| Code | BPS/GB/132 |
| Name | Argyle; Michael (1925-2002); Professor; FBPsS |
| Title | Professor |
| Forenames | Michael |
| Surname | Argyle |
| Dates | 1925-2002 |
| Epithet | FBPsS |
| Parallel Name | Michale Argyle |
| Gender | male |
| Nationality | British |
| DatesAndPlaces | born Nottingham August 11 1925; died September 6 2002 |
| Activity | Argyle was educated at Nottingham High School for Boys and went up to Cambridge to read Mathematics, but following an interruption in his studies in WWII and service as a navigator in the Royal Air Force, he changed to Moral Science and Experimental Psychology. In 1950-1952 he worked at the Psychological Laboratory at Cambridge, and in 1952 became lecturer in Social Psychology at Oxford University, where he spent the whole of his academic career, being promoted to Reader in 1969. He was also tutor in psychology at Balliol College and a Founding Fellow of Wolfson College. He is well known for The Commincations Cycle described in his 1972 work The Social Psychology of Work an enhancement of a idea previously considered by Charles Berner in 1965.
Founder and chair of the Social Psychology Section of the BPS, and served as social psychology editor of the British Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology from 1961 to 1967. |
| PublishedWorks | The Scientific Study of Social Behaviour (Methuen 1957)
Religious Behaviour (Routledge & Kegan Paul 1958)
Training Managers (Acton Society Trust 1962), with Trevor Smith
Psychology and Social Problems (Methuen 1964)
The Psychology of Interpersonal Behaviour (Penguin 1967)
Social Interaction (Tavistock Publications 1969)
The Social Psychology of Work (Allen Lane 1972), ISBN 0-7139-0186-1
Skills With People: A Guide for Managers (Hutchinson 1973), ISBN 0-09-116481-8, with Elizabeth Sidney and Margaret Brown
Bodily Communication (Methuen 1975), ISBN 0-416-67450-X
Gaze and Mutual Gaze (Cambridge University Press 1976), ISBN 0-521-20865-3, with Mark Cook
Social Skills and Mental Health (Methuen 1978), ISBN 0-416-84980-6, with Peter Trower and Bridget Bryant
Person to Person: Ways of Communicating (Harper & Row 1979), ISBN 0-06-318097-9, with Peter Trower
Social Situations (Cambridge University Press 1981), ISBN 0-521-23260-0, with Adrian Furnham and Jean Ann Graham
The Psychology of Happiness (Methuen 1987), ISBN 0-416-40960-1
Cooperation: The Basis of Sociability (Routledge 1991), ISBN 0-415-03545-7
The Social Psychology of Everyday Life (Routledge 1992), ISBN 0-415-01071-3
The Psychology of Social Class (Routledge 1994), ISBN 0-415-07954-3
The Social Psychology of Leisure (Penguin 1996), ISBN 0-14-023887-5
The Psychology of Religious Behaviour, Belief and Experience (Routledge 1997), ISBN 0-415-12330-5, with Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi
The Psychology of Money (Routledge 1998), ISBN 0-415-14605-4, with Adrian Furnham |
| Conventions | International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN ISBN 0-9696035-3-3
National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 |
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