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Thomas J. Crawford

Senior Lecturer Emeritus in Psychology & Social Behavior
Ph.D. Harvard University
Phone: 
(949) 824-5574
Email: 
tjcrawfo@uci.edu
Office: 
4201 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations: 
attitude theory and social problems research

I am a social psychologist interested in applying attitude theories and motivated cognition theories to the study of social issues and problems including health related behavior and prejudice.

Selected Publications

  • Greenberger, E., Goldberg, W.A., Crawford, T. J., and Granger, J. (1988). Beliefs about the consequences of maternal employment for children. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 12, 35-59.
  • Crawford, T. J. and Boyer, R. (1985). Salient consequences, cultural values and childbearing intentions. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 15, 16-30.
  • Crawford, T. J. and Boyer, R. (1984). Parity and the expected consequences of childbearing. Population and Environment, 7, 234-245.
  • Crawford, P. J., and Crawford, T. J. (1983). Police attitudes toward the judicial system. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 11, 290-295.
  • Crawford, T. J. (1974). Sermons on racial tolerance and the parish neighborhood context. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 4, 1-23.
  • Crawford, T. J. (1973). Police overprotection of ghetto hostility. Journal of Police Science and Administration, 1, 168-174. (Reprinted in R. L. Henshel and R. A. Silverman [Eds.] Perception in Criminology. New York: Columbia University Press, 1975.)
  • Crawford, T. J. (1973). The effects of source characteristics upon the perception of ambiguous messages. Journal of Personality, 41, 151-162.
  • Crawford, T. J., and Naditch, M. (1970). Relative deprivation, powerlessness, and militancy: The psychology of social protest. Psychiatry, 33, 208-233.