Address and Telephone:
Department of Psychology
University of California
One Shields Avenue
Davis, California 95616-8686
Phone: (530) 752-1699
Fax: (530) 752-2087
e-mail address: acelms@ucdavis.edu
Place and Date of Birth:
Gorman, Texas, December 15, 1938
Undergraduate Training
B. A. The Pennsylvania
State University, 1960. Major in psychology. National Merit Scholar,
1956-1960; Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi honorary societies;
graduated with highest honors.
Graduate Training
Ph. D. in psychology,
Yale University, 1965. Major area of emphasis: personality and social
psychology. Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship, 1960-1961; U. S. Public
Health Service Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, 1961-1964.
Professional Experience
1959 (Summer): Research Assistant to Dr. C. R. Carpenter (primate field research, Panama)
1961 (Summer): Research Assistant to Dr. Stanley Milgram (research on obedience to authority)
1964-1967: Assistant Professor of Psychology, Southern Methodist University
1967-1972: Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of California, Davis
1972: (Jan.-June): Visiting Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Dublin, Trinity College (Ireland)
1972-1977: Associate Professor of Psychology, University of California, Davis
1973-1975: Vice Chairman, Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis
1978-1981: Chair, Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis
1981-1983: Visiting Scholar, Department of Psychology and Social Relations, Harvard University
1977-2002: Professor of Psychology, University of California, Davis
From July 1, 2002: Professor of Psychology Emeritus, University of California, Davis
Professional Memberships
American Psychological Association, Fellow, Divisions 8 and 9
American Psychological Association, Member, Divisions 10, 26, and 39
Personology Society
International Society of Political Psychology
Science Fiction Research Association
Society of Experimental Social Psychology
Current and Recent Professional Activities
Science Fiction Research Association, president, 1999 & 2000
Personology Society, Co-Founder; Executive Committee, 1983-1999
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, editorial board, 2001-
Imagination, Cognition and Personality, editorial board, 2000-
Editorial consultant or reviewer, American Psychologist, Journal of
Personality, Political Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology
Bulletin, Psychoanalytic Psychology, American Behavioral Scientist,
Clio's Psyche, History of Psychology, Psychological Science, Leadership
Quarterly, Oxford University Press, American Psychological Association Press, Westview Press, HarperCollins
Recent University Service
Privilege and Tenure Committee, Hearings Subcommittee, 1997-2001
Davis Faculty Association, Executive Board, 1997-2001; vice-chair, 2000-2001
Personality/Social Psychology Area Head, 1994-95 and 1996-98
Honors and Awards
Henry A. Murray Award, 1988. Awarded by Division of Personality and
Social Psychology, American Psychological Association, for career
contributions to personality psychology.
UC Davis Humanities Institute Fellow, 1988-89.
Magnar Ronning Teaching Awards Honorable Mention, 1990.
An Outstanding Academic Book of 1995 (Choice Magazine award for Uncovering Lives)
UC Davis Washington Center Faculty Fellow, 2001-2002.
Publications
Books:
Elms, A. C. (Ed.) (1969). Role Playing, Reward, and Attitude Change. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold.
Elms, A. C. (1972). Social Psychology and Social Relevance. Boston: Little, Brown.
Elms, A. C. (1976). Attitudes. Milton Keynes, England: Open University Press.
Elms, A. C. (1976). Personality in Politics. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
Elms, A. C. (1994). Uncovering Lives: The Uneasy Alliance of Biography and Psychology. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. Paperback reprint, 1997.
Papers:
Elms, A. C., & Janis, I. L. (1965). Counter-norm attitudes induced
by consonant versus dissonant conditions of role-playing. Journal of Experimental Research in Personality, 1, 50-60.
Elms, A. C. (1966). Influence of fantasy ability on attitude change through role playing. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 4, 36-43.
Elms, A. C., & Milgram, S. (1966). Personality characteristics
associated with obedience and defiance toward authoritative command. Journal of Experimental Research in Personality, 1,282-289.
Elms, A. C. (1967). Role playing, incentive, and dissonance. Psychological Bulletin, 68, 132-148.
Elms, A. C. (1968). The obverse of dissonance is inconsistency. Psychological Record, 18, 167-170.
Elms, A. C. (1969). Psychological factors in right-wing extremism. In R. A. Schoenberger (Ed.), The American Right Wing, pp. 143-163. New York: Holt, Rinehart, & Winston.
Elms, A. C. (1970). Right wingers in Dallas: Pathology and politics. Psychology Today, 3(9), 27-31, 58-59.
Elms, A. C. (1972). Allport, Freud, and the clean little boy. Psychoanalytic Review, 59, 627-632.
Elms, A. C. (1972). Horoscopes and Ardrey. Psychology Today, 6(5), 36, 38, 44, 126-127.
Luscutoff, S. A., & Elms, A. C. (1975). Advice in the abortion decision. Journal of Consulting Psychology, 22, 140-146.
Elms, A. C. (1975). The crisis of confidence in social psychology. American Psychologist, 30, 967-976.
Elms, A. C. (1976). Psychological candidates. Human Behavior, 5(10), 25-28.
Elms, A. C. (1976). The istists. Psychology Today, 10(6), 22.
Elms, A. C. (1977). Alias Johnny Hooker. Psychology Today, ~0(9), 17.
Elms, A. C. (1977). "The Three Bears": Four interpretations. Journal of American Folklore, 90, 257-273.
Elms, A. C. (1980). Freud, Irma, Martha: Sex and marriage in the "Dream of Irma's injection." Psychoanalytic Review, 67, 83-109.
Elms, A. C. (1981). Skinner's dark year and Walden Two. American Psychologist, 36, 470-479.
Elms, A. C. (1982). Keeping deception honest: Justifying conditions for
social scientific research stratagems. In T. L. Beauchamp et al.
(Eds.), Ethical Issues in Social Science Research, pp. 232-245. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Elms, A. C. (1982). Freud and Minna. Psychology Today, 16(12), 40-46.
Elms, A. C. (1983). Oz in science fiction film. The Baum Bugle: A Journal of Oz, 27(3), 2-6.
Elms, A. C. (1984). Psychology and political science. In M. H. Bornstein (Ed.), Psychology in Relation to Allied Disciplines, Vol. 2, Psychology and the Social Sciences, pp. 185-206. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Elms, A. C. (1984). The creation of Cordwainer Smith. Science-Fiction Studies, 11,264-283.
Elms, A. C. (1986). From House to Haig: Private life and public style in American foreign policy advisers. Journal of Social Issues, 42(2), 33-53.
Elms, A. C. (1987). The personalities of Henry A. Murray. Perspectives in Personality, 2, 1-14.
Elms, A. C. (1987). From "Nightfall" to Dawn: Asimov as acrophobe. Extrapolation, 28, 130-139.
Elms, A. C. (1988). Freud as Leonardo: Why the first psychobiography went wrong. Journal of Personality, 56, 19-40.
Elms, A. C. (1988). (a) Psychology in science fiction. (b) Cordwainer Smith (Paul M. A. Linebarger). In J. Gunn (Ed.), The New Science Fiction Encyclopedia. New York: Viking Penguin. (a) pp. 370-372; (b) pp. 422-423.
Elms, A. C. (1989). Cloud, castle, claustrum: Nabokov as a Freudian in spite of himself. In D. Rancour-Laferriere (Ed.), Russian Literature and Psychoanalysis. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Elms, A. C. (1989). Darker than he thought: Jack Williamson's fictionalization of his psychoanalysis. Extrapolation, 30, 205-218.
Harrison, A. A., & Elms, A. C. (1990). Psychology and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Behavioral Science, 35, 207-218.
Elms, A. C. (1991). Origins of the underpeople: Cats, Kuomintang and Cordwainer Smith. In T. Shippey (Ed.), Fictional Space: Essays on Contemporary Science Fiction (Essays and Studies 1990), 166-193. Oxford: Basil Blackwell/Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press.
Elms, A. C. (1991.) Cordwainer Smith. In M. J. Bruccoli (Ed.), Bibliography of American Fiction: 1919-1988, Vol. 2, 461-462. New York: Facts on File.
Elms, A. C. (1993.) Allport's Personality and Allport's personality. In K. M. Craik, R. T. Hogan, & R. N. Wolfe (Eds.), Fifty Years of Personality Psychology, 39-55. New York: Plenum.
Heller, B., & Elms, A. C. (1994). Elvis Presley: Character and charisma. In G. DePaoli (Ed.), Elvis + Marilyn: 2 x Immortal, 73-97. New York: Rizzoli.
Elms, A. C. (1995). Introduction to Norstrilia. In Cordwainer Smith, Norstrilia, corrected edition, ed. James Mann, vii-xiii. Framingham, MA: NESFA Press.
Elms, A. C. (1995). Obedience in retrospect. Journal of Social Issues, 51 (3), 21-31.
Elms, A. C. (1995). A psychologist investigates Cordwainer Smith. Alpha Ralpha Boulevard [Tokyo], #10, 7-8.
Elms, A. C. (1998). Psychohistory and enlightenment. Clio's Psyche: A Psychohistory Forum Quarterly, 5 (1), 28-29.
Elms, A. C. (1999). Sigmund Freud. In M. Runco & S. Pritzker (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Creativity, vol. 1, 745-751. San Diego: Academic Press.
Elms, A. C. (2000). Painwise in space: The psychology of isolation in
Cordwainer Smith and James Tiptree, Jr. In G. Westfahl (Ed.), Space and Beyond: The Frontier Theme in Science Fiction. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 131-140.
Elms, A. C. (2000). From Canberra to Norstrilia: The Australian adventures of Cordwainer Smith. Foundation, 29 (whole #78), 44-58.
Elms, A. C. (2000). Literature and psychology. In A. E. Kazdin (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Psychology. New York: American Psychological Association and Oxford University Press.
Elms, A. C. (2001). Between Mottile and Ambiloxi: Cordwainer Smith as a Southern writer. Extrapolation, 42, 124-136.
Elms, A. C. (2001). Apocryphal Freud: Sigmund Freud's most famous 'quotations' and their actual sources. Annual of Psychoanalysis, Volume XXIX: Sigmund Freud and His Impact on the Modern World, pp. 83-104. Hillsdale, NJ: Analytic Press.
Elms, A. C. (2002). Responsibilities. In R. J. Pellegrini & T. R. Sarbin (Eds.), Between Fathers and Sons: Critical Incident Narratives in the Development of Men's Lives, pp. 69-76. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press.
Elms, A. C. (2002). Psychoanalysis and biography. In E. Erwin (Ed.), The Freud Encyclopedia. New York: Routledge.
Elms, A. C. (2002). Behind the jet-propelled couch: Cordwainer Smith and Kirk Allen. New York Review of Science Fiction, May.
Elms, A. C. (2002). Cordwainer Smith in Japan. Science Fiction Studies, 29, p. 529.
Elms, A. C. (In press). Sigmund Freud, psychohistorian. Annual of Psychoanalysis, vol. XXXI [2003].
Web Publications:
Elms, A. C. (2001). Solar sails in science fiction. Planetary Society Web Page: http://www.planetary.org/programs/projects/innovative_technologies/solar_sailing/science-fiction.html
Elms, A. C. (2002). Cordwainer Smith Scholarly Corner. The Remarkable Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith Web Page:
http://www.cordwainer-smith.com/scholarly.htm
Elms, A. C. (2003). Rae Carlson: An exemplary life. Ulmus.net Web Page: Rae Carlson
Book Reviews by A. C. Elms:
Attitude and Attitude Change, by H. C. Triandis. American Scientist, 1972, 60(1), 93.
Persuasion: The Theory and Practice of Manipulative Communication, by G. N. Gordon. Public Opinion Quarterly, 1972, 36, 481-482.
Political Alienation and Political Behavior, by D. C. Schwartz. Psychology Today, 1973, 7(6), 22, 138.
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, "edited" by N. Meyer. Psychology Today, 1975(January), 16-17.
Humanizing Social Psychology, by M. B. Smith. American Scientist, 1976, 64(1), 95.
Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, by D. Kearns. Psychology Today, 1976, 10(4), 88, 92.
The Political Mind and the Political Environment, by W. L. Bennett. Contemporary Psychology, 1976, 21, 632-633.
Faces in a Cloud: Subjectivity in Personality Theory, by R. D. Stolorow & G. E. Atwood. Contemporary Psychology, 1979, 24, 905-906.
A History of Psychology in Autobiography, vol. 7, ed. by G. Lindzey. Review of Psychoanalytic Books, 1983-84, 2, 616-619.
Michelangelo: A Psychoanalytic Study of His Life and Images, by R. S. Liebert. Contemporary Psychology, 1984, 29, 586-587.
Woodrow Wilson: A Medical and Psychological Biography, by E. A. Weinstein. Review of Psychoanalytic Books, 1984, 3, 109-113.
Dark Valley Destiny: The Life of Robert E. Howard, by L. S. decamp et al. Science Fiction and Fantasy Review, 1984(April), 34.
A Cordwainer Smith Concordance, by A. R. Lewis. Science-Fiction Studies, 1985, 12, 226-227.
Freud and His Father, by M. Krull. Psychology Today, 1986, 20(8), 70-71.
Personality and the Prediction of Behavior, ed. by R. A. Zucker, J. Aronoff, & A. I. Rabin. Contemporary Psychology, 1986, 31,282-283.
Introspection in Biography: The Biographer's Quest for Self-Awareness, ed. by S. H. Baron & C. Pletsch; The Leader: Psychohistorical Essays, ed. by C. B. Strozier & D. Offer; and The Structure of Mind in History: Five Major Figures in Psychohistory, by P. Pomper. Political Psychology, 1987, 8, 263-267.
Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard, by R. Miller. New York Review of Science Fiction, 1988, 2, 16-19.
A Piece of Blue Sky: Scientology, Dianetics and L. Ron Hubbard Exposed, by J. Atack. Science Fiction Research Association Newsletter, 1991 (June), 188, 13-15.
A Cordwainer Smith Checklist, by M. Bennett. Science Fiction Research Association Newsletter, 1991 (November), 192, 23.
Robert E. Howard: Selected Letters 1931-1936, ed. by G. Lord, R. Burke, S. T. Joshi, & S. Behrends. Science Fiction Research Association Newsletter, 1991 (November), 192, 39.
Report on a Writing Man and Other Reminiscences of Robert E. Howard, by T. C. Smith Jr., and Robert E. Howard's Fight Magazine #3, by R. E. Howard. Science Fiction Research Association Review, 1992 (April), 197.
Isaac Asimov, by D. Hassler. Science-Fiction Studies, 1992, 20, 118-119.
The Rediscovery of Man: The Complete Short Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith, ed. J. A. Mann. Extrapolation, 1994, 35 (2), 163-166.
The Charismatic Bond: Political Behavior in Time of Crisis, by D. Madsen & P. G. Snow. Political Psychology, 1995, 16, 661-662.
The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Vol. 1: The Ultimate Egoist, ed. P. Williams. Extrapolation, 1996, 37 (1), 100-102.
Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives, by F. J. Sulloway. Biography, 1998, 21, 58-62.
The Inner Elvis, by P. Whitmer. Contemporary Psychology, 43, 1998, 432-433.
The Psychological Assessment of Presidential Candidates, by S. A. Renshon. Political Psychology, 20, 222-225.
How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics, by N. K. Hayles. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 36 (2), 192-193.
Meet Me at Infinity, by J. Tiptree, Jr. Science Fiction Research Association Review, # 246, 2000.
Identity's Architect: A Biography of Erik H. Erikson, by L. J. Friedman. Contemporary Psychology, 2001.
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