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)     

Lloyd Alexander Jeffress (1900–1986).

Lloyd Jeffress was 85 when he died on April 2, 1986, of complications associated with a weak heart and lungs. He had lived in Austin, Texas, since 1926, when he and his wife Sylvia came to the University of Texas (UT) directly from the University of California-Berkeley with Lloyd's fresh PhD in hand. The intent was "to teach for a year or so," but Lloyd miscalculated and eventually spent 51 years at UT. In that time, he and his students made many lasting contributions to our understanding of the auditory system—especially its use of the two interaural cues of time and intensity difference for localizing signals spatially and for detecting them in noise. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Edward Alexander Bott (1887-1974).

Begins a tribute to Edward Alexander (Ned) Bott, former Head of the Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto. Included is a chronology of Bott's life, quotes by former collegues and family members, and the lyrics to a musical tribute given to Bott at a 1941 staff party as he and other staff prepared to depart for war service. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Howard E. Gruber (1922-2005).

This article presents an obituary for Howard E. Gruber. Howard Ernest (Howie) Gruber, who died on January 25, 2005, in New York City, was a wide-ranging cognitive psychologist. Although born in the United States, he was deeply influenced by European currents of thought: Indeed, his work blended the theoretical ambition of the most influential European psychologists with the experimental ingenuity and scrupulous attention to data that have distinguished American psychology at its best. Gruber was among the most important scholars of human creativity in recent decades; his pioneering study of the notebooks of Charles Darwin was catalytic in reorienting an entire area of research. In addition to his important scholarship, Gruber believed fervently in the responsibility of scholars to address social and political issues, and he devoted much of his later life to those contemporary issues that he considered paramount. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

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)     

Toni Bernay (1936-2007).

Presents an obituary for Toni Bernay. Bernay died in Los Angeles on April 30, 2007, after a brief but valiant battle with a recurrence of lymphoma. She was a leader among practitioners, a visionary who inspired advocacy for psychology, women, and cancer patients. Upon her death, her colleagues described her as "a forceful advocate," "a dynamite lady who has been a wonderful mentor," "a powerful force for women's rights," and "a vibrant presence who empowered women in the profession." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Irving B. Harris: A Legacy of Vision and Generosity.

Presents a brief tribute to Irving B. Harris upon his passing. Harris played a central role in launching the Harris School of Public Policy Studies and the Center for Human Potential and Public Policy at the University of Chicago. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: Irving J. Saltzman (1923-2000).

Memorializes Irving J. Saltzman, known for his work as chair of the Department of Psychology at Indiana University. He guided the department through a time of major change in education and in psychology. He promoted an atmosphere that was particularly beneficial to new faculty at a time when the loyalty of faculty was decreasing and the professionalization of psychology was increasing. He was a tenacious proponent of his department, and led by example, saying that he could not expect others to do what he was unwilling to do himself. (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)     

Oakley Stern Ray (1931-2007).

Presents an obituary for Oakley Stern Ray. Ray was a teacher--whether in the role of professor, chief, or colleague. Late in his life, he described himself as having had four "day jobs," although he could not have accomplished so much if he had limited himself to daylight hours. He so completely inhabited each role that the colleagues he knew in one capacity were often unaware the others existed. These four careers were Veterans Administration (VA) psychologist, professor, author, and executive. He always had at least two of these careers going at the same time, usually three. During the 1970s and 1980s, he was productive in all four simultaneously. Oakley's 76th birthday was February 6, 2007; he died of leukemia on February 7, 2007. He is survived by his wife Kathy Ray, his sons Steve, Christian, and Tom Ray, his daughter Deb Scanlon, his grandchildren--and thousands of students. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Rudolf Julius Arnheim (1904-2007).

Presents an obituary for Rudolf Julius Arnheim. Arnheim died on June 9, 2007, in Anne Arbor, Michigan, at the age of 102. His wife (née Mary Frame) died in 1999. He is survived by his stepdaughter Margaret Nettinga, of the Netherlands, two grandchildren, and a great-grandchild. His life spanned the social cataclysms that swept the last century. Of Jewish descent, he first fled the Nazis and then the Italian fascists before he came to America from England in 1940. On this continent, his skills as a scholar and teacher brought him much success. He applied his formidable knowledge of philosophy, literature, art history, and perceptual psychology to central questions about the visual arts. His work has fundamentally influenced practitioners in many related fields: the psychology of art, art history, aesthetics, art education, and the study of popular culture. His books and essays are known around the globe. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

John Henry Jackson (1922-2008).

John Henry Jackson was born September 21, 1922, in Macon, Georgia, and died May 14, 2008. He received his bachelor's degree from Milwaukee State Teachers College (1946, now the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), and his master's (1948) and doctoral (1957) degrees in educational psychology from the University of Chicago. John served the Milwaukee Public Schools as a school psychologist from 1962 until his retirement in 1989. He was also a founding member and former officer of the Wisconsin School of Professional Psychology, a member of the Wisconsin Psychological Association and, in 1981-1982, president of the Milwaukee Area Psychological Association. As a licensed psychologist in Wisconsin, he was also a member of the state examining board (1974-1980). John was a member of the American Psychological Association (APA) since 1963 and a fellow since 1982. During his career, he published on topics related to school psychology interventions, the development and importance of school psychology, and minority affairs relevant to schoolchildren and psychologists. John Jackson was among the early and distinguished African American school psychologists. (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)     

Obituary for Rudolf Arnheim (1904-2007).

Presents an obituary for Rudolf Arnheim. That Rudi was going to become a psychologist was not preordained, let alone that he would become the most important psychologist of art of the 20th century. Indeed, his father was a manufacturer of pianos and the expectation was that Rudi would enter the family business. Recoiling at this preordination, Rudi attended the University of Berlin, where he studied philosophy, psychology, music, and art. He had the good fortune to work with Max Wertheimer, perhaps the most gifted and imaginative of the three founders of Gestalt psychology. Rudi's doctoral dissertation, submitted in 1928 when he was but 24, was an empirical study of what could be learned from handwriting analysis. Thus Rudi began a lifelong fascination with how one perceived the visual world and how the act of perception is infused with--and inseparable from--cognition and the making of meaning. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Paul H. Mussen (1922–2000).

Memorializes Paul H. Mussen, a pioneer in modern developmental psychology. During a career that spanned more than 40 yrs, Mussen made seminal contributions as author, editor, teacher, scientist, administrator, and policy advocate to knowledge of and concern for children and their development. (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)     

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)     

Brian Mullen (1955-2006).

Presents an obituary for Brian Mullen. In a field that values empirical precedent and established paradigms, Brian Mullen's career was one of passion and originality. He was motivated by pure intellectual curiosity; the recognition he received for his pioneering work in archival methodology, meta-analysis, and group processes and relations was secondary. His contributions to the field of social psychology were unique and will be enduring. His 1985 book with Robert Rosenthal, BASIC Meta-Analysis: Procedures and Programs, is a classic. In 2006, he was identified as the 15th most cited scholar in social psychology textbooks. Brian died of cancer on May 4, 2006. (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)     

Abram Amsel (1922-2006).

Presents an obituary for Abram Amsel who died on August 31, 2006, at 83 years of age. Abram Amsel's academic career spanned the second half of the 20th century, during which time he made seminal contributions to the theory and research of reward-schedule effects in mammals. In the first 20 years of his career, Amsel's behavioral research and theory of "frustrative nonreward" established aversive emotional consequences of nonreward as potent influences on behavior when certain reward schedules are in effect. During the next 30 years, he continued to pursue questions related to reward-schedule effects but this time from the perspectives of ontogeny and behavioral neuroscience. His work resulted in a much deeper understanding and a broader conceptualization of reward-schedule effects that he eventually came to characterize as "dispositional learning and memory." Amsel held several professional roles in his field. He was a member of the governing board of the Psychonomic Society (1973-1978) and the founding editor (1972-1976) of the Society's journal Animal Learning & Behavior (now Learning & Behavior). He also served as consulting editor for the Journal of Experimental Psychology (1964 -1969), editor of Psychonomic Science (1971-1972), and member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Psychophysiology (1982-1988). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)