Professor Emeritus of Psychology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and Research Professor Emeritus, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research
Biography
Richard H. Price is Stanley E. Seashore Collegiate Professor of Psychology and Organizational Studies Emeritus, and a Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan.
His research program is focused on improving worker health and productivity. At the Institute for Social Research, he and his colleagues conduct surveys and field experiments testing organizational innovations to improve the conditions of working life. His research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Joyce Foundation, and the California Wellness Foundation.
Price is a cofounder of ICOS, the Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies, founding Director of the Organizational Studies Programand founding Director of the Barger Leadership Institute at the University of Michigan.
Funded Research
Publications
- Jessica Danielle Faul, David R Weir, Richard H Price, Miller, Reuben J., Kardia, Sharon R., Weiss, Sarah, Nead, K T, Li, A , Wehner, M R, Neupane, B , Gustafsson, S , Butterworth, A , Engert, J C, Davis, A D, Hegele, R A, den Hoed, M , Khaw, K T, Kilpelainen, T O, Wareham, N , Edwards, T L. 2015. Contribution of common non-synonymous variants in PCSK1 to body mass index variation and risk of obesity: a systematic review and meta-analysis with evidence from up to 331 175 individuals. Human molecular genetics 24(12):3582-3594.
- Vinokur, Amiram, Richard H Price. 2015. Promoting Reemployment and Mental Health Among the Unemployed. Sustainable Working Lives: Managing Work Transitions and Health throughout the Life Course :171-186.
- Richard H Price, Vuori, Jukka , Blonk, Roland . 2015. Conclusions for Policy, Practice and Research. Sustainable Working Lives: Managing Work Transitions and Health throughout the Life Course :291-300.
- Richard H Price, Vuori, Jukka , Blonk, Roland . 2015. Sustainable Working Lives: Managing Work Transitions and Health throughout the Life Course.
- Richard H Price, Vuori, Jukka . 2015. Evidence based Job Search Interventions for Unemployed Workers and Youth. APA Handbook of Career Intervention
- Richard H Price. 2015. Changing Life Trajectories, Employment Challenges and Worker Health in Global Perspective. Sustainable Working Lives: Managing Work Transitions and Health throughout the Life Course :3-16.
- Richard H Price, Vinokur, Amiram. 2014. The JOBS ProgramImpact on Job Seeker Motivation, Reemployment, and Mental Health. The Oxford Handbook of Job Loss and Job Search
- Vinokur, Amiram, Richard H Price, Shirom, Arie . 2008. Self-Efficacy as a Moderator of the Effects of Job-Search Workshops on Re-Employment: A Field Experiment. Journal of Applied Social Psychology 38(7):1778-1804.
- Richard H Price, Sarah Andrea Burgard. 2008. The New Employment Contract and Worker Health in the United States. Making Americans healthier: social and economic policy as health policy
- Richard H Price, Grant, A M, Christianson, M A. 2007. Happiness, health or relationships? Managerial practices and employee well being tradeoffs. Academy of Management Perspectives 21(3):51-63.
- Richard H Price. 2007. George Albee: A man with a better idea. Journal of Primary Prevention 28(1):55-57.
- Richard H Price, Sarah Andrea Burgard. 2007. The new employment contract and worker health in the United States. Making Americans healthier: Social and economic policy as health policy :201.
- Richard H Price, Choi, Jin Nam, Lim, S . 2007. Beyond the Iron Rice Bowl: Life stage and family dynamics in unemployed Chinese workers. Unemployment in China : economy, human resources and labour markets
- Richard H Price, Vuori, Jukka . 2007. Promoting re-employment and mental health: A cross-cultural case study. Implementing mental health promotion
- Richard H Price. 2006. The transformation of work in America: New health vulnerabilities for American workers. The new American workplace 1st
- Richard H Price, Choi, Jin Nam. 2005. The effects of person-innovation fit on individual responses to innovation. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology 78(1):83-96.
- Richard H Price, Vuori, Jukka , Mutanen, Pertti , Malmberg-Heimonen, Ira . 2005. Effective Group Training Techniques in Job-Search Training. Journal of occupational health psychology 10(3):261-275.
- Richard H Price. 2004. Understanding and Improving the Mental Health of Populations. A telescope on society: Survey research and social science at the University of Michigan and beyond. :222-247.
- Richard H Price, Vinokur, Amiram, Choi, Jin Nam. 2003. Self-efficacy changes in groups: Effects of diversity, leadership, and group climate. Journal of Organizational Behavior 24(4):357-372.
- Richard H Price, Friedland, Daniel S. 2003. Underemployment: Consequences for the Health and Well-Being of Workers. American Journal of Community Psychology 32(1):33-45.
- Richard H Price. 2003. Systems Within Systems: Putting Program Implementation in Organizational Context. Prevention & Treatment 6(1)
- Richard H Price. 2003. Personal control: Mediation, measurement, malleability. Personal control in social and life course contexts :165-172.
- Richard H Price, Behrens, Teresa . 2003. Working Pasteur's quadrant: Harnessing science and action for community change. American Journal of Community Psychology 31(3):219-223.
- Richard H Price. 2002. Mobilization, reinvention and scaling up: Three core processes in knowledge exchange, adaptation, and implementation. Toward a strategy for worldwide action to promote mental health and prevent mental and behavioral disorders : the coming thogether of science, policy, and programs across cultures :65-73.
- Richard H Price, Vinokur, Amiram, Choi, Jin Nam. 2002. Links in the chain of adversity following job loss: How financial strain and loss of personal control lead to depression, impaired functioning, and poor health. Journal of occupational health psychology 7(4):302-312.
- Richard H Price, Fang, Liluo . 2002. Unemployed Chinese workers: The survivors, the worried young and the discouraged old. International Journal of Human Resource Management 13(3):416-430.
- Richard H Price, Vinokur, Amiram, Friedland, Daniel S. 2002. The job seeker role as resource in achieving reemployment and enhancing mental health new directions. Socioeconomic conditions, stress and mental health disorders: Toward a new synthesis of research and public policy
- Vinokur, Amiram, Richard H Price, Caplan, Robert D. 2002. From field experiments to program implementation: Assessing the potential outcomes of an experimental intervention program for unemployed persons. Ecological research to promote social change: Methodological advances from community psychology. :43-62.
- Vinokur, Amiram, Richard H Price, Schul, Yaacov . 2002. Impact of the JOBS intervention on unemployed workers varying in risk for depression. A quarter century of community psychology: Readings from the American Journal of Community Psychology. :477-511.
- Vinokur, Amiram, Richard H Price, Vuori, Jukka , Silvonen, Jussi . 2002. The Työhön Job Search Program in Finland: Benefits for the unemployed with risk of depression or discouragement. Journal of occupational health psychology 7(1):5-19.
- Richard H Price. 2001. In the name of prevention: Commentaries on 'Priorities for prevention research at NIMH.'. Prevention & Treatment 4(1):1-9.
- Richard H Price. 2001. Winning new jobs in China - Preface. Jobs in China: A seven city project
- Richard H Price, Allen, LaRue , Ambuel, Bruce , Brody, Julia Green, D'Augelli, Anthony R, Gonzalez, J Antonio Garcia, Hughes, Robert Jr, Liem, Ramsay , Fried, Carrie S, Reppucci, N Dickon, Woolard, Jennifer L, Rhodes, Jean E, Shinn, Marybeth , White, Glen W, Fawcett, Stephen B. 2000. Contemporary intersections with community psychology. Handbook of Community Psychology :933-982.
- Richard H Price. 2000. Community prevention and intervention: Prevention with Adults. Encyclopedia of psychology, Vol. 2. :200-202.
- Richard H Price. 2000. Community psychology: Prevention and intervention. Encyclopedia of psychology, Vol. 2. :219-224.
- Richard H Price. 2000. Prevention: An overview. Encyclopedia of psychology, Vol. 6. :289-290.
- Richard H Price. 2000. Unemployment. Handbook of community psychology. :961-964.
- Richard H Price. 2000. Job loss threatens health, mental health of Californians: Effective job search programs can make a difference. Exploring connections between work & health :1-4.
- Vinokur, Amiram, Richard H Price, Schul, Yaacov , Vuori, Jukka . 2000. Two years after a job loss: Long-term impact of the JOBS program on reemployment and mental health. Journal of occupational health psychology 5(1):32-47.
- Richard H Price, Walsh, W Bruce, Craik, Kenneth H. 2000. New directions in person-environment psychology. 2nd
- Richard H Price, Walsh, W Bruce, Craik, Kenneth H. 2000. Person-environment psychology: A summary and commentary. 2nd:279-326.
- Richard H Price, Johnson, Suzanne Bennett. 1999. Cognitive behavioral approaches to the prevention of depression, anxiety and health problems: New results and future prospects. Prevention & Treatment 2(1):7a.
- Richard H Price, Friedland, Daniel S, Choi, Jin Nam, Caplan, Robert D. 1998. Job loss and work transitions in a time of global economic change. Addressing community problems : psychological research and interventions :195-222.
- Richard H Price, Vinokur, Amiram, Friedland, Daniel S. 1998. Job loss: Hard times and eroded identity. Perspectives on loss : a sourcebook :306-316.
- Vinokur, Amiram, Richard H Price, Caplan, Robert D. 1997. From job loss to reemployment: Field experiments in prevention-focused coping. Primary prevention works :341-379.
- Richard H Price. 1997. In Praise of a Cumulative Prevention Science. American Journal of Community Psychology 25(2):169-176.
- Richard H Price. 1997. Theoretical framework for mental health risk reduction in primary care. Preventing mental illness : mental health promotion in primary care
- Richard H Price. 1997. What we know and what we actually do: Best practices and their prevalence in substance abuse treatment. Treating drug abusers effectively :125-155.
- Richard H Price. 1997. Progress on promotion of mental health and prevention of mental disorders in the United States. Promoting Mental Health :101-109.
- Richard H Price, Reiss, David . 1996. National research agenda for prevention research: The National Institute of Mental Health report. American Psychologist 51(11):1109-1115.
- Vinokur, Amiram, Richard H Price, Caplan, Robert D. 1996. Hard times and hurtful partners: How financial strain affects depression and relationship satisfaction of unemployed persons and their spouses. Journal of personality and social psychology 71(1):166-179.
- Richard H Price, Rafferty,Jane, Heaney, Catherine A. 1995. Increasing coping resources at work: A field experiment to increase social support, improve work team functioning, and enhance employee mental health. Journal of Organizational Behavior 16(4):335-352.
- Richard H Price, Rafferty,Jane, Heaney, Catherine A. 1995. The Caregiver Support Program: An Intervention to Increase Employee Coping Resources and Enhance Mental Health. Job stress interventions
- Richard H Price, Vinokur, Amiram. 1995. Supporting career transitions in a time of organizational downsizing: The Michigan JOBS Program. Employees, careers, and job creation: Developing growth-oriented human resource strategies and programs. :191-209.
- Vinokur, Amiram, Richard H Price, Caplan, Robert D, van Ryn, Michelle , Curran, Joan . 1995. The Jobs I preventive intervention for unemployed individuals: Short- and long-term effects on reemployment and mental health. Job stress interventions. :125-138.
- Catherine A. Heaney, Richard H Price, Rafferty,Jane. 1995. The Caregiver Support Program: An Intervention to Increase Employee Coping Resources and Enhance Mental Health. Job stress interventions
- Richard H Price, Hooijberg, Robert , Talsma, A . 1994. The great Dutch work disability epidemic: cultural construction and institutional action. The International Journal of Organizational Analysis 2(4):384.
- Richard H Price, Parker, Louise E. 1994. Empowered Managers and Empowered Workers: The Effects of Managerial Support and Managerial Perceived Control on Workers' Sense of Control over Decision Making. Human relations 47(8):911.
- Richard H Price. 1994. In prevention research, nothing is as practical as a good theory. Van kindmodel naar modelkind : theorie en praktijk van preventie van psychosociale problemen :33.
- Richard H Price, Cioci, Madalyn , Penner, Wendy , Trautlein, Barbara . 1993. Webs of Influence: School and Community Programs That Enhance Adolescent Health and Education. Teachers College record 94(3):487.
- Richard H Price, McCaughrin, William C. 1992. Effective Outpatient Drug Treatment Organizations: Program Features and Selection Effects. Substance use & misuse 27(11):1335-1358.
- Richard H Price, Neighbors, Harold W., Bashshur, R , Selig, S , Donabedian, A , Shannon, G . 1992. Ethnic minority health service delivery: A review of the literature. Research in Community Mental Health 7:55.
- Richard H Price, D'aunno, Thomas . 1992. The organization and impact of outpatient drug abuse treatment services. Drug and alcohol abuse, Reviews, Vol III: Treatment of drug and alcohol abuse :37.
- Richard H Price, Walsh, W Bruce, Craik, Kenneth H. 1992. Person-environment psychology : models and perspectives. :280.
- Richard H Price, Walsh, W Bruce, Craik, Kenneth H. 1992. Person-environment psychology : A summary and commentary. Person-environment psychology : models and perspectives :243.
- Richard H Price, Walsh, W Bruce, Craik, Kenneth H. 1992. Person-environment psychology : An introducation. Person-environment psychology : models and perspectives :vii.
- Adam James Burke, Richard H Price, Robillard, H M. 1991. Organizational recruitment for research through shared problem-solving. The Community Psychologist 24(2):22.
- Richard H Price. 1991. Stress management programming for worksite health promotion. Worksite health promotion : needs, approaches, and effectiveness :200.
- Richard H Price, Mavis, B M. 1991. Stress programs for worksite health promotions: Annotated bibliography. Worksite health promotion : needs, approaches, and effectiveness :111.
- Vinokur, Amiram, Richard H Price, Van Ryn, Michelle , Gramlich, Edward M. 1991. Long-term follow-up and benefit-cost analysis of the Jobs Program: A preventive intervention for the unemployed. Journal of Applied Psychology 76(2):213-219.
- Richard H Price, B. M. Mavis. 1991. Stress programs for worksite health promotions: Annotated bibliography. :111.
- Richard H Price, Heller, Kenneth , Hogg, J R. 1990. The role of social support in community and clinical intervention. Social support : an interactional view :482.
- Richard H Price. 1990. Wither participation and empowerment?. American Journal of Community Psychology 18(1):163-167.
- Richard H Price. 1990. Strategies for managing plant closings and downsizings. The Human side of corporate competitiveness :127.
- Richard H Price, Lorion, Raymond P, Eaton, William W. 1989. The prevention of child and adolescent disorders: From theory to research. Prevention of mental disorders, alcohol, and other drug use in children and adolescents
- Richard H Price. 1989. Bearing witness. American Journal of Community Psychology 17(2):151-167.
- Richard H Price, Cowen, Emory L, Lorion, Raymond P, Ramos-McKay, Julia . 1989. The search for effective prevention programs. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 59(1):49-58.
- Richard H Price, Lorion, Raymond P. 1989. Prevention programming as organizational reinvention: From research to implementation. Prevention of mental disorders, alcohol, and other drug use in children and adolescents
- Raymond P. Lorion, Richard H Price, William W. Eaton. 1989. The prevention of child and adolescent disorders: From theory to research. Prevention of mental disorders, alcohol, and other drug use in children and adolescents
- Richard H Price, Raymond P. Lorion. 1989. Prevention programming as organizational reinvention: From research to implementation. Prevention of mental disorders, alcohol, and other drug use in children and adolescents
- Richard H Price, Hosman, Clemens M. H., Bosma, M W. H.. 1988. Evaluatie van preventieve interventies. Preventie in-zicht :299.
- Richard H Price, Meichenbaum, Donald , Phares, E J, McCormick, N , Hyde, J . 1988. Exploring choices : the psychology of adjustment.
- Richard H Price. 1988. Several ounces of prevention: hundreds of psychologists have given up helping people solve problems. Now they help prevent them. Psychology Today 22:p68(3).
- Richard H Price, Cowen, Emory L, Lorion, Raymond P, Ramos-McKay, Julia . 1988. 14 ounces of prevention : a casebook for practitioners. :191.
- Richard H Price, Cowen, Emory L, Lorion, Raymond P, Ramos-McKay, Julia . 1988. Introduction. 14 ounces of prevention : a casebook for practitioners
- Richard H Price, Cowen, Emory L, Lorion, Raymond P, Ramos-McKay, Julia . 1988. Model prevention programs: Epilogue and future prospects. 14 ounces of prevention : a casebook for practitioners
- Richard H Price. 1988. The prevention enterprise in mental health: History, state of the art and future prospects. Preventie in-zicht :59.
- Richard H Price. 1988. Integration: The preventionist’s craft. Families in transition : primary prevention programs that work :335.
- Richard H Price, Emory L. Cowen, Raymond P. Lorion, Julia Ramos-McKay. 1988. Model prevention programs: Epilogue and future prospects. 14 ounces of prevention : a casebook for practitioners
- Richard H Price. 1987. Linking intervention research and risk factors. Preventing mental disorders : a research perspective :48.
- Richard H Price. 1986. Education for prevention. A Decade of progress in primary prevention :288.
- Richard H Price, D'aunno, Thomas . 1985. Organizational Adaptation to Changing Environments Community Mental Health and Drug Abuse Services. The American Behavioral Scientist 28(5):669.
- Kessler,Ronald C, Richard H Price, Wortman, C B. 1985. Social Factors in Psychopathology: Stress, Social Support, and Coping Processes. Annual Review of Psychology 36(1):531-572.
- Richard H Price. 1985. Work and community. American Journal of Community Psychology 13(1):1-12.
- Richard H Price, Adam James Burke. 1985. Youth employment: Managing tensions in collaborative research. Children, youth, and families : the action-research relationship :50.
- Richard H Price, A. C. Burke. 1985. Youth employment: Managing tensions in collaborative research. Children, youth, and families : the action-research relationship :50.
- Richard H Price, D'aunno, Thomas . 1984. The context and objectives of community research. Psychology and community change : challenges of the future 2nd:51.
- Richard H Price, D'aunno, Thomas . 1984. Methodologies in community research: Analytic and action approaches. Psychology and community change : challenges of the future 2nd:68.
- Richard H Price, Heller, Kenneth , Reinharz, S , Riger, S , Wanderman, A . 1984. Psychology and community change : challenges of the future. Dorsey series in psychology 2nd:421.
- Richard H Price, Ketterer, K , Politser, Peter E. 1984. The action research paradigm. Handbook of counseling psychology
- Thomas D'aunno, Richard H Price. 1984. Methodologies in community research: Analytic and action approaches. Psychology and community change : challenges of the future :68.
- Richard H Price. 1983. The education of a prevention psychologist. Preventive psychology : theory, research, and practice :290.
- Richard H Price, D'aunno, Thomas . 1983. Managing work force reduction. Human resource management 22(4):413-430.
- Richard H Price, Smith, Sandra S. 1983. Two decades of reform in the mental health system (1963-1983). Handbook of social and community intervention :684.
- Richard H Price. 1982. Principles of psychology. :650.
- Richard H Price. 1981. Perspectivas sobre la conducta anormal. 1. ed. en español:217.
- Richard H Price. 1981. Risky situations. Toward a psychology of situations : an interactional perspective
- Richard H Price, Bouffard, Dennis L. 1981. Behavioral appropriateness and situational constraint as dimensions of social behavior. The Psychology of social situations : selected readings
- Richard H Price, Lynn, Steven J. 1981. Abnormal psychology in the human context. The Dorsey series in psychology. :615.
- Richard H Price, Heller, Kenneth , Sher, Kenneth J. 1980. Research and evaluation in primary prevention: Issues and guidelines. Prevention in community mental health : research, policy and practice
- Richard H Price, Ketterer, K , Politser, Peter E. 1980. The action research paradigm. Evaluation and action in the social environment
- Richard H Price, Ketterer, R F, Bader, B C. 1980. Prevention in community mental health: The state of the art. Prevention in community mental health : research, policy and practice
- Richard H Price, Ketterer, R F, Bader, B C, Monahan, J . 1980. Prevention in community mental health : research, policy and practice. Sage annual reviews of community mental health ;; v. 1
- Richard H Price, Politser, Peter E. 1980. Evaluation and action in the social environment. :235.
- Kenneth Heller, Richard H Price, Kenneth J. Sher. 1980. Research and evaluation in primary prevention: Issues and guidelines. Prevention in community mental health : research, policy and practice
- Richard H Price, R. F. Ketterer, B. C. Bader. 1980. Prevention in community mental health: The state of the art. Prevention in community mental health : research, policy and practice
- Richard H Price. 1979. The social ecology of treatment gain. Maximizing treatment gain
- Richard H Price, Cherniss, Cary . 1977. Training for a new profession: Research as social action. Professional Psychology 8(2):222-231.
- Richard H Price. 1976. Behavior setting theory and research. The human context : environmental determinants of behavior
- Richard H Price, Blashfield, Roger K. 1975. Explorations in the taxonomy of behavior settings. American Journal of Community Psychology 3(4):335-351.
- Richard H Price, Curlee, J . 1975. Differential patterns of response to different treatment modalities among alcoholic parents. Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol 36:659.
- Richard H Price, Moos, Rudolf H. 1975. Toward a taxonomy of inpatient treatment environments. Journal of abnormal psychology 84(3):181-188.
- Richard H Price. 1974. Etiology, the social environment, and the prevention of psychological dysfunction. Health and the social environment
- Richard H Price. 1974. The Taxonomic Classification of Behaviors and Situations and the Problem of Behavior-Environment Congruence. Human Relations 27(6):567-585.
- Richard H Price, Bouffard, Dennis L. 1974. Behavioral appropriateness and situational constraint as dimensions of social behavior. Journal of personality and social psychology 30(4):579-586.
- Richard H Price, Denner, Bruce . 1973. Community mental health; social action and reaction.
- Richard H Price. 1973. The case for impression management in schizophrenia: Another look. The making of a mental patient :262.
- Richard H Price, Denner, Bruce . 1973. The making of a mental patient. :378.
- Richard H Price. 1973. The case for impression management in schizophrenia: Another look. The making of a mental patient :262.
- Richard H Price. 1972. Psychological deficit versus impression management in schizophrenic word association performance. Journal of abnormal psychology 79(2):132-137.
- Richard H Price. 1972. Abnormal behavior; perspectives in conflict. :216.
- Richard H Price. 1970. Task requirements in tests of schizophrenic overinclusion. British Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology 9:60.
- Richard H Price, Slive, Arnold B. 1970. Verbal processes in shape recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 83(3):373-379.
- Richard H Price, Slive, Arnold B. 1970. Association value and label relevance in shape recognition. Perceptual and Motor Skills 31:43.
- Richard H Price. 1968. Analysis of task requirements in schizophrenic concept-identification performance. Journal of abnormal psychology 73(4):285-293.
- Richard H Price. 1968. Effects of complexity association value, and learning on the recognition of random shapes. Canadian Journal of Psychology Revue Canadienne de Psychologie 22(5):388-398.
- Richard H Price, Hill, R . 1968. Positive transfer of familiarization training to recognition performance: Effects of stimulus complexity and association value. Psychonomic Science 11:283.
- Richard H Price. 1966. Signal-detection methods in personality and perception. Psychological bulletin 66(1):55-62.
- Richard H Price, Eriksen, Charles W. 1966. Size constancy in schizophrenia: A reanalysis. Journal of abnormal psychology 71(3):155-160.