From: aq817@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Steve Crocker)
Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy
Subject: Re: Tavistock Institute - Brainwashing Center
Date: 8 Sep 1992 08:59:58 GMT
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frankred@aifh.ed.ac.uk (Frank Redington)
responds to my post of Tavistok material. 


>>  but is admirably suited for transforming 
>>  psychological problems into computer-programmable problems.  This was 
>>  promptly done.  

>Aha. I've got a degree in Psychology (does that make me 
>one of them?) and am about to receive one in AI. This 
>is rubbish. If it's been done, by whom, where are the 
>references, and can I ftp it from anywhere ;-)

Well, this time you are asking something I know a little about. As
a freshman at Michigan State in the sixties, I did some programming
for an organization called the Computer Institute for Social Science
Research. Not a big enough fish to be listed as a Tavistock spin-off,
but we did have some faculty who were working in the area of computer
simulation of social behavior. The one I had the most contact with was 
John Gullahorn. As I recall, his interest at the time was in generating
a computer model of the theories of Homans as found in his book "The
Human Group". I went looking for library references, and what I found was
scanty. However, finding even this amount from a brief catalog search
is enough to indicate that computer modeling of personality and social 
interaction exists as a discipline. I guess the fields of psychology and AI
are both large enough that it is posible to get a degree in each without
necessarily being aware of all the subfields of those disciplines.


<begin bibliographic references>

 Search Request: K=COMPUTER AND SOCIAL                                     LCAT


 Author:         Gullahorn, John T.                                            
                                                                               
 Title:          Computer simulation of role conflict resolution, by John T.   
                   Gullahorn and Jeanne E. Gullahorn.                          
                                                                               
 Subjects:       Social sciences--Data processing.                             
                 Simulation methods.                                           
                                                                               
 Published:      Monica, Calif., Michigan State University and System          
                   Development Corp., 1965.                                    
 Description:    18 p. illus.                                                  
 Notes:          "SP-2261/000/00."                                             
                 "Revised version of a paper originally presented at the       
                   meetings of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, 
                   Ill. ... 1965."                                             


 Author:         Beshers, James M.                                             
                                                                               
 Title:          Computer methods in the analysis of large-scale social        
                   systems; proceedings of a conference held at the Joint      
                   Center for Urban Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of  
                   Technology and Harvard University in Cambridge,             
                   Massachusetts on October 19-21, 1964. James M. Beshers,     
                   editor.                                                     
                                                                               
 Subjects:       Social sciences--Data processing.                             
                                                                               
 Published:      Cambridge, Mass., Joint Center for Urban Studies of the       
                   Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University
                   <1965>                                                      
 Description:    iv, 207, 7 p. illus. 29 cm.                                   




 Author:         Pfaff, Martin.                                                
                                                                               
 Title:          Pattern recognition and risk taking behavior in routine vs.   
                   nonroutine decision situations.                             
 Series:         Michigan. State University, East Lansing. Computer Institute  
                   for Social Science Research. Research report                
                                                                               
 Subjects:       Decision-making.                                              
                                                                               
 Published:      <East Lansing, Michigan State University, 1967>               
 Description:    1 v. (various pagings)                                        
 Notes:          Reproduced from typescript.                                   
                                                                               
                                                                               
                                                                               
 Author:         Pfaff, Martin.                                                
                                                                               
 Title:          Simulation of cross cultural transfers <by> Martin Pfaff with 
                   C.G. Jambothar (sic.)                                       
 Series:         Michigan State University. Computer Institute for Social      
                   Science Research. Research report.                          
                                                                               
 Subjects:       Rural electrification.                                        
                 Community development--Case studies.                          
                 Technology transfer.                                          
                 Simulation methods.                                           
                                                                               


 Author:         Carroll, Tom W.                                               
                                                                               
 Title:          SINDI 2: simulation of innovation diffusion in a rural        
                   community of Brazil.                                        
 Series:         Michigan State University. Computer Institute for Social      
                   Science Research. Research report.                          
                 Diffusion of innovations technical report, no. 8              
                                                                               
 Subjects:       SINDI 2.                                                      
                 Diffusion of innovations.                                     
                 Simulation methods.                                           
                 Dairying--Brazil--Minas Gerais.                               
                                                                               
 Published:      East Lansing, Michigan State University, Dept. of             
                   Communication, c1969.                                       



 Author:         Morgan, James N.                                              
                                                                               
 Title:          THAID, a sequential analysis program for the analysis of      
                   nominal scale dependent variables, by James N. Morgan <and> 
                   Robert C. Messenger.                                        
                                                                               
 Subjects:       THAID (Computer program)                                      
                                                                               
 Published:      Ann Arbor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social       
                   Research, University of Michigan, 1973.                     
 Description:    92 p. illus. 26 cm.                                           
 Notes:          Bibliography: p. 46.                                          
                                                                               
 Other authors:  Messenger, Robert C.                                          
                                                                               


 Author:         Whalen, Thomas Henry                                          
                                                                               
 Title:          A computer model of man as an organizational decision-maker / 
                   by Thomas Henry Whalen.                                     
                                                                               
 Subjects:       Social interaction--Simulation methods                        
                                                                               
 Published:      East Lansing : <s.n.>, 1975.                                  
 Description:    <1>, vi, 69, <i.e. 71> leaves : ill. ; 29 cm.                 
 Notes:          Thesis (M.A.) - Michigan State University. Dept. of Sociology,
                    1975.                                                      
                 Bibliography: leaves 65-66.                                   
                                                                               
                                                                               
                                                                               
 Author:         Coats, Robert B.                                              
                                                                               
 Title:          Computer models in the social sciences / Robert B. Coats,     
                   Andrew Parkin.                                              
 Series:         Winthrop computer systems series                              
                                                                               
 Subjects:       Social sciences--Data processing.                             
                 Social sciences--Mathematical models.                         
                                                                               
 Published:      Cambridge, Mass. : Winthrop Publishers, c1977.                
 Description:    xiii, 184 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.                                  
 Notes:          Includes bibliographies and index.                            
                                                                               
 Other authors:  Parkin, Andrew.                                               
                                                                               
<end bibliographic references>

-Steve
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