Arthur C. Houts, Ph.D.
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Psychology and Philosophy of Science

Follette, W. C., & Houts, A. C. (1992). Philosophical and theoretical problems for behavior therapy. Behavior Therapy, 23, 251-261.

Gholson, B., & Houts, A. C. (1989). Toward a cognitive psychology of science. Social Epistemology, 3, 107-127.

Gholson, B., Shadish, W. R., Neimeyer, R. A., & Houts, A. C (Eds.). (1989). Psychology of science: Contributions to metascience. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Houts, A. C. (1989). Contributions of the psychology of science to metascience: A call for explorers. In B. Gholson, W. R. Shadish, R. A.

Neimeyer, & A. C. Houts (Eds.), Psychology of science: Contributions to metascience (pp. 47-88). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Houts, A. C. (1991). The contextualist turn in empirical social science: Epistemological issues, methodological implications, and adjusted expectations. In R. Cohen and A. W. Siegel (Eds.), Context and development (pp. 25-54). Hillsdale, NJ; Lawrence Erlbaum.

Houts, A. C. (1994). Operational analysis, behavior analysis, and epistemology in science and technology studies. Mexican Journal of Behavior Analysis, 20, 101-143.

Houts, A. C. (2000). Logical positivism. In W. E. Craighead & C. B. Nemeroff (Eds.), The Corsini encyclopedia of psychology and behavioral science. Third edition. New York: Wiley.

Houts, A. C. (2008).Reformed theology is a resource in conflicts between psychology and religious faith. In N. C. Cummings, W. T. O'Donohue, & J. Cummings (Eds.), Psychology's war on religion. Book is in press.

Houts, A. C, & Baldwin, S. A. (2004). Constructs, operational definition, and operational analysis. Applied & Preventive Psychology: Current Scientific Perspectives, 11, 45-46.

Houts, A. C., Cook, T. D., & Shadish, W. R. (1986). The person-situation debate: A critical multiplist perspective. Journal of Personality, 54, 52-105.

Houts, A. C., & Follette, W. C. (1992). Philosophical and theoretical issues in behavior therapy. Behavior Therapy, 23, 145-149.

Houts, A. C., & Gholson, B. (1989). Brownian notions: One historicist philosopher’s objections to psychology of science via three truisms and ecological validity. Social Epistemology, 3, 139-146.

Houts, A. C., & Haddock, C. K. (1990). Cognitive norms of science as rule governed behavior. Nous, 24, 288-289. (Abstract)

Houts, A. C., & Haddock, C. K. (1992). Answers to philosophical and sociological uses of psychologism in science studies: A behavioral psychology of science. In R. N. Giere (Ed.), Cognitive models of science. Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science, vol. 15 (pp. 367-400). Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.

Houts, A. C., & Krasner, L. (1980). Slicing the ethical Gordian Knot: A response to Kitchener. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 48, 8-10.

...*Reprinted In R. B. Miller (Ed.) (1993). The restoration of dialogue: Readings in the philosophy of clinical psychology. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Houts, A. C., & Krasner, L. (1983). Values in science: Comment on Haan. American Psychologist, 38, 1253-1254.

Houts, A. C., & Krasner, L. (1998). Philosophical and theoretical foundations of behavior therapy. In J. J. Plaud & G. Eifert (Eds.), From behavior theory to behavior therapy (pp. 15 -37). Boston: Allyn & Bacon.

Krasner, L., & Houts, A. C. (1984). A study of the “value” systems of behavioral scientists. American Psychologist, 49, 840-850.

Neimeyer, R. A., Shadish, W. R , Freedman, E., Gholson, B., & Houts, A. C. (1989). A preliminary agenda for the psychology of science. In B. Gholson, W. R. Shadish, R. A. Neimeyer, & A. C. Houts (Eds.), Psychology of science: Contributions to metascience (pp. 429-448). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

O’Donohue, W. T., & Houts, A. C. (1985). The two disciplines of behavior therapy: Research methods and mediating variables. The Psychological Record, 35, 155-163.

Quinn, R. A., Houts, A. C., & Graesser, A. C. (1994a). Naturalistic conceptions of morality: A question-answering approach. Journal of Personality, 62, 239-262.

Quinn, R. A., Houts, A. C., & Graesser, A. C. (1994b). Moral questions and amoral answers: Who decides? Journal of Personality, 62, 269-272.

Quinn, R. A., Houts, A. C., & Graesser, A. C. (1994c). Thinking about morality and moral thinking: Is there a distinction? Journal of Personality, 62, 277-279.

Shadish, W. R., Cook, T. D., & Houts, A. C. (1986). Quasi-experimentation in a critical multiplist mode. In W. M. K. Trochim (Ed.), Advances in quasi-experimental design and analysis (New Directions for Program Evaluation, (no. 31) (pp. 29-46). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Shadish, W. R., Houts, A. C., Gholson, B., & Neimeyer, R. A. (1989). The psychology of science: An introduction. In B. Gholson, W. R. Shadish, R. A. Neimeyer, & A. C. Houts (Eds.), Psychology of science: Contributions to metascience (pp. 1-16). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.