Richard Ofshe
Biographic Data
| ID | 242521 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Ofshe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Ofshe |
| SIGNATURE | OFSHE R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Rise and Fall of Synanon
Making monsters
Bad Memories
The Myth of Repressed Memory
Making monsters
The Social Psychology of Minority Influence. Gabriel Mugny , Juan A. Pérez , Vivian Waltz Lamongie
"What Are We to Make of All This?" Reply to Berger and Zelditch
We are reminded of scenes in films from the past, those in which a form oozes out of a vat bubbling away in a laboratory. The thing proceeds to eat Brooklyn. It appears unstopable as it incorporates all it touches, unphased by missiles hurled at it. Smiling, it burps and slithers along. In the end the creature triumphs by consuming the planet. Nevertheless the film ends happily, since in its final consummatory act, the creature takes the form of …
The Impact of Behavioral Style and Status Characteristics on Social Influence
Margaret T. Lee, Richard Ofshe, The Impact of Behavioral Style and Status Characteristics on Social Influence: A Test of Two Competing Theories, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 44, No. 2 (Jun., 1981), pp. 73-82
Scope Conditions and Crucial Tests
The Ways Out
The Social Development of the Synanon Cult
This paper reviews the developmental history of Synanon Foundation Inc. from its inception in 1958 as an Alcoholics Anonymous alternative through its three transformations into a therapeutic community, an alternative society, and finally into a religion. The growth of the organization in terms of population and economic history is reported. A sketch of a theory to account for the recent controversy surrounding the organization is presented. That …
Cooperation
Interpersonal Behavior in Small Groups
Interpersonal Behavior in Small Groups
Social Structure and Social Control in Synanon
The effectiveness of pacifist strategies
The question of the power of pacifist behavior to produce cooperative responses in conflict situations has recently been raised by several researchers (Lave, 1965; Shure, Meeker, and Hansford, 1965; Deutsch et al., 1967; Meeker and Shure, 1969; and Vincent and Tindell, 1969) and has been the subject of a number of comments (Rapoport, Shubik, and Thrall, 1965; and Rapoport, 1969). The researches that have been reported to date are best described a…
Mirror of Man
Utility and Choice in Social Interaction
A Comparative Study of Two Scaling Models
This paper reports the results of a study in which the same set of attitude statements were scaled with paired comparisons and scalogram procedures. Theoretically, the two models should produce identical rank orders for the statements. The data from four independent samples of respondents were scaled using both models. The resulting paired comparisons and scalogram estimates of the rank orders of the statements correlate with values of - .24
The Process of Status Evolution
In this paper the development of status structures in task-oriented discussion groups is considered. It is shown that the generally accepted belief about the process through which such groups arrive at status differentiation is incorrect and that groups attain status differentiation through at least two distinct paths. Certain gross performance differences between the behaviors of members of groups which arrive at status differentiation through a…
Cognitive Consistency and Language Behavior
Testing a Measurement Model
In order for a scaling model to be considered valid for application in the behavioral sciences it must be derived from a substantively meaningful theory of the capabilities and response processes of actors. For example, a model that results in a nominal scale assumes only that the respondents have the ability to discriminate the presence or absence of some attribute in objects, while for an ordinal scale the respondents must be assumed to be able…
Social Choice and Utility in Coalition Formation
Empathy, Communication Efficiency, and Marital Status
The Process of Status Evolution
In this paper the development of status structures in task-oriented discussion groups is considered. It is shown that the generally accepted belief about the process through which such groups arrive at status differentiation is incorrect and that groups attain status differentiation through at least two distinct paths. Certain gross performance differences between the behaviors of members of groups which arrive at status differentiation through a…
The Impact of Behavioral Style and Status Characteristics on Social Influence
Margaret T. Lee, Richard Ofshe, The Impact of Behavioral Style and Status Characteristics on Social Influence: A Test of Two Competing Theories, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 44, No. 2 (Jun., 1981), pp. 73-82
Utility and Choice in Social Interaction
The effectiveness of pacifist strategies
The question of the power of pacifist behavior to produce cooperative responses in conflict situations has recently been raised by several researchers (Lave, 1965; Shure, Meeker, and Hansford, 1965; Deutsch et al., 1967; Meeker and Shure, 1969; and Vincent and Tindell, 1969) and has been the subject of a number of comments (Rapoport, Shubik, and Thrall, 1965; and Rapoport, 1969). The researches that have been reported to date are best described a…
Making monsters
The Social Development of the Synanon Cult
This paper reviews the developmental history of Synanon Foundation Inc. from its inception in 1958 as an Alcoholics Anonymous alternative through its three transformations into a therapeutic community, an alternative society, and finally into a religion. The growth of the organization in terms of population and economic history is reported. A sketch of a theory to account for the recent controversy surrounding the organization is presented. That …
Mirror of Man
Empathy, Communication Efficiency, and Marital Status
Social Choice and Utility in Coalition Formation
Empathy, Communication Efficiency, and Marital Status
Testing a Measurement Model
In order for a scaling model to be considered valid for application in the behavioral sciences it must be derived from a substantively meaningful theory of the capabilities and response processes of actors. For example, a model that results in a nominal scale assumes only that the respondents have the ability to discriminate the presence or absence of some attribute in objects, while for an ordinal scale the respondents must be assumed to be able…
Social Choice and Utility in Coalition Formation
A Comparative Study of Two Scaling Models
This paper reports the results of a study in which the same set of attitude statements were scaled with paired comparisons and scalogram procedures. Theoretically, the two models should produce identical rank orders for the statements. The data from four independent samples of respondents were scaled using both models. The resulting paired comparisons and scalogram estimates of the rank orders of the statements correlate with values of - .24
The Process of Status Evolution
In this paper the development of status structures in task-oriented discussion groups is considered. It is shown that the generally accepted belief about the process through which such groups arrive at status differentiation is incorrect and that groups attain status differentiation through at least two distinct paths. Certain gross performance differences between the behaviors of members of groups which arrive at status differentiation through a…
Cognitive Consistency and Language Behavior
The effectiveness of pacifist strategies
The question of the power of pacifist behavior to produce cooperative responses in conflict situations has recently been raised by several researchers (Lave, 1965; Shure, Meeker, and Hansford, 1965; Deutsch et al., 1967; Meeker and Shure, 1969; and Vincent and Tindell, 1969) and has been the subject of a number of comments (Rapoport, Shubik, and Thrall, 1965; and Rapoport, 1969). The researches that have been reported to date are best described a…
Mirror of Man
Utility and Choice in Social Interaction
Social Structure and Social Control in Synanon
Interpersonal Behavior in Small Groups
Interpersonal Behavior in Small Groups
Cooperation
The Ways Out
The Social Development of the Synanon Cult
This paper reviews the developmental history of Synanon Foundation Inc. from its inception in 1958 as an Alcoholics Anonymous alternative through its three transformations into a therapeutic community, an alternative society, and finally into a religion. The growth of the organization in terms of population and economic history is reported. A sketch of a theory to account for the recent controversy surrounding the organization is presented. That …
The Impact of Behavioral Style and Status Characteristics on Social Influence
Margaret T. Lee, Richard Ofshe, The Impact of Behavioral Style and Status Characteristics on Social Influence: A Test of Two Competing Theories, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 44, No. 2 (Jun., 1981), pp. 73-82
Scope Conditions and Crucial Tests
"What Are We to Make of All This?" Reply to Berger and Zelditch
We are reminded of scenes in films from the past, those in which a form oozes out of a vat bubbling away in a laboratory. The thing proceeds to eat Brooklyn. It appears unstopable as it incorporates all it touches, unphased by missiles hurled at it. Smiling, it burps and slithers along. In the end the creature triumphs by consuming the planet. Nevertheless the film ends happily, since in its final consummatory act, the creature takes the form of …
The Social Psychology of Minority Influence. Gabriel Mugny , Juan A. Pérez , Vivian Waltz Lamongie
Making monsters
The Myth of Repressed Memory
Bad Memories
Making monsters
The Rise and Fall of Synanon
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