Rôle-Taking Theory: IV. A Method for Obtaining a Qualitative Estimate of the Self (1955) (49)
Nonvolition in Hypnosis: A Semiotic Analysis (1984) (48)
Embodiment and the Narrative Structure of Emotional Life (2001) (47)
Toward a theory of imagination 1 (1970) (45)
Emotional Life, Rhetoric, and Roles (1995) (44)
The concept of hallucination1 (1967) (43)
Believed-in imaginings: A narrative approach. (1998) (43)
Citizen Espionage: Studies in Trust and Betrayal (1994) (41)
Cross-Age Tutoring and Social Identity (1976) (41)
1.1 The Role of Imagination in Narrative Construction (2004) (41)
RORSCHACH PATTERNS UNDER HYPNOSIS (1939) (40)
ANXIETY: REIFICATION OF A METAPHOR. (1964) (40)
The narrative quality of action. (1990) (39)
Disclosure of delinquent behavior under conditions of anonymity and nonanonymity. (1968) (39)
A prologue to constructing the social (1994) (38)
Paradigms and moral judgments: improper conduct is not disease. (1972) (37)
An alternative interpretation to the multiple composition of hypnotic scales: A single role-relevant skill. (1971) (36)
Conformance in role perception as a personality variable. (1955) (35)
THE DANGEROUS INDIVIDUAL: AN OUTCOME OF SOCIAL IDENTITY TRANSFORMATIONS (1967) (34)
Some evidence in support of the role-taking hypothesis in hypnosis. (1963) (33)
The Concept of Role-Taking (1943) (33)
Self-reconstitution processes: a preliminary report. (1970) (32)
Prediction and clinical inference: forty years later. (1986) (32)
The Dimensionality Of The CPI Socialization Scale And An Empirically Derived Typology Among Delinquent And Nondelinquent Boys. (1966) (32)
An experimental analysis of role behavior. (1955) (31)
The Social Psychology of “Hallucinations” (1971) (31)
Worldmaking, Self and Identity (2000) (31)
An experimental demonstration of hypnosis as role enactment. (1966) (30)
On the futility of psychiatric diagnostic manuals (DSMs) and the return of personal agency (1997) (29)
Role Enactment, Audience Feedback, and Attitude Change (1964) (29)
A Narrative Approach to "Repressed Memories" (1995) (28)
Relation of measured interests to the Allport-Vernon study of values. (1940) (28)
TOWARDS A THEORETICAL CONCEPTUALISATION OF SUPERSTITION* (1965) (27)
Toward the obsolescence of the schizophrenia hypothesis (1990) (25)
If These Walls Could Talk: Places as Stages for Human Drama (2005) (23)
On the belief that one body may be host to two or more personalities. (1995) (22)
Toward a theory of imagination. (1970) (21)
PREDICTING THE DEPTH OF HYPNOSIS BY MEANS OF THE RORSCHACH TEST (1942) (21)
Mental age changes in experimental regression. (1950) (20)
Base‐Rate Expectancies and Perceptual Alterations in Hypnosis (1963) (20)
Studies in Psychosomatics: I. The Influence of Hypnotic Stimulation on Gastric Hunger Contractions* (1943) (20)
Ontology recapitulates philology. (1969) (19)
Self-reconstitution processes: a proposal for reorganizing the conduct of confirmed smokers. (1973) (19)
An Effort to Identify Assault-Prone Offenders (1968) (19)
The Power of Believed-In Imaginings (1997) (18)
Contributions to role-taking theory: a clinical study of self and role. (1952) (18)
The Narrative Construction of Emotional Life (1998) (18)
Schizophrenic thinking: A role-theoretical analysis1 (1969) (16)
Effect of Covert Alterations of Clock Rate upon Time Estimations and Personal Tempo (1963) (16)
A Preliminary Study of the Relation of Measured Interest Patterns and Occupational Dissatisfaction1 (1942) (15)
The concept of hallucination. (1967) (15)
Clinical psychology—Art or science (1941) (14)
Increasing Participation in a Natural Group Setting: A Preliminary Report (1968) (14)
On the False Alarm Metaphor in Psychophysics (1966) (14)
The Metaphor-to-Myth Transformation With Special Reference to the "War on Terrorism." (2003) (14)
Social reinforcement, socialization, and chronic delinquency. (1965) (13)
Socialization And Delinquency: A Study of False Negatives and False Positives in Prediction (1970) (12)
Between Fathers and Sons: Critical Incident Narratives in the Development of Men's Lives (2002) (11)
Multiple personality disorder: fact or artifact? (1997) (10)
Reflections on Some Unresolved Issues in Hypnosis (2005) (10)
BASE RATE EXPECTANCIES AND MOTORIC ALTERATIONS IN HYPNOSIS. (1964) (10)
Impact of differentially significant others on role involvement: An experiment with prison social types. (1971) (10)
Honor as a Moral Category (2008) (10)
Role Transition as Social Drama (1984) (9)
Hypnosis: Metaphorical encounters of the fourth kind (1980) (8)
Hypnosis as a conversation: ‘believed‐in imaginings’ revisited (1997) (8)
Differential Mediation of Social Perception as a Correlate of Social Adjustment (1956) (8)
Further validation of antisocial personality types. (1971) (8)
ADJUSTMENT IN PSYCHOLOGY (1940) (8)
On the distinction between social roles and social types, with special reference to the hippie. (1969) (8)
Dialogical components in theory‐building: contributions of Hilgard, Orne and Spanos (2002) (8)
Methodological Artifacts in Subception Research (1968) (8)
The Mystery of Tears. (2001) (7)
The Assessment of Role-Expectations in the Selection of Supervisory Personnel (1955) (7)
Accounting for “dissociative” actions without invoking mentalistic constructs (1992) (7)
Intra-personal factors in delinquency; a preliminary report. (1955) (6)
Introduction: Narrative Construction of Emotional Life (1995) (6)
Sociology of Conflict. (1969) (6)
Perceptual Completion Behavior in Juvenile Delinquents (1955) (6)
The dramaturgical approach to social psychology: The influence of Erving Goffman. (2003) (6)
New Criteria for Old (1941) (6)
The construction and reconstruction of hypnosis. (1989) (6)
Self-organization as a factor in the performance of selected cognitive tasks. (1953) (6)
On the Recently Reported Physiological and Pharmacological Reality of the Hypnotic State (1973) (5)
Whither hypnosis? A rhetorical analysis. (1999) (5)
The Social Construction of Schizophrenia (1991) (5)
Schizophrenic language: An ephemeron hiding an ephemeron (1982) (5)
Adolescent Morality: Its Differentiated Structure And Relation To Delinquent Conduct. (1967) (4)
ON WUNDT'S THEORY OF HYPNOSIS. (1963) (4)
Notes on Extending the Talk-Write Metaphor (1969) (4)
Spontaneity Training of the Feeble-Minded (1945) (4)
Challenges to the criminal justice system : the perspectives of community psychology (1979) (4)
Methodological Artifacts in Subception Research and the Tendency to Reify: A Rejoinder (1968) (3)
A logical flaw in an index to suppress response-bias in perceptual defence measures and the application of a proposed improvement (1967) (3)
Homosexuality and Personnel Security (1991) (3)
A Preface to the Epistemology of Identity (2004) (3)
The rationality of nonsense: Intensity of meaning of non-referential verbal units (1964) (3)
Schizophrenia, personal constructs, and Riedel's constructs. (1972) (2)
7 – Prolegomenon to a Theory of Counterdeception (1981) (2)
The case record in psychological counseling. (1940) (2)
Schizophrenic thinking: a role-theoretical analysis. (1969) (2)
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Military Deception (1980) (2)
The social construction of truth. (1998) (2)
Personnel Methods in Journalism Education (1939) (2)
Studies in behavior pathology : the experimental approach to the psychology of the abnormal (1961) (1)
Vision 2021: Security Issues for the Next Quarter Century. Proceedings, (1996) (1)
The poetic construction of reality and other explanatory categories. (1998) (1)
Book Reviews : Samuel Yochelson and Stanton Samenow, The Change Process, Vol. 2, The Criminal Personality. Pp. 578. New York, Jason Aronson, 1977. $25 (1979) (1)
Classifying Mental Disorders (2001) (1)
Computer Crime: A Peopleware Problem. Proceedings of a Conference Held in Monterey, California on October 25 - 26, 1993 (1993) (1)
Resolution of Binocular Rivalry as a Means of Identifying Violence-Prone Offenders (1969) (1)
The student psychologist's handbook : a guide to sources (1969) (1)
Teaching Narrative in Psychology: Scholarly Foundations and Advisement Resources (2012) (0)
TEXTBOOK OF PSYCHIATRY FOR STUDENTS AND PRACTITIONERS (2005) (0)
Interpreting Freud and Jung—The hermeneutic spiral revisited: Review of Freud and Jung: Conflicts in Interpretation by Robert S. Steele (with consulting editor Susan V. Swinney). London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1982. (1987) (0)
Theories in Practice: Student Personnel Work in the University of Minnesota (1941) (0)
Book Notes (1980) (0)
Illusion and reality in the science of schizophrenia. (1984) (0)
The Myth-Of-Mental-Illness Model : Schizophrenic Symptoms as Manufactured Artefacts (2006) (0)
The Potential of Hypnotism. (1976) (0)
Review of Conditioned reflex therapy. (1950) (0)
In Memoriam: Andre M. Weitzenhoffer (2005) (0)
Psychological Predisposition and/or Subcultural Participation: Reply to Dr. Glaser (1957) (0)
Remembering Bill Coe (2005) (0)
Complying and Believing. (1983) (0)
Erratum to: On the recently reported physiological and pharmacological reality of the hypnotic state (1974) (0)
Is there a lock for the elusive key (1985) (0)
Book Reviews (1984) (0)
Entrancement in the Clinic. (1980) (0)
The Effect of Incentives Upon Aptitude Scores of White and Negro Inmates (1971) (0)
On the Futility of Transcribing Talk Shows. (1971) (0)
Checklist of Antisocial Behaviors (2014) (0)
Criminology as a Voyage of Rediscovery. (1979) (0)
The Resolution of Binocular Rivalry among Assaultive and Nonassaultive Youthful Offenders (1968) (0)
Work Performance of N.Y.A. Students (1940) (0)
Narrative and agency in life and science: Review of A Tale of Two Stories by George S. Howard. Notre Dame, IN: Academic Publishers, 1988 (1990) (0)
Placement Services: “Proceedings of the Institute on Placement Services in Colleges and Universities” (1941) (0)
Barber, Theodore X. (1995/1969) Hypnosis: A Scientific Approach. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson. ix + 282 Pages, Two Appendices, $35.00 (1997) (0)
Romancing the Expert (1997) (0)
Computer fun for future users or 4-H clubs - an agricultural extension function (1983) (0)
Logic for the Clinician (2003) (0)
Book Reviews : The Study of Personality: A Book of Readings, compilation and commentary by Howard Brand. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., I954. xi + 58I pp. $6.00 (1956) (0)

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