Joseph Church (1918-2003).

Obituary for Joseph Church (1918-2003). Among other things the obituary notes that in addition to writing and teaching, Joe was active professionally as a consultant to the National Institute of Mental Health, the Children's Bureau, the U.S. Department of Justice, the Educational Testing Service, and other organizations. He served on the editorial board of Child Development from 1964 to 1968 and again from 1971 to 1975. Joe Church was invariably stimulating and often provocative. He encouraged his students to think independently and challenged colleagues to engage in meaningful debate. He will be remembered not only for his contributions to the shaping of developmental psychology in our era but for his sense of humor, sharp intelligence, and generous spirit. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituaries: John W. Atkinson (1923-2003).

Presents the obituary of John William Atkinson, who died on October 27, 2003, in Chelsea, Michigan, at the age of 79. From the 1950s Atkinson was a leader in establishing motivation as a distinct field of study. His belief that scientific progress came from conceptual breakthroughs fueled his formulation and reformulation of a theory of motivation. He also recognized the importance of measurement in science, maintaining a career-long interest in the refinement of measures of human motivation, especially by means of the content analysis of imaginative thought. His discipline-changing ideas were followed around the world. In recognition, he received the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the American Psychological Association in 1979. Atkinson's life and further career accomplishments are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituaries: Donald B. Lindsley (1907-2003).

Presents the obituary of Donald Benjamin Lindsley, who died of natural causes on June 19, 2003. Lindsley was a pioneer in the study of brain and behavior whose prodigious research efforts made major contributions to the understanding of sleep-wakefulness, perception, emotion, learning, and development. His life and career accomplishments are here discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Joseph H. Grosslight (1921–1988).

This article provides an obituary for Joseph H. Grosslight, 1921-1988. The author mentions Grosslight's personal and professional accomplishments in the field of psychology. (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)     

Obituary: Joseph Banks Rhine (1895-1980).

This item presents an obituary for Joseph Banks Rhine (1895-1980). During more than 50 years of research and related activities, Rhine made a sustained effort to develop psychical research into an experimental, academically based science and to win acceptance for it from the scientific community. The terms 'parapsychology' and 'extra-sensory perception', which he introduced in 1934 to denote, respectively, the new field devoted to the experimental study of psychic abilities and the abilities themselves, have become standard terms and testify to Rhine's importance for the field. Although Rhine's critics were able to score some minor points against his statistical techniques, he and his colleagues were able to demonstrate that their evaluative methods were basically sound, and they received support from the president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. The APA was subsequently willing to consider parapsychology seriously to the extent of appointing a committee of APA members to advise the "Journal of Parapsychology". The Duke parapsychology group, in turn, published their most ambitious survey of the field in 1940 in their book "Extra-Sensory Perception After Sixty Years", hoping to win the support of behavioral scientists. In the ensuing decades, however, parapsychology did not succeed in developing an academic network much beyond what it possessed in 1940. Rhine was recognized both within and without parapsychology as the founder and most authoritative spokesperson of the field. Only months before his death, in October 1979, he was elected president of the Society for Psychical Research in London. Rhine was a man of striking appearance and strong personality. The latter was important to the maintenance of his values and goals in the face of the hostility and ridicule that continued, sporadically, until the very end of his life. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituaries: Gregory A. Kimble (1917-2006).

Presents an obituary for Gregory A. Kimble, a general psychologist who passed away on January 15, 2006. Dr. Kimble had a lifelong allegiance to a particular approach to psychological science, and he was a superb organizer, synthesizer, and explicator of psychological fact and theory. He had a lifelong commitment to APA's Division of General Psychology, and from that division, he received the Hilgard Award for Lifelong Contributions to General Psychology and, in appreciation for his years of service to the division, its C. Alan Boneau Award for Distinguished Service. Dr. Kimble also played significant roles outside of APA. He was a member of several other psychological societies, including the exclusive Society of Experimental Psychologists. He will be missed by his family, his legion of friends and associates, and by the APA convention. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituaries: Goldine Gleser (1915-2004).

Presents an obituary for Goldine Gleser, who was widely recognized as a scholar, leader, consultant, administrator, and mentor and role model to many students. Dr. Gleser's educational background and natural aptitude for mathematics led her to develop the strong interest in measurement and statistics that shaped her career and influenced the lives of her many students and colleagues. She co-authored 10 books, at least 21 book chapters, 11 reviews of books and tests, and no fewer than 93 journal articles covering a wide range of topics. She was a consulting editor for Multivariate Behavioral Research and played a critical role in the American Psychological Association (APA)/American Educational Research Association Joint Committee to Review Educational and Psychological Test Standards. Dr. Gleser received numerous awards and honors, including the prestigious Rieveschl Award for scientific research, before she passed away on November 24, 2004. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Kenneth Lucien Dion (1944-2004).

This obituary for Kenneth Dion (1944-2004) highlights his educational and professional career. Anyone who knew Ken admired his breadth of knowledge and command over the full range of the discipline. In this era of narrow specialization, Ken Dion was unique. He was a classic scholar who was as knowledgeable of the issues, methods, and results of related research as he was of his own specialty. He contributed to experimental social, cross-cultural psychology, dyadic relations, organizational psychology, and to group processes. In spite of this broad range, his research was always incisive, and helped to shape the research agenda on each topic. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Remembering Joseph Brozek (1913-2004): Brozek's China connection.

In the pages of a recent issue of this journal, several historians of psychology wrote of their acquaintance with the late Professor Joseph Brozek, the naturalized American polymath born in central Bohemia (today known as the Czech Republic) who worked nearly all of his adult life in the Universities of Pennsylvania, Minnesota, and Lehigh and championed the cause of international collaborations for the furtherance of studies in the history of psychology (Woodward et al., 2004). Apart from a brief biography, these historians mentioned his numerous investigations into the work of several Czech scientists who worked in psychology or related fields and who were either unknown or neglected in the West; they also discussed his numerous book chapters and reviews, some of which were in his specialty field, nutrition. But Brozek is most remembered for his desire to link up people in different parts of the world who had a common interest in the history of psychology. Although several of the contributors addressed this feature of his work, there was no mention of his attempts to bring Chinese psychologists into the international arena. What follows is the author's attempt to redress this omission. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: Joseph Tiffin (1905–1989).

Presents an obituary for Joseph Tiffin. Joseph Harold Tiffin (he didn't like the "Harold" and never used the "H") was born in Falls City, Nebraska, on July 4, 1905, grew up in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and received his bachelor's degree (Phi Beta Kappa) from the University of South Dakota in 1927. As a newlywed, he entered graduate school at the University of Iowa where he was an Eastman Fellow, received both his master's and PhD (1930) degrees under Carl Seashore, and was a fellow of the National Research Council before becoming a member of the University of Iowa psychology faculty in 1931. As Seashore's student and colleague he developed an intense interest in psychophysics and sensory/motor phenomena. (He was the first to photograph the human vocal chords in action.) In the early stages of as-yet-undiagnosed Parkinson's disease, he retired as Professor Emeritus of Industrial Psychology at Purdue University in 1971. Joe and his wife, Mary Edith Straight, moved to Madison, Wisconsin, to be near their daughter and her family. Mary Edith died in 1985, following which Joe was moved to a nursing home. He died March 1, 1989. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Sol L. Garfield (1918-2004).

Presents an obituary of Sol Louis Garfield. He was born January 8, 1918, in Chicago and died suddenly of a heart attack on August 14, 2004, at the age of 86. He was one of the preeminent clinical psychologists of the 20th century. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Ledyard R Tucker (1910-2004).

Ledyard R Tucker, known as "Tuck" to generations of colleagues, students, and friends, died on August 16, 2004, at the age of 93 at his home in Savoy, Illinois. Tucker was one of the great pioneers in the history of psychometric methods. The impact of his extraordinary body of work remains evident in both applied and theoretical research today. This obituary discusses Tucker's life, his professional contributions, and his many achievements and awards. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituaries: Bertram D. Cohen (1923-2004).

Presents an obituary for Bertram D. Cohen, who made significant contributions to understanding basic psychological processes in schizophrenia--conceptual thinking, learning, perception, referential communication, self-concept--for over three decades. In groundbreaking experimental studies in collaboration with medical colleagues, he also explored the psychological effects of psychotomimetic and other drugs on clinical patients as well as nonclinical subjects. Dr. Cohen died on October 28, 2004. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Josef Maria Brozek (1913-2004).

Presents the obituary for Josef Maria Brozek (1913-2004). Dr. Brozek is known in part for his study of the effects of nutrition on behavior. He taught primarily in the history of psychology and his long term project in this area was the historiography of psychology in the world. His unique and important contribution to the field was the organization of a six-week Summer Institute on the History of Psychology for College Teachers. (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)     

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)     

Jane Loevinger (1918-2008).

Jane Loevinger died unexpectedly on January 4, 2008. She was well-known for her work in psychometrics, her theory of ego development, and her widely used assessment instrument, the Washington University Sentence Completion Test. Among the first to focus on women as a demographic, Loevinger obtained funding from the National Institute of Mental Health. She developed measures of women's attitudes and formed a research group of her own that focused on the problems facing mothers and women in general. Loevinger was a perennial iconoclast and skeptic within her fields of interest. Despite her wry wit, or perhaps because of it, her opinions and contributions came to be greatly valued by her colleagues. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Judson Seise Brown (1910-2005).

This is an obituary for Judson Seise Brown, professor emeritus of behavioral neuroscience at the Oregon Health & Science University, who died in Portland, Oregon, on August 28, 2005, at the age of 95. Brown was highly regarded for his rigorous, analytical, and innovative approaches to fundamental empirical and conceptual issues in the field of motivation. During his long career, he published many seminal articles on emotion, frustration, approach-avoidance conflict, the measurement of conditioned fear, and various other acquired drives. In addition to his basic research achievements, Brown made many important professional contributions during his long career, including serving as president of the Midwestern Psychological Association and the Division of Experimental Psychology of the American Psychological Association (APA), as well as chairman of the Board of Governors of the Psychonomic Society. (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)