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Name
  
Milton Rokeach


Role
  
Psychologist

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Died
  
October 25, 1988, Los Angeles, California, United States

Books
  
The Three Christs of Ypsilanti, The nature of human values, Beliefs - attitudes - and values, The Open and Closed Mind, Understanding Human Values

TYPES OF VALUES | By - Graves, Milton Rokeach, G.W. Allport | TERMINAL & INSTRUMENTAL | ppt


Milton Rokeach (born in Hrubieszów as Mendel Rokicz, December 27, 1918 – October 25, 1988) was a Polish-American social psychologist. He taught at Michigan State University, the University of Western Ontario, Washington State University, and the University of Southern California. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Rokeach as the 85th most cited psychologist of the 20th century.

Contents

Milton Rokeach Symposia 1953present Nebraska Symposium on Motivation

Rokeach's BAV Model of Beliefs, Attitudes, and Values


Early life

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Born to Jewish parents in Hrubieszów, Poland, Rokeach emigrated to the United States with his parents at age seven. After graduating from Brooklyn College, he received his Ph.D degree from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1947.

Contributions to psychology

Rokeach conducted a well-known experiment in which he observed the interaction of three mentally ill patients at Ypsilanti State Hospital - each of whom believed they were Jesus Christ - from 1959-1961. The book he wrote about the experiment, The Three Christs of Ypsilanti, was subsequently adapted into a screenplay, a stage play, and two operas.

Rokeach also conducted a mid-20th century study in the American South in which he tried to determine the basis for racial prejudice. He found racial prejudice to be inversely related to socio-economic status, and thus concluded that such bias is used in an attempt to elevate one's own status.

His book The Nature of Human Values (1973), and the Rokeach Value Survey (see values scales), which the book served as the test manual for, occupied the final years of his career. In it, he posited that a relatively few "terminal human values" are the internal reference points that all people use to formulate attitudes and opinions, and that by measuring the "relative ranking" of these values one could predict a wide variety of behavior, including political affiliation and religious belief. This theory led to a series of experiments in which changes in values led to measurable changes in opinion for an entire small city in the state of Washington.

Awards

In 1984 Rokeach received the Kurt Lewin Memorial Award of the American Psychological Association, and in 1988 the Harold Lasswell Award of the International Society of Political Psychology.

References

Milton Rokeach Wikipedia


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