Full Text Articles and Books Online by Leon James and Diane Nahl

Articles on Cyber-Psychology, Internet Literacy and the Online Generational Curriculum
Principles of Cyber-Psychology	A new definition of virtual reality, what it is, and how to bring it about.
Social Psychology of Home Page Architecture	Notes I have written for psychology majors learning to become netizens in cyberspace. Eventually it will include cyberspace topics on the principles that govern the growth of organic virtual learning communities.
Introduction to the Generational Curriculum within Community-Classroom.	With Dr. Diane Nahl, this is our long standing educational experiment in collaborative learning since 1975.
Social Psychology of the Generational Community Classroom	With Dr. Diane Nahl, this is our summary of principles and techniques written in 1979.
Creating An Online Learning Environment That Fosters Information Literacy, Autonomous Learning and Leadership	Contains a full description of the The Hawaii Online Generational Community-Classroom, with tables, results, case histories, and taxonomy of online skills (1997). See also the two articles below.
Generational Community Classroom: A Brief Overview	Talk given to a faculty group in 1997. See also article below.
Managing the Online Generational Learning Community	Guest lecture presentation in 1997 summarizing my experimental teaching efforts at creating a "community classroom" through the cumulative use of student reports across semesters, and thus establishing a "generational curriculum" of cultural transmission. See also article above.
Course-integrated use of electronic socializing	An article describing an earlier experiment in teaching. It introduces the idea of "electronic socializing" as a learning facilitator several years before the Internet came into existence (1985-1991).
Course integrated cyberspace learning community. Course-integrated Use of the World Wide Web	Two articles in 1995 describing a still ongoing experimental course on the World Wide Web. This is a continuation using the Web of the Generational Curriculum Community Classroom (see above articles).
Analyzing Linkage Structure in a Course-Integrated Virtual Learning Community on the World Wide Web	INET '95 Conference Paper -- An article with Kevin Bogan that was presented at the World Internet Conference in Honolulu, June 1995 covering my experimental efforts in creating an online course-integrated information literacy program.
Affective and Cognitive Processes While Learning the Internet	This is a pre-publication copy of an article with Diane Nahl summarizing the reported experiences of students. Three levels of Internet adaptation were discovered. This is of relevance to information counseling and information literacy efforts.
Articles and course Notes by Dr. Leon James and Dr. Diane Nahl (various topics) 1962-1985	Learning the Library; Taxonomy of Skills and Errors; Cognitive Atlas; Instructions for Self-witnessing Reports; Language Teaching Approaches; Comprehensive Discourse Analysis; Transcript Analysis; Community-Classroom and Generational Curriculum Approach; Daily Round Archives -- DRA Library; Ethnosemantics; and more.
Articles on Driving Psychology and Driving Informatics
Lecture Notes for Driving Psychology Spring 2007	Introduction: The Driver's Threefold Self \| Driving Psychology Theory and Charts \| Reading List and References
ROAD RAGE AND AGGRESSIVE DRIVING	A book with Diane Nahl representing the first comprehensive treatment of the societal and personal issues relating to the way we drive. Covers the history of road rage, the new aggressive driving laws, the psychology of driving personality makeovers, children against road rage activities, and many exercises and tests to help drivers evaluate their emotional intelligence behind the wheel. (2000)
Traffic Psychology: A Definition and Introduction	Traffic Psychology has come of age. Every driver becomes a traffic psychologist by learning the skills of self-witnessing and self-modification. The result is a successful driving persona makeover which allows you to enjoy life as a nicer wiser person! This file covers materials from 1985 onward.
Socio-Cultural Methods of Managing Driving Behavior in a Society	Driving Psychology is a new field of knowledge that brings together all that we need to know to manage the driving behavior of millions: transportation, safety, psychology, education, communication, testing, civic activism, law enforcement and legislation.
A New Paradigm for a Global Lifelong Driver Education Curriculum	A summary of Chapter 9 in our book ROAD RAGE AND AGGRESSIVE DRIVING
DrDriving.org	My various attempts to give driving psychology away to the community. This Site presents dozens of my articles and hundreds of interviews on road rage, driving personality makeovers, driving psychology, aggressive driving, statistics, and legislation, including an extensive Dear DrDriving correspondence. Leon James is DrDriving.
Aggressive Driving and Road Rage--Dealing With Emotionally Impaired Drivers	This is the text of my congressional testimony to the US House of Representatives, Transportation Committee, July 17, 1997.
DrDriving in the Media	Over 1,000 interviews and radio appearances I gave since 1996 following the intense interest on road rage and aggressive driving. Some interview answers are available online.
The Legend of DrDriving	How I created DrDriving as a media personality, and why.
The Private World of the Driver: Affective, Cognitive, and Sensorimotor	A behavioral rationale for driving psychology. Presents a taxonomy of driving behavior in three domains (feelings, thoughts, actions) and at three levels of internalization (obedience to authority; social responsibility; moral obligation).
Principles of Driving Psychology	Social psychology of driving \| Principles of driving psychology \| Test Toolkit for driver self-assessment \| Road Rage Survey results \| Quality Driving Circles or QDCs \| Law enforcement and legislation activities summary \| Movie ratings for DBB (Drivers Behaving Badly) \| Cartoons and videotapes \| Analyzing Newsgroups for drivers \| and more.
National Road Rage Survey Results	My online road rage survey results in 2000. The article is replete with statistical analyses and graphs on aggressive driving behaviors in relation to age, gender, type of car, and other factors.
CARRworkbook: Children Against Road Rage	Written with Dr. Diane Nahl and based on our book, these anti-road rage awareness activities and exercises are to be done by parents and teachers with their children to increase their awareness and protect them from growing up to be the next generation of aggressive drivers.
Summary Outline of DrDriving's Philosophy and Approach	This outline is not only a summary but a hypertext tie-in with the other major documents on driving.
Are SUV drivers more aggressive?	Discussion by our students (1999).
Two Concept Papers for Traffic Safety Improvement	(1) Instituting a Program of Lifelong Traffic Safety Training and (2) Promoting the Spread of Quality Driving Circles (QDC) for Post-Licensing Driver Self-improvement Programs (2006)
Drivers Against Pedestrians	Pedestrians killed by drivers; the "me vs. them" mentality toward pedestrians; Changing Attitudes Toward Pedestrians; Checklist: Your Tendency to Pressure Pedestrians; Checklist: Emotional Intelligence Towards Pedestrians; Sample Pedestrian Self-Witnessing Report.
Songs About Driving Cars on Roads and Highways	America's Passion for Cars and The American Philosophy of Cars -- Expressed in Songs About Driving Cars on Roads and Highways -- Spiritually Understood.

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Articles on Social Psychology, Applied Psycholinguistics, Foreign Language Teaching, Discourse Analysis, Ethnomethodology, and Ethnosemantics

SOCIETY'S WITNESSES

With Dr. Diane Nahl, presents the implementation of the Community-Classroom Approach within the context of an undergraduate course in social psychology. 1978 and 1981.

Half a Century of Science in Psychology: Neologisms Coined by Leon James 1958-2008

Alphabetical list, with dates, of expressions I coined since 1958, with links to full text articles in which I use and define the new term. A Glossary is provided with definitions of all the terms. Also given is the Google search number of occurrences of each expression used by others on the Web.

Discoveries and Inventions by Leon James

Here is a list of them with links to articles: 1960-2004.

Microdescriptions of Information Searching behavior

Affective, Cognitive and Sensorimotor Domains. This is the text of a research proposal by Diane Nahl and Leon James to the National Science Foundation (some years ago...but I feel it is a basic statement.

The Analysis of Transactional Engineering Competence

Chapter 7 of a book now out of print: The Context of Language Teaching (Rowley, Mass.: Newbury House, 1974). Topics include: The Transactional Model of Talk | Language Teaching: Elements in the General Pedagogic Model of Conversational Transactions | Educational Psycholinguistics: Teaching as Telling--Learning as Listening | Pedagogic Ambiguities and Levels of Insight in the Instructional Register | Authenticity and the Teaching-Learning Process | Disagreeing: An Inauthentic Transaction | Authentic Teaching | Antidotes to Disagreements | The Teacher Paradox | The Authentic Teacher's Transactional Profile.

Teacher Training Workshop In Community-Classroom Techniques

Theoretical Principles || Benefits of Community-Classroom || What Students Say || Summer Intensive Program || Grading Techniques || Interdisciplinary Research Opportunity || Lecture Meetings

The Third Force in Language Teaching: A New Ethnomethodological Approach to Discourse Analysis and Instruction

A critique of Earl Stevick's psychodynamic/counseling approach and an alternative in terms of transactional engineering. The Appendix presents a workshop for teachers and psycholinguists on discourse analysis and "color wisdom" techniques. The latter are also suitable for those interested in computer generated discourse, intelligent software agents, and machine-based intelligent retrieval systems. Topics include: The Teacher's Kit Chart for the Ethno-Semantics of Discourse | Principles Relating to the Technology of Discourse | Implementing a Transactional Engineering Program | Exercises for Conversational Interaction, Reading Skills, Writing Skills, Communicative Contact, and Verbal Articulation | Enculturation/Socialization/Assimilation

The Social Psychology of Language Teaching

Co-authored with Dr. Barbara Gordon, this article was published in I. Koike et.al. (Eds.), The Teaching of English in Japan. Tokyo: Eichosha, 1978.

What is Communicative Competence

This brief Introduction to Sandra Savignon's book was written in 1972. I was the first to use the expression "communicative competence" in the literature, and it is on this account that Dr. Savignon asked me to direct her doctoral dissertation on this topic, and this book is the outcome.

Foreign Language Teaching in the Year 2000

Written in 1980, I take an ethnomethodologist's perspective to speculate on futuristic language teaching.

Psychological Characteristics of Titles

This is an empirical study on how students react to titles emotionally and intellectually given various characteristics titles have. Titles (including file names) are important because they are the chief organizing tools for personal information retrieval.

Resistance to Improving One's Health Behaviors

An article on why and how students sabotage their own self-improvement attempts at healthier lifestyles. Explores the deep significance of resistance in human mental development.

Applied Psycholinguistics in Social Psychology: An Ethnomethodological Perspective

A methodological report written with Diane Nahl in 1977, but still relevant to those who are interested in ethnomethodology and psycholinguistics, including speech acts and conversational analysis.

Principles of Ethnosemantics

Written in 1975, this work sets the foundations for an ethnomethodological study of culture using semantic methods of investigation.

Analyzing the Framework of Human Thought -- an Ethnosemantic Application

An outline that formally defines numbers 1 through 9 as basic cognitive structures and their application to discourse analysis.

Ethnographic Discourse Methodology

Written: 1968-1982, it provides structural imprints of semantic and lexical units: Level of Heights | Degrees of Breadth | Color Coded Vocabulary | Color Coded Subject Headings | Triconcentric Subject Headings.

The Transactional Model of Talk
and
Notes on Community Psycholinguistics

My attempt in 1971 at an ethnomethodological description of various discourse phenomena: Topicalization Mechanisms | Identifying Oriented to Features | Register Modality | Structure and Function of Transactional Idioms | Investigatory Practices of Conversationalists | Face Work and topic Oriented Moves | and other issues.

The Act of Composition

Elements in a performance model of language. Written in 1968, I present a behavioral taxonomy of speech acts that is compatible with both behaviorism and mentalism. Here I make a crucial new and historical distinction: linguistic competence vs. communicative competence.

Typology of Radicalist Assertions in Psychotherapy and Education

Written in 1973, this paper proposes a classification system for assertions -- definitional, categorizing, descriptive, radicalist, objectifying, subjectifying, vacuous, nonsensical.

Instructions for the Study of Transcript Analysis

Prepared with the help of Dr. Diane Nahl, many of my students were enabled to do transcript analysis of their own talk using these detailed pointers.

Transcript Analysis in Psychotherapy

The summary of a conference paper at the Annual Meeting of the Hawaii Psychological Association in 1982. Looks at how speech act analysis can reveal underlying psycholinguistic functioning. Contains a taxonomy of affective, cognitive, and behavioral language symptoms based on the spiritual psychology of Swedenborg.

Bird Stories -- The Social Psychology of a Backyard Aviary

What happens when we apply interaction analysis to birds in an aviary? Their exchanges reveal territoriality behaviors and sensory adaptation that are surprisingly like those of humans.

A CONMUNITY OF LOVEBIRDS

Written by student Bernadette Ching under the supervision of Leon James, 1978.

The Psychological Bases of Second Language Learning

Coloquium given at Indiana University in 1970.

TRANSACTIONAL ENGINEERING FOR THE LANGUAGE TEACHER: THE THIRD FORCE IN LANGUAGE TEACHING

Guest presentation at the Alberta Teachers Association in 1976. || Talk is Spontaneous || Everybody is a Foreigner/Regular || Topicalizing is an Interactive Phenomenon || Talk is the Medium of Transactional Exchanges || Topicalizing—oriented Language Teaching || The Three Forces in Language Teaching || The Pathological View on the Language Learner || The Six Phases of Learning to Talk

Research Findings and Foreign Language Requirements in Colleges and Universities

A report prepared for the Liberal Arts School Committee on the Foreign Language Requirement, University of Illinois, Urbana, May 1968.|| TEACHING METHODS IN FL INSTRUCTION || THE CASE FOR FL APTITUDE || THE ATTAINMENT OF FL PROFICIENCY || THE EFFECTS OF MOTIVATION AND INTEREST IN FL LEARNING || THE GOALS AND BENEFITS OF FL STUDY || Recommended Changes in FL Requirements

APPLIED PSYCHOLINGUISTICS IN SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY || Another version

Invited contribution to a jubilee Vol. in honor of Professor D. Kostic, Founder of the Institute for Experimental Phonetics, Yugoslavia, August 1978. || Some Syntactic Properties of Conversational Interaction || The Daily Round Archives Index (Classification System).

Psychological Perspectives on Individualizing Foreign Language Instruction

A paper prepared for the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, Ky., April 1971.

LANGUAGE TEACHING VS. THE TEACHING OF TALK

Written in 1979. || THE SOCIO-HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF LANGUAGE || THE ABSTRACTION OF || SPONTANEITY AND RELATIONSHIPS: THE BASIC MECHANISMS OF || THE ART OF NOT-TEACHING || Transactional engineering in the classroom || Test taking sophistication || LITERACY VERSUS COMPOSITION

Transactional Engineering Analysis and FL teaching: A Reply to Ney

Written around 1975. The Relationship Between Theory and Practice || The Transactional Engineering Analysis of FL Teaching ||

Workbook for the Study of Social Psychology

Theory-Building in Social Psychology

Chapter 10 of the above Workbook for the Study of Social Psychology.

The Ennead Matrix of the Threefold Self: Affective, Cognitive, Sensorimotor

How undergraduate students in social Psychology apply my ennead matrix to their threefold-self in context with their textbook: Edward Krupat's Psychology is Social.

Empiricism Married to Phenomenology: A Review of Carol Kates, "Pragmatics and Semantics"

Originally published in Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1982, 4(2), 205-10.

The Psycholinguists:
Whither Now?

This is my review of George A. Miller's influential book, The Psychology of Communication: Seven Essays. New York: Basic Books, 1967. (Originally published in: Contemporary Psychology, vol. XIV, No. 3, March 1969.)

American Psycholinguists with a European Perspective

This is my book review of Psycholinguists: An Introduction to Research and Theory by Hans Hormann (Tr. by H.H. Stern). Berlin: Springer-Verlag New York-Heidelberg-Berlin, 1971.

Prolegomena to a Theory of Communicative Competence

Published in 1969, this paper shows that I was the first to use the expression "communicative competence" which has since become widespread. Topics include: The Competence-Performance Issue | Linguistic Competence and Communicative Competence | The Indexical Nature of Meaning Meaning: A Three-Dimensional Analysis | Individual Differences in Communicative Competence | Communicative Competence and Style.

The Affect of Symbols: Towards the Development of a Cross-Cultural Graphic Differential

Published in 1969 in the International Journal of Symbology, 1969, 1, 28-52 (the Journal then folded...), these data prove that a semantic differential scale is possible with pictographic opposites, instead of the usual bi-polar adjectives. To my knowledge, no one has yet replicated this approach--but I hope it is done, as it seems important for the field of aesthetics as well as for the use of culture free affective measures.

Comprehensive Discourse Analysis and Its Applications

Comprehensive Discourse Analysis: The Levels and Qualities of Human Affairs

A Psycholinguistic Classification Scheme for Discourse and Behavior

The Height and Breadth of Discourse || The Height and Breadth of Behavior || Vertical and Horizontal Interactions || Applications to Discourse Analysis in Education || The Horizontal Dimension of Discourse

Social Psychological Propositions Needed to Justify Transcript and Discourse Analysis

Psychobiology and Pragmatics in relation to discourse analysis. An outline for a class handout in 1981.

PSYCHOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE

Written in 1977 with Diane Nahl. An ethnosemantic perspective showing that Community Cataloguing Practices are the data of social psychology.

The Language Teacher's Threefold Self

Written in 1982 for an ESL colloquium, these slides review my longtime distinctions between communicative intentions, communicative competence, and communicative performance. It applies Lewin's field dynamic techniques to the learning situation.

The Propositional Logic of Paraphrastic Sets

Another early development in 1983 in which I propose a taxonomy of assertions in talk.

Psychological Propositions Needed to Justify Transcript and Discourse Analysis

Written in 1982 it outlines the relation between speech acts, striving issues, intentions, dialog, and relationships.

The Nine Masters of Social Psychology

An original organization of topics I used for my social psychology lecture notes in the early 1980s with the collaboration of Diane Nahl.

Summary of Rudolf Steiner's Principles of Education

With Diane Nahl, written in 1979. This is a bare outline of how we saw it then. However we did not continue our studies of this approach.

Applied Psycholinguistics for the 1980s: Student-Done Discourse Analysis and The Videotape Language Lab

With Diane Nahl, written in 1981, it briefly reviews each decade from the 1950s onward.

An Empirical Study of the Development of Transactional Engineering Competence

Chapter 8 of a book now out of print: The Context of Language Teaching (Rowley, Mass.: Newbury House, 1974)

Psychological and Physiological Aspects of Foreign Language Learning

Written in 1970, I examine the notion of surface and base and how these new concepts can be applied to teaching the knowledge of structure and other successful acquisition strategies. Chapter 2 of a book now out of print: Foreign Language Learning (Rowley, Mass.: Newbury House, 1970).

Psycholinguistic Implications for the Teaching of Foreign Languages

Written in 1970, I examine the notion of language aptitude in both behavioral and neurophysiological terms and give its implications for teaching and learning. Chapter 1 of a book now out of print: Foreign Language Learning (Rowley, Mass.: Newbury House, 1970).

New Directions in Foreign Language Education

Chapter 3 of a book now out of print: The Context of Language Teaching ( Rowley, Mass.: Newbury House, 1974) Topics include: Cognitive Learning and Transactional Competence and Performance.

Assessing Foreign Language Proficiency

Chapter 4 of a book now out of print: Foreign Language Learning (Rowley, Mass.: Newbury House, 1970). Topics include: A Functional Approach to Communicative Competence | Measuring Tools for Language Proficiency | Compound-Coordinate Bilingualism | Attitudinal Measures

Compensatory Foreign Language Instruction

Chapter 3 of a book now out of print: Foreign Language Learning (Rowley, Mass.: Newbury House, 1970). A detailed breakdown of the dozens of factors that determine language acquisition and how to use them to compensate for individual learner differences.

Pattern Practice: A New Rationale for an Old Habit

Chapter 4 of a book now out of print: The Context of Language Teaching ( Rowley, Mass.: Newbury House, 1974) Topics include: Transactional Engineering Analysis and Language Teaching.

Freedom to Teach and Freedom to Learn

Chapter 5 of a book now out of print: The Context of Language Teaching ( Rowley, Mass.: Newbury House, 1974) Topics include: Ordinary and Specialized Communicative Skills | The Teaching-Learning Interaction | Our Current Educational Slogans in the Light of a New Consciousness and Their Consequences | The Greeting of the FL Classroom | The Relevance of Research For the School Administrator and the FL Supervisor

Student-Centered Foreign Language Teaching

Introduction to Foundations of Foreign Language Teaching and Learning: Psychological Aspects (In Eberhard Reichmann (Ed.), The Teaching of German: Problems and Methods. Published by the National Carl Schurz Association Teaching Aid Project (Winchell Company, Philadelphia), 1970. Part II, Chapter 1.

Authentic Language Teaching Through Culture-Simulation in the Classroom

COMMUNITY-CLASSROOM || CULTURE-LEARNING IS ONTOLOGICAL || ONTOLOGY IS THE ANALYSIS OF DEPTH || THE THREE DISCRETE DEGREES OF DEPTH OF UTTERANCE || THE THREE DGREES OF DPTH IN AUTHENTIC LANGUAGE TEACHING || CASE HISTORY ILLUSTRATIONS (1982)

A review of “Discourse Analysis in Second Language Research"

Published in Applied Psycholinguistics, 1981, 2, 185-191

The Behavioral Technology of Discourse Analysis

Lecture Notes Written in 1972.

The Context of Foreign Language Teaching: The Pedagogical Context

Chapter 1 of a book now out of print: The Context of Language Teaching (Rowley, Mass.: Newbury House, 1974). Topics include: Bilingualism and Biculturalism | How to Individualize Language Teaching | Traditional vs. Compensatory Instruction | Educational Slogans and the Sequential Hypothesis Initiating Change: The EBTA-mobile Trip | New Directions in FL Education | Experiential and Cognitive Learning | Testing for Transactional Competence

The Language Teacher’s Threefold Self

ESL Talk--1982.

AUTHENTICITY IN FL TEACHING

Introduction to Sandra Savignon, Toward Communicative Competence: An Experiment in Foreign Language Teaching. Philadelphia: Center for Curriculum Development, 1972

TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAM IN APPLIED SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHOLINGUISTICS

Written in 1980, a brief outline for COMMUNITY-CLASSROOM: SUMMER INTENSIVE WORK PROGRAM FOR TEACHERS || GRADING TECHNIQUES: THE COLLECTIVE POINT || INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH

The Psychology of Ordinary Language Use

Chapter 9 of a book now out of print: The Context of Language Teaching ( Rowley, Mass.: Newbury House, 1974) Topics include: Speech Acts | Ethnomethodology | Applied Psycholinguistics | Discourse Analysis | The Indeterminacy of Meaning | The Nature of Reference.

Book Review 1 || Book Review 2 || Book Review 3 || Book Review 4 || Book Review 5 || Book Review 6 || Book Review 7 ||

James, L. A. (Jakobovits) and B. Gordon. The Context of Foreign Language Teaching. Rowley. Massachusetts: Newbury House, 1974. Pp. 286.

An Encounter Workshop for Language Teachers in a Bicultural Setting

Chapter 6 of a book now out of print: The Context of Language Teaching ( Rowley, Mass.: Newbury House, 1974)--Cultural Confrontation vs. Encounter | The Structure of ETW Groups | The Encounter Process: A Transactional Engineering Approach

Theory Building in Social Psychology

Preparing the DESOCS

"DESOCS" is an acronym that stands for "developmental" sequence of the Conceptual statement." A course program that divides selected materials into unit presentation chunks over a semester period of study is an instance of a desocs plan. Also, a single lesson when viewed from the perspective of the teacher preparing the daily lesson plans. Includes examples of structured pedagogic presentations of topical units.

Understanding Discourse: From Ethnosemantics to Transactional Engineering

An outline of the four movements of discourse: (1) Ethnosemantic Outlines (the reconstruction of taxonomic relationships in lexical and morphophonemic displays in ordinary talk); (2) Topic Focus (the description of register modality mechanisms underlying the structure of topicalization in conversation and writing); (3) Display Repertoire (a characterization of standard cultural units of behavior and a definition of context); (4) Constitutive Exchanges (the functional analysis of discourse as a system of exchanges of transactional moves; the systematic analysis of transcripts of taped conversation; the description of the structure of discourse, narratives, story-telling, and the instructional register)

Taxonomy of Microdescriptions on the Daily Round: Part 1

Part 2 continues here

Actual Transcript and Analyses found
(1) here | (2) here , | (3) and here

Transcript Analysis:
of interactions and relationship | of social forces of the setting | of cognitive processes or standardized imaginings | of reasoning power and argument structure.

The functional analysis of community:
Integrating psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, and ethnosemantics (or, psychology, linguistics, and sociology).

The Daily Round Archives (DRA)

Diane Nahl's attempt to create an ethnomethodological classification system for the daily round of human activities based on our empirical investigations of everyday behavior and talk.

My Talk and Logging Activities

How to do transcript analysis and logging activities to detail the social psychological structure of daily life. This is basic.

The Social Psychology of Song Analysis

The Mobius Strip Book

In 1976, long before hypertext and the online book, I tried to create a non-linear sequenced book in print format for the study of social psycholinguistics. Topics include: Dualities of Talk | Radicalist Understanding | Reconstructing Standard Meaning | Face Work Register | Authenticity in Discourse | Spiritual and Secular Work or Psycho-graphic Ontology | Discourse Thinking Enactments | Ratification Process in Conversation | Transactional Engineering Analysis | Subjectifying and Objectifying Accounts of Life | Biography

The Empirical Investigation of Conversation: The Closing Problem

Deals with the ethnomethodological problem of how conversations are brought to an end.

Discourse thinking Accounts: A Transactional Model for the Study of Mental Life

Community-Building Forces

This is a Social Psychology Textbook for Community-Classroom used by my students in the early 1980s. It is also a basic outline and justification of the New Community-Classroom of the future.

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Community Archives

With Diane Nahl. Exploring the relationship between records of experience and archival collections.

Medical Daily Round (MDR)

Self-witnessing of one's body symptoms with the Medical Daily Round Inventory using a case history approach: "Nothing less than the daily round approach can offer a methodology sufficiently situational and actual, to operationalize the medical assessment schema."

Topical Structure of Social Psychology

Chapter 7 of a Workbook for the Study of Social Psychology used by my community-classroom in 1976.

Applied Psycholinguistics in Social Psychology

This is my 1978 invited contribution to a jubilee Vol. in honor of Dr. D. Kostic, Founder of the Institute for Experimental Phonetics, Yugoslavia, August 1978. Originally published in: Zbornik Radova O Govoru I Jezicu (Commemorative Vol. in honor of D. Kostic) Beograd, Yugoslavia: Institute of Experimental Phonetics, 1979. Topics include: Face Work | Community Cataloguing Practices (CCPs) | Topicalization Dynamics | Sequencing Devices | Boundary Limits | Structural, Bracketed and Functional Units | Relationship History | and other ethnomethodological concepts relating to discourse and language use as evolved from my own work.

Methodological Issues in Social Psychology

Chapter 8 of a Workbook for the Study of Social Psychology. Topics include: Features of the New Paradigm: Ethnosemantics, Ethogeny, and Ethnomethodology | Ethnosemantics and Social Psychology | The Hexagram of Sudden Memory | A Glossary of Terms in Ethnosemantics | The Universal Basis of Behavior | The Investigation of Community Cataloguing Practices (CCPs)

Workbook for the Study of Social Psychology

Additional sections from the Workbook for the Study of Social Psychology (see above entry). Topics include: Ethnodynamics of Communication Network | Situational Context of Quantitative Assessment | Community Archives | Medical Daily Round

Community Cataloguing Practices (CCPs)

This is the outline of the CCP Series in the above Workbook for the Study of Social Psychology.

Community Cataloguing Practices (CCPs)
Historical Autobiography in Social Psychology

Ethnosemantics and Social Psychology

Continuation of the above entry. New Paradigm in Social Psychology: Taking the Best of Both.

Glossary of Terms in Ethnosemantics

Continuation of the above entry. The definitional scheme that unites social psychology and ethnosemantics, creating an applied ethnomethodological socio-psycholinguistics based on self-witnessing of community-cataloguing practices. See also the Principles of Ethnosemantics listed above.

Lecture Notes on Ethnosemantics

Course Proposals and Syllabi on Social Psychology, Applied Psycholingusitics, and Community-Classroom

Brief notes in several small files.

The Investigation of Community Cataloguing Practices

Another chapter section of the Workbook for the Study of Social Psychology. Topics include: Personal Variation Within Standardized Community Practices | Identification of the Functional Units of the Daily Round.

The Analysis of Accounts

The difference between explicit and implicit categorizations and the underlying mechanisms of community accounting practices.

A Review of our Semantics Testbook || Another Review ||

Steinberg, Danny D. and Leon A. James (eds.), Semantics: An Inter?disciplinary Reader in Philosophy, Linguistics and Psychology, Cambridge UP., 1971, x, 603pp

Effects of Mere Exposure: A Comment

Originally published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Monograph Supplement, 1968, 9, 30-32. A review of Robert Zajonc's well known hypothesis, in which I present my own alternative explanation in terms of semantic satiation and semantic generation--two concepts from my 1962 doctoral dissertation at McGill University.

Semantic Satiation and Cognitive Dynamics

Originally published in the Journal of Special Education, 1967, 2, 35-44. Proposes the use of semantic satiation and generation as tools for behavioral modification and special education.

Semantic Satiation as a Function of Initial Polarity

This is my 1967 presentation at the Eastern Psychological Association and was never published. It is of technical interest to those studying the phenomenon of semantic satiation.

Effects of Repeated Stimulation on Cognitive Aspects of Behavior: Some Experiments on the Phenomenon of Semantic Satiation

My Ph.D. Dissertation at McGill University, 1962.

Rhetoric and Stylistics: Some Basic Issues in the Analysis of Discourse

Originally published in College Composition and Communication, 1969, 20, 314-28. Topics include: Utterances as Indexical Expressions | Objectifying Style and Quality of Discourse | Creative Sequencing

Implications of Recent Psycholinguistic Developments for the teaching of a Second Language || Another version here

Paper delivered to the 1968 convention of TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) in San Antonio, Texas, March 9, 1968. Deals with The Acquistion of Meaning and Syntax.

Some Potential Uses of the Cross-cultural Atlas of Affective Meanings

Presented at the XI Interamerican Congress of Psychology, Mexico, 1967. Also reprinted in: W.W. Lambert and Rita Weisbrod (Eds.), Comparative Perspectives on Social Psychology. Boston: Little, Brown, 1971. Describes a method of componential analysis for cross-cultural hypothesis testing with the Semantic Differential Atlas.

Genetic Culture: The Primacy of the Affective over the Cognitive

With Diane Nahl. The Swedenborgian perspective that clarifies this all important relationship in human behavior. Integrated with our research in educational psycholinguistics and ethnosemantics.

Radicalist Empiricism: The Universal Modes of Enactment in Human Experience

Written in 1974, this is a Self-Witnessing Account of the Discovery of Sudden Memory and My Interpretation of Its Significance for the Human Race. Topics include: Awakening and Re-awakening || Oscillation of Awareness || Experiment 1: Mere Witnessing Doing Nothing || Experiment 2: Observing the Process of Experiential Contraction || Navigational Performances || Reflective Awareness: Distinction Between Consciousness and Experiencing || Self-Actualizing || Thinking as a Scanning Operation || Modes of Captivity Through the Daily Schedule || Memory and Social Identity || The Register of Captivity || The Consequences of the Daily Schedule: Things We Forget || Standardized Imaginings and the Reconstruction of Record || Sudden Memory: A New Discovery || Epilogue One: Rex's Wisdom || Epilogue Two: the Mode of Enactment in the Radicalist Register || Afterword

Empirical Metaphysics and Physics:
Common Conceptual Foundations

Written in 1971, and continued with the article below. Topics include: The Metaphysics of Physics | The Conceptual Order in Physics and Empirical Metaphysics | Non-empirical Accounts |The Metaphysics of Nothingness | Empirical Metaphysics | Ordinary and Special Consensus.

Essays on Nothing and Everything--
Contributions to a Radicalist Philosophy of the Human Condition

Punishment and Reinforcement in the Library

Written in 1983 this article reviews the learning principles that apply to library use: Search Behavior and the Conditions of Learning | Motivation | Responding | The Concept of Reinforcement in the Library | Managing the Library's Reinforcement Environment | Token Economy System in the Library | The Concept of Punishment in the Library | Library Searching: A Punishing Experience at First | The Educative Function of Punishment in the Library | External and Internal Restraints | Learned Helplessness in the Library | Teaching Self-regulation in the Library

Teaching the Analysis of Titles: Dependent and Independent Variables in Research Articles

Written in 1986 with Diane Nahl, this article presents a discovery we made about titles of experimental articles in the journal literature, namely, that they embody the design of the experiment: Titles of Experimental Reports in the Social Sciences | Titles from the Physical and Biochemical Sciences | Teaching the Analysis of Titles

Measuring Information Searching Competence

A taxonomy of instructional objectives for search behavior was used to develop a quiz that measures skills in three domains of search behavior (affective, cognitive, sensorimotor) at three levels of competence (basic, intermediate, advanced). A computer-based education system known as PLATO was used to test an online interactive measure of information searching competence on three populations of university students (1990).

Learning the Library: Taxonomy of Skills and Errors

A theoretical scheme classifies user behavior into three domains of library activity—affective, cognitive, and psychomotor—and into three levels of learning—orientation, interaction, and internalization. Examples are given of library skills and errors in each of nine major classes. Applications are suggested in the areas of library orientation and instruction, testing and diagnostics, reference, signs, and guides. (1987)

Identifying the Two Faces of Library Management.

Written by Diane Nahl in 1978. A Review of H.A. Simon, The Shape of Automation for Men and Management, New York: Harper & Row, 1965.

THE NATIONAL LABORATORIES FOR LITERACY - NLL

Written in 1978. || The Daily Round Archives: Foundations for the Natural History of Community Life || Ethno-Semantics || Coded Wisdom || The Hexagram of Semantic Evolution || Language Teaching Pedagogy ||

Social Psychology: Song Analyses

Content analysis of the inner meaning of popular songs. From our Social Psychology classes in 1981.

Social Psychology Class Notes

Directory of scanned notes (very rough--not cleaned up).

Affective Computers

Discussion by our students (1999).

Air Rage

Discussion by our students (1999).

Anonymity Online

Discussion by our students (1998).

Are computers human-like?

Discussion by our students (1998).

Psychology and Pets

Human Catheads. Pets loss psychology. Cats in the News.

Articles and course Notes
by Dr. Leon James
and Dr. Diane Nahl
(various topics)
1962-1985

Student Cognitive Atlas DRA (1978) | Measuring Information Searching Competence (1990) | Learning the Library: Taxonomy of Skills and Errors (1987) | Authentic language teaching through culture-simulation in the classroom (1982) | Course Proposal on Psycholinguistics and Ethnosemantics (1976) | Community Classroom: List of Developments (1975 - 1982) | DRA Librarian Diane Nahl (1979) | A Plan for an Online Reference Service in an Academic Library (1982) | Taxonomy of Library Skills and errors from discourse analysis of search protocols (1984) | and more....

Articles on Swedenborg, Spiritual Psychology, Theistic Psychology, Religious Behaviorism, and Scientific Dualism

Swedenborg Glossary
of Theistic Psychology

This is a lifelong project of my attempt to integrate Swedenborg into modern psychology. The result is scientific dualism--the future of psychology. I also use the phrase "Theistic Psychology" in contrast to "non-theistic" psychology. The glossary contains hundreds of entries, each linked to a full text article.

Spiritual Psychobiology

Written in 1982, I discuss how the human mind is described in Swedenborg's Rational Psychology, in particular, the affective, cognitive, and sensorimotor domains.

Theological and Psychological Aspects of Mental Health: The Marriage of Good and Truth

Explores the significance of Swedenborg's spiritual psychology for scientific, behavioral, and clinical psychology and its implications for the philosophy of science and history of psychology. Topics: Mental Health and the Spiritual | Substantive Dualism and Spiritual Influx | Psycho-Spiritual Aspects of Mental Health | Levels of Transcendence: The Breadth and Height of the Self | Biological Theology | Application 1: Modern Psychological Concepts Corresponding to Swedenborg's Threefold Nomenclature | Application 2: Mental Health Symptoms Mapped unto Swedenborg's Nomenclature | Symbolism in Dreams and Myths

Lecture Notes on Swedenborg's Religious Behaviorism: Vol.2

Swedenborgís Science of Correspondences: An Empirical Method for the Psychology of Religion

Psychology of Religion: Strong and Weak Versions | Swedenborgís Religious Behaviorism | Science of Correspondences | Research issues | Dream Analysis

Religious Behaviorism: Swdenborg's Ennead of Religion

A brief outline and a chart (1987).

Bible Study Charts for Correspondences and Discourse Analysis

The Height and Breadth of Discourse

Written in 1983 and beginning to show Swedenborg's influence on our thinking. The Height and Breadth of Discourse | The Height and Breadth of Behavior | Vertical and Horizontal Interactions | Applications to Discourse Analysis in Education | The Horizontal dimension of Discourse

Dictionary of Graphic Concepts and the Ennead Matrix

Ditto. Written in 1984. An application of the ennead structures in the analysis of everyday discourse behavior in academia.

My Various Articles on the Affective-Cognitive Connection

A Conceptual Framework for Explaining Information Behavior || Revelation About the Affective and the Cognitive || The Will and Understanding || The Heart and Lungs || Good and Truth || Religious Behaviorism || Religious Psychology || Comprehensive Discourse Analysis and Its Applications || Driving Behavior || Phases of Development in Becoming Internet Literate || In Psychotherapy || The Threefold Self || Symbols and Drawings || Topical Organization in Social Psychology || Titles of Articles || Resistance to Health Behaviors || Language Teaching || Song Analysis || Genetic Culture || Cross-cultural Atlas of Affective Meanings || Swedenborg's Theory of Trisubstantivism || The Genes of Consciousness

Simultaneous and Successive Degrees in the Uses of Language and Speech

Religious Psychology or Theistic Psychology:
A Guide to Spiritual Self-examination

Written in 1984 with Diane Nahl. Describes our insights in studying Swedenborg and applying his ideas to modern psychology. Topics include: The External and Internal Church | Developmental phases Confirmation Theory | History of the Churches on Earth | The Positive Bias | The Subject Matter of the Word | Revelation About the Affective and the Cognitive | Twenty Propositions of Religious Psychology | The Marriage of the Will and the Understanding | Revelation About the Affective and the Cognitive | Studying the Psychology of Inner Life| The Content and Dynamics of Inner Life | Religious Affections are Inherited | Religious Self-Inspection | Discovering the Steps of Regeneration through Microdescriptions of our Inner Life | The Threefold Order of the World and of Heaven | The Ninefold Self and the Ninefold Word | The Simple but Basic States of Our Religion in Childhood | The Psychology of Temptations

Spiritual Geography: The Horizontal and Vertical Communities of our Dual Citizenship

Part 2 of the above. Topics include: The Threefold Organization of Mind and Spirit || What's in a Daydream || Repentance, Change and Purification || Successive and Simultaneous Degrees: The Growth of the Self || The Ennead Matrix or Nine Zones of Life or Self || The Method of Reflection || The Method of Spiritual Geography || The Regions of the Mind The Interior Meaning of "Thomas" or, The Old Church State Within Us || Resistance to the Development of the Church Within Us || The Clinical Issues in Religious Psychology

Spiritual Psychology: Groundwork for our Science

The relation between cyberspace and the spiritual world viewed as virtual reality.

The Coming Swedenborgian Revolution in the Social Sciences and Humanities

Written for Logos Winter 1982 issue, it shows how Swedenborg's Triune Model of the Universe coincides perfectly with modern psychology's three domains of behavior: affective, cognitive, and sensorimotor--in that order of hierarchical precedence or control.

Swedenborg's Theory of Trisubstantivism as a Basis for the Science of Human Behavior

Swedenborg's Behaviorism of Affective, Cognitive, and Sensorimotor Domains | Scientific Psychology of Religion | Swedenborg's Theistic Psychology | Science Reborn--The New Dualism in Science

Two Perspectives on Swedenborg's Writings: Secular and Religious
and
The Reciprocal Relation Between Science and Revelation: Part 1 and Part 2

Two articles that examine whether God, miracles, and life after death can be scientifically meaningful concepts. It also looks at contemporary New Church thought on science and religion, and especially religious oriented science education in the New Church mentality. Both articles were published in New Church Life.

Overcoming Objections to Swedenborg's Writings Through the Development of Scientific Dualism

Substantive Dualism -- The New Paradigm for Science

The Postmodern Paradigm Shift in Psychology
Synopsis of Swedenborg's Theology:
Synopsis of Swedenborg's rational psychology:
Spiritual Associations or The Vertical Community
Marriage Love--The Unit of Life is the Couple
The Psychology of Regeneration
Postmodern Psychology Allied to Biological Theology.

The Fourteen Scientific Fallacies in Swedenborg's AC 5084: Implications for Science Education

The Dimensions of the Mind According to Emanuel Swedenborg

I created these tables and charts in 1982 during my first study of Swedenborg's Writings. The diagrams and charts made his ideas much clearer to grasp and showed the absolute rationality of his scientific account: Three Levels of the Affective, Cognitive, Sensorimotor Mind | Affective awareness | Affective responding | Domains and Levels of awareness | Natural, Rational, Spiritual, Celestial levels of the mind.

Theistic Science
and Theistic Psychology:
Introduction and Overview

This is the introduction and overview to the Swedenborg Glossary by Leon James. Topics include: Why Theistic Science is the Future of Science | Theistic Psychology Methodology | Why the Trinity is a Rational Necessity | Illustrative List of Scientific Revelations | Difference Between Religion and Theistic Psychology | The Unity of Theistic Science | The Three Layers in Scientific Revelations | Diagram 1 The Trigrammatic Construction of the Universe | Diagram 2 The Three Compositions and Layers of the Universe | Diagram 3 The Three Levels of Science | Diagram 4 The Three Divine Aspects | Diagram 5 The Male Mind and the Female Mind (part 1) | Diagram 6 The Male Mind and the Female Mind (part 2) | Diagram 7 The Trigrammatic Structure in Parallel Series | Diagram 8 The Ennead of Levels and Substances: Celestial, Spiritual, Natural | Diagram 9 Trinitarian Composition of God in Theistic Psychology

The Genes of Consciousness

Swedenborg's notion of human development explored with charts and diagrams.

A Man of the Field:
Forming The New Church Mind in Today’s World

Vol. 1: Reformation--The Struggle Against Nonduality Vol. 2: Regeneration--Religious Disciplines for Forming the New Church Mind

Moses, Paul, and Swedenborg: Three Steps in Rational Spirituality

Defines three steps in spiritual development: Natural, Spiritual, and Celestial thinking, feeling, or consciousness.

Diagnostic Test of
Rational Spirituality

This is a 100-item multiple-choice test of rational spirituality as defined in the Moses book just above. Topics include: What is heaven and hell. What happens when we die. What are spirits and can we communicate with them. What are angels and devils and do they affect us. Why God allows evil in the world. What is sin, rebirth, reformation, regeneration, and salvation. What is the importance and role of revelation. Can there be a science of God from God about God. What is love, good, truth, and wisdom. What is spiritual enlightenment and higher consciousness. What is the relation between the finite and infinite. What is the relation between the natural and spiritual or supernatural. Are miracles real.

Bryn Athyn:
The City of Levites
in the New Canaan

This city in Pennsylvania is the birthplace of the idea that the Writings of Swedenborg are the Word of the Second Coming. This is a report of my first visit there in January 2003.

Out Of Egypt
Have I Called My Son

Teaching the Scientifics of the Internal Sense of the Writings. 1. By the Substitution Technique 2. By Diagramming

Spiritual Psychology:
The Mental Technology of
Self-Witnessing

The method of self-witnessing applied to regeneration as defined in the Writings of Swedenborg.

Spiritual Psychology Based on the Writings of Swedenborg

Scientific Dualism and Theistic Psychology; The Content of Spiritual Psychology; Evidence and Corroboration of the Writings of Swedenborg; Empirical Observations; Historical Evidence; Body-Mind Parallelism; Objective Self-witnessing of Becoming Spiritually Enlightened; Two Fundamental Principles of Spiritual Psychology

New Church Education With Dualist Concepts

Teaching scientific dualism requires a new instructional approach that uses integrated concepts in which the chain of causation from the spiritual Sun to the natural sun is defined as part of the concept being taught.

Can There Be a Scientific Proof that the Threefold Word
is Divine

A new perspective on scientific dualism based on the idea of scientific revelations given in Sacred Scripture as True Science. Do they meet scientific criteria?

The Doctrine of the Wife for Husbands
(version 1)

The meaning of unity in marriage according to the Book Conjugial Love by Emanuel Swedenborg

The Doctrine of the Wife (Version 2)

Subduing The External Man. The Unregenerate Husband. The surrendered wife vs. the surrendered husband. Rule 1: The Regeneration Discipline Of Acting From The Wife. Giving Up Male Prerogatives As Contrary To Conjugial Unity. The Equity Model Versus The Unity Model Of Marriage. The Spiritual Discipline Of Sweetheart Rituals. Conjugial Intimacy Disciplines. Overcoming Threats To Sweetheart Rituals. How To Avoid Turning Cold Against The Wife. Spiritual Psychobiology Of The Conjoint Self. The Regeneration Discipline Of Conjugial Massage. The Regeneration Discipline of Heaven On Wheels. The spiritual discipline of shopping together. Wife takes precedence over the children. The spiritual discipline of metanoid television watching. Summary of anti-absorption techniques

Doctrine of the Wife
(version 3)

A Spiritual Practice for Achieving Unity | Prologue | Feminizing the Marriage is Sanctifying It | The Doctrine of the Wife in a Nutshell | Heresies Regarding the Husband's Wisdom | The Role of the Wife in the Husband's Wisdom | The Basic Map for Understanding Regeneration of Marriage (Matrix 1) | Comments by Leon James (2001) on Rev. Erik Sandstr?m, Sr's Article (1997) on Feminine Wisdom in New Church Life and a Reprinted Reaction by Linda Simonetti Odhner (1997) | Email Exchange on the Doctrine of the Wife

The Doctrine of the Wife
(version 4)

The Doctrine of the Wife For Husbands
(version 5)

List of Documents by Leon James for the Swedenborg Library Reserve Shelf

With links to the documents. (2003)

The Perizonius Thesis:
How Regeneration of