Richard Rapson

Richard L. Rapson (born March 8, 1937 in New York) is an American professor of History at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Background

Rapson earned his B.A. magna cum laude at Amherst College in June 1958, and served briefly there as an instructor in American Studies. He then taught history at Stanford University from 1961-1965 while pursuing his Ph.D. at Columbia University, granted in 1966. 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 was also named National Finalist for the Danforth Foundation's Distinguished Teaching Award, which honored the nation's best teachers. 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. Some of these were written with his wife, Dr. Elaine Hatfield. He has one child, Dr. Kim Elizabeth Rapson.

Bibliography

Written by Rapson

PUBLICATIONS: Books

• Individualism and Conformity in the American Character
• Britons View America: Travel Commentary, 1860-1935
• The Cult of Youth in Middle-Class America
• Major Interpretations of the American Past
• American Life and Thought Since 1880: A Guided Study Course
• The Pursuit of Meaning: America 1600-2000
• Denial of Doubt: An Interpretation of American History
• Fairly Lucky You Live Hawaii! Cultural Pluralism in the 50th State
• American Yearnings: Love, Money and Endless Possibility
• Amazed by Life: Confessions of a Non-Religious Believer
• Magical Thinking and the Decline of America

PUBLICATIONS: Articles and Chapters

• "The American Child as Seen by British Travelers, 1845-1935," American Quarterly (Fall 1965). Also reprinted in Michael McGiffert, ed., The Character of Americans (Dorsey: Rev. ed., 1970), and several other anthologies
• "British Tourists in the United States, 1840-1940," History Today (August 1966)
• "The Religious Feelings of the American People," Church History (September 1966)
• Final chapter in Alan Hodge, ed., Varieties of Travel (Oliver Boyd, 1967)
• "The Past and Future of Universities," Kapa (Fall 1968)
• "The Making of a College," Soundings (Spring 1971)
• "Shared Beliefs in Pluralistic America," Humanitas (February 1976)
• "The Story of New College" in Robert Potter and Robert Kamins, eds., The History of the University of Hawaii (University of Hawaii Press: Honolulu, sched. 1995)

Collaborations With Elaine Hatfield

Co-Authored Books With Elaine Hatfield

• Love, Sex, and Intimacy: Their Psychology, Biology, and History. New York: HarperCollins, 1993.
• Emotional Contagion: Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
• Love and Sex: Cross-Cultural Perspectives. New York: Allyn & Bacon, 1996.

Fiction

• Rosie. SterlingHouse: Pittsburgh, Pa. 2000.

Other Collaborations with Elaine Hatfield

• "Gender Differences in Love and Intimacy: the Fantasy vs. the Reality," in W. Ricketts and H. Gochros (Eds.) (eds.), Social Work and Love (Hayworth Press: New York, 1985).
• "Passionate Love: New Directions in Research," in W. Jones and D. Perlman (eds.), Advances in Personal Relationships Vol. I (JAI Press: Greenwich, CN, 1987), pp. 109–139.
• "Passionate Love/ Sexual Desire: Can the Same Paradigm Explain Both?”, Archives of Sexual Behavior, 16 (1987), pp. 259–278.
• "Passionate Love: Its Beginnings," Journal of Psychology and Human Sexuality, 1 (1988).
• "The Mature Years" in R. Burnett, ed., Intimacy (Topsfield, MA: Salem House Publishers. (l989).
• "Emotions in Intimate Relations," in A.M. Isen and B. Moore (eds.), Affect and Social Behavior (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1990).
• "Emotions: A Trinity" in E.A. Bleckman & M.J. McEnroe, eds, Emotions in the Family (Lawrence Erlbaum: New York, 1990).
• "Emotional Contagion" in Review of Personality and Social Psychology, 14, 1992.
• "Love and Attachment Processes" in The Handbook of Emotions, 1992.
• "Similarity and Attraction in Close Relationships," Chatauqua Series on Attitude Similarity, Communication Monographs, 1992.
• "Emotional Contagion," Directions in Psychological Sciences, 1992.
• "Historical and cross-cultural perspectives on passionate love. In K. T. Strongman (Ed.), International Review of Emotion Vol. 3. John Wiley & Sons, 1993.
• "Historical and cross-cultural perspectives on passionate love and sexual desire. Annual Review of Sex Research, 4, 67-98, 1993.
• "Love and Intimacy" in V.S. Ramachandran, ed., Encyclopedia of Human Behavior. New York: Academic Press, 1994
• Hatfield, E., & Rapson, R. L. (l993). Love and attachment processes. In M. Lewis & J. M. Haviland (Eds.), Handbook of emotions (pp. 595–604). New York: Guilford Press.
• Hatfield, E., Cacioppo, J. L. & Rapson, R. L. (1993). Emotional contagion. Current Directions in Psychological Sciences, 2, 96-99.
• Hatfield, E., & Rapson, R. L. (1993). Historical and cross-cultural perspectives on passionate love. In K. T. Strongman (Ed.), International Review of Emotion Vol. 3. John Wiley & Sons.
• Hatfield, E., & Rapson, R. L. (1993). Historical and cross-cultural perspectives on passionate love and sexual desire. Annual Review of Sex Research, 4, 67-98.
• Hatfield, E., & Rapson, R. L. (1994). Love and intimacy. In V. S. Ramachandran (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Human Behavior, 3, (pp. 1145–1149). New York: Academic Press.
• Hatfield, E., & Rapson, R. L. (1994). Love and intimacy. Encyclopedia of Mental Health, 2, (pp. 583–592.) New York: Academic Press.
• Hatfield, E., & Rapson, R. L. (1996). Stress and passionate love. In C. D. Spielberger & I. G. Sarason (Eds.), Stress and Emotion: Anxiety, Anger, and Curiousity, 16, 29-50.
• Hatfield, E., & Rapson, R. L. (1998). Emotional contagion and the communication of emotion. In M. T. Palmer & G. A. Barnett (Ed.), Progress in Communication Sciences, Vol. 14, 73-89.
• Hatfield, E. & Rapson, R. L. (January, 2000). The future. Popular Mechanics.
• Hatfield, E., & Rapson, R. L. (2000). Love and attachment processes. In M. Lewis & J. M. Haviland-Jones (Eds.), Handbook of emotions, Second edition. (pp. 654–662). New York: Guilford.
• Hatfield, E. & Rapson, R. L. (2000). Love. In W. E. Craighead & C. B. Nemeroff (Eds.). The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavorial Science. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 898-901.
• Hatfield, E. & Rapson, R. L. (2000). Emotional contagion. In W. E. Craighead & C. B. Nemeroff (Eds.). The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavorial Science. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 493-495.
• Hatfield, E. & Rapson, R. L. (2000). Physical attractiveness. In W. E. Craighead & C. B. Nemeroff (Eds.). The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavorial Science. Vol. 3. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1203-1205.
• Hatfield, E., & Rapson, R. L. (2000). Amor Pasional y Deseo Sexual: Perspectivas Históricas y Trans-Culturales. Journal Mexicano de Psicologia Social and Revista de Psicología Social y Personalidad.
• Hatfield, E. & Rapson, R. L. (2001). In Fabio Bacchini and Chiara Lalli (Eds.) Anthology of Theoretical Essays on Love.
• Hatfield, E., & Rapson, R. L. (2002). Passionate love and sexual desire: Cross-cultural and historical perspectives. In H. Reis, M. A. Fitzpatrick, and A. Vangelisti. Stability and Change in Relationship Behavior Across the Lifespan. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
• Hatfield, E. & Rapson, R. L. (in press). Attractiveness. In Craighead, W. E. and Nemeroff, C. (Eds.) Concise Encyclopedia of Psychology and Neuroscience. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
• Hatfield, E. & Rapson, R. L. (in press) Love. In Craighead, W. E. and Nemeroff, C. (Eds.) Concise Encyclopedia of Psychology and Neuroscience. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
• Hatfield, E. & Rapson, R. L. (in press). Emotional contagion. In Craighead, W. E. and Nemeroff, C. (Eds.) Concise Encyclopedia of Psychology and Neuroscience. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
• Hatfield, E. & Rapson, R. L. (in press). Emotional contagion: The outbreak of terrorism and hate around the world. In C. W. Leach & L. Tiedens, The social life of emotions.

External links

Amherst College Authors [1]

Richard Rapson, University of Hawaii [2]