Robert P Abelson
Biographic Data
| ID | 314956 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert P Abelson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert P |
| FAMILY NAME | Abelson |
| SIGNATURE | ABELSON R P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 954 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1952 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Experiments With People: Revelations from Social Psychology
Experiments With People showcases 28 intriguing studies that have significantly advanced our understanding of human thought and social behavior. These studies, mostly laboratory experiments, shed light on the irrationality of everyday thinking, the cruelty and indifference of 'ordinary' people, the operation of the unconscious mind, and the intimate bond between the self and others. This book tells the inside story of how social psychological res…
Symbolic psycho-logic: A model of attitudinal cognition
When Euler taught logic to the Princess by drawing the overlapping circles and circles within circles, he was also illustrating the well-known fact that human beings have to learn the principles of formal logic. They do not, it is generally agreed, always or even often think logically. So, if behavioral scientists are to study and understand the processes of ordinary, everyday thinking, they must develop new approaches, including the recognition …
Experiments With People: Revelations From Social Psychology
Group entitativity and group perception: Associations between physical features and psychological judgment
Perceptions of the Collective Other
It is contended that perceptions of groups are affected by particular variables that do not apply to individuals (e.g., intragroup similarity and proximity). Importantly, the perception of outgroup threat has incomplete analogs at the individual level. Results from 3 studies support predictable distinctions between representations of individuals and of groups. Study I showed that priming of the word they produces more extreme negative judgments o…
The secret existence of expressive behavior
The rational choice assumption that any chosen behavior can be understood as optimizing material self‐interest is not borne out by psychological research. Expressive motives, for example, are prominent in the symbols of politics, in social relationships, and in the arts of persuasion. Moreover, instrumentality is a mindset that is learned (perhaps overlearned), and can be situationally manipulated; because it is valued in our society, it provides…
The Quasi-acceleration Relation: Satisfaction as a Function of the Change of Velocity of Outcome over Time
Satisfaction with a dynamic outcome is positively related to its value, the change in the value, and the rate of change. Proposed in this article is another outcome-satisfaction relation: Satisfaction is positively related to the change in the rate, or quasi-acceleration (QA). We tested this proposition (a) in a direct comparison paradigm where Ss compared pairs of hypothetical academic or investment values of different QAs unfolding graphically …
The Role of Event Prototypes in Categorization and Explanation
This chapter examines the processes whereby the lay person classifies events. It examines the relationships between beliefs about events and the relationship between classification and explanation. The notion of “event prototypes” is proposed as a productive vehicle for investigating these processes. Event prototypes are coherent and inter-related sets of characteristics concerning the sort of person who typically features in the event, the typic…
Velocity relation: Satisfaction as a function of the first derivative of outcome over time
Social scientists have found that satisfaction with an outcome is positively related not just to the position (i.e., actual level) of the outcome, but also to the displacement (i.e., directional difference) between the current level and a reference level. Extending the displacement notion, the present research hypothesized that satisfaction is positively related to the velocity (i.e., rate) at which the outcome changes over time, and tested this …
Conjunctive explanations of success and failure: The effect of different types of causes
Conviction
Conviction
Beliefs Are Like Possessions
A variance explanation paradox: When a little is a lot
Concerning a single major league at bat, the percentage of variance in batting performance attributable to skill differentials among major league baseball players can be calculated statistically. The statistically appropriate calculation is seriously discrepant with intuitions about the influence of skill in batting performance. This paradoxical discrepancy is discussed in terms of habits of thought about the concept of variance explanation. It i…
Conjunctive explanations: When two reasons are better than one
Affective and semantic components in political person perception
Psychological status of the script concept
Suggests that there has been growing interest within several subfields of psychology in the schematic nature of mental representations of real-world objects and events. One simple form of schema is the “script,” embodying knowledge of stereotyped event sequences. The present author traces applicatio
Attitude Organization and Change: An Analysis of Consistency among Attitude Components (Yale Studies in Attitude and Communication)
Presidential prototypes
Scripts, Plans, Goals, and Understanding: An Inquiry into Human Knowledge Structures
For both people and machines, each in their own way, there is a serious problem in common of making sense out of what they hear, see, or are told about the world. The conceptual apparatus necessary to perform even a partial feat of understanding is formidable and fascinating. Our analysis of this apparatus is what this book is about. Roger C. Schank and Robert P. Abelson from the Introduction (http://www.psypress.com/scripts-plans-goals-and-under…
Scripts, Plans, Goals, and Understanding: An Inquiry into Human Knowledge Structures
For both people and machines, each in their own way, there is a serious problem in common of making sense out of what they hear, see, or are told about the world. The conceptual apparatus necessary to perform even a partial feat of understanding is formidable and fascinating. Our analysis of this apparatus is what this book is about. Roger C. Schank and Robert P. Abelson from the Introduction (http://www.psypress.com/scripts-plans-goals-and-under…
ESP and ESB: Belief in personal success at mental telepathy
Subject pairs undertook 100 trials in each of which the sender tried to transmit mentally one of five possible symbols to the receiver in another room. After each trial both members indicated whether they believed a hit had been scored. These hunches or extrasensible beliefs (ESB) were compared across two experimental variations. For half of the pairs (choice and involvement condition) the members chose the symbol set to be used, and the sender s…
The statistician as viper: Reply to McCauley and Stitt
Social inference as a function of the number of instances and consistency of information presented
Attentional mechanisms in children's devaluation of a forbidden activity in a forced-compliance situation
Psychological status of the script concept
Suggests that there has been growing interest within several subfields of psychology in the schematic nature of mental representations of real-world objects and events. One simple form of schema is the “script,” embodying knowledge of stereotyped event sequences. The present author traces applicatio
Presidential prototypes
Affective and semantic components in political person perception
Modes of resolution of belief dilemmas
There are two levels of analysis of intrapersonal conflict: the action level and the belief level, the former dealing with external motor responses and the latter with internal affective and cognitive processes. Particular instances of conflict may, for theoretical convenience, be localized at one or another of these levels. For example, one may ask how a person acts when simultaneously motivated to approach and to avoid an external object (3, 9,…
A variance explanation paradox: When a little is a lot
Concerning a single major league at bat, the percentage of variance in batting performance attributable to skill differentials among major league baseball players can be calculated statistically. The statistically appropriate calculation is seriously discrepant with intuitions about the influence of skill in batting performance. This paradoxical discrepancy is discussed in terms of habits of thought about the concept of variance explanation. It i…
Conviction
Beliefs Are Like Possessions
Group entitativity and group perception: Associations between physical features and psychological judgment
Attitude Organization and Change: An Analysis of Consistency among Attitude Components (Yale Studies in Attitude and Communication)
The semantics of asking a favor: How to succeed in getting help without really dying
Velocity relation: Satisfaction as a function of the first derivative of outcome over time
Social scientists have found that satisfaction with an outcome is positively related not just to the position (i.e., actual level) of the outcome, but also to the displacement (i.e., directional difference) between the current level and a reference level. Extending the displacement notion, the present research hypothesized that satisfaction is positively related to the velocity (i.e., rate) at which the outcome changes over time, and tested this …
A Computer Simulation Model of Community Referendum Controversies
Since the Second World War there has been a great upsurge of interest in the application of mathematical and scientific procedures to many problems of public opinion and communication. While this development has often appeared under new labels such as "operations research" or "systems analysis," it is actually an expression of the experimental tradition in psychology and an extension into the social sciences of quantitative model building stimula…
Negative persuasion via personal insult
Conjunctive explanations: When two reasons are better than one
The secret existence of expressive behavior
The rational choice assumption that any chosen behavior can be understood as optimizing material self‐interest is not borne out by psychological research. Expressive motives, for example, are prominent in the symbols of politics, in social relationships, and in the arts of persuasion. Moreover, instrumentality is a mindset that is learned (perhaps overlearned), and can be situationally manipulated; because it is valued in our society, it provides…
Social inference as a function of the number of instances and consistency of information presented
Scripts, Plans, Goals, and Understanding: An Inquiry into Human Knowledge Structures
For both people and machines, each in their own way, there is a serious problem in common of making sense out of what they hear, see, or are told about the world. The conceptual apparatus necessary to perform even a partial feat of understanding is formidable and fascinating. Our analysis of this apparatus is what this book is about. Roger C. Schank and Robert P. Abelson from the Introduction (http://www.psypress.com/scripts-plans-goals-and-under…
A "derivation" of Richardson's equations
Lewis F. Richardson in a classic monograph (Richardson, 1939) devised a compelling mathematical representation of armaments races between nations. This work has lately received a great deal of attention, largely creditable to Rapoport's (1957,1960) discussions and to the reissue (Richardson, 1960) of earlier out-of-print treatments. Richardson's basic system for a two-nation armaments race is given by a pair of equations in the time rates of chan…
Attentional mechanisms in children's devaluation of a forbidden activity in a forced-compliance situation
Cognitive irreversibility in a dissonance-reduction situation
Conjunctive explanations of success and failure: The effect of different types of causes
The subjective use of inductive evidence
Scripts, Plans, Goals, and Understanding: An Inquiry into Human Knowledge Structures
For both people and machines, each in their own way, there is a serious problem in common of making sense out of what they hear, see, or are told about the world. The conceptual apparatus necessary to perform even a partial feat of understanding is formidable and fascinating. Our analysis of this apparatus is what this book is about. Roger C. Schank and Robert P. Abelson from the Introduction (http://www.psypress.com/scripts-plans-goals-and-under…
ESP and ESB: Belief in personal success at mental telepathy
Subject pairs undertook 100 trials in each of which the sender tried to transmit mentally one of five possible symbols to the receiver in another room. After each trial both members indicated whether they believed a hit had been scored. These hunches or extrasensible beliefs (ESB) were compared across two experimental variations. For half of the pairs (choice and involvement condition) the members chose the symbol set to be used, and the sender s…
Computer Simulation of Individual Belief Systems
Sex Differences in Predictability of College Grades
A Technique and a Model for Multi-Dimensional Attitude Scaling
Journal Article A Technique and a Model for Multi-Dimensional Attitude Scaling Get access ROBERT P. ABELSON ROBERT P. ABELSON Robert P. Abelson is Associate Professor of Psychology at Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 18, Issue 4, WINTER 1954, Pages 405–418, https://doi.org/10.1086/266533 Published: 01 January 1954
Humor as a Disturbing Stimulus
Modes of resolution of belief dilemmas
There are two levels of analysis of intrapersonal conflict: the action level and the belief level, the former dealing with external motor responses and the latter with internal affective and cognitive processes. Particular instances of conflict may, for theoretical convenience, be localized at one or another of these levels. For example, one may ask how a person acts when simultaneously motivated to approach and to avoid an external object (3, 9,…
Applications of Information Theory to Psychology.Fred Attneave
Development of a Peer-Rating Measure of Aggression
A Computer Simulation Model of Community Referendum Controversies
Since the Second World War there has been a great upsurge of interest in the application of mathematical and scientific procedures to many problems of public opinion and communication. While this development has often appeared under new labels such as "operations research" or "systems analysis," it is actually an expression of the experimental tradition in psychology and an extension into the social sciences of quantitative model building stimula…
A "derivation" of Richardson's equations
Lewis F. Richardson in a classic monograph (Richardson, 1939) devised a compelling mathematical representation of armaments races between nations. This work has lately received a great deal of attention, largely creditable to Rapoport's (1957,1960) discussions and to the reissue (Richardson, 1960) of earlier out-of-print treatments. Richardson's basic system for a two-nation armaments race is given by a pair of equations in the time rates of chan…
The subjective use of inductive evidence
A Postscript on the 1964 Election
Computer Simulation of Individual Belief Systems
Mathematical Models in Social Psychology
Language variables affecting the persuasiveness of simple communications
Negative persuasion via personal insult
Computers, polls, & public opinion—Some puzzles & paradoxes
Cognitive irreversibility in a dissonance-reduction situation
The semantics of asking a favor: How to succeed in getting help without really dying
The statistician as viper: Reply to McCauley and Stitt
Social inference as a function of the number of instances and consistency of information presented
Attentional mechanisms in children's devaluation of a forbidden activity in a forced-compliance situation
ESP and ESB: Belief in personal success at mental telepathy
Subject pairs undertook 100 trials in each of which the sender tried to transmit mentally one of five possible symbols to the receiver in another room. After each trial both members indicated whether they believed a hit had been scored. These hunches or extrasensible beliefs (ESB) were compared across two experimental variations. For half of the pairs (choice and involvement condition) the members chose the symbol set to be used, and the sender s…
Scripts, Plans, Goals, and Understanding: An Inquiry into Human Knowledge Structures
For both people and machines, each in their own way, there is a serious problem in common of making sense out of what they hear, see, or are told about the world. The conceptual apparatus necessary to perform even a partial feat of understanding is formidable and fascinating. Our analysis of this apparatus is what this book is about. Roger C. Schank and Robert P. Abelson from the Introduction (http://www.psypress.com/scripts-plans-goals-and-under…
Scripts, Plans, Goals, and Understanding: An Inquiry into Human Knowledge Structures
For both people and machines, each in their own way, there is a serious problem in common of making sense out of what they hear, see, or are told about the world. The conceptual apparatus necessary to perform even a partial feat of understanding is formidable and fascinating. Our analysis of this apparatus is what this book is about. Roger C. Schank and Robert P. Abelson from the Introduction (http://www.psypress.com/scripts-plans-goals-and-under…
Attitude Organization and Change: An Analysis of Consistency among Attitude Components (Yale Studies in Attitude and Communication)
Presidential prototypes
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