Psychologist at Play: Robert P. Abelson's Life and Contributions to Psychological Science

Abelson J.R. (2005, September). Memorial for Dad. Presented at the Robert P. Abelson memorial service, New Haven, CT.

Abelson R.P. (1950). Mathematical contributions to group psychology. Unpublished master's thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.

Abelson R.P. (1953a). A note on the Neyman-Johnson technique. Psychometrika, 18, 213–218.

Abelson R.P. (1953b). Spectral analysis and the study of individual differences in the performance of routine, repetitive tasks. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.

Abelson R.P. (1954). A technique and a model for multi-dimensional attitude scaling. Public Opinion Quarterly, 18, 405–418.

Abelson R.P. (1959). Modes of resolution of belief dilemmas. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 3, 343–352.

Abelson R.P. (1963). Computer simulation of “hot” cognition. In Tomkins S.S. Messick S. (Eds.), Computer simulation of personality (pp. 277–298). New York: Wiley.

Abelson R.P. (1968a). A summary of hypotheses on modes of resolution. In Abelson R.P. Aronson E. McGuire W.J. Newcomb T.M. Rosenberg M.J. Tannenbaum P.H. (Eds.), Theories of cognitive consistency: A sourcebook (pp. 716–720). Chicago: Rand McNally.

Abelson R.P. (1968b). Psychological implication. In Abelson R.P. Aronson E. McGuire W.J. Newcomb T.M. Rosenberg M.J. Tannenbaum P.H. (Eds.), Theories of cognitive consistency: A sourcebook (pp. 112–139). Chicago: Rand McNally.

Abelson R.P. (1968c). Uncooperative personality variables. In Abelson R.P. Aronson E. McGuire W.J. Newcomb T.M. Rosenberg M.J. Tannenbaum P.H. (Eds.), Theories of cognitive consistency: A sourcebook (pp. 648–651). Chicago: Rand McNally.

Abelson R.P. (1972). Are attitudes necessary? In King B.T. McGinnies E. (Eds.), Attitudes, conflict, and social change (pp. 19–32). New York: Academic Press.

Abelson R.P. (1973). The structure of belief systems. In Schank R.C. Colby K.M. (Eds.), Computer models of thought and language (pp. 287–339). San Francisco: Freeman.

Abelson R.P. (1975). Concepts for representing mundane reality in plans. In Bobrow D. Collins A. (Eds.), Representation and understanding: Studies in cognitive science (pp. 273–309). New York: Academic Press.

Abelson R.P. (1976). Script processing in attitude formation and decision-making. In Carroll J.S. Payne J.W. (Eds.), Cognition and social behavior (pp. 33–45). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Abelson R.P. (1980). Common sense knowledge representations. De Psycholoog, 15, 431–449.

Abelson R.P. (1981a). Constraint, construal, and cognitive science. In Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1–9). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Abelson R.P. (1981b). Psychological status of the script concept. American Psychologist, 36, 715–729.

Abelson R.P. (1983). Whatever became of consistency theory? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 9, 37–54.

Abelson R.P. (1985). A variance explanation paradox: When a little is a lot. Psychological Bulletin, 97, 129–133.

Abelson R.P. (1987). Biography. American Psychologist, 42, 278–282.

Abelson R.P. (1988). Conviction. American Psychologist, 43, 267–275.

Abelson R.P. (1994). A personal perspective on social cognition. In Devine P.G. Hamilton D.L. Ostrom T.M. (Eds.), Social cognition: Impact on social psychology (pp. 15–37). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

Abelson R.P. (1995). Statistics as principled argument. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Abelson R.P. (1996). Vulnerability of contrast tests to simpler interpretations: An addendum to Rosnow and Rosenthal. Psychological Science, 7, 242–246.

Abelson R.P. (1997a). A retrospective on the significance test ban of 1999 (If there were no significance tests, they would be invented). In Harlow L.L. Mulaik S.A. Steiger J.H. (Eds.), What if there were no significance tests? (pp. 117–141). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Abelson R.P. (1997b). On the surprising longevity of flogged horses: Why there is a case for the significance test. Psychological Science, 8, 12–15.

Abelson R.P. (1998). Caricature theory. In Darley J.M. Cooper J. (Eds.), Attribution and social interaction: The legacy of Edward E. Jones (pp. 489–501). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Abelson R.P. (1999). Like a hole in the head—pallidotomy surgery for Parkinson's disease: A patient's journal. Unpublished manuscript.

Abelson R.P. Aronson E. McGuire W.J. Newcomb T.M. Rosenberg M.J. Tannenbaum P.H. (Eds.). (1968). Theories of cognitive consistency: A sourcebook. Chicago: Rand McNally.

Abelson R.P. Bernstein A. (1963). A computer simulation model of community referendum controversies. Public Opinion Quarterly, 27, 93–122.

Abelson R.P. Carroll J.D. (1965). Computer simulation of individual belief systems. American Behavioral Scientist, 8, 24–30.

Abelson R.P. Coffman W.E. Jones L.V. Mosteller F. Tukey J.W. (1971). National Assessment of Educational Progress, Report 4, 1969–70 Science: Group results for sex, region, and size of community. Denver, CO: Education Commission of the States.

Abelson R.P. Cronbach L.J. Jones L.V. Tukey J.W. Tyler R.W. (1970). National Assessment of Educational Progress, Report 1, 1969–70 Science: National results and illustrations of group comparisons. Denver, CO: Education Commission of the States.

Abelson R.P. Dasgupta N. Park J. Banaji M.R. (1998). Perceptions of the collective other. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 2, 243–250.

Abelson R.P. Frey K.P. Gregg A.P. (2004). Experiments with people: Revelations from social psychology. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Abelson R.P. Kanouse D.E. (1966). Subjective acceptance of verbal generalizations. In Feldman S. (Ed.), Cognitive consistency: Motivational antecedents and behavioral consequents (pp. 171–197). New York: Academic Press.

Abelson R.P. Kinder D.R. Peters M.D. Fiske S.T. (1982). Affective and semantic components in political person perception. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 42, 619–630.

Abelson R.P. Loftus E.F. Greenwald A.G. (1992). Attempts to improve the accuracy of self-reports of voting. In Tanur J.M. (Ed.), Questions about questions: Inquiries into the cognitive bases of surveys (pp. 138–153). New York: Sage.

Abelson R.P. Prentice D.A. (1997). Contrast tests of interaction hypotheses. Psychological Methods, 2, 315–328.

Abelson R.P. Reich C.M. (1969). Implicational molecules: A method for extracting meaning from input sentences. In Walker D.E. Norton L.M. (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence: IJCAI-69, Washington, DC (pp. 641–647). Los Altos, CA: W. Kaufmann.

Abelson R.P. Rosenberg M.J. (1958). Symbolic psycho-logic: A model of attitudinal cognition. Behavioral Science, 3, 1–13.

Abelson R.P. Sermat V. (1962). Multidimensional scaling of facial expressions. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63, 546–554.

Abelson R.P. Tukey J.W. (1959). Efficient conversion of non-metric information into metric information. Proceedings of the Social Statistics Section (pp. 226–230). Washington, DC: American Statistical Association.

Abelson R.P. Tukey J.W. (1963). Efficient utilization of nonnumerical information in quantitative analysis: General theory and the case of simple order. Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 34, 1347–1369.

Abelson R.P. Zimbardo P.G. (1970). Canvassing for peace: A manual for volunteers. Ann Arbor, MI: Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues.

Abelson W.M. (2005, September). Bill's talk at Bob's memorial, 9/24/05. Presented at the Robert P. Abelson memorial service, New Haven, CT.

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Etheredge L. (1996). Harold D. Lasswell Award for “Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Political Psychology,” Recipient: Robert P. Abelson. ISPP News, 7, 8.

Funnell E. (2001). Evidence for scripts in semantic dementia: Implications for theories of semantic memory. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 18, 323–341.

Green D.P. Abelson R.P. Garnett M. (1999). The distinctive political views of hate-crime perpetrators and white supremacists. In Prentice D.A. Miller D.T. (Eds.), Cultural divides: Understanding and overcoming group conflict (pp. 429–464). New York: Sage.

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