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ERDELYI, MATTHEW HUGH Ph.D.
Professor
Background
Born in Budapest, Hungary (on May 13, 1943); lived in Caracas, Venezuela, 1949-1956;
U. S. citizenship, 1958
Languages: English, Spanish, Hungarian; some French and Italian
Education
A. B., 1963, College of Wooster
M. S., 1966, Yale University
Ph.D., 1969, Yale University
Subliminal perception and memory; twilight phenomena (dreams, fantasy, jokes); recovery of unconscious memories (hypermnesia and reminiscence); hypnotic hypermnesia; the mechanisms of defense, especially repression and denial; insight; context dynamics; analogic thinking; time and psychophysics, General Systems Theory.
Books
Erdelyi, M. H. (1985). Psychoanalysis: Freud's cognitive psychology. New York: W. H. Freeman and Company. (Spanish translation: N. Daurella (Trans.). Psicoanalisis: La psicologia cognitiva de Freud. Barcelona: Editorial Labor, 1987.) Italian translation: W. Gerbino (Trans.). Freud cognitivista. Bologna: Il Mulino, 1988.)
Erdelyi, M. H. (1996). The recovery of unconscious memories: Hypermnesia and reminiscence. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
Erdelyi, M. H. (in preparation). The psychology of personality: Introduction to structure and dynamics.
Journals and Book Chapters
Erdelyi, M. H. (1974). A new look at the New Look: Perceptual defense and vigilance. Psychological Review, 81, 1-25.
Erdelyi, M. H., & Kleinbard, J. (1978). Has Ebbinghaus decayed with time? The growth of recall (hypermnesia) over days. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 4, 275-289.
Erdelyi, M. H. (1990). Repression, reconstruction, and defense: History and integration of the psychoanalytic and experimental frameworks. In J. L. Singer (Ed.), Repression and dissociation: Implications for personality theory, psychopathology, and health (pp. 1-31). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
Erdelyi, M. H. (1994). Hypnotic hypermnesia: The empty set of hypermnesia. In F. Frankel and C. Perry (Eds.), Hypnosis and delayed recall [Special issue] (pp. 379-390). International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 42 (4).
Erdelyi, M. H., & Zizak, D. M. (2004). Beyond gizmo subliminality: In L. J. Shrum (Ed.), Blurring the lines: The psychology of entertainment media (pp. 13-43). Mahwah: Erlbaum.
Erdelyi, M. H. (2004). Subliminal perception and its cognates: Theory, indeterminacy, and time. Consciousness and Cognition, 13, 73-91.
Erdelyi, M. H. (2006, in press). The unified theory of repression. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
Bergstein, J., & Erdelyi, M. H. (In preparation). Recognition hypermnesia: How to get it.
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