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Robert Abelson
Robert Paul Abelson (September 12, 1928 – July 13, 2005) was a Yale University psychologist and Political science, political scientist with special interests in statistics and logic. Biography He was born in New York City and attended the Bronx High School of Science. He did his undergraduate work at MIT and his Ph.D. in psychology at Princeton University's Princeton University Department of Psychology, Department of Psychology under John Tukey and Silvan Tomkins. From Princeton, Abelson went to Yale, where he stayed for the subsequent five decades of his career. Arriving during the ''Yale Communication Project'', Abelson contributed to the foundation of attitudes studies as co-author of ''Attitude Organization and Change: An Analysis of Consistency Among Attitude Component'', (1960, with Rosenberg, Hovland, McGuire, & Brehm). While at Yale, Abelson was briefly a bass in the Yale Russian Chorus. With Milton J. Rosenberg, he developed the notion of “symbolic psycho-logic," an e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yale University
Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the world. It is a member of the Ivy League. Chartered by the Connecticut Colony, the Collegiate School was established in 1701 by clergy to educate Congregational ministers before moving to New Haven in 1716. Originally restricted to theology and sacred languages, the curriculum began to incorporate humanities and sciences by the time of the American Revolution. In the 19th century, the college expanded into graduate and professional instruction, awarding the first PhD in the United States in 1861 and organizing as a university in 1887. Yale's faculty and student populations grew after 1890 with rapid expansion of the physical campus and scientific research. Yale is organized into fourteen constituent schools: the original undergraduate col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
