INDEX

Achievement motivation (nAch)
as applied to nations
measurement of
nonverbal measure of
as predictor of college success
The Achievement Motive (McClelland)
The Achieving Society (McClelland)
Adlai Stevenson College
The Adventures of Ruthie and a Little Boy Named Grandpa (Aronson and Aronson)
Age of Propaganda (Aronson and Pratkanis)
AIDS
Allport, Gordon
Alpert, Dick
as Baba Ram Dass
Elliot’s friendship with
psychedelic drug experiment
Alpert, George
American Psychological Association (APA)
Anti-Semitism
at Harvard University
Antiwar demonstration (Austin, Texas)
Archer, Dane
Aronson, Aaron (uncle)
Aronson, Dorothy (mother)
background
job at Chandler’s
pride in Elliot’s professorship
resentment of husband’s lack of success
Aronson, Elliot, as social psychologist
at Adlai Stevenson College
and antiwar demonstration
attraction, questions about
awareness of own mortality
baseball trophy, significance of
blindness
changing priorities
as coauthor of chapter on experimental methodology
as coeditor of Handbook of Social Psychology
on collaboration with coauthors
condom experiments
confrontation with students about open discussion of ideas
experimental methods
and fair-housing ordinance (Austin, Texas)
first lecture course
forbidden-toy experiment
gain-loss theory of attraction
Hal-Neal aggression problem
house-canoe purchase
on hugs
hypocrisy paradigm
as interim department chair (UCSC)
Jensen incident
and Jerome Bruner
jigsaw classroom, development of
jigsaw technique, reactions to
at Kresge College (UCSC)
leaving UCSC for Stanford
lessons from T-groups
modification of cognitive dissonance theory
National Science Foundation, approval of grant by
offer of assistant professorship at Harvard
pratfall experiment
promotion to full professor
railway station dream
as recipient of Distinguished Teaching Award (UCSC)
reflection on consequences of life choices
retirement
self-justification theory
on social climate at Harvard University
on social/intellectual climate at University of Minnesota
and T-groups
task vs. available time experiment (Aronson/Gerard)
teaching Ruth to read
as textbook author
University of Minnesota, job offer from
violation of negative self-expectancies experiment (Aronson/Carlsmith)
water conservation experiment (Aronson/Thibodeau)
Aronson, Elliot, childhood and adolescence
anti-Semitism
baseball, life lessons from
baseball as source of self-esteem
birth
boardwalk, lessons from
Brandeis, award of scholarship to
comparison to Jason
concussion incident
father’s death
father’s disappointment in
first job
intellectual poverty of home
milk-bottle game
parents’relationship
as Pokerino barker
poverty
relationship with brother, Jason
shyness
Aronson, Elliot, college and graduate school
acceptance as equal by Jason
birth of son Hal
and cognitive dissonance theory
college as opportunity to re-create self
coteaching honors seminar
designing experiments, interest in
development of nonverbal measure of achievement motivation
doodles, achievement motivation and
as father
as guest lecturer for Wertheimer
high-impact experimentation
initiation experiment (Aronson/Mills)
learning to settle marital disputes
learning to think critically
Leon Festinger, friendship with
as neuropsychiatric ward orderly
one-dollar or twenty-dollar experiment (Festinger/Carlsmith)
political awakening
prejudice, life-changing lecture on
seat belts, car accident and
seminar with Leon Festinger
sexual experiences
Stanford Ph.D. program, acceptance into
statistics, courses in
teaching assistantship at Wesleyan
teaching style, development of
Vera, introduction to
wedding
Wesleyan graduate program
Aronson, Goldie (aunt)
Aronson, Hal (son)
Aronson, Harry (father)
anxiety about Elliot
background
death
as family punisher
financial problems
relationship with Elliot
Aronson, Jason (brother)
birth
campground visit
and cancer
as Elliot’s ground ball tutor
as Elliot’s protector
insistence that Elliot attend college
popularity of
as teacher of life’s lessons
Aronson, Joshua (son)
Aronson, Julie (daughter)
Aronson, Neal (son)
Aronson, Paula (sister)
Aronson, Ruth (granddaughter)
Aronson, Vera Rabinek (wife)
as achievement motivation test scorer
and family decisions
background
as research assistant at Wesleyan
as T-group leader
wedding
Aronson/Carlsmith experiment (negative self-expectancies)
Aronson/Gerard experiment (task vs. available time)
Aronson/Linder experiment (gain-loss theory of attraction)
Asch, Solomon
Attraction, gain-loss theory of
Austin, Texas
fair-housing ordinance
as model of desegregation
school desegregation, problems with

Baba Ram Dass. See Alpert, Dick
Bandura, Al
Barbara (first steady girlfriend)
Baseball, life lessons from
Baumrind, Diana
Behaviorism
Behavioroid measure
Bellow, Saul
Berscheid, Ellen
Boardwalk, lessons from
Boring, Edwin G.
Boston Daily Record
Bramel, Dana
Bridgeman, Diane
Brown, Norman O. “Nobby,” 71
Brown v. Board of Education (1954 Supreme Court decision)
Bruner, Jerome
Bulfinch, Charles
Bundy, McGeorge

Carlsmith, Kevin
Carlsmith, Merrill
as coauthor of chapter on experimental methodology
forbidden-toy experiment
at Harvard
one-dollar or twenty-dollar experiment
violation of negative self-expectancies experiment
Carnegie, Dale
Chelsea, Massachusetts
Cognitive dissonance, theory of
Communist Party
Condom experiments (Aronson/Stone/Fried)
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum

Darley, John
Dissonance theory
Domhoff, Bill
Doodles, achievement motivation and
Double play
Drugs, mind-altering

Einstein, Albert
Electroshock therapy (ECT)
Encounter groups. See T-groups
Energy conservation research
Experimental methods

Feigl, Herbert
Feingold, Ben (grandfather)
Feingold, Fred (uncle)
Feingold, Leo (uncle)
Feingold, Lillian (aunt)
Feingold family meetings
The Feminine Mystique (Friedan)
Fenway Park
Festinger, Leon
cognitive dissonance, theory of
disinterest in applying dissonance theory to real world
on drawing unsupported conclusions
and modification of cognitive dissonance theory
one-dollar or twenty-dollar experiment (Festinger/Carlsmith)
reputation of
on T-groups
teaching style
Festinger/Carlsmith experiment (one-dollar or twenty-dollars)
Floyd, Joanne
Forbidden-toy experiment
Freedman, Jonathan
Fried, Carrie, condom experiments and

Gain-loss theory of attraction experiment
Galbraith, John Kenneth
Garmezy, Norman
Gerard, Eugene, and task vs. available time experiment
Gibbs, Ray
Gonzales, Marti Hope
Graphic expression
Greenbaum, Joe
Greenwald, Tony
Gurwitsch, Aron

Haber, Ralph
Hal/Neal aggression problem
Handbook of Social Psychology (Lindzey)
Hatfield, Elaine (Walster)
Hathaway, Starke
Helmreich, Bob
Herzog (Bellow)
High-impact experimentation
Hilgard, Ernest “Jack,” 97
How to Win Friends and Influence People (Carnegie)
Human potential movement
Humanism
Hypocrisy paradigm

Initiation experiment
(Aronson/Mills)

James, William
Jensen, Arthur
Jigsaw classroom
Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology

Kahn, Michael
Kelley, Harold
Kennedy, John F.
Kennedy, Joseph
Kenny’s Window (Sendak)
Kent State University, shootings at
Kresge College

La Mettrie, Julien Offray de
Leary, Timothy, psychedelic drug experiment and
Lewin, Kurt
L’homme machine (La Mettrie)
Life Against Death (Brown)
Linder, Darwyn
gain-loss theory of attraction experiment
as University of Minnesota graduate student
Lindzey, Gardner
Lowell, A. Lawrence
Ludwig, Jack
Lykken, David

MacCorquodale, Kenneth
Magic Mountain (Mann)
Maslow, Abraham
and concept of self-actualization
elation at school desegregation
Elliot’s introduction to
as Elliot’s mentor
Festinger’s opinion of
McCallister, David
McCarthy, Joseph
McClelland, David
and achievement motivation
on Elliot’s adjustment to Harvard
as Elliot’s mentor
on relationship between high nAch and desire for challenges
ring-toss study
social psychology experiment
teaching style of
at Yelping Hill
McClelland, Mary
McHenry, Dean
Meehl, Paul
Milgram, Stanley
Milgram experiment (obedience to authority)
Mills, Judson
Minneapolis Tribune
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
Mischel, Walter
Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me) (Aronson and Tavris)
Morant, Ricardo
Mundane realism vs. experimental realism
Murray, Henry “Harry,” 122, 123
“My Daughter’s Morning” (Swanger)

NAch. See Achievement motivation
National Science Foundation
National Training Laboratory (Bethel, Maine)
The Nature of Prejudice (Allport)
Negative self-expectancies, experiment on violation of
New York Times
Nixon, Richard M.

Obedience to authority (Milgram experiment)
Oman, Darcy
One-dollar or twenty-dollar experiment (Festinger/Carlsmith)

Parkinson, C. Northcote
Parsons, Talcott
Pettigrew, Tom
Pilot testing, importance of
Poker, life lessons from
Postexperimental interview
Pratfall effect
Pratkanis, Anthony
Prejudice
overcoming(see also jigsaw classroom)
in public schools
Psilocybin
Psychedelic drug experiment (Alpert/Leary)
Psychological Review (1896)
Psychology Today

Rabinek
Revere, Massachusetts
Revere Beach Boardwalk
Reinforcement theory
Ring-toss study (McClelland)
Rogers, Carl
Roller coaster, as metaphor for living

Santa Cruz Sentinel
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Schacter, Stan
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr.
Sears, Robert
Self-actualization
Self-concept
Self-esteem
and jigsaw classrooms
and segregation
and subjects of experiments
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Self-justification
Sendak, Maurice
Sexual harassment
Shaw, Abe
Sikes, Jev
Skinner, B. F.
Snapp, Matt
The Social Animal (Aronson)
St. Elizabeth’s Hospital (Brighton, Massachusetts)
Statistics, courses in
Stein, Gertrude
Stone, Jeff, condom experiments and
Suckiel, Ellen
Swanger, David

T-groups (encounter groups)
Carl Rogers on
feelings vs. judgments
hugs and
at Kresge College
lessons from
negative feedback, benefits of
origin of
and society’s changing attitude toward touching
straight talk, value of
viewed as “touchy-feely,” 229
Task vs. available time experiment
Tavris, Carol
Texas Classroom Teachers Association
A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance (Festinger)
Thibodeau, Ruth, water conservation experiment and
“Touchy-feely” approach to education
Twelve Angry Men (film)
Tydings Committee

United States Civil Rights Commission
University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC)

Veterans Village

Walster, Elaine Hatfield
Water conservation experiment (Aronson/Thibodeau)
Weber, Max
Wertheimer, Mike
Wertheimer, Nan
Where the Wild Things Are (Sendak)
White, Robert
Whiting, John
Willerman, Ben
Works Progress Administration
Wright, John
Wright, Steve