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Bem P. Allen
Professor of Psychology
Western Illinois University
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Bem P. Allen
Professor of Psychology
Western Illinois University
Allen, B. P. & Potkay, C. R. Adjective Generation Technique (AGT). NY, NY: Irvington, 1983
Potkay, C. R. & Allen, B. P. Personality: Theory, Research, and Applications. Pacific Groves, CA: Brooks/Cole, 1986
Personal Adjustment: Personality, Social, and Biological Perspectives. Pacific Groves, CA: Brooks/Cole, 1990
World
War II: 1939-1948: A Novel About the Aftermath of a Nazi Victory,
iUniverse.com,
2000
Coping With Life In The 21st Century. New York: Writers Club, 2001 Now available through iUniverse.com . Click here for the student study guide .
Personality Theories. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 1994
Personality Theories. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 1997 (2nd Ed.)
Personality Theories: Development, Growth, and Diversity. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 2000 (3rd Ed.); Available now; CLICK THE BOOK ICON FOR MORE INFORMATION. Personality Theories Student Guide
Personality Theories: Develomment, Growth, and Diversity. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 2006 (5th Ed.). Available now.
Download a
paper-under-review about the "violent black man stereotype"
(comments welcomed, please don't quote).
Current and Selected Journal Articles
Lindsay, D. S., Allen, B. P., Chan, J. C. K., & Dahl, L. C. (2004). Eyewitness suggestibility and source similarity: Intrusions of details from one event into memory reports of another event. Journal of Memory and Language, 50, 96-111. Get a pdf.
Allen, B. P. (2004). If no "races," no relevance to brain size, and no consensus on intelligence, then no scientific meaning to relationships among these notions: Reply to Rushton. The General Psychologist, 38 (2), 34-35 [note: these page numbers are correct, not those in the pdf] Get a pdf.
[to get a pdf of Rushton's response to the paper below to which I replied (above), go to http://www.apa.org/divisions/div1/ then click "Division I News." Next go to "Archives" and click "Summer 2002"]
Allen, B. P. (2002). "Race" and IQ. The General Psychologist, 37 (1), 12-18. Get a pdf. file of this paper.
Allen, B. P. (2001). Lighting position and judgments of distance of shadow-casting objects. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 93, 127-130.
Allen, B. P. (2000). Angles of shadows as cues for judging the distance of shadow casting objects. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 90, 864-866.
Allen, B. P. (1999). Shadows as sources of cues for distance of shadow-casting objects. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 89, 571-584. Get a pdf. file.
Allen, B. P. & Lindsay, D. S. (1998). Amalgamations of memories: Intrusions of information from one event into reports of another. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 12, 277-285. (see Current Research Interests, below) Get a pdf. file.
Allen, B. P. (1996). Mutual attributions of African-Americans and European Americans: Stereotyping using the Adjective Generation Technique (AGT). Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 26, 884-912.
Allen, B. P. (1995). Gender stereotypes are not accurate: A replication of Martin (1987) using diagnostic, self-report, and behavioral criteria. Sex Roles, 32, 583-600.
Allen, B. P. (1988). Beyond consistency in the definition of personality. Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 7, 201-213. Get a pdf. file.
Allen, B. P. (1985). After the missiles: Sociopsychological effects of nuclear war. American Psychologist, 40, 927-937. Get a pdf. file.
Allen, B. P. & Potkay, C. R. (1983) Just as arbitrary as ever: Comments on Zuckerman's rejoinder. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology , 44, 1087-1098.
Allen, B. P. & Potkay, C. R. (1981) On the arbitrary distinction between states and traits. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 41, 916-928. Get a pdf file.
Allen, B. P. & Potkay, C. R. (1977). Misunderstanding the Adjective Generation Technique (AGT): comments on Bem's rejoinder. Journal of Personality , 45, 334-342.
Allen, B. P. & Potkay, C. R. (1977). The relationship between AGT self-description and significant life events: A longitudinal study. Journal of Personality, 45, 207-219.
Allen, B. P. (1975). Social distance and admiration reactions of "unprejudiced whites." Journal of Personality, 43, 709-720.
Allen, B. P. & Potkay, C. R. ( 1973). Variability of
self-description
on a day-to-day basis: Longitudial use of the adjective generation
technique.
Journal
of Personality, 45, 638-652.
Selected Articles in Books
Allen, B. P. (1982). Obedience: Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do or die. Social Behavior. Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1978. In J. Brigham and L. Wrightsman (Eds.). Contemporary Issues in Social Psychology, (Fourth Edition). Monterey California: Brooks/Cole, pp. 208-217.
Allen, B. P. (1987). After the missiles: Sociopsychological effects of nuclear war. American Psychologist, 1985, 40, 927-937. In R. T. Schaefer & R. P. Lamm (Eds), Introducing Sociology. New York: Mc Graw-Hill, 398-412.
Potkay, C. R. & Allen, B. P. (1988). The Adjective Generation Technique (AGT): Assessment via word descriptions of self and others (original article). In C. D. Spielberger and J. N. Butcher, Advances in Personality Assessment , Vol. 7, New York: Erlbaum, pp. 127-159.
Allen, B. P. (1990). Youth suicide. Adolescence. 1987, 22, 271-290. In M. Bloom (Ed.), Perspectives on Human Development. Columbia, S. C.: University of South Carolina Press, 1990.
Allen, B. P. & Adams, J. Q. (1992). Why "Race" has no place in multicultural education. In T. Hilgers, M. Wunsch, & V. Chattergy (Eds.), Academic Literacies in Multicultural Education, Honolulu: University of Hawai'i, Manoa.
Allen, B. P. (1993). Beautyism. In A. Arkoff (Ed.), Psychology and Personal Growth (4th Edition). Boston: Allyn and Bacon.
Allen, B. P. & Niss, J. (1993). Chill in the College Classroom?
in Wayne Lesko (Ed.), Social Psychology: General, Classic and
Contemporary
Selections, 2nd Edition, Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1993
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Write me at WIU 110, Macomb, IL 61455. My office phone number is
309-298-1651.
I am most likely near the phone 1-2 on MW and 12:30-1:30 on TTh.
Current Research Interests
Previous investigators of "false memories" assumed to be generated by misleading post event information (MPI) have presented subjects with visual information, usually a slide show, followed by verbal information, often a written narrative, that are about the same witnessed event (the same auto accident). First, these studies do not address a more usual source of "false memories": witnesses of an event later are exposed to information that is potentially confusable with details of the witnessed event, but is not about the witnessed event. An example of such confusable information would be details similar to those in the witnessed event that are associated with a different event resembling the witnessed event (e.g., a witnessed assault in one case and a TV cop-show episode in the other case). Second, in studies where the witnessed event and the postevent narrative containing MPI are about the same event, there is typically nothing to prevent subjects from reporting MPI from the narrative on the test over the slide-event, because they reasonably assume that the narrative information accurately represents the slide-event. In the study by Steve Lindsay and I, the probability was relatively low that subjects' knowingly used MPI as a source of answers to questions about the slide-event, because the slides and the narrative were obviously about different events. Our study showed that memories of details from one source may become amalgamated during recollection with memories from another, even when slides and postevent verbal information are about different events. These results provide further confirmation of Source Monitoring Theory.
Shadows have long been known to provide information about depth . Surprisingly, there is little if any substantive research on whether shadows provide information about the distance of shadow casting objects. The exercise below will allow you to appreciation the direction I'm going with this research.
Judge which stick is most distant from the camera that took the
picture
below, which is next most distant, and so forth?
Now click here to see the sticks, in the exact same positions, but with shadows.
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