Michael A Wallach

Dados Biográficos

ID1105771
NOMEMichael A Wallach
PRENOMESMichael A
SOBRENOMEWallach
ASSINATURAWALLACH M A
AFILIAÇÕESDuke University
VERIFICADONão
TOTAL DE OBRAS41
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES272
TOTAL COMO AUTOR41
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1957
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2010
ÍNDICE H7

  • Some Theories are Unfalsifiable

    Open AccessLise Wallach, Michael A WallachARTICLETheory & Psychology2010

    Trafimow (2009) claims that there are no unfalsifiable theories: To test any theory, one must make auxiliary assumptions, and with sufficient creativity about auxiliary assumptions one could always arrive at reasonably risky predictions. We argue that a prediction from a theory plus a given set of auxiliary assumptions will not be risky for the theory when the initial level of confidence in the theory is greater than the initial level of confiden…

  • Experiments in Social Psychology

    Open AccessLise Wallach, Michael A WallachARTICLETheory & Psychology2001

    Criticisms of the very idea of experimentation in social psychology are longstanding; a focal claim recently has been that social psychological hypotheses are non-empirical. We contest this claim, but argue that many experiments in social psychology are pointless nonetheless because they are fundamentally circular. Testing hypotheses requires operationalization; operationalization requires assumptions; and in social psychology, we argue, the nece…

  • A Response on Concepts, Laws and Measurement in Social Psychology

    Open AccessLise Wallach, Michael A WallachARTICLETheory & Psychology2001

    While appreciating Kimble's (2001) praise of our paper (Wallach & Wallach, 2001), we argue against his reduction of mental states to behavioral dispositions. Crandall and Schaller (2001) make five points in criticism of our argument that much research in social psychology is plagued by circularity. We show that their first point is based on a misunderstanding, that their third point is irrelevant, and that their last two points do not attempt to …

  • When Experiments Serve Little Purpose

    Open AccessMichael A Wallach, Lise WallachARTICLETheory & Psychology1998

    This paper attempts further to explicate and justify the belief, held by a number of critics of mainstream psychology, that much customary empirical research tells one little that could not have been known without it. Apart from questions of tautology or indeterminate relations to observation, many hypotheses are derivable from propositions that are unfalsifiable because they cannot be tested without relying on conceptualizations which imply the …

  • Of Surrogacy, Circularity, Causality and Near-Tautologies

    Open AccessMichael A Wallach, Lise WallachARTICLETheory & Psychology1998

    Gigerenzer (1998) agrees with our critique of mainstream work (Wallach & Wallach, 1994, 1998). However, while he views near-tautologies as an additional species of surrogates for theory, we believe near-tautologies are implied by entrenched and uncontested proto-theories that are not without function, but pointless to subject to empirical test. Schaller and Crandall (1998) seem to have backed down from Schaller, Crandall, Stangor and Neuberg's (1…

  • The course, treatment, and outcome of substance disorder in persons with severe mental illness

    Robert E Drake, Kim T Mueser et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Orthopsychiatry1996

    Individuals with co-occurring substance abuse and severe mental illness are particularly vulnerable to negative outcomes. This paper reviews findings on the longitudinal course of dual disorders in traditional treatment systems, which provide separate mental health and substance-abuse programs; describes the movement toward programs that integrate both types of treatment at the clinical level; reviews evidence related to outcomes in integrated tr…

  • Gergen versus the mainstream

    Lise Wallach, Michael A WallachARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…1994Citada por: 3

    K. J. Gergen's (1982) argument that hypotheses in social psychology are not empirical propositions is critically examined and shown to be erroneous. Nevertheless, this article demonstrates that, without necessarily appearing obvious, some hypotheses can be derived from propositions that are like tautologies and that their confirmation as such is of little interest. An analysis of hypotheses in recent articles in the Journal of Experimental Social…

  • Mental patients' attraction to the hospital

    Open AccessRobert E Drake, Michael A WallachARTICLECommunity Mental Health Journal1992Citada por: 3Referências: 15

  • Homelessness and dual diagnosis

    Robert E Drake, Fred C Osher et al.ARTICLEAmerican Psychologist1991Citada por: 43

    Homeless people with co-occurring severe mental illnesses and alcoholuse disorder (AUD) represent a particularly vulnerable subgroup of the homeless with complex service needs (Drake et al. 1991). Although often referred to as dually diagnosed, these people typically are impaired by several additional problems, including abuse of drugs other than alcohol, general medical illnesses, and legal problems. This group also has histories of trauma and b…

  • Testing the hypothesis that a person will be consistent

    Open AccessMichael A Wallach, Margaret I LeggettARTICLEJournal of Personality1972

  • Effects of social class on children's motoric expression

    Michael A Wallach, Marilyn L MartinARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology1970Referências: 1

    From a consideration of middle-class versus lower-class child-rearing practices, two contradictory types of predictions were formulated concerning possible effects of class on children's motoric constrictionexpansiveness. Middle-class permissiveness compared to lower-class restrictiveness regarding parental sanctions for child behavior implies the outcome of greater motoric expansiveness for middle-class than for lower-class children. On the othe…

  • Information versus conformity in the effects of group discussion on risk taking

    Michael A Wallach, Jerome MabliARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…1970Citada por: 5

  • Are risk takers more persuasive than conservatives in group discussion

    Open AccessMichael A Wallach, Nathan Kogan et al.ARTICLEJournal of Experimental Social…1968Citada por: 7Referências: 12

  • Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking

    Michael A Wallach, E Paul TorranceARTICLEAmerican Educational Research…1968

  • New Directions in Psychology III

    David P Ausubel, George Mandler et al.ARTICLEAmerican Educational Research…1968

  • Is risk a value

    Michael A Wallach, Cliff W WingARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…1968Citada por: 12

  • Group risk taking as a function of members' anxiety and defensiveness levels1

    Open AccessNathan Kogan, Michael A WallachARTICLEJournal of Personality1967

  • Feedback from our readers

    Open AccessRoss Stagner, Ronald Cohen et al.ARTICLETrans-action1967

  • Creativity and intelligence in children’s thinking

    Open AccessMichael A Wallach, Nathan KoganARTICLETrans-action1967Referências: 1

  • Group Risk Taking and Field Dependence-Independence of Group Members

    Michael A Wallach, Nathan Kogan et al.ARTICLESociometry1967Citada por: 5

    If groups of male adults are systematically composed in terms of the field dependence-independence of their members, they exhibit a number of differences in risk-taking phenomena. Although field-dependent and independent groups both shift on the average toward greater risk taking after discussion, longer discussion among field dependents enhances the risky shift, while longer discussion among field independents reducesor even reverses the risky s…

  • Effects of Physical Separation of Group Members upon Group Risk-taking

    Open AccessNathan Kogan, Michael A WallachARTICLEHuman Relations1967Citada por: 7Referências: 4

  • Risky-shift phenomenon in small decision-making groups

    Open AccessNathan Kogan, Michael A WallachARTICLEJournal of Experimental Social…1967Citada por: 24Referências: 6

  • "Response to Dr. Shulman's Review of "Modes of Thinking in Young Children

    Michael A Wallach, Nathan KoganARTICLEAmerican Educational Research…1966

  • Response to Dr. Shulman’s review of Modes of Thinking in Young Children

    Open AccessMichael A Wallach, Nathan KoganARTICLEAmerican Educational Research…1966

  • Modes of Thinking in Young Children

    Lee S Shulman, Michael A Wallach et al.ARTICLEAmerican Educational Research…1966