Obituary: Julius Wishner (1921–1993).

Memorializes J. Wishner, Emeritus Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and a pioneer in experimental psychopathology. Wishner's approach to experimental psychopathology was exemplified by his work on psychological efficiency, which he defined as the ratio of focused to diffuse behavior displayed in a particular situation. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: David Bakan (1921-2004).

Presents an obituary for David Bakan, one of the most creative and provocative thinkers in psychology. David's best known paper on psychological method may be his critique of the test of significance in psychological research. David was one of the earliest psychologists to promote the use of Bayesian statistics as an alternative to conventional statistical approaches, first publishing on the topic in 1953. He was one of the founders of the American Psychological Association's Division 26, the History of Psychology, and served as the president of the division in 1970-71. He died in Toronto on October 18, 2004. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: William Schofield (1921-2006).

Obituary of William Schofield (1921-2006). William Schofield earned his bachelor's degree in psychology from Springfield College in 1942 (advisor, Harold Seashore). After graduation, he immediately enrolled at the University of Minnesota for graduate study. It was the beginning of a long career in clinical psychology at a time when the identity of the field was being established. With his unique set of attributes, he became a distinguished clinician, educator, and author, serving the field for decades. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: George W. Albee (1921-2006).

Presents an obituary for George W. Albee, a past President of the American Psychological Association (APA) and lifelong advocate of the importance of social change to deal effectively with mental disorders. His impact on psychology is reflected in the many awards he received in his lifetime, which included the APA Distinguished Professional Contribution Award in 1975, the American Psychological Foundation Gold Medal Award for Life Achievement in Psychology in the Public Interest in 1993, and the Lifetime Achievement Award in Applied Preventive Psychology in 1997. With his passing, psychology lost one of the staunchest advocates of prevention as the most important approach to dealing with psychological ills. He was also a lifelong advocate for the disenfranchised. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: Irving E. (Irv) Sigel (1921-2006).

Presents an obituary for Irving E. Sigel, 84, an emeritus distinguished research scientist at the Educational Testing Service (ETS). Sigel was an internationally recognized scholar who published more than 100 scientific articles, chapters, and books. He also exemplified the best characteristics of the scholar-teacher. Sigel's research focused on representational competence: how people (children, students, parents, teachers, researchers) move from having a concrete, or basic, understanding to having an understanding that includes appreciation of what could happen and hindsight about what could have been, eventually using symbols to represent this understanding. This research, in turn, led him to study how teachers, parents, clinicians, and researchers might most effectively adjust the psychological distance of what they say--or how they question--in order to support the development of representational competence. A past president of APA Division 7 (Developmental Psychology) and of the Jean Piaget Society, from which he received a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002, Sigel also received many honors and awards both nationally and internationally for his contribution to the understanding of child development. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: Hardy Culver Wilcoxon (1921–1996).

Memorializes Hardy Culver Wilcoxon, who constituted a significant link to the early history of experimental psychology. He worked as a research assistant to both C. L. Hull and C. I. Hovland, developing early and lasting interests in learning theory and in comparative psychology. This combination of scientific interests is reflected in his first 2 publications: "Spatial Orientation in the White Rat," which he published with Roland Waters (1948) and "A Preliminary Determination of the Functional Relationship of Effective Reaction Potential to the Ordinal Number of Vincentized Extinction Reactions," published with R. Hays and Hull (1950). He continued to pursue work in comparative psychology and learning for the remainder of his career. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: Carl Porter Duncan (1921–1999).

Memorializes Carl Porter Duncan, who contributed to several areas of experimental psychology. His publications dealt with verbal memorization and retention, motor learning, perception, discrimination learning, and relating simple laws of learning to more complex phenomena. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: Donald E. Broadbent (1926–1993).

Memorializes D. E. Broadbent, whose book Perception and Communication (1958) was the first systematic treatment of the human organism as an information-processing system. In it he proposed a structure of cognition that was specific enough to inspire a program of experimental research the influence of which may still be felt. In 1958, Broadbent began a 16-year tenure as director of the Applied Psychology Unit in Cambridge, England. In addition to his scientific impact, Broadbent has been a major influence on psychology in two other ways. First, throughout his career he gave his time and energy both to the theoretical development of psychology as a science and to its application to important practical problems. Secondly, by personal example he also stressed the humane, personal aspects of the human condition. Among his many honors, he received the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the American Psychological Association in 1975. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: Alan Kent Malyon (1941–1988).

Alan Kent Malyon was born on April 12, 1941, in East Chicago, Illinois and died of lung cancer on December 26, 1988 in Los Angeles. He graduated from San Jose State University in 1964 and completed his PhD in clinical psychology at Texas Technological University in 1974. After working for three years in medical psychology as a senior clinical psychologist at the City of Hope National Medical Center, he began a full-time clinical practice in Los Angeles. From 1977 to 1981, he served as Clinical Instructor in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Southern California School of Medicine. Since 1981, he was an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he also served as a clinical supervisor in the Psychology Clinic. Malyon was a diplomate in clinical psychology of the American Board of Professional Psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: Frederick Wyatt (1911–1993).

Memorializes F. Wyatt, who founded the Psychological Clinic at the University of Michigan in the 1950s. The clinic, devoted to the teaching and practice of psychoanalytically oriented therapy, achieved a reputation as the nation's best training agency of its type. Among his other achievements, Wyatt was president of Division 10 (Psychology and the Arts) of the American Psychological Association and president of the Society for Projective Techniques. He was editor or consulting editor of five scholarly journals and was three times a Fulbright Scholar. He published over a hundred articles and reviews on the widest range of topics, not only on psychotherapy and clinical issues, but also on philosophy, education, the family, and social change. (0 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Alan Paul Bell (1932-2002): Obituary.

Obituary for Alan Paul Bell (1932-2002). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

John J. Conger (1921-2006).

Presents an obituary for John J. Conger. John Janeway Conger was both an extraordinary human being and an extraordinary psychologist. He died peacefully at the age of 85 on June 24, 2006, in Denver, Colorado, after a remarkable career that spanned five and a half decades and extended far beyond the pioneering work that he was known for in developmental and clinical psychology. He successfully took on many other important roles, both scholarly and administrative, yet remained a warm, caring and generous person, a combination all too rarely found in one individual. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

John W. Money (1921-2006).

John Money died of complications from Parkinson's disease the day before his 85th birthday. Always obsessed with language, Dr. Money (as everyone called him) co-opted the linguistic term of gender to help him explain the human paradox of hermaphroditism, the topic of his 1952 doctoral dissertation at Harvard. He came to the United States, where he completed a residency at the Western State Psychiatric Institute of the University of Pittsburgh in 1948. He then went to Harvard. In 1951, Lawson Wilkins, the founder of pediatric endocrinology, brought him to the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Hospital. There, he essentially founded the field of psychoendocrinology when he established the Psychohormonal Research Unit for the long-term psychological study of individuals with intersexuality and other conditions. Money spent his entire professional career as a researcher at Hopkins, with dual appointments in the Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics. According to the John Money Collections at the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, he had a total of 1,192 publications, including 402 scholarly articles, 140 reviews and editorials, 95 book chapters, and 48 books, which were translated into many languages. He was the recipient of more than 65 worldwide honors, awards, lectureships, or degrees. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Hans H. Strupp (1921-2006).

Presents an obituary for Hans Hermann Strupp, internationally acclaimed clinical psychologist and psychotherapy research pioneer, who died October 5, 2006, in Nashville, Tennessee, following a long struggle with Parkinson's disease. Hans Strupp elicited unusual respect across disciplines, including psychiatry and medicine, and across national boundaries in numerous countries. Hans was truly a person of great distinction; he brought honor to his friends, his discipline, his university, his nation, and his family. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Harold H. Kelley (1921-2003).

This obituary reports the death of Harold Harding Kelley, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at University of California (1921-2003). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Joseph B. Margolin (1921-2006).

Presents an obituary for Joseph B. Margolin. In the 1940s, Margolin was in the U.S. Army Signal Corps. During that period, he was stationed at an Army hospital in California, and it was there that he developed an interest in clinical psychology. After being discharged, he returned to New York, where he received his doctorate in clinical and social psychology from New York University in 1954. He was always interested in combining his clinical activities with professional and political involvement, and held several positions including president of the District of Columbia Psychological Association, chair of the Maryland Board of Examiners for Psychologists, and staff member of the 1960 White House Conference on Children and Youth. (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)     

Hugh Lytton (1921-2002).

Reports the obituary of Hugh Lytton (1921-2002), a distinguished scholar in the field of developmental psychology. A fellow of the British Psychological Society and the Canadian Psychological Association, Hugh had about 70 peer reviewed papers and chapters, plus many other publications. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

In memoriam: Hans H. Strupp (1921-2006).

Hans Hermann Strupp, who deeply influenced the field of psychotherapy research for 50 years, died on October 5, 2006, of Parkinson's disease. He was 85 years old. Hans entered the field when psychotherapy research largely focused on straightforward questions of general efficacy. Beginning with the publication of his dissertation in 1955, Hans demonstrated a keen ability of systematically applying rigorous scientific methods to phenomena that were close to the hearts of practicing therapists. Hans was an early advocate of the need for audio and video recording of therapy sessions for research purposes. The scientific study of the therapeutic process was a central focus of his research. Equal to his empirical contributions was Hans's talent as a writer and what many regard as his uncanny rhetorical abilities. This balance allowed him to engage in discussions with many scientists from radically different schools, which contributed to the foundation of the movement of psychotherapy integration. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved)     

Mariano Yela-Granizo (1921–1994): Obituary.

Memorializes M. Yela-Granizo who was known for his tireless effort to promote a quantitative and rigorous science of psychology. He was a creator of a Department of Experimental Psychology at the Higher Council for Scientific Research, a founder of the Spanish Psychological Society, and a member of the International Union of Psychological Science Committee. Yela-Granizo furthered the factorial study of personality and individual differences. His work on the factorial structure of practical intelligence on verbal factors, and on mechanical and technical aptitudes is also noteworthy. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)