Kelman, Herbert Chanoch

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KELMAN, Herbert Chanoch

KELMAN, Herbert Chanoch. American (born Austria), b. 1927. Genres: International relations/Current affairs, Psychology, Ethics, Social sciences. Career: Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1968-, Director, Program on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, 1993- (Lecturer on Social Psychology, 1957-62). Research Psychologist, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 1955-57; Professor of Psychology, and Research Psychologist, Center for Research on Conflict Resolution, University of Michigan, 1962-69. President, International Society of Political Psychology, 1985-86; President, Psychologists for Social Responsibility, 1990-92. Publications: (ed. and contrib.) International Behavior: A Social Psychological Analysis, 1965; A Time to Speak: On Human Values and Social Research, 1968; (with R.S. Ezekiel) Cross-National Encounters, 1970; (ed. with G. Bermant and D.P. Warwick) The Ethics of Social Intervention, 1978; (with V.L. Hamilton) Crimes of Obedience: Toward a Social Psychology of Authority and Responsibility, 1989. Address: Dept. of Psychology, William James Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A. Online address: hck@wjh.harvard.edu

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