Pittu Laungani (1936-2007): Obituary.

Presents an obituary of Pittu Laungani (1936-2007). After receiving bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Bombay, Pittu immigrated to England in 1966. There he married and in 1983 completed his doctoral studies in experimental cross-cultural psychology at the University of London under Hans Eysenck. Specializing as a multicultural counselor, he taught at London South Bank University for over 30 years and later was named honorary senior research fellow at Manchester University. Twice he was elected president of the Institute of Health Promotion and Education, United Kingdom. Pittu leaves his wife Ann, his extended family, and many friends around the world. They remember his warmth, lively personality, courage, and trenchant observations on how our respective cultural backgrounds shape our approaches to life and death. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Leonard D. Eron (1920-2007): Obituary.

Presents an obituary of Leonard D. Eron (1920-2007). Eron conducted one of the longest running (spanning over 40 years) longitudinal studies on aggression in children to date: the Columbia County Longitudinal Study. Eron's conclusion that media violence causes aggression in children lead to a storm of controversy. Eron's conclusions were supported by a second longitudinal study he and Rowell Huesmann conducted between 1977 and 1995, the Cross-National Television Study. Eron was a prodigious author of books and articles, and a frequent public policy advocate on Capitol Hill. He was also a Fulbright scholar twice and received APA's Award for Distinguished Lifetime Contributions to Media Psychology. Len is survived by his wife Madeline of Lindenhurst, Illinois, his daughter Barbara and two grandchildren, and his son Don. His daughter Joan died in 1990. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

John Orr Crites (1928-2007): Obituary.

Presents an obituary of John Orr Crites (1928-2007). A highly productive researcher, Jack made several landmark contributions to counseling psychology. His masterwork was Vocational Psychology: The Study of Vocational Behavior and Its Development (1969), a momentous book that codified and defined the field. Rather than concentrating on occupation or career, Jack concentrated on vocational behavior from the perspective of logical positivism. A brilliant thinker and skilled clinician, Jack was an exemplar of psychology's scientist-practitioner model. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Naomi M. Meara (1937-2007): Obituary.

Presents an obituary of Naomi M. Meara (1937-2007). The death of Naomi Meara brought to a close a distinguished career in counseling psychology. Her career was marked by her outstanding scholarship in ethical decision making for psychologists, by her leadership in the American Psychological Association (APA), particularly in APA Division 17 (Counseling Psychology), and by her compassion and caring for family, friends, students, and colleagues. She is survived by her brother and sister-in-law Joseph and Johanna Meara and by her much loved nieces and nephews--Joseph P. Meara, Karen Meara, Matthew Meara, Kevin Meara, Ellen Meara--and their families. She will be dearly missed by them and by a host of friends and colleagues. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Mervyn Kenneth Wagner (1929-2001): Obituary.

Reports the death of Mervyn Kenneth Wagner (1929-2001). The authors discuss his contributions to the fields of clinical and health psychology as well as his accomplishments in life. (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)     

Obituary: Patricia Cain Smith (1917-2007).

Provides the obituary for one of the field of industrial-organizational (I/O) psychology's most eminent scholars and practitioners, Patricia Cain Smith, professor emerita of psychology, Bowling Green State University, who passed away on October 26, 2007. Pat is remembered for her sense of humor, her passion for clarity in thinking and writing, and her contagious enthusiasm for discovery and the achievement of true understanding. She has left a lasting legacy that has made the world, and especially the world of work, a better place. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Robert Charles Carson (1930-2006): Obituary.

Presents an obituary of Robert Charles Carson (1930-2006). Carson earned his PhD in Clinical Psychology from Northwestern in 1957, and went on to work in academia at Duke University. He worked for two decades on the production of the 6th through the 11th editions of Abnormal Psychology and Modern Life, and was known as an innovative psychotherapist. Carson's clinical approach was guided by the theories of Sullivan, and he made no bones about his dislike of the DSM. Bob was a rare combination of scientist, philosopher, and clinician, a very warm and open human being with an unbridled sense of humor and a precocious spirit. Robert Charles Carson left behind three children: Kelly Leigh Carson, David Allen Carson, Carolyn Marie Carson; three grandchildren, Hope Marie Markham, Lisa Michelle Markham, and Stephen Lawrence Markham; and many very grateful students. (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)     

Carlos Albizu-Miranda (1920-1984): Obituary.

Carlos Albizu-Miranda died in Houston, Texas on October 6, 1984, several weeks after heart surgery. Albizu-Miranda was one of the early and continuing leaders of Puerto Rican psychology, and his death was a significant loss to Puerto Rican and American psychology. Puerto Rican psychology, as well as all of psychology, was enriched by his work and life. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Marie Skodak Crissey (1910-2000): Obituary.

Reports the death of Marie Skodak Crissey (1910-2000). The author discusses her life accomplishments as well as her contribution to the field of psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Tracy Seedman Kendler (1918-2001): Obituary.

Reports the death of Tracy Seedman Kendler (1918-2001). The author describes her educational background as well as her contributions to the field of psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Lawrence I. O'Kelly (1913-1997): Obituary.

Presents an obituary for Lawrence I. O'Kelly, who died in Lansing, Michigan, on December 30, 1997. At the University of Illinois, the Laboratory of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, which Larry founded and directed (1961-1968), was an active and exciting center of research, seminars, colloquia, and uncommonly productive informal interactions among colleagues and graduate students. Larry was especially effective in helping students become inquisitive scientists, able to work independently on problems they found attractive. Most of Larry's research was focused on regulatory psychophysiology, an interest whose origin can be traced back to his early publications on motivation and learning. In 1968, Larry joined the faculty of Michigan State University as professor and chairperson of the Department of Psychology. Upon leaving his administrative duties, O'Kelly began earnest work on a massive bibliography of bird physiology and behavior. Just a month before his death, he celebrated the 100,000th entry. (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: Jean Piaget (1896-1980).

Obituary for Jean Piaget (1896-1980). The current author recalls some of his experiences in working with Piaget, who was both a colleague and a mentor. He states that Piaget was truly a man of heroic, even epic, proportions. And yet, as the author suggests in this article, Piaget was warmly human too. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: Richard S. Crutchfield (1912-1977).

Crutchfield was born in Pittsburgh on June 20, 1912. He received his BA in civil engineering from the California Institute of Technology and his PhD in psychology from the University of California, Berkeley. In 1938-1939 he was a research associate at Swarthmore College, where he worked with Wolfgang Kohler. The next year he was an instructor at Mount Holyoke College. From 1940 to 1946 he held research and administrative appointments with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Office of War Information, and the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey in Germany. In several of these posts he contributed to the developing methodology of opinion surveys, and for distinguished service in the last position he was awarded the Medal of Freedom by the U.S. Department of War. In 1946 he returned to Swarthmore, where he later served as Chairman of the Psychology Department. After several visiting appointments at the University of California, Berkeley, he came permanently as professor of psychology in 1953. He was one of the original team of research psychologists at the Institute of Personality Assessment and Research (IPAR) in Berkeley, and in 1970 he succeeded Donald W. MacKinnon as Director. Failing health forced him to resign this position in 1973. Crutchfield passed away on July 19, 1977. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: Arthur W. Melton (1906-1978).

Arthur W. Melton was born August 13, 1906, in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and died November 5, 1978, in San Antonio, Texas. He had retired from his professorship at the University of Michigan in 1974 and had become a visiting professor at the University of Texas at Austin, where he taught part time. His health deteriorated badly in the year before his death. Art Melton was a private man; some thought him austere and cold. It is true that he could be a bit brusque with the lazy and the incompetent, yet his kindnesses are legion. Perhaps one never fully got the hang of the man until one engaged him in a game of horseshoes, or on the putting green, or most particularly, in a poker game. No one loved a game of poker more than Art Melton, and he was absolutely relentless in his pursuit of the chips around the table. One began to realize that his fiercely competitive behavior might be just another manifestation of the way he had always viewed his profession; it deserved the best he could give it, and there would be no compromise on that. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: David A. Grant (1916-1977).

David A. Grant, Clark L. Hull Research Professor at the University of Wisconsin, died on December 28, 1977, in Madison. He is remembered by family and friends, including a very large number of students whose first efforts in the world of experimental psychology were enhanced and guided by this good and demanding professor. David Grant, born May 17, 1916, was educated at the University of Iowa (BA, 1938), the University of Wisconsin (MA, 1939), and Stanford University (PhD, 1941). His interesting life in the department at the University of Wisconsin began in the basement of Bascom Hall in 1941 as an assistant professor sharing an office with Harry Harlow, another Stanford PhD of a few years earlier. Harlow's days were spent at the cheese-factory-turned-primate-laboratory, so Grant had the office to himself. He advanced through the ranks to full professor and research professor and chaired the department during 1950-1954 and 1971-1972. The department grew impressively during his professional life in it and moved into a building of its own. It is currently a large and respected department. David Grant was still a member of it when he died. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: Harry Kelson (1898-1977).

If neonates can see colors, Harry Helson could see them for the first time on November 9, 1898, in Chelsea, Massachusetts, and he could have seen them for the last time on October 13, 1977, in Berkeley, California. Colors constituted perhaps his dominant interest in his professional life. Harry's academic career was characterized by a relatively rapid rise in rank. Perhaps because of a personal trait of restlessness, but more assuredly because his services were in great demand, he made an unusual number of changes of academic affiliations. Of Harry's personal characteristics, the most apparent ones were his activeness, his wit, and his enthusiasm, the last not only for ideas but also in his personal relations. He was not a joiner, but he was warm and outgoing and was often the life of the party. Intellectually, he was strongest in the area of seeing implications and also in the area of evaluating them. These dispositions showed in his quickness to see problems and their significance and to generate hypotheses, all marks of a creative scientist. He was also a keen observer and judge of people and their actions, traits in the area of social intelligence. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)