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Silvan Solomon Tomkins (June 4, 1911 – June 10, 1991) [1] was a psychologist and personality theorist who developed both affect theory and script theory.Following the publication of the third volume of his book Affect Imagery Consciousness in 1991, his body of work received renewed interest, leading to attempts by others to summarize and popularize his theories.
Silvan Tomkins created script theory as a further development of his affect theory, which regards human beings' emotional responses to stimuli as falling into categories called "affects": he noticed that the purely biological response of affect may be followed by awareness and by what we cognitively do in terms of acting on that affect so that ...
PHOTO: Police are on the scene of an incident at UPMC Memorial Hospital, Feb. 22, 2025, in York, Pa. (Harrison Jones/York Daily Record via USA Today Network via Imagn Images)
The Tomkins-Horn Picture Arrangement test was conducted and created by Silvan Tomkins and Daniel Horn at the Harvard Psychology Clinic in 1942 as a subset the Wechsler intelligence scales, wherein the involved party must appropriately order a sequence of sketches which tell a short story in a very similar manner to the PAT developed by Tomkins ...
A Missouri woman who admitted to killing her husband because she couldn’t afford to divorce him has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. On Monday, Jan. 27, Melanie Biggins, 42, pleaded guilty ...
Diogenes Archangel-Ortiz, 49, killed a cop and injured five others when he stormed the UPMC Memorial Hospital in York, Penn. on Saturday morning -- armed with a pistol and zipties -- in what ...
She was 17 years old at the time of the crime so she was ineligible for the death penalty, as she was still a minor. [29] Marinucci had her life without possibility of parole sentence revoked, due to the 2012 and 2016 Supreme Court rulings Miller v. Alabama and Montgomery v. Louisiana.
Harrison Tomkins, 25, was stabbed in the chest, legs and back with a hunting knife in a ‘brutal and frenzied’ attack in Crawley. Two men found guilty of murdering ex-girlfriend’s new lover ...