Bertram Raven

Bertram Raven

Bertram H. Raven (born September 26, 1926) is an American academic, who has been a member of the faculty of the Psychology Department at UCLA since 1956, where he is currently a Professor Emeritus. He is perhaps best known for his early work in collaboration with John R. P. French, with whom he developed an analysis of the bases of social power.

Born in Youngstown, Ohio, he received his BA and MA (1948, 1949) in psychology from Ohio State University and his PhD (1953) in social psychology from the University of Michigan. At UCLA, he was also director of the Survey Research Center, director of a training program in health psychology, and chair of the Department of Psychology. He has served as a visiting professor and lecturer at the University of Nijmegen, Netherlands; Hebrew University in Jerusalem; London School of Economics; University of Washington; and University of Hawaii; as well as external examiner for the University of the West Indies.

His current interests have centered particularly on interpersonal influence and social power relationships which developed out of his original work on social power. That early work has since been expanded to a broader reaching Power/Interaction Model of Interpersonal Influence. The model and theory has been applied to organizational power relationships, health psychology (e.g., compliance in health care), close relationships, educational settings. Historical and political analyses have applied the model to power confrontations between political figures and religion as a mechanism of social control. A Power/Interaction Inventory has been developed which will allow for cross-cultural comparisons. Such research is facilitated with an internet system which involves collaborating researchers in 14 different nations. [ [http://raven.socialpsychology.org/ Social Psychology, professional profile] ]

For his contributions, Raven has received awards and recognition as Fulbright Scholar, NATO Fellow, Guggenheim Fellow, NIMH Fellow, Kurt Lewin Awardee (for relating social psychological research and social action), and a Los Angeles City Council Citation (for developing the UCLA Upward Bound Project). [ [http://www.psych.ucla.edu/Faculty/faculty.php?id=93&area=7 UCLA Department of Psychology, faculty profile ] ]

Raven has been married to an Englishwoman, Celia Raven, since 1961. They have two adult children, Michelle and Jonathan.

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* cite book
last = Raven | first = B. H.
coauthors= Rubin, J. Z.
year = 1983
title = Social Psychology
publisher = Wiley
ISBN 0-471-87304-7


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