Michael Lamport Commons:
CLASS OF 1957
Fairfax High SchoolClass of 1957
Los angeles, CA
Hollywood High SchoolClass of 1959
Los angeles, CA
Hollywood Professional High SchoolClass of 1958
Los angeles, CA
Fairfax High SchoolClass of 1957
Los angeles, CA
Bancroft Junior High SchoolClass of 1954
Los angeles, CA
Michael Lamport's Story
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Dr. Michael Lamport Commons did his undergraduate work at the University of California at Berkeley, and then at Los Angeles, where in 1965 he obtained a B.A. in both mathematics and in psychology. In 1967, he earned his M.A., and in 1973 his Ph.D., in psychology from Columbia University. Before coming to Harvard University in 1977 as a postdoctoral fellow and then becoming research associate in psychology, he was an assistant professor at Northern Michigan University.
Currently, he is being promoted to Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Mental Health Center and Research Scientist for the Program in Psychiatry and the Law there and Director of the Dare Institute, Cambridge, MA. He is cofounder of Society for Quantitative Analyses of Behavior, and of The Society for Research in Adult Development, and is Founder of the Journal of Adult Development. He was senio...Expand for more
r editor of Quantitative Analyses of Behavior, Volumes 1-11. Most recently, was associate editor for a Special Issue of Journal of Experimental Analysis of Behavior on the Nature of Reinforcement. He has close to 100 publications including The existence of developmental stages as shown by the hierarchical complexity of tasks, Developmental Review; Organizing Components into Combinations: How Stage Transition Works, Journal of Adult Development. His research interests include the quantitative analysis of the construction, understanding and experiencing of reality as it develops across the life span and evolutionarily. He is interested in how these elements affect decision processes, life-span attachment and alliance formation in a number of domains including the ethical, moral, epistemological, esthetic and evaluative. He studies these cross-culturally in the social, educational, political, medical, legal and private sectors.
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