Faculty Profile
Robert Ervin Cramer
Professor and Chair
Ph.D., University of Oklahoma, 1978
General Experimental Psychology
Social Psychology
Contact Information:
Office:SB-504
Phone:909.537.5589
Fax:909.537.7003
Email:rcramer@csusb.edu
Research and Teaching Interests:
My research involves two programs of study, 1) social learning and conditioning, and 2) evolutionary social psychology. The research is designed and conducted by the Social Learning and Evolution Research Group (SLERG). SLERG includes undergraduate and graduate students in a mentor-apprentice system of training and pre-professional activity. SLERG uses conditioning principles to illuminate familiar social processes including interpersonal attraction, sex roles and causal relationship detection, and principles of evolutionary psychology to investigate mate selection and the precursors of sexual jealousy. September 2008 marked the beginning of SLERG's 26th year of operation.
My teaching interests include social psychology; learning, conditioning and motivation; research methods and the philosophy of science. In the AY 2008-09 I will not be teaching.
Honors and Awards:
1989-1990 CSUSB Outstanding Professor
San Bernardino Area Chamber of Commerce Excellence in Teaching in Higher Education Award (1990)
Representative Publications:
Cramer, R. E., Lipinski, R. E., Bowman, A., & Carollo, T. (2009). Subjective distress to violations of trust in Mexican American close relationships conforms to evolutionary principles. Current Psychology, 28, 1-11.
Cramer, R. E., Lipinski, R. E., Meteer, J. D., & Houska, J. A. (2008). Sex differences in subjective distress to unfaithfulness: Testing competing evolutionary and violation of infidelity expectations hypotheses. Journal of Social Psychology, 148, 389-405.
Cramer, R. E., Weiss, R. F., William, R., Reid, S., Nieri, L., & Manning-Ryan, B. (2002). Human agency and associative learning: Pavlovian principles govern social process in causal relationship detection. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 55B, 241-266.
Cramer, R. E., Abraham, W. T., Johnson, L., & Manning-Ryan, B. (2001), Gender differences in subjective distress to emotional and sexual infidelity: Evolutionary or logical inference explanation? Current Psychology, 20, 327-326.
Cramer, R. E., Manning-Ryan, B., Johnson, L., & Barbo, E. (2000). Sex differences in subjective distress to violations-of-trust: Extending an evolutionary perspective. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 22, 101-109.
Cramer, R. E., Dragna, M., Cupp, R. G., & Stewart, P. (1991). Contrast effects in the evaluation of the male sex role. Sex Roles, 24, 181-193.
Cramer, R. E., Lutz, D. J., Bartell, P. A., Dragna, M., & Helzer, K. (1989). Motivating and reinforcing functions of the male sex role: Social analogues of partial reinforcement, delay reinforcement and intermittent shock. Sex Roles, 20, 551-573.
Cramer, R. E., McMaster, M. R., Bartell, P., & Dragna, M. (1988). Subject competence and minimization of the bystander effect. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 18, 1133-1148.
Cramer, R. E., Weiss, R. F., Steigleder, M. K., & Balling, S. S. (1985). Attraction in context: Acquisition and blocking of person-directed action. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 49, 1221-1230.
