Angus Campbell (psychologist)

{{short description|American psychologist}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date |1910|8|10|mf=yes}}

| birth_place = Leiters Ford, Indiana

| death_date = {{death date and age|1980|12|15|1910|8|10|mf=yes}}

| death_place = Ann Arbor, Michigan

| nationality = American

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| alma_mater = Stanford University

| thesis_title = An Experimental Analysis of Ease of Conditioning in Man

| thesis_url = https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/2024613

| thesis_year = 1936

| doctoral_advisor = Ernest Hilgard

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| discipline = Psychology

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| workplaces = University of Michigan

| doctoral_students = Philip Converse

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Albert Angus Campbell (August 10, 1910 – December 15, 1980) was an American social psychologist best known for his research into electoral systems and for co-writing The American Voter with Philip Converse, Warren Miller, and Donald E. Stokes. Campbell published his work under the name Angus Campbell. He was a professor at the University of Michigan. He died in Ann Arbor, Michigan on December 15, 1980.{{cite news |first=Thomas |last=Ennis |title=Angus Campbell, 70; Social Researcher |work=The New York Times |date=16 December 1980 |page=D21 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1980/12/16/archives/angus-campbell-70-social-researcher-professor-at-u-of-michigan-led.html}}

Bibliography

  • Campbell, Angus, Converse, Philip E., Miller, Warren E., Stokes, Donald E. (1960). The American Voter.
  • Campbell, Angus (1964). The American Voter, an Abridgment. New York: John Wiley and Sons.
  • Campbell, Angus (1966). Elections and the Political Order. New York: John Wiley and Sons.
  • Campbell, Angus, Gurin, Gerald, Miller, Warren E. (1971). The Voter Decides. New York: Praeger.
  • Campbell, Angus. (1971). White Attitudes Towards Black People. Institute for Social Research.
  • Campbell, Angus, and Converse, Philip E. (1972). The Human Meaning of Social Change. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

References

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Further reading

  • {{cite book |editor-last=Utter |editor-first=Glenn H. |editor2-first=Charles |editor2-last=Lockhart |title=American Political Scientists: A Dictionary |edition=2nd |year=2002 |pages=57–58 |isbn=0-313-31957-X }}