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Bibliography of Tomkins’s Published Writings

In constructing this bibliography, we consulted Exploring Affect: The Selected Writings of Silvan S. Tomkins, edited by E. Virginia Demos; the bibliographical information on the Tomkins Institute website (http://www.tomkins.org/); and the Silvan Tomkins Papers at the Drs. Nicholas and Dorothy Cummings Center for the History of Psychology, University of Akron.

1934

  1. Tomkins, Silvan. “Conscience, Self Love and Benevolence in the System of Bishop Butler.” PhD diss., University of Pennsylvania.

1943

  1. Tomkins, Silvan. “An Analysis of the Use of Electric Shock with Human Subjects.” Journal of Psychology 15, no. 2: 285–97.
  2. Tomkins, Silvan. “Experimental Study of Anxiety.” Journal of Psychology 15, no. 2: 307–13.
  3. Gerbrands, Henry, and Silvan Tomkins. “An Apparatus for the Study of Motor Learning under Threat of Electric Shock.” Journal of Psychology 15, no. 2: 299–305.
  4. Tomkins, Silvan, ed. Contemporary Psychopathology: A Source Book. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

1945

  1. White, Robert, Silvan Tomkins, and Thelma Alper. “The Realistic Synthesis: A Personality Study.” Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology 40, no. 2: 228–48.

1947

  1. Tomkins, Silvan, with Elizabeth Tomkins. The Thematic Apperception Test: The Theory and Technique of Interpretation. New York: Grune and Stratton.

1949

  1. Tomkins, Silvan. “The Present Status of the Thematic Apperception Test.” American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 19, no. 2: 358–62.

1950

  1. Tomkins, Silvan. “Personality and Intelligence: Integration of Projective and Psychometric Techniques.” In Relation of Psychological Tests to Psychiatry, edited by Paul Zubin and Joseph Zubin, 87–104. New York: Grune and Stratton.

1951

  1. Tomkins, Silvan. “A Discussion of ‘Personality Structures and Personality Measurement’ of R. B. Cattell.” In 1951 Invitational Testing Conference, 97–107. Princeton, N.J.: Educational Testing Service.

1952

  1. Tomkins, Silvan. “The Tomkins–Horn Picture-Arrangement Test.” Transactions of the New York Academy of Science 15, no. 2, ser. II: 46–50.

1955

  1. Tomkins, Silvan. “Consciousness and the Unconscious in a Model of the Human Being.” In Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Congress of Psychology: Montreal—June 1954. Actes du Quatorzième Congrès International de Psychologie, 160–61. Amsterdam: North-Holland.
  2. Tomkins, Silvan. “The Role of Tests in the United States with Particular Reference to the Tomkins–Horn Picture Arrangement Test.” In Actas del Primer Congreso Interamericano de Psicología, 218–23. Ciudad Turjillo, Republica Dominicana: Editoria Del Caribe.
  3. Tomkins, Silvan, and John Miner. “Contributions to the Standardization of the Tomkins–Horn Picture Arrangement Test: Plate Norms.” Journal of Psychology 39, no. 1: 199–214.

1956

  1. Tomkins, Silvan S. “La Conscience et L’Inconscient Représentés dans un Modèle de L’Être Humain.” In La Psychoanalyse. 1. Travaux des Années 1953–1955, translated by Muriel Cahen, edited by Jacques Lacan, 275–86. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.

1957

  1. Tomkins, Silvan. “The Influence of Sigmund Freud on American Culture.” In The Influence of John Locke and Sigmund Freud on American Culture, 1–52. Princeton University Special Program in American Civilization Conference. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
  2. Tomkins, Silvan, and John Miner. The Tomkins–Horn Picture Arrangement Test. New York: Springer.

1958

  1. Tomkins, Silvan. Foreword to The Negro Personality: A Rigorous Investigation of the Effects of Culture, by Bertram Karon. New York: Springer.
  2. Reed, Charles, Irving Alexander, and Silvan Tomkins, eds. Psychopathology: A Source Book. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

1959

  1. Tomkins, Silvan, and John Miner. PAT Interpretation: Scope and Technique. New York: Springer.

1960

  1. Tomkins, Silvan. “Personality Research and Psychopathology: A Commentary.” In Perspectives in Personality Research, edited by Henry David and J. C. Brengelmann, 150–58. New York: Springer.

1961

  1. Tomkins, Silvan. “Discussion of Dr. Holt’s Paper.” In Contemporary Issues in Thematic Apperceptive Methods, edited by Jerome Kagan and Gerald Lesser, 44–50. Springfield, Ill.: Charles Thomas.
  2. McCarter, Robert, Silvan Tomkins, and Harold Schiffman. “Early Recollections as Predictors of Tomkins–Horn Picture Arrangement Performance.” Journal of Individual Psychology 17, no. 2: 177–80.

1962

  1. Tomkins, Silvan. Affect Imagery Consciousness. Volume 1. The Positive Affects. New York: Springer.
  2. Tomkins, Silvan. “Commentary: The Ideology of Research Strategies.” In Measurement in Personality and Cognition, edited by Samuel Messick and John Ross, 285–94. New York: John Wiley.

1963

  1. Tomkins, Silvan. Affect Imagery Consciousness. Volume 2. The Negative Affects. New York: Springer.
  2. Tomkins, Silvan. “Left and Right: A Basic Dimension of Ideology and Personality.” In The Study of Lives: Essays on Personality in Honor of Henry A. Murray, edited by Robert White, 389–411. New York: Atherton.
  3. Tomkins, Silvan. “Simulation of Personality: The Interrelationships between Affect, Memory, Thinking, Perception, and Action.” In Computer Simulation and Personality: Frontier of Psychological Theory, edited by Silvan Tomkins and Samuel Messick, 3–57. New York: John Wiley.
  4. Dyer, Henry, Silvan Tomkins, Ralph Turner, and Sherwood Washburn. Race and Intelligence. Edited by Melvin Tumin. New York: Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith.
  5. Tomkins, Silvan, and Samuel Messick, eds. Computer Simulation of Personality: Frontier of Psychological Theory. New York: John Wiley.

1964

  1. Tomkins, Silvan. Polarity Scale. New York: Springer.
  2. Rosenhan, David, and Silvan Tomkins. “On Preference for Hypnosis and Hypnotizability.” International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis 12, no. 2: 109–14.
  3. Tomkins, Silvan, and Robert McCarter. “What and Where Are the Primary Affects? Some Evidence for a Theory.” Perceptual and Motor Skills 18, no. 1: 119–58.

1965

  1. Tomkins, Silvan. “Affect and the Psychology of Knowledge.” In Affect, Cognition and Personality: Empirical Studies, edited by Silvan Tomkins and Carroll Izard, 72–97. New York: Springer.
  2. Tomkins, Silvan. “The Biopsychosociality of the Family.” In Aspects of the Analysis of Family Structure, edited by Ansley Coale, Lloyd Fallers, Marion Levy, David Schneider, and Silvan Tomkins, 102–248. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
  3. Tomkins, Silvan. “The Psychology of Being Right and Left.” Transaction 3, no. 1: 23–27.
  4. Tomkins, Silvan. “The Psychology of Commitment. Part 1: The Constructive Role of Violence and Suffering for the Individual and for His Society.” In Affect, Cognition, and Personality: Empirical Studies, edited by Silvan Tomkins and Carroll Izard, 148–71. New York: Springer.
  5. Tomkins, Silvan. “The Psychology of Commitment. Part 2: Reactions to the Assassination of President Kennedy.” In Affect, Cognition, and Personality: Empirical Studies, edited by Silvan Tomkins and Carroll Izard, 172–97. New York: Springer.
  6. Tomkins, Silvan. “The Psychology of Commitment: The Constructive Role of Violence and Suffering for the Individual and His Society.” In The Antislavery Vanguard: New Essays on the Abolitionists, edited by Martin Duberman, 270–98. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
  7. Coale, Ansley, Lloyd Fallers, Marion Levy, David Schneider, and Silvan Tomkins, eds. Aspects of the Analysis of Family Structure. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
  8. Tomkins, Silvan, and Carroll Izard, eds. Affect, Cognition, and Personality: Empirical Studies. New York: Springer.

1966

  1. Tomkins, Silvan. Foreword to Daydreaming: An Introduction to the Experimental Study of Inner Experience, by Jerome L. Singer. New York: Random House.
  2. Tomkins, Silvan. “Projective Technique.” Psychology Quarterly 2, no. 2: 1–4.
  3. Tomkins, Silvan. “Psychological Model for Smoking Behavior.” American Journal of Public Health 56, no. 12: 17–20.
  4. Tomkins, Silvan. “Theoretical Implications and Guidelines to Future Research.” In Behavioral Aspects to Smoking: A Conference Report, edited by Bernard Mausner and Ellen H. Platt. Health Education Monographs, Suppl. 2: 35–48.
  5. Izard, Carroll, and Silvan Tomkins. “Affect and Behavior: Anxiety as a Negative Affect.” In Anxiety and Behavior, edited by Charles D. Spielberger, 81–125. New York: Academic Press.

1967

  1. Tomkins, Silvan. “Homo Patiens: A Reexamination of the Concept of Drive.” In Challenges of Humanistic Psychology, edited by James F. T. Bugenthal, 53–59. New York: McGraw-Hill.
  2. Tomkins, Silvan. “Psychology of Smoking.” Psychology Quarterly 2, no. 3: 11–13.

1968

  1. Tomkins, Silvan. “Affects: Primary Motives of Man.” Humanitas 3, no. 3: 321–45.
  2. Tomkins, Silvan. “A Modified Model of Smoking Behavior.” In Smoking, Health, and Behavior, edited by Edgar Borgatta and Robert Evans, 165–86. Chicago: Aldine.
  3. Tomkins, Silvan. “Psychological Model for Smoking Behavior.” Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry 8, no. 1: 28–33.
  4. Tomkins, Silvan. “Some Varieties of Psychological Organization.” In The Reach of Mind: Essays in Memory of Kurt Goldstein, edited by Marianne Simmel, 219–30. New York: Springer.

1969

  1. Tomkins, Silvan. “Free Will and the Degrees-of-Freedom Principle.” In William James: Unfinished Business, edited by Robert MacLeod, 103–6. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.
  2. Tomkins, Silvan. “Interrelationships of Different Measures of Affect.” Psychology Quarterly 3, no. 4: 1–5.
  3. Tomkins, Silvan. Introduction to Psychoanalysis: Radical and Conservative, by Philip Lichtenberg. New York: Springer.
  4. Tomkins, Silvan. “Personality Theory and Social Science.” In Interdisciplinary Relationships in the Social Sciences, edited by Muzafer Sherif and Carolyn Sherif, 197–208. Chicago: Aldine.
  5. Suedfeld, Peter, Silvan Tomkins, and William Tucker. “On Relations among Perceptual and Cognitive Measures of Information Processing.” Perception and Psycho-physics 6, no. 1: 45–46.

1970

  1. Tomkins, Silvan. Foreword to Social Change and the Individual: Japan before and after Defeat in World War II, by Kazuko Tsurumi. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.

1971

  1. Tomkins, Silvan. “Homo Patiens.” In Personality Theory and Information Processing, edited by Harold Schroder and Peter Suedfeld, 209–39. New York: Ronald Press.
  2. Tomkins, Silvan. “Ideological Conflicts about the Nature of Risk-Taking.” In Risk-Taking Behavior: Concepts, Methods, and Applications to Smoking and Drug Abuse, edited by Richard Carney, 182–92. Springfield, Ill.: Charles Thomas.
  3. Tomkins, Silvan. “A Theory of Memory.” In Cognition and Affect, edited by John Antrobus, 59–130. Boston: Little, Brown.
  4. Tomkins, Silvan. “A Theory of Risk-Taking Behavior.” In Risk-Taking Behavior: Concepts, Methods, and Applications to Smoking and Drug Abuse, edited by Richard Carney, 19–24. Springfield, Ill.: Charles Thomas.
  5. Ekman, Paul, Wallace Friesen, and Silvan Tomkins. “Facial Affect Scoring Technique: A First Validity Study.” Semiotica 3, no. 1: 37–58.

1972

  1. Tomkins, Silvan. “Comments on Dr. Izard’s Paper.” In Anxiety: Current Trends in Theory and Research, vol. 1, edited by Charles Spielberger, 107–12. New York: Academic Press.

1973

  1. Ikard, Frederick, and Silvan Tomkins. “The Experience of Affect as a Determinant of Smoking Behavior.” Journal of Abnormal Psychology 81, no. 2: 172–81.

1975

  1. Tomkins, Silvan. “The Phantasy behind the Face.” Journal of Personality Assessment 39, no. 6: 550–62.

1976

  1. Atwood, George, and Silvan Tomkins. “On the Subjectivity of Personality Theory.” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 12, no. 2: 166–77.

1979

  1. Tomkins, Silvan. “Script Theory: Differential Magnification of Affects.” In Nebraska Symposium on Motivation—1978, vol. 26, edited by Herbert Howe and Richard Dienstbier, 201–36. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

1980

  1. Tomkins, Silvan. “Affect as Amplification: Some Modifications in Theory.” In Emotion: Theory, Research, and Experience, edited by Robert Plutchik and Henry Kellerman, 141–64. New York: Academic Press.
  2. Tomkins, Silvan. Introduction to Shame: The Power of Caring, edited by Gershen Kaufman. Rochester, Vt.: Schenkman.

1981

  1. Tomkins, Silvan. “The Quest for Primary Motives: Biography and Autobiography of an Idea.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 41, no. 2: 306–29.
  2. Tomkins, Silvan. “The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of the Study of Personality.” Journal of Mind and Behavior 2, no. 4: 443–52.
  3. Tomkins, Silvan. “The Role of Facial Response in the Experience of Emotion: A Reply to Tourangeau and Ellsworth.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 40, no. 2: 355–57.

1982

  1. Tomkins, Silvan. “Affect Theory.” In Emotion in the Human Face, 2nd ed., edited by Paul Ekman, 353–95. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. Tomkins, Silvan. “Personology Is a Complex, Lifelong, Never-Ending Enterprise.” Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 8, no. 4: 608–11.

1984

  1. Tomkins, Silvan. “Affect Theory.” In Approaches to Emotion, edited by Klaus Scherer and Paul Ekman, 163–95. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum.

1987

  1. Tomkins, Silvan. “Script Theory.” In The Emergence of Personality, edited by Joel Aronoff, Albert Rabin, and Robert Zucker, 147–216. New York: Springer.
  2. Tomkins, Silvan. “Shame.” In The Many Faces of Shame, edited by Donald L. Nathanson, 133–61. New York: Guilford Press.

1988

  1. Mosher, Donald, and Silvan Tomkins. “Scripting the Macho Man: Hypermasculine Socialization and Enculturation.” Journal of Sex Research 25, no. 1: 60–84.

1991

  1. Tomkins, Silvan. Affect Imagery Consciousness: Volume 3. The Negative Affects: Anger and Fear. New York: Springer.

1992

  1. Tomkins, Silvan. Affect Imagery Consciousness: Volume 4. Cognition: Duplication and Transformation of Information. New York: Springer.

1995

  1. Tomkins, Silvan. “Inverse Archeology: Facial Affect and the Interfaces of Scripts within and between Persons.” In Exploring Affect: The Selected Writings of Silvan S. Tomkins, edited by E. Virginia Demos, 284–90. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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