Charles E. Osgood

Charles Egerton Osgood (* November 20, 1916 in Somerville, Massachusetts; &dagger; September 15, 1991) was a distinguished psychologist who developed a technique for the measurement of the connotative meaning of concepts known as the semantic differential.

Osgood was born in 1916, in Somerville, Massachusetts. He received his Ph.D. in Psychology from Yale University in 1945.

He was a professor of psychology of the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana from 1949 to 1984, and a research professor of the Institute of Communications Research (ICR), in the UI College of Communications. He as the Director of the ICR from 1957 to 1984. He served as president of the American Psychological Association from 1962 to 1963.

Osgood served on the Social Science Advisory Board of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency from 1964 to 1971, at the height of the Cold War.

Among his many awards were the APA's Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award (1960), and the APA's Kurt Lewin Award (1971).

Charles Osgood died in 1991.

Works of Charles Osgood
Charles E. Osgood, Method and Theory in Experimental Psychology, Oxford, 1956.

Charles E. Osgood, "Suggestions for Winning the Real War with Communism," Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 3 (1959), pp. 295-325.

Charles E. Osgood, "An Alternative To War Or Surrender", University of Illinois Press, Urbana 1962.

Charles E. Osgood & Murray S. Miron (eds), Approaches to the Study of Aphasia, University of Illinois Press, 1963.

Charles E. Osgood. Perspective in Foreign Policy. Palo Alto: Pacific Books, 1966. ASIN B0007DRMIS.

Charles E. Osgood, George Suci, & Percy Tannenbaum, The Measurement of Meaning. University of Illinois Press, 1967. ISBN 0-252-74539-6.

Charles E. Osgood, William S. May, & Murray S. Miron, Cross Cultural Universals of Affective Meaning. University of Illinois Press, 1975. ISBN 0-252-00426-4.

Charles E. Osgood, Focus on Meaning: Explorations in Semantic Space. Mouton Publishers, 1979.

Charles E. Osgood, Psycholinguistics, Cross-Cultural Universals, and Prospects for Mankind. Praeger Publishers, 1988. ISBN 0-03-059433-2.

Charles E. Osgood & Oliver Tzeng (eds), Language, Meaning, and Culture: The Selected Papers of C. E. Osgood. Praeger Publishers, 1990. ISBN 0-275-92521-8.