Alan C Elms
Biographic Data
| ID | 251873 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan C Elms |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan C |
| FAMILY NAME | Elms |
| SIGNATURE | ELMS A C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Building Alpha Ralpha Boulevard
Introduction to “The Case of Brew”
Jung's lives
Forty published life histories of C. G. Jung are grouped into eight categories: autobiography, hagiographies, pathographies, professional biographies, intellectual biographies, illustrated biographies, religious biographies, and joint Jung/Freud biographies. Each work is briefly reviewed in terms of its scope, its main contributions to the biographical literature on Jung, and its principal shortcomings. A short list of selected readings on Jung's…
Cordwainer Smith in Japan
How we became posthuman
A Rejoinder to Elizabeth Hewitt
Obedience in Retrospect
Milgram's original paradigm for studying obedience to authority is briefly described, and the main results are summarized. Personal observations of the conduct of the initial studies give added context for interpreting the results. Psychologists' reactions to the Milgram experiments are discussed in terms of(1) rejecting the research on ethical grounds, (2) explaining away the results as expressions of trivial phenomena, (3) subsuming obedience t…
The Charismatic Bond
Freud as Leonardo
The first genuine psychobiography, Sigmund Freud's Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood (1910/1957b), presented several important guidelines for psychobiographical research Among them were the rejection both of pathography and of idealization, and the avoidance both of arguments built upon a single clue and of strong conclusions based upon inadequate data Though the guidelines are sound, Freud violated those guidelines in the very work…
Introspection in Biography
From House to Haig
Personal history may determine the individual's style of expressing political beliefs as much as or more than it influences the beliefs themselves. Connections between private life history and public political style have most often been studied in U.S. presidents. However, studies of prominent foreign‐policy advisers can be just as useful for an understanding of how individual life history shapes the expression of political beliefs. This paper ex…
The Creation of Cordwainer Smith
A work of creative fantasy may be used defensively by the artist to control unacceptable impulses and unresolved intrapsychic conflicts, or it may function restitutively as the artist overcomes and moves beyond such conflicts. Paul M.A. Linebarger’s fiction appears to have served the latter kind of function for him, assisted by psychotherapeutic treatment. Evidence for Linebarger’s psychological development is examined in his life history, in his…
Skinner's dark year and Walden Two
Skinner's dark year and Walden Two
Toward Disciplinary Identity
The Three Bears
THREE BEARS IS ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR FAIRY TALES in the English language. The Index to Fairy Tales lists approximately eighty publications of the tale in collections between the late 1800's and 1972.' Hammel located eighty-four publications of the tale, many of them not included in the Index to Fairy Tales.2 Neither source includes such mass-market publications of the tale as the Big Golden Books edition of Three Bedtime Stories.3 Furthermore, …
The crisis of confidence in social psychology
Social psychologists once knew who they were and where they were going. The field's major scientific problems were obvious, and means to solve them were readily available. Particularly during World War II and the two subsequent decades, the total number of social psychologists increased rapidly, exciting new research discoveries were often reported, and theoretical developments seemed to promise dramatic advances in the understanding of human beh…
Social Psychology and Social Relevance
Role playing, incentive, and dissonance
Influence of fantasy ability on attitude change through role playing
The crisis of confidence in social psychology
Social psychologists once knew who they were and where they were going. The field's major scientific problems were obvious, and means to solve them were readily available. Particularly during World War II and the two subsequent decades, the total number of social psychologists increased rapidly, exciting new research discoveries were often reported, and theoretical developments seemed to promise dramatic advances in the understanding of human beh…
Role playing, incentive, and dissonance
Influence of fantasy ability on attitude change through role playing
Obedience in Retrospect
Milgram's original paradigm for studying obedience to authority is briefly described, and the main results are summarized. Personal observations of the conduct of the initial studies give added context for interpreting the results. Psychologists' reactions to the Milgram experiments are discussed in terms of(1) rejecting the research on ethical grounds, (2) explaining away the results as expressions of trivial phenomena, (3) subsuming obedience t…
The Charismatic Bond
The Three Bears
THREE BEARS IS ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR FAIRY TALES in the English language. The Index to Fairy Tales lists approximately eighty publications of the tale in collections between the late 1800's and 1972.' Hammel located eighty-four publications of the tale, many of them not included in the Index to Fairy Tales.2 Neither source includes such mass-market publications of the tale as the Big Golden Books edition of Three Bedtime Stories.3 Furthermore, …
How we became posthuman
Influence of fantasy ability on attitude change through role playing
Role playing, incentive, and dissonance
Social Psychology and Social Relevance
The crisis of confidence in social psychology
Social psychologists once knew who they were and where they were going. The field's major scientific problems were obvious, and means to solve them were readily available. Particularly during World War II and the two subsequent decades, the total number of social psychologists increased rapidly, exciting new research discoveries were often reported, and theoretical developments seemed to promise dramatic advances in the understanding of human beh…
The Three Bears
THREE BEARS IS ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR FAIRY TALES in the English language. The Index to Fairy Tales lists approximately eighty publications of the tale in collections between the late 1800's and 1972.' Hammel located eighty-four publications of the tale, many of them not included in the Index to Fairy Tales.2 Neither source includes such mass-market publications of the tale as the Big Golden Books edition of Three Bedtime Stories.3 Furthermore, …
Skinner's dark year and Walden Two
Skinner's dark year and Walden Two
Toward Disciplinary Identity
The Creation of Cordwainer Smith
A work of creative fantasy may be used defensively by the artist to control unacceptable impulses and unresolved intrapsychic conflicts, or it may function restitutively as the artist overcomes and moves beyond such conflicts. Paul M.A. Linebarger’s fiction appears to have served the latter kind of function for him, assisted by psychotherapeutic treatment. Evidence for Linebarger’s psychological development is examined in his life history, in his…
From House to Haig
Personal history may determine the individual's style of expressing political beliefs as much as or more than it influences the beliefs themselves. Connections between private life history and public political style have most often been studied in U.S. presidents. However, studies of prominent foreign‐policy advisers can be just as useful for an understanding of how individual life history shapes the expression of political beliefs. This paper ex…
Introspection in Biography
Freud as Leonardo
The first genuine psychobiography, Sigmund Freud's Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood (1910/1957b), presented several important guidelines for psychobiographical research Among them were the rejection both of pathography and of idealization, and the avoidance both of arguments built upon a single clue and of strong conclusions based upon inadequate data Though the guidelines are sound, Freud violated those guidelines in the very work…
Obedience in Retrospect
Milgram's original paradigm for studying obedience to authority is briefly described, and the main results are summarized. Personal observations of the conduct of the initial studies give added context for interpreting the results. Psychologists' reactions to the Milgram experiments are discussed in terms of(1) rejecting the research on ethical grounds, (2) explaining away the results as expressions of trivial phenomena, (3) subsuming obedience t…
The Charismatic Bond
A Rejoinder to Elizabeth Hewitt
How we became posthuman
Cordwainer Smith in Japan
Introduction to “The Case of Brew”
Jung's lives
Forty published life histories of C. G. Jung are grouped into eight categories: autobiography, hagiographies, pathographies, professional biographies, intellectual biographies, illustrated biographies, religious biographies, and joint Jung/Freud biographies. Each work is briefly reviewed in terms of its scope, its main contributions to the biographical literature on Jung, and its principal shortcomings. A short list of selected readings on Jung's…
Building Alpha Ralpha Boulevard
Psychology (14 works) · Art (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Psychoanalysis (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works)