Authors and their Books

There are many books which had tremendous influence on the discipline of Psychology and thus have attained the status of classic or were best sellers. Occasionally UGC asks questions in which a person is required to match the authors and the books. While studying we come across many books and authors, we need to make a list of such books and their authors. But a vast majority seldom does that. I, therefore, have tried to compile a list which is not exhaustive but I hope will help many students. Don’t try to memories the whole list, just go through it few times that would help in recognising/matching them in the exam because most of the names of the books are associated with the theories of the respective authors.

There is one more technique that you may try. Almost all the authors are associated with some theories so when you are preparing notes then after the theories, write down the names of the books associated with the author. Or if you don’t prepare notes and prefer to read from textbooks then write down after the chapters.

Gordon Allport

Personality: A Psychological Interpretation (1937)

         Traits Revisited (1966)

Alan Baddeley

            Working Memory (1986)

Frederick Bartlett

Remembering: A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology (1932)

John Bowlby

            Attachment and Loss, Volume 1: Attachment (1969)

            Attachment and Loss, Volume 2: Separation, Basic Books (1973)

            Attachment and Loss, Volume 3:  Loss, Sadness and Depression (1980)

Raymond Cattell

            Personality and Learning Theory (1979)

            Intelligence: Its Structure, Growth and Action (1987)

Noam Chomsky

            Syntactic Structures (1957)

            Studies of Semantics in Generative Grammar (1972)

            Rules and Representations (1980)

Erik Erikson

          Childhood and Society (1950)

Insight and Responsibility (1964)

Identity, Youth and Crisis (1968)

Gandhi’s Truth (1969)

Dimensions of a New Identity (1974)

Life History and the Historical Moment (1975)

The Life Cycle Completed: A Review (1982)

Sigmund Freud

            The Interpretation of Dreams (1900)

            The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (1904)

            Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905)

            Totem and Taboo: Resemblances between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics (1913)

            Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920)

            The Ego and the Id (1923)

            The Future of an Illusion (1927)

            Civilization and Its Discontents (1930)

Clark Hull

          Principles of Behavior (1943)

Essentials of Behavior (1951)

          A Behavior System (1952)

Carl Jung

          Psychological Types (1923)

Contributions to Analytic Psychology (1928)

Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933)

Lawrence Kohlberg

            The Philosophy of Moral Development (1981)

            The Meaning and Measurement of Moral Development (1981)

Kurt Lewin

          A Dynamic Theory of Personality (1935)

Principals of Topological Psychology (1936)

The Conceptual Representation and the Measurement of Psychological Forces (1938)

Konrad Lorenz

            On Aggression (1963)

            The Foundations of Ethology (1981)

Abraham Maslow

            Motivation and Personality (1954)

            Toward a Psychology of Being (1962)

            The Farther Reaches of Human Nature (1971)

David McClelland

            The Achieving Society (1961)

Stanley Milgram

            Obedience to Authority (1974)

Jean Piaget

          Judgment and Reasoning in the Child (1928)

Play, Dreams and Imitation in Childhood (1951)

The Child’s Conception of Number (1952)

Origins of Intelligence in the Child (1953)

Construction of Reality in the Child (1954)

Biology and Knowledge (1971)

Equilibration of Cognitive Structures (1985)

Carl Rogers

          Counselling and Psychotherapy (1942)

Client-Centred Therapy (1951)

On Becoming a Person (1961)

A Way of Being (1980)

Herbert Simon

            Human problem-solving (1972) (with A. Newell)

B. F. Skinner

            Science and Human Behavior (1953)

            Verbal Behavior (1957)

            Schedules of Reinforcement (1957) (with C. B. Ferster)

            Beyond Freedom and Dignity (1971)

About Behaviorism (1974)

Edward Thorndike

            Animal Intelligence (1911)

            The Psychology of Wants, Interests and Attitudes (1935)

John Watson

          Animal Education: An Experimental Study on the Psychical Development of the White Rat (1903)

            Behavior: An Introduction to Comparative Psychology (1914)

Behaviorism (1914)

Psychology from the Standpoint of a Behaviorist (1919)

Wilhelm Wundt

            Principles of Physiological Psychology (1873–74)

            Outlines of Psychology (1907)