James Deese

(Adapted from The Washington Post February 19, 1999)

James Earle Deese, who chaired the University of Virginia's Psychology Department from 1972 to 1980, died Feb. 15 1999 at his Charlottesville home. He was 78. Deese joined the University faculty in 1972 as Commonwealth Professor of Psychology after serving for twenty-four years on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University. In 1980, Deese was awarded the Hugh Scott Hamilton Professorship, which he held until he retired to emeritus status in 1990.

A native of Salt Lake City, Deese earned a B.A. in psychology from Chapman College in Orange, Calif., then his doctorate from Indiana University in 1948. He joined the Johns Hopkins faculty that year, and rose from assistant professor to full professor and department chair before coming to the University of Virginia.

His professional interests moved from the study of animal learning, to human learning and verbal behavior, through psycholinguistics, to the history of ideas. An accomplished musician, he was an authority on American classical music. He was also a collector of rare books. Deese was a member of the University's Raven Society and won its Raven Award in 1980. He was a kind and generous man, repected by his peers and regarded with affection by his students.

Deese was the author, coauthor or contributor to numerous books, articles, bulletins, and reports.

Bibliography

  • Buckley, Barbara Beach, Randall M. Hanes, and James Deese. "Search Area and Target Detectability on a PPI Cathode-Ray Tube." Print Report. No. 52-303, 1953. iii, 12 pp. Database: PsycINFO.

  • Deese, James. "Human Abilities Versus Intelligence." Intelligence. Vol. 17(2), Apr-Jun 1993. pp. 107-116.

  • Deese, James. "James on the Will." Reflections on "The Principles of Psychology": Willam James After a Century. Johnson, Michael Geoffrey (Ed); Henley, Tracy B (Ed): pp. 295-309. Hillsdale, NJ, England: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc, 1990. xx, 323 pp.

  • Deese, James. "The Science of Language and Psychology." Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, Vol 4(3), 1989. pp. 203-208.

  • Deese, James. "Reality and Control." Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol 9(3), Sep 1986. pp. 521-522.

  • Deese, James. Thought into Speech: The Psychology of a Language.The Century Psychology Series. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1984. xi, 150 pp.

  • Deese, James. "Thought into Speech." American Scientist, Vol 66(3), May-June 1978. pp. 314-321.

  • Deese, James. "Towards a Psychological Theory of the Meaning of Sentences." Human Communication: Theoretical Explorations. Silverstein, Albert (Ed). Oxford, England: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1974. vii, 264 pp.

  • Deese, James. "Cognitive Structure and Affect in Language." Communication and Affect: Language and Thought. Pliner, Patricia; Krames, Lester; et. al. Oxford, England: Academic Press, 1973. xii, 200 pp.

  • Deese, James. Psycholingustics Oxford, England: Allyn and Bacon, 1970. viii, 150 pp.

  • Deese, James. "Behavior and Fact." American Psychologist, 24(5), 1969. pp. 515-522. Journal URL: http://www.apa.org/journals/amp./html

  • Deese, James. "Meaning and Changes of Meaning." American Psychologist, 22(8), 1967. pp. 641-651 Journal URL: http://www.apa.org/journals/amp./html

  • Deese, James and Stewart H. Hulse.The Psychology of Learning . (3rd ed.) New York, NY, US: McGraw-Hill, 1967. viii, 514 pp.

  • Deese, James. The Structure of Associations in Language and Thought. Oxford, England: John Hopkins Press, 1966. xiii, 216 pp.

  • Deese, James. "The Associative Structure of Some Common English Adjectives." Journal of Verbal Learning &Verbal Behavior, 3(5) 1964. pp. 347-357. Journal URL: http://www.academicpress.com/jml

  • Deese, James. "Form Class and the Determiniants of Assocation." Journal of Verbal Learning &Verbal Behavior, 1(2), 1962. pp. 79-84. Journal URL: http://www.academicpress.com/jml

  • Deese, James. "On the Structure of Associative Meaning." Psychological Review, 69(3), 1962. pp. 161-175. Journal URL: http://www.apa.org/journal/rev.html

  • Deese, James. "Associative Structure and the Serial Reproduction Experiment." Journal of Abnormal & Social Psychology, 63, 1961. pp. 95-100. Journal URL: http//www.apa.org/journals/psp.html

  • Deese, James. "From the Isolated Verbal Unit to Connected Discourse." Verbal Learning &Verbal Behavior. Cofer, Charles N. (Ed); pp. 11-31. New York, NY, US: McGraw-Hill, 1961. vi, 241 pp.

  • Deese, James. "Frequency of Usage and Number of Words in Free Recall: The Role of Association." Psychological Reports, 7,1960. pp. 337-344.

  • Deese, James. "On the Prediction of Occurence of Particular Verbal Intrusions in Immediate Recall" Journal of Experimental Psychology, 58, Jul 1959. pp. 17-22.

  • Deese, James. "Influence of Inter-Item Associative Strength Upon Immediate Free Recall." Psychological Reports, 5,1959. pp. 305-312.

  • Deese, James. The Psychology of Learning. (2nd ed.)New York, NY, US: McGraw-Hill, 1958. vii, 367 pp.

  • Deese, James and Victor J. Marder. "The Pattern of Errors in Delayed Recall of Serial Learning After Interpolation." American Journal of Psychology, 70, 1957. pp. 594-599.

  • Deese, James and Roger A. "Serial Effects in Recall of Unorganized and Sequentially Organized Verbal Material." Journal of Experimental Psychology, 54, 1957. pp. 180-187

  • Deese, James. "Serial Organization in the Recall of Disconnected Items." Psychological Reports, 3, 1957. pp. 577-582.

  • Deese, James. "Change in Visual Performance After Visual Work." Print Report. No. 57-285, 1957. iv, 24 pp. Database: PsycINFO.

  • Deese, James. "Complexity of Contour in the Recognition of Visual Form." Print Report. No. 56-570, 1956. iv, 13 pp. Database: PsycINFO.

  • Deese, James. "The Ability of Untrained Observers to Match Visual Forms that are Slightly Disparate in Contour." Print Report. No. 56-570, 1956. iv, 13 pp. Database: PsycINFO.

  • Deese, James. "Some Problems in the Theory of Vigilance." Psychological Review, 62, 1955. pp. 359-368. Journal URL: http://www.apa.org/journal/rev.html

  • Deese, James and George W. Hardman, Jr. "An Analysis of Error in Retroactive Inhibition of Rote Verbal Learning." American Journal of Psychology, 67, 1954. pp. 299-307.

  • Deese, James. "Signal Size and Detectability on a PPI Display." Print Report. ,No. 54-166, 1954. iv, 13 pp. Database: PsycINFO.

  • Deese, James, Richard S., and James Keenan. Anxiety, Anxiety Reduction, and Stress in Learning Journal of Experimental Psychology, 46, 1953. pp. 55-60.

  • Deese, James, Richard S. Lazarus, and James Keenan. "Anxiety, Anxiety Reduction, and Stress in Learning." USAF Human Resources Research Center Bulletin, No.53-56, 1953. pp.10

  • Deese, James and Richard S. Lazarus. "The Effects of Psychological Stress Upon Perceptual-Motor Performance." USAF Human Resources Research Center Research Bullietin, No. 52-19, 1952, pp. v, 15.

  • Deese, James. The Psychology of Learning. New York, NY, US: McGraw-Hill, 1952. ix, 398 pp.

  • Deese, James and Frederick H. Kresse. "An Experimental Analysis of the Errors in Rote Serial Learning." Journal of Experimental Psychology. 44, 1952. pp. 199-202.

  • Deese, James and Clifford T. Morgan. "Comparative and Physiological Psychology." Annual Review of Psychology, 2, 1951. pp. 193-216. Journal URL: http://psych.annualreviews.org/

  • Deese, James. "The Extinction of a Discrimination Without Performance of the Choice Response." Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology. 44, 1951. pp. 362-366. Journal URL: http://www.interscience.wiley.com/jpages/0021-9762/

  • Deese, James and J. A. Carpenter. "Drive Level and Reinforcement." Journal of Experimental Psychology. 42, 1951. pp. 236-238.

  • Deese, James. "A Quantitative Derivation of Latent Learning." Psychological Review. 57, 1950. pp. 291-294. Journal URL: http://www.apa.org/journals/rev.html

  • Deese, James. "The Effect of Extinction Upon Rate of Reconditioning." Journal of Experimental Psychology, 40, 1950. pp. 488-493.

  • Deese, James and W. N. Kellogg. "Some New data on the Nature of 'Spinal Conditioning.'" Journal of comparative and Physiological Psychology. 42, 1949. pp. 157-160. Journal URL: http://www.interscience.wiley.com/jpages/0021-9762/

  • Deese, James. "Stimulus Discriminability Related to the Retroactive Inhibition of a Conditioned Response." American Psychologist, 3, 1948. pp. 355. Journal URL: http://www.apa.org/journals/amp.html

  • Deese, James. "The Retroactive Inhibition of a Conditioned Response as a Function of Extinction During Interplated Learning." American Psychologist. 3, 1948. pp. 247. Journal URL: http//www.apa.org/journals/amp.html

  • Deese, James and W. N. Kellogg. "The Maintenance in Vivo of the Spinal Animal." American Psychologist. 1, 1946. pp. 464. Journal URL: http://www.apa.org/journals/amp.html

  • Deese, James and Winthrop N. Kellogg. "Modification of Reflex Behavior in Spinal Dogs." Proceeding of the Indiana Academy of Science, 55, 1946. pp. 171-177.

  • Hamliton, Helen W. and James Deese. "Comprehensibility and Subject-Verb Relations in Complex Sentences." Journal of Verbal Learning &Verbal Behavior, Vol 10(2) Apr 1971. pp. 163-170. Journal URL: http://www.academicpress.com/jml

  • Hamliton, Helen W. and James Deese. "Does Linguistic Marking Have a Psychological Correlate?" Journal of Verbal Learning &Verbal Behavior, Vol 10(6), Dec 1971. pp. 707-714 Journal URL: http://www.academicpress.com/jml

  • Hamliton, Helen W. and James Deese. "A Study of Associations to Combinations of Words." Proceeding of the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Assoictiation, Vol. 6(Pt.1), 1971. pp. 57-58.

  • Henley, Nancy M., Harvey L. Noyes, and James Deese. "Semantic Structure in Short-Term Memory. " Journal of Experimental Psychology, 77(4), 1968. pp. 587-592.

  • Homzie, M. J., Carol B. Garavitt, and James Deese. "Children's Reproductions: Effects of Syntactic Emphasis, Length, and Delay Interval." Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, Vol 7(3), May 1978. pp. 167-177.

  • Hulse, Stewart H., James Deese, and Howard Egeth. The Psychology of Learning. (4th ed). New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975. xx, 456 pp.

  • Kellogg, W. N., James Deese, N. H. Pronko, and M. Feinberg. "An Attempt to Condition the Chronic Spinal Dog." Journal of Experimental Psychology, 37, 1947. pp. 99-117.

  • Kellogg, W. N., James Deese, and N. H. Pronko. "On the Behavior of the Lumbo-Spinal Dog." Journal of Experimental Psychology, 36, 1946. pp. 503-511.

  • Kellogg, W. N., N. H. Pronko, and James deese. "Spinal Conditioning in Dogs." Science, 103, 1946. pp. 49-50. Journal URL: http://www.sciencemag.org/

  • Lazarus, Richard S., James Deese, and Robert Hamilton. "Anxiety and Stress in Learning: The Role of Intraserial Duplication." Journal of Experimental Psychology, 47, 1954. pp. 111-114.

  • Lazarus, Richard S., James Deese, and Sonia F. Osler. "The Effects of Psychological Stress Upon Performance." Psychological Bulletin. 49, 1952. pp. 293-317. Journal URL: http://www.apa.org/journals/bul.html

  • Lazarus, Richard S., James Deese, and Sonia Osler. "Review of Research on Effects of Psychological Stress Upon Performance." USAF Human Resources Research Center Research Bulletin, 51-82, 1951. pp. 13.

  • Morgan, Clifford T. and James Deese. How to Study. New York, NY, US: McGraw-Hill, 1957. v, 130 pp.

  • Schwartz, Deborah, John P. Sparkman, and James Deese. "The Process of Understanding and Judgements of Comprehensibiltiy." Journal of Verbal Learning &Verbal Behavior, Vol 9(1) 1970. pp. 87-93 Journal URL: http://www.academicpress.com/jml

  • Wheeler, Ladd, Robert A. Goodale, and James Deese. General Psychology. Oxford, England: Allyn and Bacon, 1974, xvii, 684 pp.
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