Johnson, Michael P. (1999). "Personal, moral and structural commitment to relationships: Experiences of choice and constraint." In Warren H. Jones and Jeffrey M. Adams (eds.), Handbook of Interpersonal Commitment and Relationship Stability. New York: Plenum.
Johnson, Michael P. 1995. "Commitment." Pp. 121-125 in David Levinson (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Marriage and the Family. New York: Macmillan.
Johnson, Michael P. 1991. "Commitment to personal relationships." Pp. 117-143. In Warren H. Jones and Daniel Perlman (eds.), Advances in Personal Relationships, Volume 3. London: Jessica Kingsley.
Johnson, Michael P. 1991. "Reply to Levinger and Rusbult." Pp. 171-176 in Warren H. Jones and Daniel Perlman (eds.), Advances in Personal Relationships, Volume 3. London: Jessica Kingsley.
Johnson, Michael P. 1982. "Social and cognitive features of the dissolution of commitment to relationships." Pp. 51-73 in Steve Duck (ed.), Personal Relationships 4: Dissolving Personal Relationships. New York: Academic Press.
Johnson, Michael P. 1973. "Commitment: A conceptual analysis and empirical application." Sociological Quarterly 14 (Summer): 395-406.
Johnson, Michael P. 1969. Courtship and Commitment: A Study of Cohabitation on a University Campus. Master's Thesis, Department of Sociology, University of Iowa, Iowa City. (Chairman, Howard J. Ehrlich--a hero of mine).
PRESENTATIONS AT MEETINGS
"Commitment and entrapment: Wife-beating in America." Invited address
presented at the 9th International Conference on Personal Relationships.
Saratoga Springs, New York. June, 1998.
"The utility of family life cycle as a theoretical tool." Paper presented at the National Council on Family Relations annual meetings. Kansas City. November, 1996. (with Carolyn Kapinus).
"The nature of commitment." Paper presented at the National Council on Family Relations annual meetings. Kansas City. November, 1996. (with John Caughlin and Ted L. Huston).
"Personal, moral and structural commitment to marriage: Gender and the effects of children." Paper presented at the American Sociological Association annual meetings. New York. August, 1996. (with Carolyn Kapinus).
"The experience of commitment: Personal, moral and structural commitment." Paper presented at the International Conference on Personal Relationships. Banff. August, 1996.
Panel discussions: "Pushing the boundaries of research and theory and commitment." Seventh International Conference on Personal Relationships. Groningen, Netherlands. July, 1994.
"A symbolic interactionist analysis of commitment to lines of action." Paper presented at Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction annual meetings. San Francisco, California. Spring, 1991 (with Jeffrey Ulmer).
"Commitment, cohesion, investment, barriers, alternatives and constraint: Some propositions." Paper presented at the International Conference on Personal Relationships. Tel Aviv, Israel. July, 1986.
"Commitment, cohesion, investment, barriers, alternatives, constraint: Why do people stay together when they really don't want to." Paper presented at the Theory Construction and Research Methodology Workshop, National Council on Family Relations annual meeting. Dallas, Texas. November, 1985.
"Courtship as the development of commitment to a relationship." Paper presented at the Second International Conference on Personal Relationships. Madison, Wisconsin. 1984.
"Courtship as the development of commitment to a relationship." National Council on Family Relations, St. Paul, Minnesota. 1983. (with Susan Shuman).
"Personal and structural commitment: Sources of consistency in the development of relationships." Paper read at National Council on Family Relations meetings, 1978.
"The role of commitment in social problems theory." Paper read at Society for the Study of Social Problems meetings, 1976.
"Some issues in the area of courtship and cohabitation." Position paper prepared as discussion facilitator at Groves Conference on Marriage and the Family, 1973.