Papers are listed in chronological order, beginning in the first column with the most recent

Dissertations follow the Papers via this link


 A New Discounting Model of Reinforcement

 Michael Lamport Commons and Alexander Pekker

(Paper under review)

 

The Acceptability of Arguments in Favour of and Against the Iraq War

Juan LaLlave

 

Hierarchical Complexity and Task Difficulty

Commons, M. L. & Pekker, A.

Informed Consent: Do You Know It When You See It? Evaluating the Adequacy of Patient Consent and the Value of a Lawsuit

Michael Lamport Commons, Joseph Anthony Rodriguez, Kathryn Marie Adams, Eric Andrew Goodheart, Thomas Gordon Gutheil, Ellen Davis Cyr

Measuring an Approximate g in Animals and People

Michael Lamport Commons, Harvard Medical School

How Each Reinforcer Contributes to Value: "Noise" Must Reduce Reinforcer Value Hypberbolically

Michael Lamport Commons, Harvard Medical School
Michael Woodford, University of Chicago Business School
Edward James Trudeau, Harvard Unviersity

Leadership, Cross-Cultural Contact, Socio-Economic Status, and Formal Operational Reasoning about Moral Dilemmas among Mexican Non-Literate Adults and High School Students

Michael Lamport Commons, Harvard Medical School
Jesus Francisco Galaz-Fontes, Universidad Autonoma de Baja California
Stanley Jay Morse, Harvard Medical school

Hierarchical Complexity Scoring System (HCSS) Applied to the Issues of Understanding Terrorism and Successfully Dealing with It

Michael Lamport Commons, Harvard Medical School
Alice Locicero, Suffolk University
Sara Ross, Union Institute and University
Patrice Marie Miller, Harvard Medical School

Hierarchical Complexity Scoring System: How to Score Anything (also available in HTML)

Michael Lamport Commons, Harvard Medical School
Patrice Marie Miller, Harvard University
Eric Andrew Goodheart, Harvard University
Dorothy Danaher-Gilpin, Harvard University

Review: Human Development and the Spiritual Life: How Consciousness Grows toward Transformation

Michael Lamport Commons, Harvard Medical School
Joel Funk, Plymouth State College

Hierarchical Complexity: A Formal Theory

Michael Lamport Commons, Harvard Medical School
Alexander Pekker, Harvard University

Organizing Components into Combinations: How Stage Transition Works

Michael Lamport Commons, Harvard Medical School
Francis Asbury Richards, Department of Education, Rhode Island

Illuminating Major Creative Innovators with the Model of Hierarchical Complexity

Michael Lamport Commons, Harvard Medical School
Linda Marie Bresette, Salem State College

Formal, Systematic, and Metasystematic Operations with a Balance-Beam Task Series: A Reply to Kallio’s Claim of no Distinct Systematic Stage

Michael L. Commons, Eric A. Goodheart, Linda M. Bresette with Nancy F. Bauer, Edwin W. Farrell, Katherine G. McCarthy, Dorothy L. Danaher, Francis A. Richards  Janet B. Ellis, Anne M. O'Brien, Joseph A. Rodriguez, Dawn Schraeder

Some Reflections on Postformal Thought

Helena Marchand, University of Lisbon

Development of Behavioral Stages in Animals

Michael Lamport Commons, Harvard Medical School
Patrice Marie Miller, Harvard Medical School

A Complete Theory of Tests for a Theory of Mind Must Consider Hierarchical Complexity and Stage

Michael Lamport Commons, Harvard Medical School
Myra Sturgeon White, Harvard Medical School

Society and the Highest Stages of Moral Development

Gerhard Sonnert, Harvard University
Michael Lamport Commons, Harvard Medical School

A Complete Theory of Empathy Must Consider Stage Changes

Michael Lamport Commons, Harvard Medical School
Chester Arnold Wolfsont, Department of Counseling, Cohoes High School

 

The Power Therapies: A Proposed Mechanism for Their Action and Suggestions for Future Empirical Validation

Commons, M. L.

A Quantitative Behavioral Model of Developmental Stage Based upon Hierarchical Complexity Theory

Michael Lamport Commons, Harvard Medical School
Patrice Marie Miller, Harvard Medical School
 

The Notion of Events and Three Ways of Knowing: Problems with Mentalistic Explanations, Freewill, Self, Soul, and Intrinsic Motivation (external link)

Michael Lamport Commons, Harvard Medical School

Stress, Consoling, and Attachment Interviews  

featuring Michael Lamport Commons, Harvard Medical School

A Short History of the Society for Quantitative Analyses of Behavior

Michael Lamport Commons, Harvard Medical School

 

Hierarchical Complexity of Tasks Shows the Existence of Developmental Stages

Michael Lamport Commons, Harvard Medical School
Edward James Trudeau, Harvard University
Sharon Anne Stein, Harvard University
Francis Asbury Richards, Cornell University
Sharon R. Krause, Harvard Divinity School

Four Postformal Stages

Michael Lamport Commons, Harvard Medical School
Francis Asbury Richards, Department of Education, Rhode Island

Clinicans' Perceptions of Boundaries in Brazil and the United States

Patrice Marie Miller, Harvard Medical School
Michael Lamport Commons, Harvard Medical School
Thomas G. Gutheil, Harvard Medical School

“Telling Tales Out of Court”: A Pilot Study of Experts’ Disclosures About Opposing Experts.

Gutheil, T. G., Commons, M. L., Miller, P. M., & LaLlave, J. (2000).

 

Expert Witness Travel Dilemmas: A Pilot Study of Billing Practices

Gutheil, T. G., Slater, F. E., Commons, M. L., & Goodheart, E. A. (1998).

 

Expert Witness Perceptions of Bias in Experts

Michael Lamport Commons, Harvard Medical School

Patrice Marie Miller, Harvard Medical School
Thomas G. Gutheil, Harvard Medical School

 

The State of the Art on Perry and Epistemological Development? An Introduction

 

Stress and the Forensic Psychiatrist: A Pilot Study

Larry H. Strasburger, Harvard Medical School

Patrice Marie Miller, Harvard Medical School
Michael Lamport Commons, Harvard Medical School
Thomas G. Gutheil, Harvard Medical School

Juan LaLlave, Massachusetts Mental Health Center

 

Recognizing Specialized Terminology Presented Through Different Modes

Lucas Alexander Hayleigh Commons-Miller, Dare Institute

Michael Lamport Commons, Harvard Medical School

 

A Complete Theory of Human Evolution of Intelligence Must Consider Stage Changes

Michael Lamport Commons, Harvard Medical School

Patrice Marie Miller, Harvard Medical School

 

Introduction: Attaining a New Stage

Michael Lamport Commons, Harvard Medical School

 

Telephone Scatologia Cormorbidity with Other Paraphilias and Paraphilia-related Disorders

Marilyn Price, Harvard Medical School 

Martin Kafka, Harvard Medical School

Michael Lamport Commons, Harvard Medical School

Thomas G. Gutheil, Harvard Medical School

William Simpson, Massachusetts Mental Health Center

 

Trading Forensic and Family Commitments

Kearney, A. J., Gutheil, T. G., & Commons, M. L. (1996).

 

Moral State of Reasoning and the Misperceived "Duty" to Report Past Crimes (Misprision)

Michael Lamport Commons, Harvard Medical School

Pauline Lee, Harvard Medical School

Thomas G. Gutheil, Harvard Medical School

Ellen Rubin, Harvard Medical School

Marcus Goldman, Harvard Medical School

Paul S. Appelbaum, University of Massachusetts Medical School

 

Professionals' Attitudes Towards Sex Between Institutionalized Patients

Michael Lamport Commons, Harvard Medical School

Judi T. Bohn, Dare Institute

Lisa T. Godon, Office of U.S. Senator Kent Conrad

Mark J. Hauser, Harvard Medical School

Thomas G. Gutheil, Harvard Medical School

 

"Equal Access" without "Establishing" Religion: The Necessity for Assessing Social Perspective-Taking Skills and Institutional Atmosphere

Michael Lamport Commons, Harvard Medical School

Joseph A. Rodriguez, Harvard University

 

Systematic and Metasystematic Reasoning: A Case for Levels of Reasoning Beyond Piaget's Stage of Formal Operations

Michael Lamport Commons, Harvard University

Francis A. Richards, Harvard University

Deanna Kuhn, Harvard University

 

The Relation Between Formal Operational Reasoning and Academic Course Selection and Performance Among College Freshmen and Sophomores

Michael Lamport Commons, Harvard University

Patrice Marie Miller, Harvard University

Deanna Kuhn, Harvard University

 

Commentary

Levine, R. A. & Miller, P.M. (1990)

 

Cultural and Educational Variations in Maternal Responsiveness

Richman, A. L., Miller, P. M., & DeVine, R. A.

 

How Reinforcers are Aggregated in Reinforcement-Density Discrimination and Preference Experiments

Commons, M. L., Woodford, M., & Ducheny, J. R.

 

Part 1 How Reinforcement Density is Discriminated and Scaled

Part 2 How Reinforcement Density is Discriminated and Scaled

Part 3 How Reinforcement Density is Discriminated and Scaled

Commons, M. L.

 

Decision Rules and Signal Detectability in a Reinforcement-density Discrimination

Michael Lamport Commons, Columbia University


Dissertations

 

Ideals of the Good Life: A Longitudinal/Cross-Sectional Study of Evaluative Reasoning in Children and Adults

Cheryl Armon, Harvard University, 1984

 

Relating Childhood Behavioral Inhibition to Neonatal Physiology, Infant Social Behaviors, and Achievement and Intelligence Test Scores

Marjorie B. Harrison, Harvard University, 1992

 

Impact of Catastrophe on Pivotal National Leaders' Vision Statements: Correspondences and Discrepancies in Moral Reasoning, Explanatory Style, and Rumination

Carl Russell Oliver, Fielding Graduate Institute, 2004

 

Moral Reasoning and Political Affiliation in Liberal and Conservative Voters: Applying a Model of Hierarchical Complexity

Terri Lee Robinett, Capella University, 2006

 

 

 

The Adult Stages of Social Perspective-taking: Assessment with the Doctor-Patient Problem

Joseph Anthony Rodriguez, Harvard University, 1992

 

Effects of a Structured Public Issues Discourse Method on the Complexity of Citizens' Reasoning and Local Political Development

Sara Nora Ross, Union Institute & University, 2006

 

The Construction of a Chinese Language Cognitive Development Inventory and Its Use in a Cross-Cultural Study of the Perry Scheme

Li-fang Zhang-fang Zhang, University of Iowa, 1994