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Rapson, Richard L. was born on March 8, 1937 in New York City. Son of Louis and Grace Lillian (Levenkind) Rapson.
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Book concerning the views that Britons had on first viewing American shores. ranges from topics like Church and State, American's domestic character, and American landscape. Contains a short bibliography section. Cover illustration from a 1867 issue of Harper's Weekly xi, 274 pages. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. 8vo..
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In Magical Thinking and the Decline of America, Richard L. Rapson, a leading cultural historian, engages in a unique dialogue. Twenty years ago he wrote American Yearnings: Love, Money, and Endless Possibility. This book looked at large issues of the day
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In this memoir of ideas, Professor Richard L. Rapson tries to connect his personal life experiences with the ways in which he thinks about an enormous range of topics. In a series of brief excursions called “miniatures,” Rapson addresses his ideas about music, films, sports, marriage, sex, and places. He then moves on to large historical matters such as the Westernization of the world and the psychological transformations that follow in its wake. Finally he considers religion, psychotherapy, ageing, and mortality. With humor and a light touch he focuses on how rich lives filled with meaning can be lived without recourse to religion.
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When people are in a certain mood, whether elated or depressed, that mood is often communicated to others. When we are talking to someone who is depressed it may make us feel depressed, whereas if we talk to someone who is feeling self-confident and buoyant we are likely to feel good about ourselves. This phenomenon, known as emotional contagion, is identified here, and compelling evidence for its effects is offered from a variety of disciplines--social and developmental psychology, history, cross-cultural psychology, experimental psychology, and psychopathology. The authors propose a simple mechanism to account for the process of contagion. They argue that people, in their everyday encounters, tend automatically and continuously to synchronize with the facial expressions, voices, postures, movements, and instrumental emotional behaviors of others. Emotional experiences are affected, moment-to-moment, by the feedback from such mimicry. In a series of orderly chapters, the authors provide observational and laboratory evidence to support their propositions. They then offer practical suggestions for clinical psychologists, physicians, husbands and wives, parents, and professionals who wish to become better at shaping the emotional tone of social encounters.
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In this volume, noted scholars Elaine Hatfield and Richard Rapson focus on the cross-cultural research concerning the passionate beginnings of relationships: how people meet, fall in love, make love, and fall out of love, usually only to risk it all over again. Through in-depth analysis and astute assessment, they compare the way cultures try to set rules for these incendiary matters. Two main questions addressed are: 'What seems to be biological and universal? ' and 'What seems to be socially constructed and transient? ' Taking a historical perspective, the authors ask where different societies, and the world itself, are headed?
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More so than any war in history, World War II was a woman’s war. Women, motivated by patriotism, the opportunity for new experiences, and the desire to serve, participated widely in the global conflict. Within the Allied countries, women of all ages proved to be invaluable in the fight for victory. Rosie the Riveter became the most enduring image of women’s involvement in World War II. What Rosie represented, however, is only a small portion of a complex story. As wartime production workers, enlistees in auxiliary military units, members of voluntary organizations or resistance groups, wives and mothers on the home front, journalists, and USO performers, American women found ways to challenge traditional gender roles and stereotypes. Beyond Rosie offers readers an opportunity to see the numerous contributions they made to the fight against the Axis powers and how American women’s roles changed during the war. The primary documents (newspapers, propaganda posters, cartoons, excerpts from oral histories and memoirs, speeches, photographs, and editorials) collected here represent cultural, political, economic, and social perspectives on the diverse roles women played during World War II.
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Recovered Memories is the story of Reza Guerrero and Sam Chávez, a modern-day Romeo and Juliet, whose brief love affair is shattered by the ethnic, social, and class confusions of the 21st century. When Reza’s father is falsely accused of sexual molestation, the young Mexican-American couple’s family relationships are shattered. But unlike their predecessors from Verona, Reza and Sam find an ingenious, thoroughly modern way to salvage their romance. This is a love affair that does not end in tragedy. Recovered Memories is a story of romantic obsession, secrets, and of memory in all its self-deceptive, fragile elusiveness.
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Rapson, Richard L. was born on March 8, 1937 in New York City. Son of Louis and Grace Lillian (Levenkind) Rapson.
He then taught history at Stanford University from 1961-1965 while pursuing his Ph.D. at Columbia University, granted in 1966.
Rapson earned his B.A. magna cum laude at Amherst College in June 1958, and served briefly there as an instructor in American Studies. His dissertation was on The British Traveler in America, 1860-1935. His doctoral advisor was Richard Hofstadter.
In 1966, after teaching history at University of California at Santa Barbara, he moved to Hawaii, and has been on the faculty of the University of Hawaii system ever since. He has returned to Stanford as a Visiting Professor of History (1973–74), and been a Visiting Professor of History four separate semesters on Semester at Sea, a University shipboard program that sails around the world. Rapson worked as a psychotherapist for 15 years, beginning in 1982.
He founded and headed the University of Hawaii's experimental liberal art college, New College, from 1968-1973. Rapson has written many books and short stories. He has one child, Dr. Kim Elizabeth Rapson.
Heydeck, Elisabeth. "Erklär mir Liebe—Viel Lärm um Nichts?” ZDF (German Public Television) Science Documentary. 2011. Miller, Lulu. "Entanglement." National Public Radio Invisibilia Series. January 30, 2015. Roller, Emma.
"Donald Trump's Unstoppable Virility." The New York Times. December 29, 2015. Sex During Wartime: History Under the Covers - 9 part series (Sex in WWII: The Home Front and Sex in WWII: The European Front). The History Channel. 2002.
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(Instead of careful, modest observations upon precisely de...)
(Designer Carrie Nelson and her famous canine friend, Rosi...)
(All quilters will love this collection of 7 delightful pr...)
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(When people are in a certain mood, whether elated or depr...)
(Book concerning the views that Britons had on first viewi...)
(Britons View America: Travel Commentary 1860-1935, by Rap...)
( More so than any war in history, World War II was a wom...)
(In Magical Thinking and the Decline of America, Richard L...)
(In Magical Thinking and the Decline of America, Richard L...)
(In this memoir of ideas, Professor Richard L. Rapson trie...)
Author: Individualism and Conformity in the American Character, 1967, Britons View America, 1971, The Cult of Youth, 1972, Major Interpretations of the American Past, 1978, Denials of Doubt, 1980, Cultural Pluralism in Hawaii, 1981, American Yearnings, 1989, Amazed By Life: Confessions of a Non-Religious Believer, 2003, Magical Thinking and The Decline of America, 2007. Co-author: (with Elaine Hatfield) Love, Sex and Intimacy: Their Psychology, Biology and History, 1993, Emotional Contagion, 1994, Love and Sex: Cross-Cultural Perspectives, 1995, Rosie, 2000, Recovered Memories, 2002, Darwin's Law, 2003. Member editorial board University Press American, since 1981.
(1968). Individualism and Conformity in the American Character. Cultural Pluralism in the 50th State.
Member American History Association, Organization American History, National Womens History Project, Phi Beta Kappa, Outrigger Canoe Club, Honolulu Club.
Married Susan Burns, February 22, 1975 (divorced June 1981). Married Elaine Catherine Hatfield, June 15, 1982. 1 child, Kim Elizabeth.