Willis Overton
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- PhD Psychology University of Colorado Boulder
- Masters Psychology University of Colorado Boulder
- Bachelors Psychology University of Colorado Boulder
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Willis Franklin Overton, Jr. is an American psychologist whose research is in the fields of clinical and developmental psychology. He is the Thaddeus L. Bolton Professor of Psychology Emeritus at Temple University, where he was the chair of the psychology department from 2000 to 2006. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association's Divisions 7 , 12 , and 20 . He was formerly the president of the Jean Piaget Society and the Society for the Study of Human Development.
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Published Works
- Models of Development and Theories of Development (1970) (454)
- Developmental Psychology: Philosophy, Concepts, Methodology (2007) (329)
- Processes, Relations, and Relational‐Developmental‐Systems (2015) (256)
- CHAPTER 4 – Models of Development: Methodological Implications (1973) (245)
- A New Paradigm for Developmental Science: Relationism and Relational-Developmental Systems (2013) (209)
- Turn Left at the Church, Or Three Miles North (1986) (204)
- Exemplifying the Integrations of the Relational Developmental System (2008) (189)
- Life-span development: Concepts and issues. (2010) (189)
- Knowledge and Development (1977) (163)
- The representation of imagined objects in action sequences: a developmental study. (1973) (158)
- Advances in research and theory (1977) (154)
- Reasoning about certainty and uncertainty in concrete, causal, and propositional contexts. (1986) (153)
- The development of cognitive gender constancy and sex role preferences. (1978) (150)
- Relationism and relational developmental systems: a paradigm for developmental science in the post-Cartesian era. (2013) (119)
- The role of negative priming in preschoolers' flexible rule use on the dimensional change card sort task. (2006) (107)
- Personality as the basis for theoretical predilections. (1988) (107)
- Competence and procedures: Constraints on the development of logical reasoning. (1990) (106)
- On the assumptive base of the nature-nurture controversy: additive versus interactive conceptions. (1973) (92)
- Semantic Familiarity, Relevance, and the Development of Deductive Reasoning (1990) (89)
- Form and Content in the Development of Deductive Reasoning. (1987) (87)
- Wisdom: A culturally inclusive developmental perspective (2002) (86)
- The Nature and ontogenesis of meaning (1994) (83)
- Developmental Perspectives on Embodiment and Consciousness (2008) (82)
- Comprar NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, Trajectories of Physical Aggression from Toddlerhood to Middle Childhood: Predictors, Correlates, and Outcomes | Willis F. Overton | 9781405132824 | Wiley (2008) (82)
- A Coherent Metatheory for Dynamic Systems: Relational Organicism-Contextualism (2007) (80)
- A Handbook of Wisdom: Cultural Foundations of Wisdom: An Integrated Developmental Approach (2005) (74)
- Conditional reasoning following contradictory evidence: A developmental analysis (1980) (65)
- Conditional Reasoning and the Competence-Performance Issue: A Developmental Analysis of a Training Task. (1982) (64)
- Relational developmental systems: A paradigm for developmental science in the postgenomic era (2012) (64)
- The Arrow of Time and the Cycle of Time: Concepts of Change, Cognition, and Embodiment (1994) (63)
- Fundamental Concepts and Methods in Developmental Science: A Relational Perspective (2014) (61)
- Conceptual Prerequisites for an Understanding of Stability-Change and Continuity-Discontinuity (1981) (59)
- Development of Logical Reasoning and the School Performance of African American Adolescents in Relation to Socioeconomic Status, Ethnic Identity, and Self-Esteem (2002) (58)
- Metatheories, Theories, and Concepts in the Study of Development (2012) (58)
- SOCIAL FACTORS IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF ALCOHOLISM. I. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PATIENT. (1963) (56)
- Beyond Dichotomy: An Embodied Active Agent for Cultural Psychology (1997) (50)
- How to Grow a Baby: A Reevaluation of Image-Schema and Piagetian Action Approaches to Representation (1998) (49)
- Reasoning, necessity, and logic: Developmental perspectives. (2013) (48)
- Embodiment from a relational perspective. (2007) (48)
- Gender Differences in Expectancies for Success and Performance on Piagetian Spatial Tasks. (1986) (47)
- Organization of Knowledge and Conditional Reasoning (1990) (46)
- The Development of Symbolic Coordination: Representation of Imagined Objects, Executive Function, and Theory of Mind (2005) (45)
- Cognitive-Developmental and Behavior-Analytic Theories: Evolving into Complementarity (2006) (44)
- Developmental and Individual Differences in Conditional Reasoning: The Role of Contradiction Training and Cognitive Style (1985) (44)
- The structure of developmental theory. (1991) (42)
- Developmental sequences in class reasoning and propositional reasoning. (1999) (42)
- Area and volume conservation among the elderly: Assessment and training. (1976) (41)
- Reframing a Constructivist Model of the Development of Mental Representation: The Role of Higher-Order Operations☆☆☆ (1998) (38)
- Dual systems Competence ←-→ Procedural processing: A relational developmental systems approach to reasoning (2011) (36)
- Relational Developmental Systems and Quantitative Behavior Genetics: Alternative or Parallel Methodologies? (2011) (30)
- Reduction to Absurdity: Why Epigenetics Invalidates All Models Involving Genetic Reduction (2017) (30)
- Evaluations of Causal and Conditional Hypotheses (1986) (29)
- Self-and Social-Regulation Social Interaction and the Development of Social Understanding and Executive Functions (2009) (29)
- Development of Conditional Reasoning: A Longitudinal Study (2001) (29)
- The Active Organism in Structuralism. (1976) (28)
- Reasoning about logical connectives: A developmental analysis☆ (1988) (27)
- The Process-Relational Paradigm and Relational-Developmental-Systems Metamodel as Context (2014) (27)
- Evolving Scientific Paradigms: Retrospective and Prospective (2012) (27)
- Development of Logical Reasoning in the Context of Parental Style and Test Anxiety. (1998) (26)
- Historical and contemporary perspectives on developmental theory and research strategies. (1991) (26)
- Understanding, Explanation, and Reductionism: Finding a Cure for Cartesian Anxiety (2003) (24)
- Effects of perceptual shielding in the development of spatial perspectives. (1972) (23)
- Proof construction: adolescent development from inductive to deductive problem-solving strategies. (1995) (22)
- Perceptual and Logical Factors in the Development of Multiplicative Classification. (1972) (20)
- Individual differences in formal operational thought: sex role and learned helplessness. (1982) (20)
- Taking Conceptual Analyses Seriously (2015) (20)
- Development Across the Life Span (2003) (17)
- Metatheory and the Primacy of Conceptual Analysis in Developmental Science (2018) (16)
- Comorbid adolescent substance abuse: a maladaptive pattern of self-regulation. (1992) (14)
- Stimulus Preference and Multiplicative Classification in Children. (1971) (14)
- On paradigm shifts. (1972) (13)
- Social-class differences and task variables in the development of multiplicative classification. (1971) (12)
- Relational-developmental theory: A psychological perspective (1998) (12)
- Developmental psychopathology: Integrations and differentiations. (1991) (11)
- Relationism, Ontology, and Other Concerns (2006) (11)
- Metaphor, recursive systems, and paradox in science and developmental theory. (1991) (11)
- Moral meta-narratives, marginalization, and youth development. (2018) (10)
- Metatheoretical Features of Behavior Genetics and Development (2003) (10)
- CHAPTER 1 Concepts , Theory , and Method in Developmental Science A View of the Issues (2015) (10)
- Executive Function: Description and Explanation (2016) (10)
- Action Theory of Mind and Representational Theory of Mind: Is Dialogue Possible? (1998) (10)
- Dual-systems and the development of reasoning: competence-procedural systems. (2011) (10)
- Concrete and Formal Operational thought Processes in Young Adulthood and Old Age (1976) (10)
- Cognition, biology, and methods (2010) (10)
- Formal reasoning in late adulthood: The role of semantic content and metacognitive strategy (1995) (8)
- The Relationship Between Social and Cognitive Development (2013) (7)
- Concepts, Theory, and Method in Developmental Science (2015) (7)
- The Relationship Between Deductive Reasoning Ability, Test Anxiety, and Standardized Test Scores in a Latino Sample (2011) (7)
- Marching toward the Millennium (1997) (6)
- Anticipatory Imagery and Modified Anagram Solutions: A Developmental Study. (1971) (6)
- Deductive Reasoning in Young and Elderly Adults. (1986) (6)
- Formal operations as regulatory context in adolescence. (1992) (6)
- Interpretationism, Pragmatism, Realism, and Other Ideologies (1994) (6)
- Constructivism and Development: Reply to Smith's Commentary (1998) (4)
- Formal reasoning in Japanese older adults: The role of metacognitive strategy, task content, and social factors (1996) (4)
- Thinking about thinking - thinking about measurement: a Rasch analysis of recursive thinking. (2010) (3)
- Narratives and Observations in Contemporary Scientific Psychology (1991) (3)
- Piaget, Play, and Cognition, Revisited (2013) (3)
- Acknowlegment (2007) (3)
- Piaget's Theory of Intellectual Development and Progressive Education. Part One: The Child. (1972) (2)
- Theory and method (2015) (2)
- Piaget: The Logic of Creativity and the Creativity of Logic. (1989) (2)
- A Relational and Embodied Perspective on Resolving Psychology’s Antinomies (2014) (2)
- Do Females Expect to Fail on Piagetian Spatial Tasks (1984) (2)
- Psychology, Philosophy, and Scientific Research Programs (1985) (1)
- A. Environmental ontogeny: A cognitive view (1976) (1)
- Attachment and internalization: relationship as a regulatory context. (1992) (1)
- Comments on Beilin's Epistemology and Palermo's Defense of Kuhn (1984) (1)
- Family interaction as regulatory context in adolescence. (1992) (1)
- But who will read them (1970) (0)
- Reduction to Absurdity (2021) (0)
- Piaget for Clinicians and Others. (1987) (0)
- The Development of Metalogical Understanding: David Moshman (2013) (0)
- Conditional Reasoning and Content Effects: A Developmental Analysis of Wason's Selection Task. (1984) (0)
- Author’s response: General and individual – A relation (1998) (0)
- Subject Index Vol. 46, 2003 (2003) (0)
- SEX DIFFERENCES IN DIRECTION GIVING: A STUDY OF PREFERENCE AND COMPETENCE (2007) (0)
- 'Is' and 'ought,' fact and value: a relational developmental perspective. (2000) (0)
- Acknowledgment (2003) (0)
- CHAPTER 1 Development Across the Life Span (2002) (0)
- Contents Vol. 46, 2003 (2003) (0)
- Form and function of developmental theory (1988) (0)
- Marching toward the Millennium. Commentary. (1997) (0)
- Knowledge and Development Edited by Willis F. Overton and Jeanette Mccarthy Gallagher. (1977) (0)
- A Statement of Editorial Policy (2004) (0)
- Kurt W. Fischer (2020) (0)
- Contents Vol. 60, 2017 (2018) (0)
- A Genevan sampler. (1977) (0)
- A handy guide through Piagetland. (1977) (0)
- Contents Vol. 51, 2008 (2008) (0)
- In Memoriam: Remembering Kurt W. Fischer (2020) (0)
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