Brief Biography
Rob began teaching at the University of New England in 1979/1980. Currently he is Professor Emeritus, former professor of psychology, and served as Chair of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Department; he is co-founder of The New England Institute of Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Psychology (NEI). He also served as Advisor to the CAS Dean for faculty research and scholarship. His continuing areas of research are language, unconscious cognition, transfer of learning, and analogical reasoning. More broadly he has an abiding interest in the philosophy and methodology of science.
 

Education
Ph.D. The Pennsylvania State University, Psychology and Social Relations
M.A. San Francisco State University, Interdisciplinary Studies, Psychology/Sociology
B.A. San Francisco State University, Interdisciplinary Studies, Psychology/Sociology

Instructional
Along with development of a methodology for analysis and validation of unconscious cognition, my interest also focuses on transfer of learning. Transfer of learning involves how learning is transferred or applied outside the original learning situation, for example (a) on the job, (b) to similar; or (c) to extremely different situations. Transfer of learning involves how previous learning influences current and future learning. All learning is built on transfer of learning skills. Transfer of learning is thus fundamental to all learning, and is almost universally recognized as the most significant issues in education and training.
 

Courses Taught

Undergraduate	Graduate
Learning, Cognition, and Reasoning	Social Psychology
Social Psychology	Research Methods
Small Group Dynamics	Alcoholism and the Disease Model of Addictions
Research Methods
Alcoholism and the Disease Model of Addictions
Cognitive Psychology of Sleep and Dreaming
Contemporary Hypnosis Research
Abnormal Psychology
Theories of Counseling

Memberships
Association for Psychological Science, Charter Member
American Psychological Association (past member)
 

Selected Web Sites
Journal of Mind and Behavior
Association for Psychological Science
American Psychological Association
TransLearn Associates
 

Books

(2001). Deep listening: Uncovering hidden meaning in conversations. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Books [Re-published 2008].

(2000). Transfer of learning: Cognition, instruction and reasoning. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

(1999). Between the lines: Unconscious meaning in everyday conversation. New York: Plenum/Insight Books.

(1998). Reengineering corporate training: Intellectual capital and the transfer of learning. Quorum Books (Greenwood publishing group).

(1993). Adult-child: Research and experience. Academy of Medicine and Psychology. Norwood, New Jersey: Ablex.

(1987). (Ed.) Cognition and symbolic structures. Norwood, New Jersey: Ablex Publishing.

(1986). (Ed.) Cognition and dream research. New York: Institute of Mind and Behavior. (Also published as special double issue of the Journal of Mind and Behavior).

Encyclopedia Entries

(2004). Transfer of Learning. Encyclopedia of Applied Psychology, San Diego, CA: Academic Press (and International Association of Applied Psychology), in press.

(1992). Dreams and Dreaming Research. Academic American Encyclopedia, New York, Grolier, Inc.

Articles and Chapters

(2009). Unconscious linguistic referents to race: Analysis and methodological frameworks. Discourse & Society, 20(1).

(2008). Claude Lévi-Strauss, Cognitive scientist. Portuguese Review of the History of the Book,11 (22) November-December), 1-46 [Invited paper honoring Lévi-Strauss' 100th birthday].

(2007). The cognitive elegance of the adaptive psychotherapy of Robert Langs. New Therapist, 51, 14-19.

(2004). A logico-mathematic, structural methodology: Part III, Theoretical, evidential, and corroborative bases for sub-literal cognition and language. Journal of Mind and Behavior, 25(4), 287-322.

(2004). The access paradox in analogical reasoning and transfer: Whither invariance? Theoria et Historia Scientarium, 8(1), 159-196.

(2003). Haskell, Robert E. and Badalamenti, A. Algebraic structure of verbal narratives with dual meaning. Mathematical And Computer Modelling, 37, (3/4), 383-393.

(2003). Is the unconscious "smart," or "dumb?" and if it's smart, how smart is it? : One more time---with feeling. Theoria et Historia Scientarium 7, (2), 31-60. (Special Guest editor, David L. Smith, Ph.D.) [ABSTRACT]

(2003). A logico-mathematic, structural methodology: Part II, Experimental design and epistemological issues. Journal of Mind and Behavior, 24 (3/4) 404-425.

(2003). A logico-mathematic, structural methodology: Part I, The analysis and validation of sub-literal (SubLit) language and cognition. Journal of Mind and Behavior, 24 (3/4) 349-403.

(2003). Einstein v. postmodern relativism and other issues: On Akhter Ahsen's "Image and maze: Learning through imagery functions." Journal of Mental Imagery, 27, (3/4), 171-176.

(2002). The new cognitive unconscious: A logico-mathematic, structural (LMS) methodology and theoretical bases for sub-literal (SubLit) cognition and language. Evolution and Cognition, 8 (2), 184-199.

(2004). God talk: Unconscious schemata of deity in verbal narratives. Journal of Evolution and Cognition (forthcoming, July).

(2002). Cognitive science and the origin of lexical metaphor: A neuro-functional shift (NFS) hypothesis. Theoria et Historia Scientarium, 6, 1, 291-331. [ABSTRACT]

(2000). Cognitive science, Vichian semiotics and the learning paradox of the Meno: Or what is a sign a sign of? In Perron, P., Sbrocchi, L. G., Colilli, P. & Danesi, M., (Eds.), Semiotics as a Bridge between the Humanities and the Sciences (336-370 ) Toronto: Legas Press.

(1999). Unconscious communication: Communicative psychoanalysis and sub-literal cognition. Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, 27, (3), 471-502.

(1999). Psychoanalysis and cognitive science: Search for a common set of operations and psychodynamics. Brief Online [Unrefereed piece, 6].

(1998). Setting the record straight. American Psychologist, 53, 1229-1 230.

(1997). Academic freedom, tenure, and student evaluations of faculty: Galloping polls in the 21st Century. [Peer-reviewed Online Journal]. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 5, (6).

(1997). Abridgement of academic freedom, promotion, reappointment and tenure rights by the administrative use of student evaluation of faculty: (Part II) Views from the court. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 5, (17).

(1997). Academic freedom, promotion, reappointment, tenure and the administrative use of student evaluation of faculty (SEF): (Part III) Analysis and implications of views from the court in relation to accuracy and psychometric validity. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 5, (18).

(1997). Academic freedom, promotion, reappointment, tenure and the administrative use of student evaluation of faculty (SEF): (Part IV) Analysis and implications of views from the court in relation to academic freedom, standards, and quality instruction. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 5, (21).

(1995). Thomas Szasz and our right to drugs: Cracking the constitution. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 35(1) 21-39.

(1993). Vico and Jaynes: Neurocultural and cognitive operations in the origin of consciousness. New Vico Studies, 11. 24-51.

(1993). Realpolitik in the addictions field: Treatment, professional, popular culture ideology, and scientific research. Journal of Mind and Behavior, 14, 257-276.

(1992). Imaging processes and cognitive structure: Comments on Ahsen's prolucid dreaming approach to content analysis. Journal of Mental Imagery, 16, 1 & 2, 109-117.

(1991). An analogical methodology for the analysis and validation of anomalous cognitive and linguistic operations in small group (fantasy theme) Reports. Small Group Research, 22. 443-474.

(1990). Cognitive operations and non-conscious processing in dream and waking reports. Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 10, 65-84.

(1989). Analogical transforms: A cognitive theory of the origin and development of equivalence transformation, Part I, Metaphor and Symbolic Activity, 4, 247-259.

(1989). Analogical transforms: A cognitive theory of origin and development of equivalence transformation. Part II, Metaphor and Symbolic Activity, 4, 257-277.

(1988). Small group 'fantasy theme' analysis: Anthropology and psychology: A comparative study of a psychosocial structure of a ritual ceremony. Journal of Psychohistory, 16, 61-78.

(1987). Social cognition and the non-conscious expression of racial ideology, Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 6(1), 75-97.

(1987). Cognitive psychology and the problem of symbolic cognition. In R.E. Haskell (Ed.), Cognition and symbolic structures. Norwood, New Jersey: Ablex Publishing. 85-102.

(1987). Structural metaphor, and cognition. In: R.E. Haskell. (Ed.), Cognition and symbolic structures. Norwood, New Jersey: Ablex Publishing, 241-255.

(1987). A phenomenology of metaphor: A praxis study into metaphor and its cognitive movement through semantic space. In R.E. Haskell (Ed.), Cognition and symbolic structures. Norwood, New Jersey: Ablex Publishing, 257-292.

(1987). Giambattista Vico and the discovery of metaphor. In: R.E. Haskell. (Ed.), Cognition and symbolic structures. Norwood, New Jersey: Ablex Publishing, 67-82.

(1986). Cognitive psychology and dream research: Historical, conceptual and epistemological considerations. In: R.E. Haskell (Ed.), Cognition and Dream Research, (special book issue of Journal of Mind and Behavior), New York: Institution of Mind and Behavior.

(1986). The future of 'dream work': A historical predictive parallel? A.S.D. Newsletter, 3, p. 1-2.

(1986). Logical structure and the cognitive psychology of dreaming. In R.E. Haskell (Ed.), Cognition and dream research. (Also special double issue of the Journal of Mind and Behavior) New York, Institute of Mind and Behavior, p. 215-248.

(1985). Dreaming cognition and physical illness. Part I. Journal of Medical Humanities and Bio-Ethics, 6, 46, 56.

(1985). Dreaming cognition and physical illness. Part II, Journal of Medical Humanities and Bio Ethics, 6, 109-122.

(1985). Thought-things: Levi-Strauss and the modern mind. Semiotica: Journal of the International Association of Semiotic, 55, 1/2 1-17.

(1985). Racial content and issues in dream research. ASD Newsletter, 2, 7-9.

(1984). Empirical structures of mind: Cognition, linguistics and transformation. The Journal of Mind and Behavior, 5, 29-48.

(1983). Cognitive structure & transformation: An empirical model of the psycholinguistic function of numbers in discourse. Small Group Behavior, 13, l65-l9l.

(1982). The matrix of group talk: An empirical method of analysis and validation. Small Group Behavior, 2, 4l9-443.

(1979). Language and reality: The Three Mile Island nuclear accident. Interfaces (Newsletter), 12, Fall, 2-4.

(1978). An analogic model of small group behavior. International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 28, 27-54.

(1978). and Hauser, G.. Rhetorical structure: Truth and method in Weaver's epistemology. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 64, 233-245, National Communication Association.

(1975). Presumptions of group work: A value analysis. Small Group Behavior, 6, 469-680.

(1969). The analogic and psychoanalytic theory. The Psycho-analytic Review 55, 662-680.

(1968). Anatomy of analogy: A new look. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 8, l6l-l69.

Conference Papers and Invited and Keynote Presentations

(2002). The New Unconscious. International Conference on Unconscious Cognition and Evolution. The New England Institute of Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Psychology, Portland, Maine, Aug. 23-24.

(2000). Communicative Psychotherapy and Sub-literal Cognition. Annual Conference of the International Society for Communicative Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, New York, Nov.

(1997). Academic freedom, tenure, and student evaluation of faculty: Galloping polls in the 21st century. Conference on Academic Freedom, Canisius College, Buffalo, NY, April 24-26.

(1995). Cognitive Psychology, Vichian Semiotics and the Learning Paradox of the Meno: Or What is a Sign a Sign Of? The International Semiotics as a Bridge between the Humanities and the Sciences conference, Victoria College, University of Toronto, Canada, November 3-5th, Victoria College, University of Toronto, Canada, November 3-5th.

(1991). Alcoholism controversies: Review of research. Regional Conference on Alcoholism and the Disease Model of Addiction, Portland, Maine, July.

(1990). Small group dynamics, mental models and chairing the academic department. Seventh Annual Conference on Academic Chairpersons, Orlando, Florida, February 7-9.

(1988). Invited public lecture: Cognition and modern dream research. New School for Social Research, New York City October 25.

(1986). Invited lecture: The psychological management of pain. Bethesda Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, January 10th.

(1987). Notes on a cognitive model of symbolic transformation in dream imaging. Association for the Study of Dreams Conference IV, Marymount University,Virginia, June.

(1986). The future of dream work and dream research: A historical predictive parallel? Association for the Study of Dreams Conference. Carleton University, Canada, June.

(1986). An empirical inquiry into logical relations in dreaming. Association for the Study of Dreams Conference. Carlton University, Canada, June.

(1985). [Invited ] A method of pain management for surgical patients. Letterman Army Medical Center, San Francisco, California; September, l985.

(1985). Invited Lecture: Medical hypnosis. Bath Memorial Hospital physicians. February 20.

(1985). Racial content and issues in dream research. Association for the Study of Dreams, June, 20-23, Charlottesville, Virginia.

(1984). Hypnosis, language, and cognitive psychology. American Society of Clinical Hypnosis International Conference, November, 8-l0, San Francisco, CA.

(1983). The new hypnosis. Invited Presentation: Cultural Event Series Lecture, Harrisburg, Penn., April 2l-23.

(1982). Cognition and the psychopathology of everyday language and thought: An empirical model of the subliteral significance of numbers in human discourse. Maine Psychological Association, Scientific Meeting, April.

(1981). Invited Lecture: Contemporary hypnosis and psychology. Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine.

(1981). Psychosocial fallout of three mile island: An analysis. Maine Psychological Association Meeting, April 11.

(1980). Group talk. Maine Psychological Association Conference, Colby College, Waterville, Maine, March.

(1979). Constructional relations between syntax and meaning: An empirical demonstration. Delaware Symposium on Language Studies, University of Delaware, October.

(1978). Vichian tropological transformation: An empirical confirmation. The International Vico/Venezia Conference, Venice, Italy, August.

Book Reviews

(1997). Review of: Mental leaps: Analogy in creative thought, by Keith J. Holyoak and Paul Thagard, 1995. In Journal of Metaphor and Symbolic Activity, 12 (1) 89-94.

(1996). Double Review of: Giambattista Vico and the cognitive science enterprise, by Marcel Danesi. (Emory Vico Studies edited series, vol. 4), 1995, and Vico, metaphor, and the origin of language, by Marcel Danesi. 1993. In The Journal of Mind and Behavior, 17, 75-78.

(1995). Review of: Dream Reader: Contemporary Approaches to the Understanding of Dreams, by Anthony Shafton. 1995. In The Journal of Mind and Behavior, 16, 475-478.

(1995). Review of: The Postmodern Brain. Gordon Globus. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1995. In The Journal of Mind and Behavior, 16, 329-332.

(1991). Review of: Children of alcoholics: Critical perspectives, by Michael Windel and John Searles, 1991. In Journal of Medical Humanities, 11, (2).

(1990). Review of: Heavy drinking: The myth of alcoholism as a disease, by Herb Fingarette. In Journal of Medical Humanities and Bio-Ethnics, 11 (2).

(1990). Review of: The last intellectuals, by Russell Jacobi, The Journal of Mind and Behavior, 11, 123-126.

(1989). Review of: The multiplicity of dreams: Memory, imagination and consciousness, 1989. In The Journal of Mind and Behavior, 10 , 417-420.

(1988). Review of: The dream: 4000 years of theory and practice: A critical descriptive and encyclopedic bibliography. Two volumes by Nancy Parsifal-Jones,1988. In Journal of Medical Humanities and Bio-Ethics, 7.

(1987). Review of: Dream life, wake life: The human condition through dreams, by Gordon Globus, 1987. In The Journal of Mind and Behavior, 8, 469-472.

(1986). The nightmare: The biology of terrifying dreams, by Ernest Hartmann, M.D., 1986. In Association for the Study of Dreams Newsletter.

(1980). Poetic for Sociology, by Richard Brown. Interfaces, 13, (Spring).

Mass Media Selections

"Chat Decoder." Details Magazine, June, 1999, p.34 (National magazine write up of Between the Lines book).

"What We Say May Reveal Our Hidden Thoughts," by Aaron Smith, The Times Record, Brunswick, ME, July, 6, 1999, p.3.

"Good Listener: Deeper Meanings in Things We Say," by Tammy Wells. The Journal Tribune, Saco, ME, July, 2, 1999, p. 3.

"Giving Psychology Away," Observer (APA), January, 12, 1999 (Interview).

"Mass Media and Pop Psychology," by Robert E. Haskell, Bangor Daily News, Bangor, ME, July, 20, 1998, A7.

"Hypnosis Course Offers Spellbinding Education," by Susan M. Day, The Lewiston Daily Sun, Lewiston, ME, September 15, 1981.

Various Radio Interviews

Last update: 06.02.2008