M Brewster Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3602407 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Brewster Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | M Brewster |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH M B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6764-675X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 122 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 463 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 122 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1947 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Toward a framework for critical racial literacy
Racial literacy was introduced in the early twenty-first century and has proliferated as a research framework and methodology. In education research specifically, racial literacy has been used as a foundation for empirical research and as a broader concept informing education practices. Mindful of this wide-ranging approach, a multidisciplinary team conducted a summative content analysis of extant education research explicitly drawing on racial l…
Attitudes, Values, and Selfhood
Values, Self, and Society: Toward a Humanist Social Psychology
In a tough opening statement, M. Brewster Smith outlines his own life course and contrasts it with the agenda of social psychology in the present professional moment. "Today's journals, textbooks, and conferences represent a vigorous but narrow scientific specialty in psychology, the practitioners of which are more closely focused on agendas that are primarily and often only intelligible within the subdiscipline than was the case when I formed my…
James, William (1842–1910)
From Ruins to Reconstruction: Urban Identity in Soviet Sevastopol after World War II, by Karl D. Qualls
Thoughts for peace at a time of doubt
In the uncertain times before the United States presidential election, the wretched legacy of the Bush regime calls for transformational leadership. World and national problems make the pursuit of peace with justice especially important and especially difficult
The sociogenesis of evil
This unusual and important book is the culmination of Philip Zimbardo's eminent career as a psychological researcher, teacher, author of excellent textbooks, and proponent of justice. Zimbardo came
The Case of Brew
The author, a personality and social psychologist, attempts a candid life history for his colleagues in psychology
Realistic Empathy: A Key to Sensible International Relations
Ralph White's concept of realistic empathy, developed in context of Cold War, continues to be relevant in context of War on Terror. As the great corrective for all forms of war-provoking misperception (White, 1984, p. 160), it is arguably psychology's greatest contribution to guidance of international policy. Lack of realistic empathy has devastating consequences
The metaphor (and fact) of war
Metaphors make a difference. I suggest that the War on Terrorism initiated by President George W. Bush in response to the events of September 11, 2001, is substantially metaphoric. Like the War on Poverty and the War on Drugs, the metaphor of war facilitated the mobilization of effort, but as in these familiar cases, it entails less desirable consequences. In criticism of the response by the United States, I urge the relevance of Ralph White's co…
Sigmund Koch as critical humanist
Just as Sigmund Koch was a good scientist without succumbing to scientism, he was a good humanist without succumbing to the popular distortions trading on the name of humanism. When humanistic psychology was seduced by the touchy-feely encounter group movement, Koch derided its technology of authenticity as shamelessly meretricious. Later, when postmodern humanists of deconstruction and textual analysis began to be heard in psychology, Koch wryly…
Sigmund Koch as critical humanist
Obituary: Robert W. White (1904-2001)
Obituary: Robert W. White (1904-2001)
Obituary: Robert W. White (1904-2001)
Interpreting the self: Two hundred years of American autobiography; The book of the heart; The economy of character: Novels, market culture, and the business of inner meaning; Romantic science and the…
Through the rearview mirror: Historical reflections on psychology
Values, politics, and psychology
Values, politics, and psychology
Political psychology and peace: A half-century perspective
The author's long involvement with political psychology touches on some major upheavals in assumptions and preoccupations that are reviewed in their relevance to the present focus on the transition to the next century and millenium. His first empirical work in the field challenged the narrow focus of Lasswell' s account of political opinion and behavior in terms of displacement and rationalization. The onset of the Cold War (the setting of that r…
Comment on Ellen Herman's Commentary
Comment on Ellen Herman's Commentary
A history of psychology; Portraits of pioneers in psychology, vol. 2; and Putting psychology in its place: An introduction from a critical historical perspective
The Authoritarian Personality: A Re‐Review 46 Years Later
The author revisits his contemporary review of The Authoritarian Personality (TAP) in the light of subsequent developments in research and theory. In spite of warranted criticism of the F‐scale, the major substantive findings of TAP have held up well. Whether they are better understood in terms of psychoanalytic psychodynamics or Bandura's social learning theory remains controversial. The role of the four authors is briefly examined
Nevitt Sanford (1909–1995)
Communisn, Conformity, and Civil Liberties: A Cross-Section of the Nation Speaks Its Mind
If there is a-desert island book in the conduct of social research, it is arguably this book. Whether in terms of sociological structures or psychological nuances, Communism, Conformity, and Civil Liberties, originally published in 1955, is recognized landmark. Stouffer helped strengthen the fundamental liberties of all Americans by showing dangerous consequences of efforts to thwart perceived Communist conspiracy, including some of the very real…
Moral reasoning of young adults: Political-social behavior, family background, and personality correlates
The community and the community mental health center
Socialization Correlates of Student Activism 1
Race and belief: An open and shut case
A Time to Speak: On Human Values and Social Research
Explorations in competence: A study of Peace Corps teachers in Ghana
A Map for the Analysis of Personality and Politics
Logical consistency and attitude change
Research strategies toward a conception of positive mental health
The Authoritarian Personality: A Re‐Review 46 Years Later
The author revisits his contemporary review of The Authoritarian Personality (TAP) in the light of subsequent developments in research and theory. In spite of warranted criticism of the F‐scale, the major substantive findings of TAP have held up well. Whether they are better understood in terms of psychoanalytic psychodynamics or Bandura's social learning theory remains controversial. The role of the four authors is briefly examined
Humanistic Psychology
The Personal Setting of Public Opinions: A Study of Attitudes Toward Russia
Toward a framework for critical racial literacy
Racial literacy was introduced in the early twenty-first century and has proliferated as a research framework and methodology. In education research specifically, racial literacy has been used as a foundation for empirical research and as a broader concept informing education practices. Mindful of this wide-ranging approach, a multidisciplinary team conducted a summative content analysis of extant education research explicitly drawing on racial l…
An Experimental Exploration of the Psychoanalytic Process: Exemplification of a Method
Social-Psychological Aspects of Student Activism
Is psychology relevant to new priorities
Is experimental social psychology advancing
Opinions, Personality, and Political Behavior
It is gratifying to be able to present to students of political behavior the approach that my colleagues, Jerome Bruner and Robert White, and I worked out for the study of "Opinions and Personality," since throughout our explorations political scientists had been what the current jargon would call a "salient reference group" for us. As a psychologist and "outsider," however, I offer these remarks with some trepidation, since the framework that we…
Nationalism, Ethnocentrism, and the New World Order
In the aftermath of the collapse of Soviet Communism and the Gulf War, this article takes stock of what psychology might contribute to understanding events that we did not expect. The disturbing news is the persistent vitality of ethnocentrism-also known as nationalism and tribalism. Against the background of the World War II "Psychologists' Manifesto" and the 1986 "Seville Statement on Violence," the article suggests a partly evolutionary, partl…
The American Soldier and Its Critics: What Survives the Attack on Positivism
Realistic Empathy: A Key to Sensible International Relations
Ralph White's concept of realistic empathy, developed in context of Cold War, continues to be relevant in context of War on Terror. As the great corrective for all forms of war-provoking misperception (White, 1984, p. 160), it is arguably psychology's greatest contribution to guidance of international policy. Lack of realistic empathy has devastating consequences
The metaphor (and fact) of war
Metaphors make a difference. I suggest that the War on Terrorism initiated by President George W. Bush in response to the events of September 11, 2001, is substantially metaphoric. Like the War on Poverty and the War on Drugs, the metaphor of war facilitated the mobilization of effort, but as in these familiar cases, it entails less desirable consequences. In criticism of the response by the United States, I urge the relevance of Ralph White's co…
Political psychology and peace: A half-century perspective
The author's long involvement with political psychology touches on some major upheavals in assumptions and preoccupations that are reviewed in their relevance to the present focus on the transition to the next century and millenium. His first empirical work in the field challenged the narrow focus of Lasswell' s account of political opinion and behavior in terms of displacement and rationalization. The onset of the Cold War (the setting of that r…
Social Psychology and Human Values: Selected Essays
The Personal Setting of Public Opinions: A Study of Attitudes Toward Russia
The American Soldier: Combat and Its Aftermath, Vol II
The American Soldier: Combat and Its Aftermath, Vol. II. By Samuel A. Stouffer, Arthur A. Lumsdaine, Marion Harper Lumsdaine, Robin M. Williams, Jr., M. Brewster Smith, Irving L. Janis, Shirley A. Star, Leonard S. Cottrell, Jr. Get access Richard A. Newhall Richard A. Newhall Williams College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 36, Issue 3, December 1949, Pages 550–551, http…
The American Soldier: Combat and Its Aftermath
The American Soldier: Combat and Its Aftermath was the first comprehensive study ever undertaken of the attitudes of combat infantrymen in war. Working from large survey samples taken among infantrymen who fought in World War II, Samuel Stouffer and his associates presented the first data available on individual men’s feelings about their performance and motivation in combat. This volume became the essential source of data on soldiers for scholar…
The American Soldier
The phenomenological approach in personality theory: Some Critical Remarks
The human group
Psychology in a Liberal Education
P SYCHOLOGISTS, being relative newcomers on the academic scene, often like to excuse themselves with the claim that, after all, psychology is an infant science. Now this cannot be strictly true, since men calling themselves psychologists have been around for some seventy years. A more accurate observation would be that psychology has shown some of the marks of a delayed adolescence, particularly in its tendency to reject its good parents, philoso…
A note on the validity of Sanford's Authoritarian-Equalitarian scale
Special review: Some recent texts in social psychology
Academic Freedom in a Climate of Insecurity: Some Perspectives
The SSRC and psychology
Toward scientific and professional responsibility
"Comment on the "Implications of Separating Opinions From Attitudes
Journal Article Comment on the “Implications of Separating Opinions from Attitudes” Get access M. BREWSTER SMITH M. BREWSTER SMITH Mr. Smith is on the staff of the Social Science Research Council, Mr. Wiebe is Research Psychologist for CBS Radio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 18, Issue 3, FALL 1954, Pages 254–265, https://doi.org/10.1086/266514 Published: 01 January 1954
Some Features of Foreign-Student Adjustment
Communisn, Conformity, and Civil Liberties: A Cross-Section of the Nation Speaks Its Mind
If there is a-desert island book in the conduct of social research, it is arguably this book. Whether in terms of sociological structures or psychological nuances, Communism, Conformity, and Civil Liberties, originally published in 1955, is recognized landmark. Stouffer helped strengthen the fundamental liberties of all Americans by showing dangerous consequences of efforts to thwart perceived Communist conspiracy, including some of the very real…
For a Science of Social Man
Cross‐Cultural Education as a Research Area
A Perspective for Further Research on Cross‐Cultural Education 1
An Experimental Exploration of the Psychoanalytic Process: Exemplification of a Method
Report of an Unusual Project: The Workshop Way with Foreign Students
Report of an Unusual Project: The Workshop Way with Foreign Students." The Journal of Higher Education, 27(3), pp. 168–169
Report of an Unusual Project
Opinions and Personality
Two Interesting Books: Foreign Students and Higher Education in the United States
Two Interesting Books: Foreign Students and Higher Education in the United States." The Journal of Higher Education, 28(1), pp. 54–55
Two Interesting Books
Opinions, Personality, and Political Behavior
It is gratifying to be able to present to students of political behavior the approach that my colleagues, Jerome Bruner and Robert White, and I worked out for the study of "Opinions and Personality," since throughout our explorations political scientists had been what the current jargon would call a "salient reference group" for us. As a psychologist and "outsider," however, I offer these remarks with some trepidation, since the framework that we…
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