Bertram H. Raven

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Bertram Herbert Raven (born September 26, 1926 in Youngstown - † February 26, 2020 ) was an American social psychologist . He was a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles , where he taught from 1956. His best-known work is the power base theory developed together with John RP French .

Life

Raven grew up in Ohio and served in the infantry in late World War II before attending Ohio State University . He graduated in 1948 with a bachelor's degree and in 1949 with a master's degree in psychology . He moved to the University of Michigan , where he received his doctorate in social psychology in 1953 . In Michigan, Raven worked closely with John RP French and Leon Festinger .

In 1956 he started his work at UCLA in the department of psychology, from which he was retired, but until min. Was active in 2006. As one of only three members of the faculty, he had a huge impact on the development of the Los Angeles faculty and made important decisions. He served at UCLA as director of the Survey Research Center , director of the training program in health psychology, and chairman of the psychology department from 1983 to 1986.

Visiting professorships have taken him to Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands , the Hebrew University of Jerusalem , the London School of Economics , the University of Washington and the University of Hawaii . At the University of the West Indies , he was active as an external board member. He was the editor of the Journal of Social Issues , which expressed his sense of social justice. In 1962, Raven received a Guggenheim scholarship .

His research interests have centered around social power and personal influence since his early work with John RP French . With French he developed a power base theory that is the most cited work on this topic today. The theory has since been expanded to include a broader power / interaction model. It has been applied to organizational power relations, health psychology, personal relationships and relationships in the field of education. Historical and political analyzes were carried out with the help of the model and today shed light on various conflicts in the view of history. A repertoire of power interactions was determined from the model, which is used to analyze cultural comparative studies.

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Books

Article (selection)

  • 2001: School psychologists' perceptions of social power bases in teacher consultation ; with WP Erchul and AG Ray in the Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation ; 12, 1-23.
  • 1999: Influence, power, religion, and the mechanisms of social control . in the Journal of Social Issues , 55 (1), 161-186.
  • 1998: Groupthink, Bay of Pigs, and Watergate reconsidered . in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes , 73, 352-361.
  • 1992: Interpersonal influence strategies in the Churchill-Roosevelt bases-for-destroyers exchange ; with GJ Gold in the Journal of Social Behavior and Personality ; 7, 245-272.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Bertram H. Raven. Vita. In: Website of the Psychology Department of the University of California at Los Angeles. Retrieved March 15, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g David O. Sears: Bertram H. Raven (1926-2020). In: UCLA website, Life Sciences - Psychology. Retrieved March 15, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Bertram H. Raven. Maintained by Scott Plous, Wesleyan University. April 19, 2006, accessed March 15, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Bertram H. Raven. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, accessed March 16, 2020 .
  5. ^ Karl Sandner: Processes of Power . To the emergence, stabilization and change of the power of actors in the company. 2nd Edition. Physica-Verlag, Heidelberg 1992, ISBN 3-7908-0647-1 , p. 16-17 .
personal data
SURNAME Raven, Bertram H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Raven, Bertram Herbert; Raven, bra; Raven, Bertram; Raven, B.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American social psychologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Youngstown
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 2020