Robert A. Harper (1915-2004).

Presents the obituary for Robert A. Harper (1915-2004). Dr. Harper is noted for his contributions to the field of psychotherapy, particularly to the areas of marriage, family, and sex therapy. In addition, his expertise, good nature, and no-nonsense style made him a popular figure amongst his peers, who elected him to leadership positions in numerous professional organizations. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Mary Cover Jones (1896–1987).

This articles provides an obituary for Mary Cover Jones, 1896-1987. Her contributions to the field of developmental psychology are listed by the authors. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Richard Quintin Bell (1919-2001).

Reports the death of Richard Quintin Bell (1919-2001). The author discusses his contributions to the field of psychology as well as various personal and professional accomplishments. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Marion White McPherson (1919-2000).

Memorializes Marion White McPherson for her many contributions to psychology. In 1965, McPherson and her psychologist husband, John A. Popplestone, created a national archive to preserve the papers of eminent psychologists, the raw data important to historians and other scholars who would seek to tell the story of psychology and its relationship to other sciences, to other professions, and to American history. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Mary Alice White (1920-2000).

Memorializes Mary Alice White for her many contributions to school psychology. White was foremost an experimental and behaviorally oriented educational psychologist, whose interests cut across educational, clinical, and school psychology and technology applications to schooling. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

John Joseph Austin (1930-2006).

Presents an obituary for John Joseph Austin, who died of cancer at age 75 on April 8, 2006, in Norton Shores, Michigan. John was employed as a school psychologist for the Muskegon Public Schools, from which he retired in 1986. After his official retirement, he served as president of Research Concepts and worked with the Alfred Binet Center, a testing organization he helped to form in the 1960s. John helped to form the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) in 1969 and served as its president (1971-1972). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Mary Hawley McCaulley (1920-2003).

Presents an obituary for Mary Hawley McCaulley, who passed away on August 26, 2003. Dr. McCaulley was widely recognized for her work as the clinical psychologist who spearheaded the effort to establish empirical support for the typology theory articulated by Carl Jung and two American educators, Isabel Myers and her mother, Katharine Briggs. The assessment instrument developed to promote applications of Jung's typology theory is known as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and McCaulley collaborated with Myers to create the first MBTI computer scoring program. Dr. McCaulley's priorities were education, counseling, multicultural personality assessment, leadership development, career planning, and psychometrics for the MBTI. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Robert Plutchik (1927-2006).

Presents an obituary for Robert Plutchik, who died in Sarasota, Florida, on April 29, 2006, at the age of 78. Dr. Plutchik was a pioneer in emotion theory, and his influence on the discipline of psychology runs both wide and deep. In his wise, gentle, and graceful way, Dr. Plutchik exerted a powerful influence on the spread of the study of emotion from a sideline to a main concern not only in psychology, but in biology, in the social sciences, in psychiatry, and even in the humanities. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Eric Schopler (1927-2006).

Presents an obituary for Eric Schopler, an authority on the diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorders, who died at his home outside Mebane, North Carolina, on July 7, 2006, after a courageous battle with cancer. Eric Schopler spent his life promoting three truths about autism: that it is a developmental disorder, that treatment should be educational rather than psychiatric, and that parents can be effective cotherapists. If these truths are widely recognized today, it is in large measure because people like Eric had the vision to base their understanding of the disorder on empirical foundations and the courage to stay true to their convictions in a day when nonempirical, psychogenic theories dominated the field. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Veterans Administration psychology: Six decades of public service (1946-2006).

Psychologists in the Veterans Administration (VA), now the Department of Veterans Affairs, have contributed 60 years of public service to the treatment of our nation's veterans, enhanced by their involvement in clinical research supporting that care. From the development of new mental health care programs following World War II to their role in today's polytrauma centers caring for severely wounded veterans, VA psychologists have not only provided distinguished service to veterans but also provided insights for the entire profession in the care of veterans. This article highlights some of their contributions to practice and research as VA psychology and its training program celebrate their 60th anniversary. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Raymond Abraham Katzell (1919-2003).

Obituary of Raymond Abraham Katzell (1919-2003) who was renowned for exploring the influence of attitude and leadership on productivity and job satisfaction. Among other things, the obituary notes that in 1965, Ray Katzell and Richard S. Barrett readdressed the issue of testing inequities by asking whether psychological tests--used in employee selection--were equally valid and fair for use with various ethnic groups. With Ford Foundation support, they compiled and analyzed relevant data already available in years of company records. Their findings that such employment tests may, indeed, not always work to the same advantage for all ethnic groups were published in Testing and Fair Employment (Kirkpatrick, Ewen, Barrett, & Katzell, 1968). This book led to Ray's chairing the Department of Labor's Advisory Committee on Testing and Selection, which was influential in the drafting of Office of Federal Contract and Compliance and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission testing guidelines. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

David V. Smith (1943-2006).

Presents an obituary for David V. Smith, who succumbed to a brain tumor on September 30, 2006 at the age of 63. He was Simon R. Bruesch Professor and chair of the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology and the director of the Neuroscience Institute at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Mary L. Northway (1909-1987).

Presents an obituary for Mary Northway (1909-1987). Mary joined the faculty of psychology at the University of Toronto in 1939 and left as associate professor in 1958 to devote her full time to the post of supervisor of research at the Institute of Child Study at the same university. At an early stage in the development of sociometry she recognized that these techniques were capable of delivering useful information about both group structure and function as well as information regarding individual adjustment. Her extensive research and many publications in these areas over more than three decades received considerable attention. Her books dealing with sociometric methods applied to classrooms and other groups have been translated into five foreign languages and excerpts have appeared in additional languages. For many years Mary Northway was an outspoken advocate of the value of longitudinal research in child study. Mary Northway established the Brora Centre, a non-profit organization to sustain the child development research that she and a number of her colleagues perceived to be needed, but which was lacking institutional support at that time. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Janice Dowd Scheuneman (1940-2006).

Presents an obituary for Janice Dowd Scheuneman, a distinguished measurement specialist, who died of ovarian cancer on July 10, 2006. Dr. Scheuneman was influential in the development, statistical analysis, and validation of many well-known assessment devices from the preschool level through the graduate level. She will be remembered for her contribution of the eponymous Scheuneman's chi-square to the field as well as for her graciousness and generosity in mentoring many in the field of measurement. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Manfred J. Meier (1929-2006).

Manfred J. Meier, one of the most influential figures in the establishment of clinical neuropsychology as a specialty field, died at age 77 in Mexico on August 27, 2006, after a one-year battle with lung cancer. Manny's college and graduate school studies were completed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he earned a bachelor's degree (1952), a master's degree (1953), and a doctorate (1956)--all in psychology. During his graduate years, his mentors included Charles Bridgeman and Karl U. Smith, but he was also influenced by Harry Harlow, for whom he served as a research assistant in his primate laboratory. Manny's attendance at a 1952 conference where the speakers included Ward Halstead, Donald Hebb, Roger Sperry, and Hans-Lukas Teuber solidified his interest in the emerging field of neuropsychology. During his 36-year career at the University of Minnesota, Manny published more than 70 professional papers, book chapters, and books. He was promoted to associate professor in 1962 and to professor in 1966. At his retirement in 1993, he was named professor emeritus. A committed educator, Manny served as the director of the APA-accredited Psychology Internship Consortium from 1983 to 1993 and as director of a postdoctoral program in clinical neuropsychology from 1985 to 1993. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Mary L. Tenopyr (1929-2005).

Presents an obituary for Mary L. Tenopyr, one of the most influential and active practitioners in the field of industrial and organizational psychology. Her specialty was psychological measurement, and she held numerous positions involving testing and personnel selection. In addition, she served in many roles in the American Psychological Association's (APA's) Division 14 (the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology--SIOP) and Division 5 (Evaluation, Measurement, and Statistics), including being the president of SIOP in 1979-1980 and the president of Division 5 in 1994-1995. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Arthur Benton (1909-2006).

Presents an obituary for Arthur Benton, who was one of the pioneers of clinical neuropsychology. Benton introduced novel and objective neuropsychological assessment techniques that expanded psychologists' understanding of the deficits manifested by neurologically compromised patients, both adults and children. Benton also contributed important findings concerning hemispheric specialization. His studies, including innovative clinical assessment techniques, normative data, and examiner manuals, facilitated the emergence of neuropsychology as a separate field of research and stimulated the development of clinical neuropsychology practice in the United States and around the world. His work also exemplifies the cross-fertilization of neurology with cognitive psychology and neuropsychology, a direction that continues today. (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)     

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)     

Benjamin Kleinmuntz (1930-2006).

In the 1960s, the idea that clinical judgments should be aided, or even replaced, by computerized algorithms was quite radical. Computerized interpretation of standardized tests is accepted now, although its role remains controversial. Benjamin Kleinmuntz was a pioneer in the study of computers in clinical reasoning and a founder of the field of judgment and decision research. He passed away at his home inWilmette, Illinois, on June 28, 2006, at the age of 76. Although he lived with a transplanted heart for almost 11 years, he died of complications of unrelated abdominal surgery. Ben's early research concerned statistical methods for identifying psychopathologies and interpreting personality profiles. Ben then focused on investigating the use of computers in clinical diagnosis. Ben also wrote or cowrote textbooks on general psychology, abnormal psychology, and personality assessment. He was also a great teacher and advisor, with a unique personal style and an emphasis on both rigor and relevance. He received multiple awards for teaching excellence, and his two all-University teaching awards were as important to him as his many books, publications, and professional recognitions. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)