Cognitive Psychology
• In 1977, LaViolette developed a feeling tone theory of how the brain and mind function to produce creative thoughts.  The theory, which is called the emotional-perceptive cycle theory, accounts for the aha experience as well as other cognitive phenomena and has significant implications for education.^{[7, 39-42]}  It is based on the emotional-cognitive structure theory of William Gray.^[41]  His thought formation theory has had much positive response; see letters from: Walter Freeman, Professor of Neurobiology at UC Berkeley (letter), Karl Pribram--Director of the Neuropsychology Laboratory at Stanford University (letter), and Dee Dickinson--director of New Horizons for Learning (letter).  The theory has been incorporated into university courses on education and counselor training; see letters from: Ted Packard--chairman of the department of educational psychology at the University of Utah (letter), Richard Rowan--professor at Evergreen State College (letter).  It has also been incorporated into at least one master's thesis.  Futurist Hazel Henderson liked the theory very much, as she commented in her 1977 letter to Harold Linstone, Director of the Futures Research Institute at Portland State University (letter).  Marilyn Ferguson in 1982 devoted two special issues of her Brain/Mind Bulletin to the work of Gray and LaViolette.^[42]  It has also been discussed in several books; for example, John Briggs devoted a whole chapter to the theory in his book Fire in the Crucible: The Alchemy of Creative Genius.^[43]  In 1982, LaViolette was invited to speak on the theory at an education colloquium sponsored by Berkeley School of Education and Institute of Noetic Sciences.  In 1985, he was invited by Hughes Aircraft to consult about the theory to upper and mid management.  He later learned from a former Hughes manager that Hughes had saved $40 million by implementing some of the ideas he had conveyed about his theory.

Aerospace Propulsion
• LaViolette participated in NASA's 1990 Space Exploration Outreach Project.  His submission suggested that NASA begin using electrogravitics technology for spacecraft propulsion.^[44]
• In 1993, LaViolette consulted NASA's National Space Plane Project on the use of electrogravitics technology for propulsion and for reducing air resistance and wing heating during reentry.  If they had employed his suggestions on the Space Shuttle design, the Columbia disaster could have been avoided.
• In 2003, LaViolette wrote to the Columbia Accident Investigation Board bringing to their attention the electrogravitics technology he had informed NASA about 10 years earlier and which could have prevented the Columbia accident (letter).^[45]
• LaViolette is the first to reverse engineer the electrogravitics technology used by the B-2 advanced technology bomber.  The paper he wrote on this in 1993 gained international attention and received extensive discussion on the internet.^[46]  Air International magazine summarized his ideas about the B-2 in a January 2000 article.  Also Nick Cook (The Hunt for Zero-Point) and others have cited it favorably.
• In 2008, LaViolette published his book Secrets of Antigravity Propulsion which describes how various electrogravitic technologies work.^[21]  Included in his book is the first time discussion of the highly classified Project Skyvault carried out by Rocketdyne Corporation in the 1950's and 60's whose purpose was to loft a spacecraft on microwave energy beams.