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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.

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Appendix BWorking Group Members

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.

Copyright © 1988 by the National Academy of Sciences.
Bookshelf ID: NBK546493

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