Kenneth H Craik
Biographic Data
| ID | 629488 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenneth H Craik |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenneth H |
| FAMILY NAME | Craik |
| SIGNATURE | CRAIK K H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 113 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Material Attributes of Personal Living Spaces
We introduce the concept of Personal Living Space (PLS). More than a bedroom but less than a house, PLSs typically nestle within larger residential settings, affording primary territory for a designated individual. Common examples include rooms in family households, dormitories, or residential centers. We document modal portraits of one particular form of PLS, providing a snapshot at the cusp of the twenty-first century of the material residue fo…
On the Mutual Relevance of Art Theory and Personality Theory
Trends in psychology: An empirical issue
Trends in psychology: An empirical issue
An empirical analysis of trends in psychology
An empirical analysis of trends in psychology
The present research examined trends in the prominence of 4 widely recognized schools in scientific psychology: psychoanalysis, behaviorism, cognitive psychology, and neuroscience. The results, which replicated across 3 measures of prominence, showed the following trends: (a) psychoanalytic research has been virtually ignored by mainstream scientific psychology over the past several decades; (b) behavioral psychology has declined in prominence an…
Do people know how they behave? Self-reported act frequencies compared with on-line codings by observers
Circumnavigating the Personality as a Whole: The Challenges of Integrative Methodological Pluralism
Beyond Nasby and Read's analysis in this special issue, this article identifies four domains of potential knowledge about Dodge Morgan: environmental dispositions, conduct qua sailor, orientation toward privacy, and personality and life story as represented within his lifelong community. Five formulations of dispositions are reviewed, as ( a ) categorical summaries, ( b ) hypothetical conditional propositions, ( c ) physical causes, ( d ) purposi…
Environmental psychology: A core field within psychological science
Environmental psychology: A core field within psychological science
Sense of humor and styles of everyday humorous conduct
A more appropriate test of the Kuhnian displacement thesis
A more appropriate test of the Kuhnian displacement thesis
Obituary: Donald W. MacKinnon (1903–1987)
Personality research methods: An historical perspective
An historical perspective upon personality research methods is presented and scholarly resources are reviewed to encourage historical perspective‐taking among personality psychologists The historical perspective demarcates five periods in the development of personality research methods (1) the pre‐identity era, (2) the pre‐World War II era, (3) the post‐World War II era, (4) the contemporary era, and (5) within the contemporary era, the current s…
Why not measure that trait? Alternative criteria for identifying important dispositions
Identifying important dispositional concepts from among a potential array of thousands remains a crucial theoretical task for personality psychology. This analysis examines previous approaches to the reduction process (e.g., lexical, statistical) and suggests an alternative set of criteria based on the act frequency approach to personality. These alternative criteria include reference to the domains of acts encompassed by dispositional constructs…
The act frequency approach to personality.
The act frequency approach to personality is advanced in this article. Dispositions are viewed as summaries of act frequencies that, in themselves, possess no explanatory status. As sociocultural emergents, dispositions function as natural cognitive categories with acts as members. Category boundaries are fuzzy, and acts within each category differ in their prototypicality of membership. A series of studies focusing on indices of act trends and o…
Act prediction and the conceptual analysis of personality scales: Indices of act density, bipolarity, and extensity
Harvard UniversityKenneth H. CraikUniversity of California at BerkeleyA framework for conceptual analysis is advanced that attempts to specify thedifferent kinds of act predictive statements that can be made about personalityscales. Three formal indices were denned and operationalized: act density, actbipolarity, and act extensity. An empirical exploration of the framework was appliedto the analysis of 22 personality scales ostensibly subsumed by…
The act frequency analysis of interpersonal dispositions: Aloofness, gregariousness, dominance and submissiveness1
A series of studies explores the act frequency analysis of personal dispositions, which entails the identification of categories of prototypical acts, delineation of internal structuring within act categories (from central to peripheral), and the assessment of individuals' dispositions in terms of the relative frequency of performing prototypical acts over a period of observation. These studies were designed to replicate the research of Buss and …
Evaluating the effectiveness of observer based visual resource and impact assessment methods
The frequency concept of disposition: Dominance and prototypically dominant acts1
Three studies of dominance explore the frequency concept of disposition, which entails categories of acts that are topographically dissimilar but nonetheless considered to be manifestations of a common disposition. In the first study, 100 different acts presumably belonging to the category of dominance were generated through a nomination procedure. In the second study, expert and student panels rated how prototypically dominant each act is, defin…
Streets of San Francisco: Brunswik's Lens Model Applied to Urban Inference and Assessment
Brunswik's probabilistic functionalism and the lens model offers a conceptual framework for linking environmental assessment with environmental perception and cognition in the study of such urban problems as inference and action regarding crime opportunity and crime vulnerability. An adaptation of Brunswik's lens model is applied to analysis of inferences about urban conditions. The ecological validity of cues generated by technical and observati…
Personality and politicians: California party leaders, 1960-1976
Personality and politicians: California party leaders, 1960–1976
An ecological perspective on environmental decision-making
Do people know how they behave? Self-reported act frequencies compared with on-line codings by observers
Women as Politicians: The Social Background, Personality, and Political Careers of Female Party Leaders 1
Women attaining high levels of political party leadership in California are the focus of this interdisciplinary study of personality and politics. The energies of female politicians tend to be directed toward a career within the political party. Compared to male leaders, they less often fashion a political career around the goal of public office and a political career serves less frequently as an integral part of a broad social career. Female lea…
Sense of humor and styles of everyday humorous conduct
Personality and politicians: California party leaders, 1960–1976
The Environmental Dispositions of Environmental Decision-Makers
A new interdisciplinary field of research has recently emerged which studies how persons comprehend the everyday physical environment, how they use it, how they shape it and how they are shaped by it. In seeking an objective understanding of the behavioral aspects of the total personal-societal-environmental system, professional environ mental decision-makers, such as architects, urban planners and natural-resources managers, are strategic choice…
Streets of San Francisco: Brunswik's Lens Model Applied to Urban Inference and Assessment
Brunswik's probabilistic functionalism and the lens model offers a conceptual framework for linking environmental assessment with environmental perception and cognition in the study of such urban problems as inference and action regarding crime opportunity and crime vulnerability. An adaptation of Brunswik's lens model is applied to analysis of inferences about urban conditions. The ecological validity of cues generated by technical and observati…
Material Attributes of Personal Living Spaces
We introduce the concept of Personal Living Space (PLS). More than a bedroom but less than a house, PLSs typically nestle within larger residential settings, affording primary territory for a designated individual. Common examples include rooms in family households, dormitories, or residential centers. We document modal portraits of one particular form of PLS, providing a snapshot at the cusp of the twenty-first century of the material residue fo…
Competing Elites Within a Political Party: A Study of Republican Leadership
HE CAMPAIGN for the 1968 Republican presidential nomination managed to avoid the kind of bitter fratricidal conflict which can leave ugly and lasting scars on a political party. The and wings never really confronted each other at the party's national convention or in the period prior to the convention. By the time Nelson Rockefeller and Ronald Reagan announced their candidacies, it was against Richard Nixon rather than against each other that the…
Evaluating the effectiveness of observer based visual resource and impact assessment methods
Personality and politicians: California party leaders, 1960-1976
Circumnavigating the Personality as a Whole: The Challenges of Integrative Methodological Pluralism
Beyond Nasby and Read's analysis in this special issue, this article identifies four domains of potential knowledge about Dodge Morgan: environmental dispositions, conduct qua sailor, orientation toward privacy, and personality and life story as represented within his lifelong community. Five formulations of dispositions are reviewed, as ( a ) categorical summaries, ( b ) hypothetical conditional propositions, ( c ) physical causes, ( d ) purposi…
Act prediction and the conceptual analysis of personality scales: Indices of act density, bipolarity, and extensity
Harvard UniversityKenneth H. CraikUniversity of California at BerkeleyA framework for conceptual analysis is advanced that attempts to specify thedifferent kinds of act predictive statements that can be made about personalityscales. Three formal indices were denned and operationalized: act density, actbipolarity, and act extensity. An empirical exploration of the framework was appliedto the analysis of 22 personality scales ostensibly subsumed by…
Competing Elites Within a Political Party: A Study of Republican Leadership
HE CAMPAIGN for the 1968 Republican presidential nomination managed to avoid the kind of bitter fratricidal conflict which can leave ugly and lasting scars on a political party. The and wings never really confronted each other at the party's national convention or in the period prior to the convention. By the time Nelson Rockefeller and Ronald Reagan announced their candidacies, it was against Richard Nixon rather than against each other that the…
The Environmental Dispositions of Environmental Decision-Makers
A new interdisciplinary field of research has recently emerged which studies how persons comprehend the everyday physical environment, how they use it, how they shape it and how they are shaped by it. In seeking an objective understanding of the behavioral aspects of the total personal-societal-environmental system, professional environ mental decision-makers, such as architects, urban planners and natural-resources managers, are strategic choice…
An ecological perspective on environmental decision-making
Women as Politicians: The Social Background, Personality, and Political Careers of Female Party Leaders 1
Women attaining high levels of political party leadership in California are the focus of this interdisciplinary study of personality and politics. The energies of female politicians tend to be directed toward a career within the political party. Compared to male leaders, they less often fashion a political career around the goal of public office and a political career serves less frequently as an integral part of a broad social career. Female lea…
The frequency concept of disposition: Dominance and prototypically dominant acts1
Three studies of dominance explore the frequency concept of disposition, which entails categories of acts that are topographically dissimilar but nonetheless considered to be manifestations of a common disposition. In the first study, 100 different acts presumably belonging to the category of dominance were generated through a nomination procedure. In the second study, expert and student panels rated how prototypically dominant each act is, defin…
Streets of San Francisco: Brunswik's Lens Model Applied to Urban Inference and Assessment
Brunswik's probabilistic functionalism and the lens model offers a conceptual framework for linking environmental assessment with environmental perception and cognition in the study of such urban problems as inference and action regarding crime opportunity and crime vulnerability. An adaptation of Brunswik's lens model is applied to analysis of inferences about urban conditions. The ecological validity of cues generated by technical and observati…
Personality and politicians: California party leaders, 1960-1976
Personality and politicians: California party leaders, 1960–1976
The act frequency analysis of interpersonal dispositions: Aloofness, gregariousness, dominance and submissiveness1
A series of studies explores the act frequency analysis of personal dispositions, which entails the identification of categories of prototypical acts, delineation of internal structuring within act categories (from central to peripheral), and the assessment of individuals' dispositions in terms of the relative frequency of performing prototypical acts over a period of observation. These studies were designed to replicate the research of Buss and …
Evaluating the effectiveness of observer based visual resource and impact assessment methods
The act frequency approach to personality.
The act frequency approach to personality is advanced in this article. Dispositions are viewed as summaries of act frequencies that, in themselves, possess no explanatory status. As sociocultural emergents, dispositions function as natural cognitive categories with acts as members. Category boundaries are fuzzy, and acts within each category differ in their prototypicality of membership. A series of studies focusing on indices of act trends and o…
Act prediction and the conceptual analysis of personality scales: Indices of act density, bipolarity, and extensity
Harvard UniversityKenneth H. CraikUniversity of California at BerkeleyA framework for conceptual analysis is advanced that attempts to specify thedifferent kinds of act predictive statements that can be made about personalityscales. Three formal indices were denned and operationalized: act density, actbipolarity, and act extensity. An empirical exploration of the framework was appliedto the analysis of 22 personality scales ostensibly subsumed by…
Why not measure that trait? Alternative criteria for identifying important dispositions
Identifying important dispositional concepts from among a potential array of thousands remains a crucial theoretical task for personality psychology. This analysis examines previous approaches to the reduction process (e.g., lexical, statistical) and suggests an alternative set of criteria based on the act frequency approach to personality. These alternative criteria include reference to the domains of acts encompassed by dispositional constructs…
Personality research methods: An historical perspective
An historical perspective upon personality research methods is presented and scholarly resources are reviewed to encourage historical perspective‐taking among personality psychologists The historical perspective demarcates five periods in the development of personality research methods (1) the pre‐identity era, (2) the pre‐World War II era, (3) the post‐World War II era, (4) the contemporary era, and (5) within the contemporary era, the current s…
Obituary: Donald W. MacKinnon (1903–1987)
A more appropriate test of the Kuhnian displacement thesis
A more appropriate test of the Kuhnian displacement thesis
Environmental psychology: A core field within psychological science
Environmental psychology: A core field within psychological science
Sense of humor and styles of everyday humorous conduct
Circumnavigating the Personality as a Whole: The Challenges of Integrative Methodological Pluralism
Beyond Nasby and Read's analysis in this special issue, this article identifies four domains of potential knowledge about Dodge Morgan: environmental dispositions, conduct qua sailor, orientation toward privacy, and personality and life story as represented within his lifelong community. Five formulations of dispositions are reviewed, as ( a ) categorical summaries, ( b ) hypothetical conditional propositions, ( c ) physical causes, ( d ) purposi…
Do people know how they behave? Self-reported act frequencies compared with on-line codings by observers
An empirical analysis of trends in psychology
An empirical analysis of trends in psychology
The present research examined trends in the prominence of 4 widely recognized schools in scientific psychology: psychoanalysis, behaviorism, cognitive psychology, and neuroscience. The results, which replicated across 3 measures of prominence, showed the following trends: (a) psychoanalytic research has been virtually ignored by mainstream scientific psychology over the past several decades; (b) behavioral psychology has declined in prominence an…
Trends in psychology: An empirical issue
Psychology (25 works) · Social Psychology (18 works) · Personality (11 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Cognitive psychology (8 works) · Applied Psychology (7 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Psychoanalysis (5 works) · Sociology (5 works)