Harold Kelley

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Harold Kelley
Born(1921-02-16)February 16, 1921
Boise, Idaho
DiedJanuary 29, 2003(2003-01-29) (aged 81)
Malibu, California
Alma materUC Berkeley (1942) B.A., (1943) M.A.
MIT (1948) Ph.D.
Known forInterdepedence theory (a form of social exchange theory)
attribution theory
close relationships
Scientific career
FieldsPsychology
InstitutionsUCLA 1961–2003
University of Minnesota 1955–61
Yale University 1950–55

Harold Kelley (February 16, 1921 – January 29, 2003) was an American social psychologist and professor of psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. His major contributions have been the development of interdependence theory (with John Thibaut),[1][2] the early work of attribution theory,[3] and a lifelong interest in understanding close relationships processes.[4][5][6] A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Kelley as the 43rd most cited psychologist of the 20th century.[7]

  1. ^ Thibaut, J.W. & Kelley, H.H. (1959) The social psychology of groups. New York: Wiley.
  2. ^ Kelley, H.H. & Thibaut, J.W. (1978) Interpersonal relations: A theory of interdependence. New York: Wiley-Interscience.
  3. ^ Kelley, H.H. (1967). Attribution Theory in Social Psychology. Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, 15, 192-238.
  4. ^ Kelley, H.H. (1979) Personal relationships: Their structures and processes. Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum Associates.
  5. ^ Kelley, H.H., Berscheid, E., Christensen, A., Harvey, J.H., Huston, T.L., Levinger, G., McClintock, E., Peplau, L.A. & Peterson, D.R.. (1983) Close Relationships. New York: W.H. Freeman.
  6. ^ Kelley, H.H., Holmes, J.G., Kerr, N.L., Reis, H.T., Rusbult, C.E. & Van Lange, P.A.M. (2003) An Atlas of Interpersonal SItuations. New York: Cambridge University Press.
  7. ^ Haggbloom, Steven J.; Powell, John L. III; Warnick, Jason E.; Jones, Vinessa K.; Yarbrough, Gary L.; Russell, Tenea M.; Borecky, Chris M.; McGahhey, Reagan; et al. (2002). "The 100 most eminent psychologists of the 20th century". Review of General Psychology. 6 (2): 139–152. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.586.1913. doi:10.1037/1089-2680.6.2.139. S2CID 145668721.