Robert P Archer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3570628 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert P Archer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert P |
| FAMILY NAME | Archer |
| SIGNATURE | ARCHER R P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8253-4705 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Critical realism, psychology, and the crisis of replication: A reply to Haig; Derksen & Morawski; and Trafimow
The commentaries provided by Haig; Derksen and Morawski; and Trafimow vary considerably in how they address critical realism and its implications for replication. Haig’s preference for Kaidesoja’s “naturalised” version of critical realism and Lipton’s inference to the best explanation is deeply problematic. While Derksen and Morawski concede that they deal only indirectly with critical realism, their endorsement of “performativity” negates it. In…
Retiring Popper: Critical realism, falsificationism, and the crisis of replication
The recent so-called crisis of replication continues to dominate psychology’s methodological landscape. It is argued here that the apparent renaissance of Popperian thinking that characterises some of the key responses to the crisis of replication is fundamentally flawed. In essence, there is a serious lack of any sustained and rigorous treatment of ontology that underpins much of the current debate about replication and Popper’s falsificationist…
Using the MMPI with Adolescents
Bernard Bailyn. The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America; The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675
Journal Article Bernard Bailyn. The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America; The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600–1675. Get access Bernard Bailyn. The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America; The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600–1675. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 2012. Pp. xv, 614. $35.00. Richard Archer Richard Archer Whittier College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American …
Forensic Uses of Clinical Assessment Instruments
Introduction to the Special Issue: Where is the Evidence
Introduction to the Special Issue: Where is the Evidence? Robert Archer Robert Archer Executive DirectorInternational Council on Human Rights Policy (ICHRP)Member of the Board of the Journal of Human Rights Practice Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Human Rights Practice, Volume 1, Issue 3, November 2009, Pages 333–338, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhuman/hup024 Published: 01 November 2009
Mujeres enamoradas: Un epistolario de Pere Torroella y Pedro d'Urrea
La secuencia de cartas, poco conocida, de Pere Torroella y Pedro d'Urrea de mediados del siglo XV, conservada en un único manuscrito en Coimbra, gira en torno a una cuestión de casuística amorosa. Torroella le plantea a su corresponsal el caso de dos mujeres casadas, enamoradas de hombres que no son sus maridos, las cuales se ven igualmente incapaces de satisfacer sus deseos, y le pregunta: ¿cuál de ellas sufre más: la que se ve impedida por circ…
Robert Pring-Mill (1924–2005)
Robert Pring-Mill possessed one of the best equipped minds to be applied to Hispanic Studies since the field was first established in Britain. With the mind went a vast capacity for work (the deman
Lo desconhort cant de Ramon . Ramon Llull , Josep Batalla
Os pontos positivos de diferentes tradições: O Que Se Pode Ganhar E O Que Se Pode Perder Combinando Direitos E Desenvolvimento
Este trabalho destaca alguns dos pontos positivos e negativos das abordagens de direitos humanos e de desenvolvimento para indicar uma estrutura mais eficaz rumo ao tratamento da pobreza e da exclusão. (Original em inglês
Three Fifteenth-Century Valencian Poets . Arthur Terry
Reclaiming Metaphysical Truth for Educational Research
It is not uncommon in educational research and social science in general either to eschew the word truth or to put it in scare quotes in order to signify scepticism about it. After the initial wave of relativism in the philosophy of natural science, a second wave has developed in social science with the rise of postmodernism and poststructuralism. The tendency here is to relativise truth or to bracket out questions of truth. In contradistinction,…
The 'Mini-Renaissance' in Marxist Educational Sociology: A critique
This paper argues that the recent 'mini-renaissance' in Marxist educational sociology as propounded in particular by The reason for this centres on the adoption of a universal internal relations social ontology, which results in the reduction of concrete social reality to the narrow abstraction of the omnipresent 'Capital Relation'. At the same time, such theorising remains conspicuously silent on the issue of the feasible alternatives to capital…
The Place of Culture in Organization Theory: Introducing the Morphogenetic Approach
As Allaire and Firsirotu (1984) pointed out over a decade ago, the concept of culture seemed to be sliding inexorably into a superficial explanatory pool that promised everything and nothing. However, since then, some sophisticated and interesting theoretical developments have prevented drowning in the pool of superficiality and hence theoretical redundancy. The purpose of this article is to build upon such theoretical developments and to introdu…
School Effectiveness Research: An Ideological Commitment
As the international momentum of the school effectiveness movement continues, its exponents remain largely impervious to criticism. This paper argues that while they may not readily align themselves with the individualistic aspects of Conservative social philosophy, their methodology necessarily secretes an atomised social ontology. The charge of ideological commitment rests on the fact that the essentially positivist epistemology employed by sch…
Structure, Agency and the Sociology of Education: Rescuing analytical dualism
T heorising the interplay of structure and agency is the quintessential focus of sociolog ical endeavour. This paper aims to be part of that continuing endeavour, arguing for a strati ed social ontology, where structure and agency are held to be irreducible to each other and causally ef cacious, yet necessarily interdependent. It thus aims not to be part of that on-going journey in search of the 'ontological holy grail'. Instead, it offers a way …
The Quest for the Nazi Personality: A Psychological Investigation of Nazi War Criminals
Resisting Sex/Gender Conflation: A Rejoinder to John Hood-Williams
The irony of the rejection of the sex/gender distinction is that it renders sociology per se an impossible enterprise. For it is my submission that, contra Hood-Williams (1996) and others, the biological and the social constitute distinct, irreducible levels of reality: to conflate (in a 'downwards' or 'upwards' direction) the two levels is immediately to render analysis of their relative interplay at best intractable. It is indeed arguable that …
The Pervasive Image: The Role of Analogy in the Poetry of Ausias March
Anxiety Response to Psychological Feedback among Psychiatric Inpatients
This study investigated determinants of state-anxiety responses to an ego-threatening event for 79 psychiatric inpatients. Specifically, state-anxiety levels were assessed in high and low trait-anxious internal and external patients immediately prior to the presentation of individualized psychological test feedback. Analysis of variance demonstrated that high trait-anxious patients reported higher levels of state anxiety than low trait-anxious pa…
Relationships and Characteristics of Locus of Control and Trait Anxiety Among Inpatients
This study investigated the locus of control and anxiety characteristics of psychiatric patients in a 9-week residential skill training program. Statistical analyses of the admission responses of 127 patients showed that greater internality on the I-E Scale was related to lower STAI Trait Anxiety scores. Further, significant I-E and STAI Scale differences were found between patients in varying diagnostic categories. Conduct disordered patients we…
Comparison of Staff's and Patients' Perceptions of Ward Atmosphere
This study examined client and staff perceptions of ward atmosphere on a residential psychiatric unit. 24 clients were asked to respond to the Ward Atmosphere Scale with standard instructions. In addition, 20 staff members were requested to respond to the scale under two conditions of assessment: staff self-ratings reflecting their own perceptions of ward atmosphere characteristics and staff predictions of how the “typical patient” would respond …
Relationships between locus of control, trait anxiety, and state anxiety: An interactionist perspective 1
A bstract This study examined the relationships among generalized expectancy for internal or external control, situational expectancy of control over aversive stimuli, trait anxiety level, and state anxiety reactivity. Seventy‐two male subjects, selected from the upper and lower halves of the distributions of scores from the I‐E and STAI A‐Trait Scales, were randomly assigned to one of three conditions of expectancy of control over electric shock…
Locus of Control and Depression among Psychiatric Inpatients
This study examined the relationship between locus of control and two depression measures in a sample of 45 male and 38 female psychiatric inpatients. Correlational analysis showed significant relationships between greater externality and higher depression scores for both depression measures. Also, significant sex differences were identified such that higher magnitude correlation coefficients were found for male patients. No significant relations…
Personality Relationships among Parents and Adolescent Offspring in Inpatient Treatment
The present investigation examined relationships between personality characteristics of 51 adolescents hospitalized for psychiatric treatment and their biological parents. Family members were administered the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) within one week of adolescent hospital admission. Pearson product-moment correlations were performed for all possible group comparisons on each MMPI scale. Analysis of variance of difference…
Structure, Agency and the Sociology of Education: Rescuing analytical dualism
T heorising the interplay of structure and agency is the quintessential focus of sociolog ical endeavour. This paper aims to be part of that continuing endeavour, arguing for a strati ed social ontology, where structure and agency are held to be irreducible to each other and causally ef cacious, yet necessarily interdependent. It thus aims not to be part of that on-going journey in search of the 'ontological holy grail'. Instead, it offers a way …
The Place of Culture in Organization Theory: Introducing the Morphogenetic Approach
As Allaire and Firsirotu (1984) pointed out over a decade ago, the concept of culture seemed to be sliding inexorably into a superficial explanatory pool that promised everything and nothing. However, since then, some sophisticated and interesting theoretical developments have prevented drowning in the pool of superficiality and hence theoretical redundancy. The purpose of this article is to build upon such theoretical developments and to introdu…
Reclaiming Metaphysical Truth for Educational Research
It is not uncommon in educational research and social science in general either to eschew the word truth or to put it in scare quotes in order to signify scepticism about it. After the initial wave of relativism in the philosophy of natural science, a second wave has developed in social science with the rise of postmodernism and poststructuralism. The tendency here is to relativise truth or to bracket out questions of truth. In contradistinction,…
School Effectiveness Research: An Ideological Commitment
As the international momentum of the school effectiveness movement continues, its exponents remain largely impervious to criticism. This paper argues that while they may not readily align themselves with the individualistic aspects of Conservative social philosophy, their methodology necessarily secretes an atomised social ontology. The charge of ideological commitment rests on the fact that the essentially positivist epistemology employed by sch…
Introduction to the Special Issue: Where is the Evidence
Introduction to the Special Issue: Where is the Evidence? Robert Archer Robert Archer Executive DirectorInternational Council on Human Rights Policy (ICHRP)Member of the Board of the Journal of Human Rights Practice Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Human Rights Practice, Volume 1, Issue 3, November 2009, Pages 333–338, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhuman/hup024 Published: 01 November 2009
Resisting Sex/Gender Conflation: A Rejoinder to John Hood-Williams
The irony of the rejection of the sex/gender distinction is that it renders sociology per se an impossible enterprise. For it is my submission that, contra Hood-Williams (1996) and others, the biological and the social constitute distinct, irreducible levels of reality: to conflate (in a 'downwards' or 'upwards' direction) the two levels is immediately to render analysis of their relative interplay at best intractable. It is indeed arguable that …
Remarks on the Class Struggle in Ancient Greece
Madagascar depuis 1972: La marche d'une révolution
L'Insurrection Malgache de 1947
Journal Article L'Insurrection Malgache de 1947 Get access L'Insurrection Malgache de 1947, by J. Tronchon. Maspero, Paris, 1974. 399pp. Maps, tables, bibliography. Paperback 45,00 FF. ROBERT ARCHER ROBERT ARCHER Institute of Commonwealth StudiesLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 75, Issue 299, April 1976, Pages 261–262, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a096726 Publi…
Remarks on the Class Struggle in Ancient Greece
Personality Relationships among Parents and Adolescent Offspring in Inpatient Treatment
The present investigation examined relationships between personality characteristics of 51 adolescents hospitalized for psychiatric treatment and their biological parents. Family members were administered the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) within one week of adolescent hospital admission. Pearson product-moment correlations were performed for all possible group comparisons on each MMPI scale. Analysis of variance of difference…
Personal Control Expectancies and State Anxiety
This study examined relationships among generalized expectancy for internal or external control, situational expectancy of control over aversive stimuli, and state anxiety. 80 male subjects, selected from the upper and lower thirds of the distribution of scores from Rotter's 1-E scale, were randomly assigned to one of four conditions of expectancy of control over electric shock. Repeated measures of state anxiety were taken at three points in the…
Relationships between locus of control, trait anxiety, and state anxiety: An interactionist perspective 1
A bstract This study examined the relationships among generalized expectancy for internal or external control, situational expectancy of control over aversive stimuli, trait anxiety level, and state anxiety reactivity. Seventy‐two male subjects, selected from the upper and lower halves of the distributions of scores from the I‐E and STAI A‐Trait Scales, were randomly assigned to one of three conditions of expectancy of control over electric shock…
Locus of Control and Depression among Psychiatric Inpatients
This study examined the relationship between locus of control and two depression measures in a sample of 45 male and 38 female psychiatric inpatients. Correlational analysis showed significant relationships between greater externality and higher depression scores for both depression measures. Also, significant sex differences were identified such that higher magnitude correlation coefficients were found for male patients. No significant relations…
Relationships and Characteristics of Locus of Control and Trait Anxiety Among Inpatients
This study investigated the locus of control and anxiety characteristics of psychiatric patients in a 9-week residential skill training program. Statistical analyses of the admission responses of 127 patients showed that greater internality on the I-E Scale was related to lower STAI Trait Anxiety scores. Further, significant I-E and STAI Scale differences were found between patients in varying diagnostic categories. Conduct disordered patients we…
Comparison of Staff's and Patients' Perceptions of Ward Atmosphere
This study examined client and staff perceptions of ward atmosphere on a residential psychiatric unit. 24 clients were asked to respond to the Ward Atmosphere Scale with standard instructions. In addition, 20 staff members were requested to respond to the scale under two conditions of assessment: staff self-ratings reflecting their own perceptions of ward atmosphere characteristics and staff predictions of how the “typical patient” would respond …
Anxiety Response to Psychological Feedback among Psychiatric Inpatients
This study investigated determinants of state-anxiety responses to an ego-threatening event for 79 psychiatric inpatients. Specifically, state-anxiety levels were assessed in high and low trait-anxious internal and external patients immediately prior to the presentation of individualized psychological test feedback. Analysis of variance demonstrated that high trait-anxious patients reported higher levels of state anxiety than low trait-anxious pa…
The Pervasive Image: The Role of Analogy in the Poetry of Ausias March
Resisting Sex/Gender Conflation: A Rejoinder to John Hood-Williams
The irony of the rejection of the sex/gender distinction is that it renders sociology per se an impossible enterprise. For it is my submission that, contra Hood-Williams (1996) and others, the biological and the social constitute distinct, irreducible levels of reality: to conflate (in a 'downwards' or 'upwards' direction) the two levels is immediately to render analysis of their relative interplay at best intractable. It is indeed arguable that …
The Quest for the Nazi Personality: A Psychological Investigation of Nazi War Criminals
School Effectiveness Research: An Ideological Commitment
As the international momentum of the school effectiveness movement continues, its exponents remain largely impervious to criticism. This paper argues that while they may not readily align themselves with the individualistic aspects of Conservative social philosophy, their methodology necessarily secretes an atomised social ontology. The charge of ideological commitment rests on the fact that the essentially positivist epistemology employed by sch…
Structure, Agency and the Sociology of Education: Rescuing analytical dualism
T heorising the interplay of structure and agency is the quintessential focus of sociolog ical endeavour. This paper aims to be part of that continuing endeavour, arguing for a strati ed social ontology, where structure and agency are held to be irreducible to each other and causally ef cacious, yet necessarily interdependent. It thus aims not to be part of that on-going journey in search of the 'ontological holy grail'. Instead, it offers a way …
The Place of Culture in Organization Theory: Introducing the Morphogenetic Approach
As Allaire and Firsirotu (1984) pointed out over a decade ago, the concept of culture seemed to be sliding inexorably into a superficial explanatory pool that promised everything and nothing. However, since then, some sophisticated and interesting theoretical developments have prevented drowning in the pool of superficiality and hence theoretical redundancy. The purpose of this article is to build upon such theoretical developments and to introdu…
The 'Mini-Renaissance' in Marxist Educational Sociology: A critique
This paper argues that the recent 'mini-renaissance' in Marxist educational sociology as propounded in particular by The reason for this centres on the adoption of a universal internal relations social ontology, which results in the reduction of concrete social reality to the narrow abstraction of the omnipresent 'Capital Relation'. At the same time, such theorising remains conspicuously silent on the issue of the feasible alternatives to capital…
Reclaiming Metaphysical Truth for Educational Research
It is not uncommon in educational research and social science in general either to eschew the word truth or to put it in scare quotes in order to signify scepticism about it. After the initial wave of relativism in the philosophy of natural science, a second wave has developed in social science with the rise of postmodernism and poststructuralism. The tendency here is to relativise truth or to bracket out questions of truth. In contradistinction,…
Three Fifteenth-Century Valencian Poets . Arthur Terry
Mujeres enamoradas: Un epistolario de Pere Torroella y Pedro d'Urrea
La secuencia de cartas, poco conocida, de Pere Torroella y Pedro d'Urrea de mediados del siglo XV, conservada en un único manuscrito en Coimbra, gira en torno a una cuestión de casuística amorosa. Torroella le plantea a su corresponsal el caso de dos mujeres casadas, enamoradas de hombres que no son sus maridos, las cuales se ven igualmente incapaces de satisfacer sus deseos, y le pregunta: ¿cuál de ellas sufre más: la que se ve impedida por circ…
Robert Pring-Mill (1924–2005)
Robert Pring-Mill possessed one of the best equipped minds to be applied to Hispanic Studies since the field was first established in Britain. With the mind went a vast capacity for work (the deman
Lo desconhort cant de Ramon . Ramon Llull , Josep Batalla
Os pontos positivos de diferentes tradições: O Que Se Pode Ganhar E O Que Se Pode Perder Combinando Direitos E Desenvolvimento
Este trabalho destaca alguns dos pontos positivos e negativos das abordagens de direitos humanos e de desenvolvimento para indicar uma estrutura mais eficaz rumo ao tratamento da pobreza e da exclusão. (Original em inglês
Introduction to the Special Issue: Where is the Evidence
Introduction to the Special Issue: Where is the Evidence? Robert Archer Robert Archer Executive DirectorInternational Council on Human Rights Policy (ICHRP)Member of the Board of the Journal of Human Rights Practice Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Human Rights Practice, Volume 1, Issue 3, November 2009, Pages 333–338, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhuman/hup024 Published: 01 November 2009
Bernard Bailyn. The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America; The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675
Journal Article Bernard Bailyn. The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America; The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600–1675. Get access Bernard Bailyn. The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America; The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600–1675. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 2012. Pp. xv, 614. $35.00. Richard Archer Richard Archer Whittier College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American …
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