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Richard Lester Solomon (October 2, 1918 – October 12, 1995) was a psychologist well known for his work with in comparative psychology, as well as his opponent-process theory of emotion.
Mar 1, 1996 · Experimental psychologist and APS Charter Fellow Richard L. Solomon died on October 12, 1995, in Boston, during cardiovascular surgery. Since his retirement from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984, Dick and his wife Maggie had …
- Vincent M. LoLordo
- 1996
- How It Works: A- and B-Processes
- Examples
- Implications of The Theory
This opponent process theory bases itself on the following: a process (x) is directly activated by an emotional event, which triggers a response (y) that is directly related to the event that just took place. For the purposes of simplification, the initial process will be referred to as process A while the triggering response will be referred to as...
The manner in which Solomon achieved support for his theory in the broader medical community was mainly due to his drawing on numerous examples of opponent process effects in the literature. These examples not only gave credibility to the theory but were also drawn from events that are common in life and thus easily relatable for whoever wants to u...
The main implication of this theory is that there are different types of effects that are explained by a single, simple mechanism. The utility of the theory itself is explained by this and from this theory, the conclusion drawn by psychologists is that a person’s initial emotional response elicited by a stimulus event might not necessarily remain a...
He conducted research on a broad array of topics such as word frequency and perceptual defense, children's estimation of the size of tokens, hoarding behaviors in rats, and personality ratings and sociometric patterns. His work made a major contribution to the exploration of Pavlovian conditioning.
RICHARD LESTER SOLOMON 303 sity Professor of Psychology. Dick retired from that depart-ment in 1984. Reflecting the times in which he was trained, Dick Solomon had wide ranging basic research interests within experimental psychology. But two themes run through this remarkably diverse research career: a repeated concern with improving
The early history is prominent in this review as it reflects the inspirations of Richard L. Solomon, a scholar who fostered the resurgence of psychologists’ interests in Pavlovian conditioning in the 1950s and 1960s.
Oct 16, 1995 · Richard L. Solomon, an experimental psychologist, scientist and a professor, died on Thursday in Boston at age 77. The cause of death was complications from cardiac surgery, said his brother,...
