Herbert C. Kelman
Department of Psychology
William James Hall 1304
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
U.S.A.
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Professor Kelman received his Ph.D. at Yale
University, where he worked with Carl Hovland in
the early days of the Yale attitude change project.
He first came to Harvard in 1957 as Lecturer on
Social Psychology in the Social Relations
Department. In 1962 he moved to the University of
Michigan as Professor of Psychology and
Research Psychologist in the Center for Research
on Conflict Resolution. He was an active
participant in and for a while chair of the Joint
Doctoral Program in Social Psychology. In 1968 he
returned to Harvard as Richard Clarke Cabot
Professor of Social Ethics, a chair originally held by
Gordon Allport. From 1994-97, he chaired
Harvard's Doctoral Program in Social Psychology.
In 1999, he retired from teaching, but continued as Richard Clarke Cabot Research Professor of
Social Ethics. In 2004, he became Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, Emeritus.The theoretical focus of Professor Kelman's work
throughout his career has been social influence
and attitude change, with an emphasis on the
distinction between different processes of
influence; on the relationship of action to attitude
change; and on conceptions of personal
responsibility for actions ordered by legitimate
authorities. The last of these topics is the subject
of his most recent book, Crimes of Obedience:
Toward a Social Psychology of Authority and
Responsibility, coauthored with V. Lee Hamilton
(1989). He has explored influence processes in
various applied settings, including psychotherapy,
international educational exchanges, and more
recently, problem-solving workshops in the
resolution of international conflicts. The latter work bridges his work on social
influence and attitude change with his other
long-standing interest in the social psychology of
international relations. His work in conflict
resolution has concentrated for a number of years
on an action research program on the Arab-Israeli
conflict. He has developed interactive problem
solving, an unofficial third-party approach to the
resolution of international and ethnic conflicts,
anchored in social-psychological principles, and
he and his colleagues have applied this approach
to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and to other
protracted conflicts between identity groups. He is
associated with Harvard's Weatherhead Center for
International Affairs, where he directed the
Program on International Conflict Analysis and
Resolution (PICAR) between 1993 and 2003 and
co-chairs the Middle East Seminar. Professor Kelman has also written and lectured
extensively on the ethics of social research and
social intervention, including ethical problems in
human experimentation and the social
consequences of psychological and social
research.
 Books:
- Bermant, G., Kelman, H. C., & Warwick, D. P. (Eds.). (1978). The ethics of social intervention. Washington, DC: Hemisphere Publishing Corporation.
- Kelman, H. C. (1968). A time to speak: On human values and social research. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
- Kelman, H. C. (Ed.). (1965). International behavior: A social-psychological analysis. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
- Kelman, H. C., & Ezekiel, R. S., with the collaboration of Kelman, R. B. (1970). Cross-national encounters: The personal impact of an exchange program for broadcasters. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
 Kelman, H. C., & Hamilton, V. L. (1989). Crimes of obedience: Toward a social psychology of authority and responsibility. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Journal Articles:
- Kelman, H. C. (1997). Group processes in the resolution of international conflicts: Experiences from the Israeli-Palestinian case. American Psychologist, 52, 212-220.
- Kelman, H. C. (1983). Conversations with Arafat: A social-psychological perspective on the prospects for Israeli-Palestinian peace. American Psychologist, 38, 203-216.
- Kelman, H. C. (1973). Violence without moral restraint: Reflections on the dehumanization of victims and victimizers. Journal of Social Issues, 29(4), 25-61.
- Kelman, H. C. (1972). The rights of the subject in social research: An analysis in terms of relative power and legitimacy. American Psychologist, 27, 989-1016.
- Kelman, H. C. (1961). Processes of opinion change. Public Opinion Quarterly, 25, 57-78.
Other Publications:
- Kelman, H. C. (2004). Continuity and change: My life as a social psychologist. In A. H. Eagly, R. M. Baron, and V. L. Hamilton (Eds.), The social psychology of group identity and social conflict: Theory, application, and practice (pp. 233-275). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
- Kelman, H. C. (2001). Dignity and dehumanization: The impact of the Holocaust on central themes of my work. In P. Suedfeld (Ed.), Light from the ashes: Social science careers of young Holocaust refugees and survivors (pp. 197-220). Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
- Kelman, H. C. (2001). The role of national identity in conflict resolution: Experiences from Israeli-Palestinian problem-solving workshops. In R. D. Ashmore, L. Jussim, and D. Wilder (Eds.), Social identity, intergroup conflict, and conflict reduction (pp. 187-212). New York: Oxford University Press.
- Kelman, H. C. (1997). Social-psychological dimensions of international conflict. In I. W. Zartman and J. L. Rasmussen (Eds.), Peacemaking in international conflict: Methods and techniques (pp. 191-236). Washington, DC: U.S. Institute of Peace.
- Kelman, H. C. (1980). The role of action in attitude change. In H. E. Howe, Jr., and M. M. Page (Eds.), Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, 1979: Attitudes, values, and beliefs (pp. 117-194). Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.
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