A. KIMBALL ROMNEY, Research Professor

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A. KIMBALL ROMNEY, Research Professor

University of California, Irvine

School of Social Sciences

Irvine, CA 92697-5100

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PERSONAL

Born in Rexburg, Idaho on August 15, 1925

EDUCATION

B.A. Brigham Young University (1947) Sociology

M.A. Brigham Young University (1948) Sociology

Ph.D. Harvard University (1956) Social Anthropology, Social Relations Department

ACADEMIC POSITIONS HELD

194748 Teaching Fellow, Brigham Young University

194849 Lecturer, Purdue University

194950 Teaching Fellow, University of Wisconsin

195155 Research Assistant, Harvard University

1953-54 Teaching Fellow, Harvard University

195556 Assistant Professor, University of Chicago

195760 Assistant Professor, Stanford University

196066 Associate Professor, Stanford University

196065 Director, Anthropological Research, Stanford University

196668 Professor, Harvard University

196971 Dean, School of Social Sciences, University ofCalifornia, Irvine

1969-1995 Professor, University of California, Irvine

1995- Research Professor, University of California, Irvine

HONORS, AWARDS, LECTURESHIPS

195657 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford

1994- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

1995- Member, National Academy of Sciences

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Romney, A. Kimball and Roy G. D'Andrade (Eds.). 1964. Transcultural Study of Cognition. Special publication of the American Anthropologist. Vol. 66, Part 2.

Romney, A. Kimball and Romaine Romney. 1965. The Mixtecans of Juxtlahuaca, Mexico. New York: John Wiley. Also published in Six Cultures: Studies of Child Rearing, Beatice B. Whiting (Ed.). New York: John Wiley, 1963, 541692.

Whiting, John W. M., Irvin L. Child, William W. Lambert, Ann Fischer, John L. Fischer, Corinne Nydegger, William F. Nydegger, Hatsumi Maretzki, Thomas W. Maretzki, Leigh Minturn, Kimball Romney, Romaine Romney. 1966. Field Guide for the Study of Socialization. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1966.

Shepard, Roger, A. Kimball Romney, and Sara B. Nerlove (Eds.). 1972. Multidimensional Scaling: Theory and Applications in the Behavioral Sciences: Theory, Volume 1. New York Seminar Press. Also translated and published in Japanese.

Romney, A. Kimball, Roger Shepard, and Sara B. Nerlove (Eds.). 1972. Multidimensional Scaling: Theory and Applications in the Behavioral Sciences: Applications, Volume 2. New York Seminar Press. Also translated and published in Japanese.

Browne, R. S., H. E. Freeman, C. V. Hamilton, J. Kagan, and A. K. Romney (Eds.). 1972. The Social Scene: A Contemporary View of the Social Sciences. Cambridge: Winthrop Publishers.

Romney, A. Kimball and Paul L. DeVore (Eds.). 1973. You and Others. Cambridge: Winthrop Publishers.

Weller, Susan C. and A. Kimball Romney. 1988. Systematic Data Collection. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications.

Freeman, Linton C., Douglas R. White, and A. Kimball Romney (Eds.). 1989. Research Methods in Social Network Analysis. Fairfax, Virginia:George Mason University.

Weller, Susan C. and A. Kimball Romney. 1990. Metric Scaling: Correspondence Analysis. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications.

Articles

Romney, A. Kimball. 1950. The Kuder Literary Scale as related to achievement in college. Journal of Applied Psychology, 34: 4043.

Schenk, Quentin F. and A. Kimball Romney. 1950. Some differential attitudes among adolescent groups as revealed by Bogardus' social distance scale. Sociology and Social Research, 35:3845.

Romney, A. Kimball and Duane Metzger. 1956. On the processes of change in kinship terminology. American Anthropologist, 58:551556.

Romney, A. Kimball. 1957. The genetic model and UtoAztecan time perspective. Davidson Journal of Anthropology, 3:35-41.

Reprinted in The BobbsMerrill Reprint Series in the Social Sciences, A192.

Romney, A. Kimball and Philip J. Epling. 1958. A simplified model of Kareira kinship. American Anthropologist, 60:5974.

Adams, J. Stacy and A. Kimball Romney. 1959. A functional analysis of authority. Psychological Review, 66:234251.

Reprinted in Arthur W. Statts (Ed.). 1964. Human Learning. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.

Romney, A. Kimball. 1961. Social organization. In Bernard Siegal (Ed.). Biennial Review of Anthropology. Pp. 215-249. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Romney, A. Kimball and Clyde Kluckhohn. 1961. The Rimrock Navajo. In Florence Kluckhohn and Fred Strodtbeck (Eds.). Variations in Value Orientations. Chapter IX, pp. 319339. New York: Row Peterson.

Maccoby, E. E., N. Maccoby, A. K. Romney, and J. S. Adams. 1961. Social reinforcement in attitude change. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 63:109115.

Maccoby, N., A. K. Romney, J. S. Adams, and E. E. Maccoby. 1962. "Critical periods" in seeking and accepting information. In Studies in Communication. Pp. 47-57. Institute for Communication Research, Stanford University, Stanford.

Romney, A. Kimball. 1962. Comment on the feet of the natives are large: An essay on anthropology by an economist, Joseph S. Berliner. Current Anthropology, 3:____.

Adams, J. Stacy and A. Kimball Romney. 1962. The determinants of authority interaction. In Norman F. Washburne (Ed.). Decisions, Values and Groups. Pp. 227256. New York: The Macmillan Company, Pergamon Press.

Shirley, Robert and A. Kimball Romney. 1962. Love magic and socialization anxiety: A crosscultural study. American Anthropologist, 64:10281031.

Lamb, Sydney M. and A. Kimball Romney. 1964. An anthropologist's introduction to the computer. In Dell Hymes (Eds.). The Use of Computers in Anthropology. Pp. 37-90. New York: Mouton.

Berlin, Brent and A. Kimball Romney. 1964. Descriptive semantics of Tzeltal numeral classifiers. In A. K. Romney and R. D'Andrade (Eds.). Transcultural Studies of Cognitiona special publication of the American Anthropologist, 66:79-98.

Romney, A. Kimball and Roy G. D'Andrade. 1964. Cognitive aspects of English kin terms. In A. K. Romney and R. D'Andrade (Eds.). Transcultural Studies of Cognitiona special publication of the American Anthropologist, 66:146-170.

Reprinted in Stephen A. Tyler (Ed.). 1969. Cognitive Anthropology. Pp. 369-396. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

Reprinted in Nelson Graburn (Ed.). 1971. Readings in Kinship and Social Structure. Pp. 272-278. New York: Harper and Row.

Romney, A. Kimball. 1965. Variations in household structure as determinants of sextyped behavior. In Frank R. Beach (Ed.). Sex and Behavior. Pp. 208-220. New York: John Wiley & Sons.

Romney, A. Kimball. 1965. Kalmuk mongol and the classification of lineal kinship terminologies. In Eugene Hammel (Ed.). American Anthropologist special publication on Formal Semantic Analysis. Pp. 127141.

Romney, A. Kimball. 1967. Internal reconstruction of Yuman kinship terminology. In Dell H. Hymes (Ed.). Studies in Southwestern Ethnolinguistics. Pp. 379-386. New York: Moulton & Co.

Nerlove, Sara B. and A. Kimball Romney. 1967. Sibling terminology and crosssex behavior. American Anthropologist, 69:179187.

Romney, A. Kimball. 1967. Kinship and Family. In Manning Nash (Ed.). Handbook of Middle American Indians. Vol. 6, pp. 207238. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Romney, A. Kimball. 1968. Foreword. In Brent Berlin. Tzeltal Numeral Classifiers: A Study in Ethnographic Semantics. Pp. 13-15. New York: Mouton,

Ravicz, Robert and A. Kimball Romney. 1969. The Mixtec. In Evon Z. Vogt (Ed.). Handbook of Middle American Indians. Vol. 7, Part I, pp. 367400. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Ravicz, Robert and A. Kimball Romney. 1969. The Amuzgo. In Evon Z. Vogt (Ed.). Handbook of Middle American Indians. Vol. 7, Part I, pp. 417434. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Erickson, Robert P., Sara Nerlove, William P. Greger, and A. Kimball Romney. 1970. Comparison of genetic and anthropological interpretations of population isolates in Aguacatenango, Chiapas, Mexico. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 32:105-120.

Vogt, Evon Z. and A. Kimball Romney. 1971. The use of aerial photographic techniques in Maya ethnography. Proceedings of the VIIth International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Moscow. 11:156171.

Romney, A. Kimball. 1971. A model for the analysis of endogamy. In Paul Kay (Ed.). Explorations in Mathematical Anthropology. Pp. 191-213. Cambridge: MIT Press.

D'Andrade, Roy, Naomi Quinn, Sara Nerlove, and A. Kimball Romney. 1972. Categories of disease in AmericanEnglish and MexicanSpanish. In R. Shepard, et al., (Eds.). Multidimensional Scaling: Theory and Applications in the Behavioral Sciences. Pp. 9-54. New York: Seminar Press.

Wexler, Kenneth and A. Kimball Romney. 1972. Individual variations in cognitive structures. In R. Shepard, et al., (Eds.). Multidimensional Scaling: Theory and Applications in the Behavioral Sciences. Pp. 73-92. New York: Seminar Press.

Romney, A. Kimball, Margaret Kieffer, and Robert Klein. 1973. A normalization procedure for correcting biased response data. Social Science Research, 2:307320.

Jackson, Gary B. and A. Kimball Romney. 1973. Historical inference from crosscultural data: The case of dowry. Ethos, 1:517520.

Romney, A. Kimball. 1973. Behavior and social aspects, Nutrition, Development and Social Behavior. In David J. Kallen (Ed.). Proceedings of the Conference on the Assessment of Tests of Behavior from Studies of Nutrition in the Western Hemisphere. Pp. 303-305. Washington: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

Burton, Michael L. and A. Kimball Romney. 1975. A multidimensional representation of role terms. American Ethnologist, 2:397407.

Rose, Michael D. and A. Kimball Romney. 1979. Cognitive pluralism or individual differences: A comparison of alternate models of American English kin terms. American Ethnologist, 6:752762.

Reprinted in Ronald W. Casson (Ed.). 1981. Language, Culture and Cognition: Anthropological Perspectives. New York: Macmillan Publishing.

Romney, A. Kimball, Tom Smith, Howard E. Freeman, Jerome Kagan, and Robert E. Klein. 1979. Concepts of success and failure. Social Science Research, 8:302326.

Romney, A. Kimball. 1980. Multidimensional scaling applications in Anthropology. In J. Clyde Mitchell (Ed.). Numerical Techniques in Social Anthropology. Pp. 71-84. Philadelphia: The Institute for the Study of Human Issues.

Freeman, Howard, A. Kimball Romney, Joao FerreiraPinto, Robert Klein, and Tom Smith. 1981. Guatemalan and U.S. concepts of success and failure. Human Organization, 40:140145.

Magana, J. Raul, Gary Evans, and A. Kimball Romney. 1981. Scaling techniques in the analysis of environmental cognition data. Professional Geographer, 33:294301.

Strauss, David J. and A. Kimball Romney. 1982. Loglinear multiplicative models for the analysis of endogamy. Ethnology, 21:7999.

Romney, A. Kimball and Katherine Faust. 1982. Predicting the structure of a communications network from recalled data. Social Networks, 4:285304.

Romney, A. Kimball and Susan Weller. 1984. Predicting informant accuracy from patterns of recall among individuals. Social Networks, 6:5977.

Nakao, Keiko and A. Kimball Romney. 1984. A method for testing alternative theories: An example from English kinship. American Anthropologist, 83:668673.

Faust, Katherine and A. Kimball Romney. 1985. Does structure find structure?: A critique of Burt's use of distance as a measure of structural equivalence. Social Networks, 7:77103.

Faust, Katherine and A. Kimball Romney. 1985. The effect of Skewed Distributions on matrix permutation tests. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 38:152-160.

Faust, Katherine and A. Kimball Romney. 1986. Comment on "A Cautionary Note." Social Networks, 8:213.

Bernard, Russell, Pertti J. Pelto, Oswald Werner, James Boster, A. Kimball Romney, Allen Johnson, Carol R. Ember, and Alice Kasakoff. 1986. The construction of primary data in cultural anthropology. Current Anthropology, 27:382396.

Batchelder, William H. and A. Kimball Romney. 1986. The statistical analysis of a general Condorcet model for choice situations. In Bernard Grofman and Guillermo Owen (Eds.). Information Pooling and Group Decision Making: Proceedings of the Second University of California, Irvine, Conference on Political Economy. Pp. 103-112. Greenwich, Connecticut: JAI Press.

Romney, A. Kimball, Susan C. Weller, and William H. Batchelder. 1986. Culture as consensus: A theory of cultural and informant accuracy. American Anthropologist, 88:313-338.

Freeman, Linton and A. Kimball Romney. 1987. Words, deeds and social structure: A preliminary study of the reliability of informants. Human Organization, 46:330-334.

Weller, Susan C., A. Kimball Romney, and Donald P. Orr. 1987. The myth of a subculture of corporal punishment. Human Organization, 46:3947.

Freeman, Linton, A. Kimball Romney, and Sue Freeman. 1987. Cognitive structure and informant accuracy. American Anthropologist, 89:310325.

Romney, A. Kimball, William H. Batchelder, and Susan C. Weller. 1987. Recent applications of cultural consensus theory. American Behavioral Scientist, 31:163177.

Batchelder, William H. and A. Kimball Romney. 1988. Test theory without an answer key. Psychometrika, 53:71-92.

McGrath, William E., Diane Geraci, and A. Kimball Romney. 1988. Matrix Models and the Search for Structure in SubjectMajors Circulation: A Methodological Study. Library and Information Science Research, 10:7794.

Romney, A. Kimball, Susan C. Weller, and William H. Batchelder. 1988. Interpreting Consensus: A Reply to Price. American Anthropologist, 90161163.

Whiting, John W. M., Michael L. Burton, A. Kimball Romney, Carmella C. Moore and Douglas R. White. 1988. Reanalysis of Murdock's Model for Social Structure Based on Optimal Scaling. Behavior Science Research, 22:2340.

Romney, A. Kimball. 1989. Quantitative Models, Science and Cumulative Knowledge. Journal of Quantitative Anthropology, 1:153223.

Batchelder, William H. and A. Kimball Romney. 1989. New Results in Test Theory Without an Answer Key. In E.E. Roskam (Ed.). Mathematical Psychology in Progress. Pp. 229-248. Heidelberg: SpringerVerlag.

Romney, A. Kimball and Susan C. Weller. 1989. Systemic culture patterns and high concordance codes. In Ralph Bolton (Ed.). The Content of Culture: Constants and Variants. Studies in Honor of John M. Roberts. Pp. 363-381. New Haven: HRAF Press.

Romney, A. Kimball, Norman Bradburn, J. Douglas Carroll, Roy G. D'Andrade, JeanClaude Falmagne, Paul Holland, Lawrence J. Hubert, Edward E. Leamer, and R. Duncan Luce. 1989. Measurement and Scaling. In Luce, R. Duncan, Neil J. Smelser, and Dean R. Gerstein (Eds.). Leading Edges in Social and Behavioral Science. Pp. 611-631. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Jameson, Kimberly and A. Kimball Romney. 1990. Consensus on semiotic models of alphabetic systems. Journal of Quantitative Anthropology, 2:289-303.

Brewer, Devon D., A. Kimball Romney, and William H. Batchelder. 1991. Consistency and consensus: a replication. Journal of Quantitative Anthropology, 3:195-205.

Chick, Garry E., John M. Roberts, and A. Kimball Romney. 1991. Conflict and quitting in the Monday Nite Pool League. Leisure Sciences, 13:295-308.

Freeman, Linton C., Sue C. Freeman, and A. Kimball Romney. 1992. The implications of social structure for dominance hierarchies in red deer, Cervus elaphus L. Animal Behavior, 44:239-245.

Nakao, Keiko and A. Kimball Romney. 1993. Longitudinal approach to subgroup formation: Re-analysis of Newcomb's fraternity data. Social Networks 15:109-131.

Romney, A. Kimball, Devon D. Brewer, and William H. Batchelder. 1993. Predicting clustering from semantic structure. Psychological Science 4:28-34.

Romney, A. Kimball. 1994. Cultural Knowledge and Cognitive Structure. In The Making of Psychological Anthropology II. George Spindler and Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco (eds.) New York: Harcourt Brace. Pages 254-283.

Romney, A. Kimball. 1994. When Does Consensus Indicate Cultural Knowledge? CogSci News. 7:3-7.

Moore, Carmella C. and A. Kimball Romney. 1994. Material Culture, Geographic Propinquity, and Linguistic Affiliation on the North Coast of New Guinea: A Reanalysis of Welsch, Terrell, and Nodalski (1992). American Anthropologist 96:370-392.

Thorn, Katherine R., David B. Hershenson, and A. Kimball Romney. 1994. Causal attribution factors in conceptions of disability. Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin 37:315-331.

Kumbasar, Ece, A. Kimball Romney, and William H. Batchelder. 1994. Systematic biases in social perception. American Journal of Sociology. 100:477-505.

Iannucci, Anita L. and A. Kimball Romney. 1994. Consensus in the judgment of personality traits among friends and acquaintances. Journal of Quantitative Anthropology. 4:279-295.

Brazill, Timothy J., A. Kimball Romney, and William H. Batchelder. 1995. A Comparison of methods for collecting Judged Similarity among Items in a Semantic Domain. Journal of Quantitative Anthropology. 5:359-374.

Romney, A. Kimball, William H. Batchelder, and Tim Brazill. 1995. Scaling semantic domains. In Geometric Representations of Perceptual Phenomena: Papers in Honor of Tarow Indow's 70th Birthday edited by Duncan Luce et al. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Publishers. Pages 267-294.

Moore, Carmella C. and A. Kimball Romney. 1995. Commentary on Welsch and Terrell's (1994) reply to Moore and Romney (1994). Journal of Quantitative Anthropology. 5:75-84.

Roberts, John M. Jr., Carmella C. Moore, and A. Kimball Romney. 1995. Predicting similarity in material culture among New Guinea villages from propinquity and language: a log-linear approach. Current Anthropology. 36:769-788.

Burton, Michael L., Carmella C. Moore, John W. M. Whiting, and A. Kimball Romney. 1996. Regions Based on Social Structure. Current Anthropology. 37:87-123.

Romney, A. Kimball, John P. Boyd, Carmella C. Moore, William H. Batchelder, and Timothy J. Brazill. 1996. Culture as Shared Cognitive Representations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 93:4699-4705.

Moore, Carmella and A. Kimball Romney. 1996. Will the "real" data please stand up? Reply to Welsch (1996). Journal of Quantitative Anthropology. 6:235-261.

Romney, A. Kimball and Devon D. Brewer, and William H. Batchelder. 1996. The relation between typicality and semantic similarity structure. Journal of Quantitative Anthropology. 6:1-14.

Carroll, J. Douglas, Ece Kumbasar, and A. Kimball Romney. 1997. An Equivalence Relation between Correspondence Analysis and Classical Metric Multidimensional Scaling for the Recovery of Euclidean Distances. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology. 50:81-92.

Romney, A. Kimball, Carmella C. Moore, and Timothy J. Brazill. 1998. Correspondence analysis as a multidimensional scaling technique for non-frequency similarity matrices. Pages 329-345. In Visualization of Categorical Data. Edited by Joerg Blasius and Michael Greenacre. San Diego: Academic Press.

Romney, A. Kimball, Carmella C. Moore, and Craig D. Rusch. 1997. Cultural universals: measuring the semantic structure of emotion terms in English and Japanese. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 94:5489-5494.

Romney, A. Kimball and Carmella C. Moore. 1998. Towards a Theory of Culture as Shared Cognitive Structures. Ethos. 26:314-337.

Shankle, William R., A. Kimball Romney, Benjamin H. Landing, and Junko Hara. 1998. Developmental patterns in the cytoarchitecture of the human cerebral cortex from birth to six years evaluated by correspondence analysis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 95:4023-4028.

Romney, A. Kimball.. 1998. Measuring cognitive universals and cultural particulars. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 21:586-587.

Romney, A. Kimball and William H. Batchelder. 1999. Cultural consensus theory. In Wilson, Robert A. and Frank C. Keil, eds. MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences. Pp. 208-209.

Eric D. Widmer, A. Kimball Romney and John Boyd. 1999. Cognitive aspects of step-terms in American kinship. American Anthropologist. 101:374-378.

Romney, A. Kimball. 1999. Cultural consensus as a statistical model. Current Anthropology. 40:S103-S115.

Moore, Carmella C., A. Kimball Romney, Ti-Lien Hsia, and Craig D. Rusch. 1999. Methods for the study of inter- and intra-cultural variability: the universality of the semantic structure of emotion terms. American Anthropologist. 101:529-546.

Romney, A. Kimball, Carmella C. Moore, William H. Batchelder, and Ti-Lien Hsia. 2000. Statistical methods for characterizing similarities and differences between semantic domains. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 97:518-523.

Moore, Carmella C., A. Kimball Romney, and Ti-lien Hsia. 2000. Shared cognitive representations of perceptual and semantic structures of basic colors in Chinese and English. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 97:5007-5010.

Shankle, W. R, B. H. Landing, M. S. Rafii, J. Hara, J. H. Fallon, A. K. Romney, and J. P. Boyd. 2000. CYBERCHILD: A database of the microscopic development of the postnatal human cerebral cortex from birth to 72 months. Neurocomputing. 32:1109-1114.

Romney, A. Kimball and Carmella C. Moore. 2001. Systemic Culture Patterns as Basic Units of Cultural Transmission and Evolution. Cross-Cultural Research. 35:154-178.

Webster, Cynthia M., Anita L. Iannucci, and A. Kimball Romney. 2002. Consensus analysis for the measurement and validation of personality traits. Field Methods. 14:46-64.

Batchelder, William H. and A. Kimball Romney. Submitted to Psychometrika. Extending cultural consensus theory.

Moore, Carmella C, A. Kimball Romney, and Ti-lien Hsia. 2002. Cultural, gender, and individual differences in perceptual and semantic structures of basic colors in Chinese and English. Journal of Cognition and Culture. 2:1-28.

Romney, A. Kimball and Tarow Indow. 2002. COLOR research and application. Munsell reflectance spectra represented in three dimensional Euclidean space. 28:182-196.