Publications

Books and Monographs:

Ofshe, Richard, with Lynne Ofshe. 1970. Utility and Choice in Social Interaction. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. Reprinted by Irvington Publishers, New York.

____, (ed.). 1970. The Sociology of the Possible.

Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall.

____, (ed.). 1977. The Sociology of the Possible, 2^nd Edition. Englewood Cliffs New Jersey: Prentice-Hall.

____, (ed.). 1973. Interpersonal Behavior in Small Groups. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall.

____, with David Mitchell and Cathy Mitchell. 1980. The

Light on Synanon. New York: Seaview Press.

____, with Ethan Watters. 1994. Making Monsters: False

Memories, Psychotherapy and Sexual Hysteria, New York: Charles Scribner's.

________. 1995. Making Monsters: False Memories, Psychotherapy and Sexual Hysteria, London: Andre Deutsch (with a new introduction to the British Edition)

________. 1996. Making Monsters: False Memories,  Psychotherapy and Sexual Hysteria, Munich: DTV (German language translation)

________. 1996. Making Monsters: False Memories, Psychotherapy and Sexual Hysteria, Berkeley, University of California Press.

_____, with Ethan Watters. 1999. Therapy's Delusions, New York: Charles Scribner's.

 

Articles:

Ofshe, Richard, with Ronald Anderson. 1968. “Testing a Measurement Model.” Chapter 9 in Sociological Methodology: 1969, E. Borgatta (ed.), San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

____, with Norman Goodman. 1968. “Empathy, Communication Efficiency, and Marital Status.” Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 30, No. 4, November.

Reprinted in Social Psychology and Everyday Life. B. Franklin and F. Kohout (eds.), New York: David McKay, 1973.

____, with Arthur Stinchcombe. 1969. “On Journal Editing as a Probabilistic Process.” American Sociologist, Vol. 4, No. 2, May.

____, with Lynne Ofshe. 1969. “Social Choice and Utility in Coalition Formation.” Sociometry, Vol. 32, No. 3, September.

____. 1970. “Cognitive Consistency and Language Behavior.” Human Relations, Vol. 23, No. 2, April.

Reprinted in Interpersonal Behavior in Small Groups, R. Ofshe (ed.), Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1973.

____, with Lynne Ofshe. 1970. “Choice Behavior in Coalition Games.” Behavioral Science, Vol. 15, No. 4, July, 1970. Reprinted in Bobbs-Merrill Reprint Series in Sociology, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1973.

Reprinted in Interpersonal Behavior in Small Groups, R. Ofshe (ed.), Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1973.

____, with Hamit Fisek. 1970. “The Process of Status Evolution,” Sociometry, Vol. 33, No. 3, September.

Reprinted in Interpersonal Behavior in Small Groups, R. Ofshe (ed.), Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1973.

____, with Lynne Ofshe. 1970. “A Comparative Study of Two Scaling Models: Paired Comparisons and Scalogram Analysis.” Sociometry, Vol. 33, No. 4, December.

____. 1971. “The Effectiveness of Pacifist Strategies: A Theoretical Approach.” Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 15, No. 2, June. Reprinted in Interpersonal Behavior in Small Groups, R. Ofshe (ed.), Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1973.

____, with Lynne Ofshe. 1971. “A Utility Theory for the Behavior of Three Person Interaction Systems.” in Social Choice, B. Lieberman (ed.), New York: Gordon and Breach.

____, 1972. “Reference and Conflict and Behavior,” Sociological Theories in Progress, Vol. II, J. Berger, M. Zelditch and B. Anderson (eds.), Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

____, with Lynne Roberts. 1972. “A Utility Based Theory of Decision Making.” Contributions to Experimental Economics, Vol. III, H. Sauermann (ed.), Tubingen, West Germany: J.C.B. Mohr.

____, et al. 1974. “Social Structure and Social Control in Synanon.” Journal of Voluntary Action Research. Vol. 3, No. 3.

____, with Claude Fischer and Mark Baldassare. 1975. “Crowding Studies and Urban Life: A Critical Review.” Journal of the American Institute of Planners, Vol. 41, No. 6, November.

____. “Synanon: The People Business.” C. Glock and R. Bellah (eds.), The New Religious Consciousness, University of California Press.

____, with David V. and Cathy Mitchell. 1978/1979. As Editorial Consultant and Researcher with the Point Reyes Light newspaper, I contributed to the production of over 120 stories and editorials on the Synanon Foundation, Inc.

____. 1980. “The Social Development of the Synanon Cult: The Managerial Strategy of Organizational Transformation.” Sociological Analysis, Vol. 41, 2.

____, with Margaret Lee. 1981. “The Impact of Behavioral Style and Status Characteristics on Influence: A Test of Two Competing Models.” Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 44, No. 2, June.

____, with Margaret Lee. 1981. “Reply to Greenstein.” Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 44, No. 4, December.

Ofshe, Richard, with Margaret Lee. 1983. “What Are We to Make of All This?” Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 46, No. l, March.

____, with Kenneth Christman. 1986. “A Two-Process Theory of Social Behavior.” Rationality and Collective Belief,

A. Harris (ed.), New York: Ablex.

____, with Margaret Singer. 1986. “Attacks on Peripheral versus Central Elements of Self and the Impact of Thought Reforming­ Techniques: Review and Theoretical Analysis.” Cultic Studies Journal, Vol. 3, No. 1. Reprinted in Tort and Religion, Chicago: American Bar Association, 1989.

____. 1989. “The Rabbi and the Sex Cult.” Cultic Studies Journal, Vol. 3, No. 2.

____. 1989. “Coerced Confessions: The Logic of Seemingly Irrational Action.” Cultic Studies Journal, Vol. 6, No. 1.

____, with Margaret Singer. 1990. “Thought Reform Programs and the Production of Psychiatric Casualties.” Psychiatric Annals, Vol. 20, No. 4, April.

____. 1992. “Coercive Persuasion and Attitude Change.” The Encyclopedia of Sociology, edited by E. Borgatta and M. Borgatta. New York: Macmillan.

____. 1992. “Inadvertent Hypnosis During Interrogation: False Confession Due to Dissociative State; Mis-Identified Multiple Personality and the Satanic Cult Hypothesis.” International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, Vol. 40, No. 3, July.

____, with Ethan Watters. 1993. “Making Monsters.” Society, Vol. 30, 3, March/April.

____, with Ethan Watters. 1993. “More on Making Monsters, Authors Reply.” Society, Vol. 31, No. 1, November/December.

____, with Suzanne Johnson. 1994. “Religious Cults.” Academic American Encyclopedia, Danbury, Connecticut: Grollier.

____. 1994. “Making Grossly Damaging but Avoidable Errors: The Pitfalls of the Olio/Cornell Thesis.” Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 3, 3.

____, with Margaret Singer. 1994. “Recovered Memory Therapy and Robust Repression: Influence and Pseudomemories.” International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 62, 4, October.

____, 1995. “Ian Hacking's Leaning Tower: Foundations for the Architecture of Analysis,” Metascience, June.

____, with Ethan Watters. 1995. “Beware Americans Bearing Gifts: Introduction to the British Edition of Making Monsters.” In Richard Ofshe and Ethan Watters, Making Monsters, False Memories, Psychotherapy and Sexual Hysteria, London: Andre Deutsch, October.

____, 1995. “I'm Guilty If You Say So,” in Donald Connery (ed.) Convicting the Innocent, Cambridge, Brookline Press.

____, with Richard Leo. 1997. “The Social Psychology of Police Interrogation: The Theory and Classification of True and False Confessions.” Studies in Law, Politics and Society, 16, pp. 189-251.

____, with Richard Leo. 1997. “The Decision to Confess Falsely: Rational Choice and Irrational Action.” Denver University Law Review. "Symposium: An Interdisciplinary Examination of Coercion, Exploitation and the Law. 74, 4, pp. 979-1122.

____, with Richard Leo. 1997. “Missing the Forest for the Trees: A Response to Paul Cassell's `Balanced Approach' to the False Confession Problem." University of Denver Law Review." Symposium: An Interdisciplinary Examination of Coercion, Exploitation and the Law. 74, 4, pp. 1135-1144.

____, with Richard Leo. 1998. “The Consequences of False Confessions: Deprivations of Liberty and Miscarriages of Justice in the Age of Psychological Interrogation." Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Northwestern University, School of Law. 88, 2, pp. 429-496.

____, with Richard Leo. 1998. “Using the Innocent to Scapegoat Miranda: Another Reply to Paul Cassell." Journal of Criminology and Criminal Law. Northwestern University, School of Law. 88, 2, pp. 557-578.

____. 2000. "Extreme Influence -- Thought Reform, High Control Groups, Interrogation and Recovered Memory Therapy." The Encyclopedia of Sociology 2nd Edition, edited by E. Borgatta and M. Borgatta. New York: Macmillan.

____ with Richard Leo. 2001. “The Truth About False Confessions.” Criminal Law Bulletin. 37,4, pp.291-370.

 

Presented at Meetings of Scientific Associations:

Ofshe, Richard. 1964. "Effect of Interaction in Interpersonal Communication." American Sociological Association, Montreal, Canada, September.

____, with Norman Goodman. 1965. "Cognitive Consistency and the A-B-X Model." Pacific Sociological Association, Salt lake City, April.

____. 1965. "On the Strategy of Laboratory Simulation." The West Coast Small Groups Conference, Salt lake City, April.

____. 1968. “A Laboratory Method for the Measurement of Identification." American Sociological Association, Boston, September.

____, with Lynne Ofshe. 1969. “A Utility Based Theory of Decision Making." American Sociological Association, Chicago, September.

____, with Lynne Ofshe, 1970. “A Comparative Study of Two Scaling Models: Paired Comparisons and Scalogram Analysis." American Sociological Association, San Francisco, September.

____, with M. Hamit Fisek. 1970. “The Process of Status Evolution." American Sociological Association, San Francisco, September.

____, with Lynne Roberts. 1971. “A Utility Based Theory of Decision Making." Schonberg International Conference on Experimental Economics, Frankfort, West Germany, September.

____. 1971. “The Effectiveness of Pacifist Strategies: A Theoretical Approach." American Sociological Association, New York, September.

____, et al. 1972. “A Model for the Structure of Cognitions of Racial Differences and Evaluations to Planned Social Change.” Russell Sage Foundation Conference on Social Indicator Models, New York, July.

____, et al. 1974 “Social Indicators of Racial Perspectives.” American Sociological Association, Chicago, September.

____. 1979. “The Evolution of the Synanon Cult.” Religion and Political Movements section of the Association for the Study of Religion meetings, Washington, August.

____. 1979. “Some Problems of Doing Controversial Research.” American Sociological Association, Washington, D.C., August.

____. 1980. “Shifts in Opportunities and Accountability and the Regulation of Religious Organizations.” Association for the Study of Religion, New York, August.

____. 1980. “Status Characteristics and Expectation States - A Critical Review.” Thematic Session on Expectation States Research, American Sociological Association, New York, September.

____. 1981. “Theories of Coercive Social Control.” Conference on Conversion, Coercion and Commitment in New Religious Movements, Center for the Study of New Religions, Berkeley, June.

____, with Kenneth Christman and Robert Saltz. 1981. “Obedience to Authority: Re-analysis and Explanation.” American Sociological Association meetings, Toronto, Canada, August.

____. 1981. “The Construction of Behavior Through Out-of-Awareness Influence: An Alternative to Brainwashing Theories.” American Psychological Association, Los Angeles, August.

____. 1981. “Thought Reform and the Appearance of Mental Illness.” American Psychological Association, Los Angeles, September.

____. 1982. “Group Pressure Tactics in Conversion to Terrorism,” American Psychiatric Association, Toronto, Canada, May.

____. 1984. “Problems of Doing Research on Controversial Subjects,” American Sociological Association, San Antonio, August.

____. 1985. “The Rabbi and The Sex Cult,” American Sociological Association, Washington, D.C., August.

____. 1987. “Regulation of Cult Organizations and Prosecution of Cult-generated Crimes,” presented at the First International Congress on Sects and Society, Barcelona, Spain, November.

____. 1988. “Coerced Confessions: Case Studies in The Tactics of Persuasion.” American Sociological Association, Atlanta, August.

____. 1988. “Thought Reforming Interrogations in America,” The Society for the Study of Social Influence, Los Angeles, November.

____. 1989. “Police Brainwashing in America,” Pacific Sociological Association, Las Vegas, April.

Presented at Meetings of Scientific Associations: (continued)

____, 1991. “The Dynamics of Violence Generating Cults,” The Society for Cross Cultural Research, San Juan, Puerto Rico, February.

____, 1991. “Thought Reform - Lurid Fantasy versus Interesting Reality,” Western Psychological Association, San Francisco, April.

____, with Richard Leo. 1991. “The Social Psychology of Coerced Internalized False Confessions,” American Sociological Association, Cincinnati, August.

____. 1993. “Making Monsters - Recovered Memories: Who is Victimizing Who,” STAR, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March.

____. 1993. “Making Monsters: The New Dr. Frankenstein,” TREAT IV Conference, Santa Fe, April.

____. 1993. “Making Monsters: An American Tragedy.” Conference on Memory and Reality: An Emerging Crisis, False Memory Syndrome Foundation, Philadelphia, April.

____. 1993. “Analyzing The Social Structure of Cults and Crisis Decision Making.” American Psychiatric Association, San Francisco, May.

____. 1993. “Making Monsters: The Coming Crisis in Psychiatry.” American Psychiatric Association, San Francisco, May.

____. 1993. “Making Monsters: The Recovered Memory Therapy Crisis,” International Academy of Sex Research, Pacific Grove, California, June.

____. 1994. “The Creation of Illusory Belief,” Claremont Conference on Applied Cognitive Psychology: Suggestibility and the Veracity of Memory, Claremont, March.

____. 1994. “Psychology's Phlogiston -- Robust Repression and Misused Influence: The Recovered Memory Crisis.” Invited keynote address, Wisconsin State Psychological Association, Milwaukee, April.

____. 1994. “The Social Psychology of the Substitution of Belief for Memory, 1994 CSICOP Conference, The Psychology of Belief, Seattle, June.

____. 1994. “The Social Psychology of the Creation of Pseudomemories.” Conference on “Psychological Issues in Child Sexual Abuse Investigations,” Tromso University, Tromso, Norway, August.

____. 1994. “Influence in Psychotherapy: The Big Picture.” Johns Hopkins Medical Institution conference on Memory and Reality: Reconciliation. Scientific and Legal Issues of False Memory Syndrome. Baltimore, Maryland. December.

____. 1997. “Investigating and Analyzing Cult Cases,” presentation to the Third Annual National Legal Seminar on Cult Litigation, Pittsburgh, September.

____. 1997. “The Consequences of False Confessions: Deprivations of Liberty and Miscarriages of Justice in the Age of Psychological Interrogation,” Law and Society Association, St. Louis, Missouri, May.

____. 1999. “Mental Illness, Interrogation and False Confession,” American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Orlando, Florida, February.

____. 2000. “The Decision to Confess Falsely: Measuring Coercive Threats in Interrogation.” American Psychological Association, Division 41, Law and Human Behavior Conference, New Orleans, March.

____ with Richard Leo. 2004 “Psychological Coercion and Unreliable Confessions.” American Society of Criminology, Nashville, Tenn. November.

 

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