Harold Kelley
Harold Kelley was an American social psychologist and professor of psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. His major contributions have been the development of interdependence theory, the early work of attribution theory, and a lifelong interest in understanding close relationships processes. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Kelley as the 43rd most cited psychologist of the 20th century.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Boise
- Educated at
- Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUniversity of California, Berkeley
- Awards
- 🏆 Guggenheim Fellowship🏆 William James Fellow Award🏆 APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology🏆 Kurt Lewin Award
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Dorwin Cartwright
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Trending topics shown first"SALIENCE The notion here is that an effect is attributed to the cause that is most salient in the perceptual field at the time the effect is observed."
"Attributional research shows that attributions affect our feelings about past events and our expectations about future ones, our attitudes toward other persons and our reactions to their behavior, and…"
"A person is known by the behavior he displays consistently. An experiment by Himmelfarb makes the important point that consistency in other persons' characterizations of an actor carries more weight i…"
"The last decade has seen a great deal of research on the perception of causation and the consequences of such perception. Conducted primarily within social psychology, the focus has been the perceived…"
"Am I to take my enjoyment of a movie as a basis for an attribution to the movie or for an attribution to myself ? The inference as to where to locate the dispositional properties responsible for the e…"
"My purpose in this paper is to highlight some of the central ideas contained in Heider's theory, to present them in a systematic way, and to show their relevance to developments in several central fie…"
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1921
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