Obituary: Ernest R. Hilgard (1904--2001).

Memorializes Ernest R. Hilgard who wrote the influential texts Conditioning and Learning (1940, with D. Marquis), Theories of Learning (1948), Introduction to Psychology (1953) and Divided Consciousness (1977). He is well known for his work in the area of hypnosis and hypnotic analgesia. He helped establish the Stanford Laboratory for the Study of Hypnosis. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Gold Medal Award: Ernest Ropiquet Hilgard.

Ernest Ropiquet Hilgard earned the Gold Medal Award as a gifted generalist, who has made scientific contributions to nearly every field of psychology, most notably in learning and states of consciousness; a deep student of psychological history and systems; a man of conscience, concerned with social issues and the applications of psychology to human welfare; a leader and statesman in social science research policy and education; and above all, a teacher, through his writings, his work with students, and his example. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Ernest Ropiequet Hilgard: Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award.

A Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award was given to Ernest Ropienquet Hilgard by the American Psychological Association for his impressive range of experimental and theoretical work on learning, hypnosis, and education. His research on learning has contributed to topics as diverse as eyelid conditioning, motor learning, and the role of understanding in transfer of training. His studies of hypnosis have extended our knowledge, not only of hypnosis itself, but of psychophysics, motivation, and personality. He has been the definitive interpreter of learning theory to a generation of psychologists, and a leader in exploring the relations of the psychology of learning to other fields. His analyses of the relations between psychology and education have contributed importantly to narrowing the gap between the two fields. As researcher, interpreter, and teacher he has been a scholar in the broadest sense. A brief biography is followed by a list of scientific publications. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: Robert W. White (1904-2001).

Memorializes Robert W. White for his major contribution to the holistic personologic tradition in psychology. He also played a signal role in replacing the narrow drive-reduction conception of human motivation characteristic of both neobehaviorism and psychoanalysis with perspectives that include provision for intrinsic motivation with human agency. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Heinz L. Ansbacher (1904-2006).

Heinz Ludwig Ansbacher was born in Frankfurt, Germany, on October 21, 1904. He died at his home in Burlington, Vermont, on June 22, 2006, at the age of 101 years. Alfred Adler's influence led Ansbacher to the field of psychology, where he began a lifelong scholarship on the psychology of Alfred Adler. Among Heinz's distinctions and honors were being named a Fulbright lecturer at the University of Kiel, Germany, and serving as president of the North American Society of Adlerian Psychology. Many of us will remember Professor Ansbacher as a person who lived by Adlerian principles: encouraging others while helping them to find a goal in life. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Harold A. Edgerton (1904-2003).

Reports the death of Harold A. Edgerton (1904-2003), who was a major contributor to psychological measurement and whose work was important to industrial, counseling, and consulting psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Ralph M. Gibson (1923-2001).

Memorializes R. M. Gibson, an experimental and clinical psychologist, who was an African American pioneer as a professor at the University of Michigan. He also pioneered the role of the psychologist in pediatric care. Under his leadership, the first pediatric psychology section in a department of pediatrics was established. (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)     

M. Powell Lawton (1923-2001).

Obituary for M. Powell Lawton (1923-2001). Lawton was known for his work in the fields of the clinical psychology of aging, environmental psychology, and emotion. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Hans Wallach (1904-1998).

Memorializes psychologist Hans Wallach. His contributions to the study of perception are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Theta H. Wolf (1904–1997).

Theta H. Wolf, a longtime Fellow of Division 26 and author of the definitive biography of Alfred Binet, died on April 3, 1997. After completing a BA from Pembroke College and an MA from Brown University, she earned her PhD in 1936 from the University of Minnesota's Child Development Program. She taught applied and counseling psychology for many years at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, before becoming Professor of Counseling Psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, from where she retired in 1974. This obituary summarizes her life's achievements in psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: James J. Gibson (1904-1979).

Presents the obituary of James J. Gibson (1904-1979). Gibson was a perception psychologist who was also the creator and leader of an epistemological movement. His claim that perception is direct, requiring no inferential steps and no processing of information, presents a radical alternative to prevailing views of the nature of knowledge. Gibson's life and career are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Theodore R. Sarbin (1911-2005).

Obituary [Theodore R. Sarbin; 1911-2005]. Theodore R. Sarbin died in his 95th year, fully engaged in his life as a psychologist until the end. Sarbin was born on May 8, 1911, in Cleveland, Ohio. He attended Ohio State University as an undergraduate, earning his bachelor's degree there in 1936. The next year he earned his master's degree from Western Reserve University. He received his doctoral degree in psychology from Ohio State University in 1941. Sarbin began his career as a research-oriented clinical psychologist, practicing first in Illinois and later in Los Angeles. His academic career was established at the University of California, Berkeley, where he served on the faculty from 1949 to 1969. Sarbin left Berkeley to join the faculty of the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1969. He continued there until his retirement in 1976. While gentle and controlled in manner, Sarbin made it his professional life work to challenge orthodox views in psychology. Sarbin described his own professional posture as "oppositional and nonconforming." In the course of his academic career, Sarbin received scores of honors. Included among his more than 250 professional publications are 6 books and another 6 edited volumes. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Robert J. Wherry, Sr. (1904-1981).

This obituary describes the professional career of Robert J. Wherry, which spanned 48 years, from 1927 to 1975. Wherry was an exceptional example of a quantitative-industrial psychologist who was able to make independent, original academic contributions, and yet have an exceptional understanding of problems of application. Throughout his career, two of Wherry's overriding interests were in the development and application of statistical models for prediction and factor analysis. In addition to his contributions to the quantitative literature, Wherry made substantial contributions to industrial psychology, publishing extensively in the industrial literature. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Gordon T. Filmer-Bennett (1914-2001).

Memorializes G. T. Filmer-Bennett, a clinician in both private practice and public service. Filmer-Bennett was a psychologist who redefined clinical psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: Rodney R. Cocking (1943-2002).

R. R. Cocking was born on January 11, 1943, in Casper, Wyoming, to a family deeply rooted in the culture of the West. Shortly after his 59th birthday, Cocking was murdered. His death is a great loss to his family, his friends and colleagues, and the field. Cocking was interested in behavioral development, child development, cognitive development, and learning and educational environments. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Donald R. Peterson (1923-2007).

This obituary is about Donald R. Peterson who was the only psychologist to direct a research-oriented, scientist-practitioner PhD program (University of Illinois, 1964-1972), a professional, PsyD program in an academic department (University of Illinois, 1968-1972), and a professional school of psychology in a major research university (Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey, 1975-1989). He was also author, coauthor, or coeditor of several volumes, including The Clinical Study of Social Behavior, Close Relationships, History of Psychotherapy: A Century of Change, and Educating Professional Psychologists: History and Guiding Conception. Although Don was a fine empirical psychologist and stressed the importance of professionals knowing and applying scientific data, he emphasized that professional practice was about the uniqueness of the client--be it an individual, a group, or an organization. He touched all who knew him and left a prodigious legacy for the field of professional psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: Helmut E. Adler (1920-2001).

Memorializes Helmut E. Adler, known for his research on spatial orientation in birds and for his writings on the history of psychology. In the 1960s with the help of his son Barry, he used computer simulations to study bird migration patterns, a highly innovative technique for the time. His most notable work in the field of the history of psychology was his translation of Volume 1 of Fechner's Elemente der Psychophysik in 1966. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: Norman R. F. Maier (1900-1977).

Norman R. F. Maier was born in a small town in Michigan on November 27, 1900. He was educated in the Michigan public schools and received his BA from the University of Michigan in 1923. After a year of graduate work at the University of Berlin (1925-1926) he completed his PhD in 1928 at the University of Michigan. Following a year of teaching, Dr. Maier was for two years a National Research Council Fellow in Zoology at the University of Chicago, where he worked with Professor K. S. Lashley. In 1931 he joined the faculty of the University of Michigan, where he worked for the rest of his life, dying of a heart attack on September 24, 1977. (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)