Robert P. Abelson

Robert Paul Abelson (Sept. 12, 1928 - July 13, 2005) was a Yale University psychologist and political scientist with special interests in statistics and logic.

He was born in New York City and attended the Bronx High School of Science. He did his undergraduate work at MIT and his Ph.D. in psychology at Princeton University under John Tukey and Silvan Tomkins.

He was the author of Statistics As Principled Argument and the co-author of several other books in psychology, statistics, and political science, including Scripts, Plans, Goals, and Understanding with Roger Schank.

He died of complications of Parkinson's disease.