Thomas Mayo Magoon (1922-2005).

This is an obituary for Thomas Mayo Magoon. Magoon's creative leadership, persistence, and spirit of innovation laid the foundation for the modern-day university counseling center. He was a guiding force in the profession of counseling psychology--a celebrated mentor to graduate students and colleagues across the country. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Wilma E. Hirst (1914-2005).

This is an obituary for Wilma Elizabeth Hirst. Hirst was a pioneer in the history of school psychology who came from a background in teaching and educational psychology, worked her way through graduate school, balanced home life and career, and forged a distinguished career in teaching, psychological service, and school administration. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

James A. Dinsmoor (1921-2005).

This article presents an obituary for James A. Dinsmoor. Jim Dinsmoor was born in Woburn, Massachusetts, on October 4, 1921, and died at his family's summer residence in Laconia, New Hampshire, on August 25, 2005. He received his bachelor of arts from Dartmouth College in 1943 with a major in political science, followed by a master of arts in 1945 and a doctoral degree in 1949, both in psychology, at Columbia University. He was among the pioneering group of students inspired and mentored by F. S. Keller and W. N. Schoenfeld in the days when B. F. Skinner's natural science of behavior was just beginning to gain recognition as a distinctively new approach to psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Judson Seise Brown (1910-2005).

This is an obituary for Judson Seise Brown, professor emeritus of behavioral neuroscience at the Oregon Health & Science University, who died in Portland, Oregon, on August 28, 2005, at the age of 95. Brown was highly regarded for his rigorous, analytical, and innovative approaches to fundamental empirical and conceptual issues in the field of motivation. During his long career, he published many seminal articles on emotion, frustration, approach-avoidance conflict, the measurement of conditioned fear, and various other acquired drives. In addition to his basic research achievements, Brown made many important professional contributions during his long career, including serving as president of the Midwestern Psychological Association and the Division of Experimental Psychology of the American Psychological Association (APA), as well as chairman of the Board of Governors of the Psychonomic Society. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Philip S. Holzman (1922-2004).

Philip S. Holzman died of a stroke on June 1, 2004, in Boston, Massachusetts, at the age of 82. As a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, as one of the researchers who first probed the meaning of individual differences in perception and cognition, and as the founder of a field of research central to the pathophysiology and genetic vulnerability for schizophrenia, he was one of the most remarkably accomplished scientist-clinicians of our time. Holzman was the Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Harvard University, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and director of the Psychology Research Laboratory at McLean Hospital. This obituary discusses Holzman's life, his research, practice, teaching career, and his many achievements. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Paul E. Meehl (1920-2003).

Presents the obituary for Paul E. Meehl (1920-2003), one of the most eminent psychologists of the 20th century, who helped to shape psychology in a career that spanned more than 60 years. Dr. Meehl's intellectual contributions ranged over many areas, including clinical versus actuarial judgment, research on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, learning theory, psychoanalysis, and the genetic basis of schizophrenia. Dr. Meehl received considerable recognition for his contributions to academic and applied psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Samuel M. Turner (1944-2005).

This obituary discusses Samuel Mathew Turner's life, his professional efforts at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic's Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh, the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, as well as his many achievements, including a long and distinguished career of service to the American Psychological Association. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Stanley Schachter (1922-1997): Obituary.

Presents an obituary for Stanley Schachter, who died on June 7, 1997, in East Hampton, New York. It is doubtful that any social psychologist ever produced so many distinguished students. Stanley Schachter's contributions to psychology were extraordinarily broad. They included research and theory on group processes, communication, social influences on personal construction of reality, the affiliation motive, correlates of birth order, the nature of emotional experience, people's ability to attribute the causes of their behavior to external or internal factors, the causes of obesity and eating behavior disorders, and the addictive nature of nicotine. He made psychological research seem extremely exciting, and he convinced his students that they had the capability to do it well. His students, in turn, have themselves been successful as mentors. A remarkable fraction of the most highly regarded social psychologists in the country are the intellectual children, grandchildren, and now even great-grandchildren of this multiply talented investigator with protean interests. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: S. Howard Bartley (1901–1988).

Presents an obituary for S. Howard Bartley. S. Howard Bartley, one of the country's leading experts on human vision and a noted author, researcher, and distinguished professor in the Psychology Department at Memphis State University died on June 1, 1988, at his home in Memphis. He was 86. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Merle E. Meyer (1928-2005).

Presents an obituary for Merle E. Meyer (1928-2005). Upon receiving his master's degree, Merle moved to Whitman College, where he advanced and served as the chair of the Department of Psychology. In 1966 he moved to Western Washington University, where he became chair in 1967. In his final move, Merle came to the University of Florida as chair in 1972. He spent the rest of his career in Gainesville, continuing as chair until 1988. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Kenneth B. Clark (1914-2005).

Kenneth B. Clark, the eminent psychologist and political activist whose leadership role in the Social Science Statement in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 influenced the U.S. Supreme Court to hold racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional, died at his home in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, on May 1, 2005, at the age of 90. This obituary discusses Clark's life, his professional vision, and his many achievements, including his service as President of the American Psychological Association beginning in 1970. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Irvin Rock (1922-1995).

Irvin Rock was a distinguished perceptionist in the classical tradition: an influential theoretician of broad scope and a brilliant experimentalist who made landmark contributions to a wide variety of topics, including perceptual organization, adaptation, constancy, shape, motion, visual dominance, attention, and learning. Rock passed away June 18, 1995, of pancreatic cancer. In addition to his many research contributions, Rock was a beloved teacher, prized colleague, and inspirational role model to several generations of perceptual psychologists. Those who worked with him during his long and productive career will miss him deeply, not only for his brilliant theorizing and his ingenious experiments but also for his love of psychology and his profound humanity. His death has silenced his voice, but his ideas live on through his published legacy and his influence on the students, colleagues, and friends who were touched by his greatness. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: Carolyn R. Payton (1925-2001).

Memorializes Carolyn R. Payton for being a pioneer both as an African American and as a woman, in her roles as researcher, teacher, administrator, individual and group therapist, and US Peace Corps director. She was honored for her pioneering contributions to multicultural psychology. Carolyn Payton exemplified a life of conscious purposefulness and determination. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: Felix E. Goodson II (1922-2007).

Provides an obituary for Felix E. Goodson II, a psychologist who focused mainly on evolutionary psychology and who passed away on May 17, 2007. In his teaching and writing, Felix emphasized the historical and theoretical roots of psychology, as can be seen in the four chapters he wrote for Theories in Contemporary Psychology (2nd ed., 1976), co-authored with Melvin Marx. His book The Evolutionary Foundations of Psychology: A Unified Theory (1973) grew out of almost two decades of seminars and empirical studies with DePauw students and colleagues. However, his magnum opus, 30 years in the making, was The Evolution and Function of Cognition (2003), published when Felix was 81 years old, 18 years after his formal retirement. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

C. R. (Rick) Snyder (1944-2006).

This is an obituary for Charles Richard "Rick" Snyder. Before C. R. Snyder, hope was a concept elusive to many clinicians and clients, clinical and social psychologists often spoke at rather than to one another, and there was a limited collaborative spirit between the clinical and social subfields. As a result of his scholarship, mentorship, and generous spirit, hope is more accessible, the social-clinical interface is a vibrant area of study, and psychology is a more civil profession. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

William Bevan (1922-2007).

Presents an obituary for William Bevan, one of the 20th century's most honored psychologists. Bevan died at the age of 84 on February 19, 2007, at the Duke University Hospital in Durham, North Carolina. His death concluded a courageous, 18-year struggle with the aftereffects of a serious stroke. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituaries: Gregory A. Kimble (1917-2006).

Presents an obituary for Gregory A. Kimble, a general psychologist who passed away on January 15, 2006. Dr. Kimble had a lifelong allegiance to a particular approach to psychological science, and he was a superb organizer, synthesizer, and explicator of psychological fact and theory. He had a lifelong commitment to APA's Division of General Psychology, and from that division, he received the Hilgard Award for Lifelong Contributions to General Psychology and, in appreciation for his years of service to the division, its C. Alan Boneau Award for Distinguished Service. Dr. Kimble also played significant roles outside of APA. He was a member of several other psychological societies, including the exclusive Society of Experimental Psychologists. He will be missed by his family, his legion of friends and associates, and by the APA convention. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Irwin A. Hyman (1935-2005).

Presents an obituary for Irwin Abraham Hyman (1935-2005). Hyman served as chief of clinical services for the American Institute for Mental Studies (formerly the Vineland Training School, 1966-1967), then as professor of special education at Newark State College. In 1968 he joined Temple University as an associate professor of school psychology and was a full professor from 1975 until the time of his death. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Kenneth Irwin Howard (1932-2000).

Memorializes Kenneth Irwin Howard for his many contributions to clinical psychology. Throughout his career, Howard and his colleagues produced an impressive corpus of empirical work illuminating psychologists' understanding of psychotherapy. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Irving Emanuel Alexander (1922-2007).

Presents an obituary for Irving Emanuel Alexander. Irving Emanuel Alexander had an original mind and an integrity of character that made him sui generis. It is thus fitting that he played a major role in advancing the idiographic study of lives. On January 3, 2007, Irving died of cardiac arrest while attending a Duke basketball game. His wise and gentle spirit will be sorely missed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)