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National Research Council; Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education; Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education; Committee on Basic Research in the Behavioral and Social Sciences; Gerstein DR, Luce RD, Smelser NJ, et al., editors. The Behavioral and Social Sciences: Achievements and Opportunities. Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 1988.
Sensory and Perceptual Processes
Norma V. Graham (Chair), Department of Psychology, Columbia University
Linda Bartoshuk, Pierce Foundation, New Haven, Connecticut
Albert S. Bregman, Department of Psychology, McGill University, Canada
Julian Hochberg, Department of Psychology, Columbia University
Azriel Rosenfeld, Center for Automation Research, University of Maryland
Michael Studdert-Kennedy, Haskins Laboratory, New Haven, Connecticut
Psychobiology of Learning and Memory
Richard F. Thompson (Chair), Department of Psychology, Stanford University
Carol Barnes, Department of Psychology, University of Colorado
Thomas Carew, Department of Psychology, Yale University
Leon Cooper, Department of Physics, Brown University
Michela Gallagher, Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina
Michael Posner, Department of Psychology, University of Oregon
Robert Rescorla, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
Daniel Schacter, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
Larry Squire, Veterans Administration Medical Center, and Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego
Information and Cognitive Sciences
Saul Sternberg (Chair), University of Pennsylvania and AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey
Fergus I. M. Craik, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
John Jonides, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan
Walter Kintsch, Department of Psychology, University of Colorado
Stephen M. Kosslyn, Department of Psychology, Harvard University
James L. McClelland, Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University
Raymond S. Nickersen, Bolt, Beranek, and Newman, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Language and Language Processing
Frederick J. Newmeyer (Chair), Department of Linguistics, University of Washington
Antonio R. Damasio, Department of Neurology, University of Iowa Medical School
Merrill Garrett, Department of Psychology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mark Liberman, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey
David Lightfoot, Linguistics Program, University of Maryland
Howard Poizner, Laboratory for Language and Cognitive Skills, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, San Diego, California
Thomas Roeper, Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts
Eleanor Saffran, Department of Neurology, Temple University Medical School
Ivan Sag, Department of Linguistics, Stanford University
Development of Cognitive and Social Competence
Herbert L. Pick (Chair), Department of Psychology and Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota
Ann L. Brown, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois
Carol Dweck, Laboratory of Human Development, Harvard University
Robert Emde, Department of Psychology, University of Colorado
Frank Keil, Department of Psychology, Cornell University
David Klahr, Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University
Ross D. Parke, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois
Steven Pinker, Department of Psychology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Health and Behavior
David S. Krantz (Chair), Department of Medical Psychology, Uniformed University of the Health Sciences
Leonard Epstein, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Norman Garmezy, Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota
Marsha Ory, Behavioral Sciences Research, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health
Leonard Pearlin, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco
Judith Rodin, Department of Psychology, Yale University
Marvin Stein, Department of Psychiatry, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine of the City University of New York
Affect and Motivation
Hans C. Fibiger (Chair), Kinsmen Laboratory of Neurological Research, University of British Columbia
William E. Bunney, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Irvine
Adrian Dunn, Department of Neuroscience, University of Florida
Martin L. Hoffman, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan
Carroll Izard, Department of Psychology, University of Delaware
Jerome Jaffe, Addiction Research Center, Baltimore City Hospital
Roy Wise, Department of Psychology, Concordia University
Steven Woods, Department of Psychology, University of Washington
Social Interaction
John F. Kihlstrom (Chair), Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin
Ellen Berscheid, Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota
John Darley, Department of Psychology, Princeton University
Reid Hastie, Department of Psychology, Northwestern University
Harold Kelley, Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles
Sheldon Stryker, Department of Sociology, University of Indiana
Gender Studies
Nancy M. Henley (Chair), Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles
Rose Laub Coser, Department of Sociology, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Jane Flax, Department of Political Science, Howard University
Naomi Quinn, Department of Anthropology, Duke University
Kathryn Kish Sklar, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles
Information and Decision Making
Mark J. Machina (Chair), Department of Economics, University of California, San Diego
Robin Hogarth, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago
Kenneth MacCrimmon, Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration, University of British Columbia
John Roberts, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
Alvin Roth, Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh
Paul Slovic, Decision Research, Eugene, Oregon
Richard Thaler, Graduate School of Business, Cornell University
Market Efficiency
Oliver E. Williamson (Chair), School of Organization and Management, Yale University
Jerry Hausman, Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Paul Joskow, Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Roger Noll, Department of Economics, Stanford University
Charles Plott, Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology
Vernon Smith, College of Business and Public Administration, Department of Economics, University of Arizona
David Wise, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Jobs and Inequality
Frank P. Stafford (Chair), Department of Economics, University of Michigan
James Baron, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
Daniel Hamermesh, Department of Economics, Michigan State University
Christopher Jencks, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University
Michael Reich, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
Ross Stolzenberg, Graduate Management Admissions Council, Santa Monica, California
Donald J. Treiman, Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles
Markets and Organizations
Stanley Reiter (Chair), Department of Economics, Northwestern University
Kenneth Arrow, Department of Economics and Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Lance Davis, Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology
Paul Dimaggio, Department of Sociology, Yale University
Mark Granovetter, Department of Sociology, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Jerry Green, Department of Economics, Harvard University
Theodore Groves, Department of Economics, University of California, San Diego
Michael Hannan, Department of Sociology, Cornell University
Andrew Postlewaite, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania
Roy Radner, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey
Karl Shell, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania
Collective Choice Institutions
William H. Riker (Chair), Department of Political Science, University of Rochester
James S. Coleman, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago
Bernard Grofman, School of the Social Sciences, University of California, Irvine
Michael Hechter, Department of Sociology, University of Arizona
John Ledyard, Department of Economics, Northwestern University
Charles Plott, Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology
Kenneth Shepsle, Department of Political Science, Washington University
Emergence of Social, Political, and Economic Institutions
Douglass C. North (Chair), Department of Economics, Washington University
Robert Bates, Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology
Robert Brenner, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles
James Coleman, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago
Elizabeth Colson, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
Kent Flannery, Department of Archeology, University of Michigan
Vernon Smith, Department of Economics, University of Arizona
Urban Transformation and Migration
John M. Quigley (Chair), Graduate School of Public Policy and Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
Alex Anas, Department of Civil Engineering, Northwestern University
Niles Hansen, Department of Economics, University of Texas
Geoffrey Hewings, Department of Geography, University of Illinois
Larry Long, Center for Demographic Studies, Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department of Commerce
Edward S. Mills, Department of Economics, Princeton University
Risa Palm, Department of Geography and Office of Academic Affairs, University of Colorado
Causes and Consequences of Demographic Change
Samuel H. Preston (Chair), Population Studies Center and Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
Ansley J. Coale, Office of Population Research, Princeton University
Kingsley Davis, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Geoffrey McNicoll, Center for Policy Studies, Population Council, New York, New York
Jane Menken, Office of Population Research, Princeton University
T. Paul Schultz, Department of Economics, Yale University
Daniel Vining, Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania
Family and Domestic Relations
John Modell (Chair), Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University
Margaret Clark, Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University
William J. Goode, Department of Sociology, Stanford University
William Kessen, Department of Psychology, Yale University
Raymond Smith, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
Robert Willis, Department of Economics, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Formal and Legal Processes
Robert Kagan (Chair), Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
Marc Galanter, School of Law, University of Wisconsin
Joel Handler, School of Law, University of Wisconsin
Susan Silbey, Department of Sociology, Wellesley College
Stanton Wheeler, School of Law, Yale University
Crime and Violence
Alfred Blumstein (Chair), School of Urban and Public Affairs, Carnegie Mellon University
Richard Berk, Social Process Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara
Philip Cook, Institute of Public Policy and Department of Economics, Duke University
David Farrington, Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University, England
Samuel Krislov, Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota
Albert J. Reiss, Jr., Department of Sociology, Yale University
Frank Zimring, School of Law, University of Chicago
Religion and Political Change
Daniel Levine (Chair), Department of Political Science, University of Michigan
Leonard Binder, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago
Thomas Bruneau, Department of Political Science, McGill University, Canada
Jean Comaroff, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
Susan Harding, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan
Charles Keyes, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington
Robert Wuthnow, Department of Sociology, Princeton University
Culture and Ideology
James W. Fernandez (Chair), Department of Anthropology, Princeton University
Keith H. Basso, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
Karen Blu, Department of Anthropology, New York University
Kenneth Boulding, Institute of Behavioral Sciences, University of Colorado
Murray Edelman, Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin
Stephen Gudeman, Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota
Ivan Karp, Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Steven Kearney, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside
George Marcus, Department of Anthropology, Rice University
Dennis McGilvary, Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado
Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin
William Sewell, Department of History, University of Arizona
Ann Swidler, Department of Sociology, Stanford University
Internationalization of Social, Economic, and Political Life
Peter B. Evans (Chair), Department of Sociology, Brown University
Bruce Cummings, School of International Studies, University of Washington
Albert Fishlow, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
Peter Gourevitch, Department of Political Science, University of California, San Diego
John Meyer, Department of Sociology, Stanford University
Alejandro Portes, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego
Barbara Stallings, Department of Political Science, Yale University
International Crisis Management and Security Studies
Robert Jervis (Chair), Department of Political Science, Columbia University
Joshua Lederberg, Office of the President, Rockefeller University
Robert North, Department of Political Science, Stanford University
Stephen Rosen, Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
John Steinbruner, Foreign Policy Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.
Dina Zinnes, Department of Political Science, University of Illinois
Macroeconomic Policy
Stanley Fischer (Chair), Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
William Beeman, Congressional Budget Office, Washington, D.C.
Rudiger Dornbusch, Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thomas Sargent, Department of Economics, University of Minnesota
Robert Shiller, Department of Economics, Yale University
Lawrence Summers, Department of Economics, Harvard University
Social Studies of Modern Science and Technology
Daniel J. Kevles (Chair), Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology
John Heilbron, Office of History of Science and Technology, University of California, Berkeley
Dorothy Nelkin, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, Cornell University
Glenn Porter, Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware
Merritt Roe Smith, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Charles Rosenberg, Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
Social Knowledge Producing Institutions
Theda R. Skocpol (Chair), Department of Sociology and Department of Political Science, University of Chicago
Martin Bulmer, Department of Social Science and Administration, London School of Economics and Political Science, England
Thomas Juster, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
Donald McCloskey, Department of Economics and Department of History, University of Iowa
Dorothy Ross, Department of History, University of Virginia
Arnold Thackray, Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
Carol Weiss, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University
Large-Scale Data Needs
Warren E. Miller (Chair), Department of Political Science, Arizona State University
Jerome Clubb, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
Martin David, Social Science Research Institute, University of Wisconsin
James A. Davis, Department of Sociology, Harvard University
Bruce Russett, Department of Political Science, Yale University
Statistical Analysis
John W. Pratt (Chair), Graduate School of Business, Harvard University
Clifford Clogg, Department of Sociology, Pennsylvania State University
Bert Green, Department of Psychology, Johns Hopkins University
Michael Hannan, Department of Sociology, Cornell University
Jerry Hausman, Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
William Kruskal, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago
Donald Rubin, Department of Statistics, Harvard University
Richard Savage, Department of Statistics, Yale University
John Tukey, Department of Statistics, Princeton University
Kenneth Wachter, Department of Statistics and Graduate Group in Demography, University of California, Berkeley
Measurement and Scaling
A. Kimball Romney (Chair), School of the Social Sciences, University of California, Irvine
Norman Bradburn, National Opinion Research Center, University of Chicago
J. Douglas Carroll, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey
Roy G. D’Andrade, Department of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego
John Claude Falmagne, Department of Psychology, New York University
Paul Holland, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey
Lawrence J. Hubert, Department of Education, University of California, Santa Barbara
Edward E. Leamer, Department of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles
Origins of Human Distinctiveness
Glynn Ll. Isaac (Chair), Department of Anthropology, Harvard University
Robert Blumenschine, Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University
Margaret Conkey, Department of Anthropology, State University of New York, Binghamton
Terry Deacon, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University
Irven Devore, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University
Peter Ellison, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University
Richard Ford, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan
Katherine Milton, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
David Pilbeam, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University
Richard Potts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Kathy Schick, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
Margaret Schoeninger, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University
Andrew Sillen, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
John Speth, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan
Nicholas Toth, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
Sherwood Washburn, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
Footnotes
Affiliations are those of members at the time the working groups began.
- Sensory and Perceptual Processes
- Psychobiology of Learning and Memory
- Information and Cognitive Sciences
- Language and Language Processing
- Development of Cognitive and Social Competence
- Health and Behavior
- Affect and Motivation
- Social Interaction
- Gender Studies
- Information and Decision Making
- Market Efficiency
- Jobs and Inequality
- Markets and Organizations
- Collective Choice Institutions
- Emergence of Social, Political, and Economic Institutions
- Urban Transformation and Migration
- Causes and Consequences of Demographic Change
- Family and Domestic Relations
- Formal and Legal Processes
- Crime and Violence
- Religion and Political Change
- Culture and Ideology
- Internationalization of Social, Economic, and Political Life
- International Crisis Management and Security Studies
- Macroeconomic Policy
- Social Studies of Modern Science and Technology
- Social Knowledge Producing Institutions
- Large-Scale Data Needs
- Statistical Analysis
- Measurement and Scaling
- Origins of Human Distinctiveness
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