13 Facts About Harold Kelley

Harold Kelley was an American social psychologist and professor of psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Harold Kelley's family moved to the rural town of Delano, California when he was 10; while there, Kelley met and married his high school sweetheart, Dorothy.

The center moved to the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan in 1949 after Lewin's death, and Harold Kelley continued to work with them for a year.

In 1950, Harold Kelley accepted his first academic position as an assistant professor at Yale, where he worked with Carl Hovland and Irving Janis to write his first collaborative book "Communication and Persuasion".

In 1955, Harold Kelley left Yale and was hired at the University of Minnesota.

Harold Kelley then moved to UCLA, where he stayed for the rest of his academic career.

Harold Kelley held many leadership roles, one being the chairman of some of the organizations at UCLA.

Harold Kelley died of cancer in January 2003 in his Malibu home.

Harold Kelley used the economic terminology to defend the idea that people are maximizers of good outcomes in relationships just as they are with finances or other decision-making.

Harold Kelley liked to consider his main contribution to be his work on interdependence theory and the social psychology of personal relationships.

Formalizing the work of Fritz Heider, Harold Kelley presented these questions of how people attribute causality at the Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, which catalyzed the further study of attributions.

Harold Kelley claimed that ordinary individuals and empirical scientists often were similarly accurate in making causal inferences.

Well after his retirement, Harold Kelley brought together another group of leading researchers to tackle the creation of a taxonomy of prototypical social situations derived abstractly from theoretically distinct patterns of interdependence.