Paul Vincent Gump (1920-2003).

Presents an obituary for Paul Gump, who died on November 13, 2003, in an auto accident near Lawrence, Kansas. Although Paul Gump received his graduate education in traditional experimental and clinical psychology, his research career was devoted to documenting the power of the concrete, immediate context in determining human behavior. Paul's pioneering work on school size and student involvement, documented the advantage of small schools over larger schools in involving students in active, responsible positions in school life. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Paul E. Meehl as Scientist and Colleague.

The author summarizes some of his memories and thoughts concerning Paul E. Meehl as a scientist and colleague. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Paul Meehl: Past and future lessons for the field.

Paul Everett Meehl (1920-2003) was an intellectual giant who made important contributions to several fields of thought. The present special section focuses on his contributions to psychopathology, personality, and methods of psychological inquiry. The editors identified six specific topic areas within these broad domains and invited a specialist on each topic to write a discussion. These authors were invited to review Meehl's contributions and clarify their historical significance and current relevance. In addition, two authors contributed personal perspectives on Meehl, revealing that Meehl profoundly affected psychological science by routes other than his publications and formal talks. Rather, his voluminous correspondence and his personal relationships allowed him to engage numerous colleagues in his passionate pursuit of ideas and insights. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

E. Paul Torrance (1915-2003).

Presents an obituary for Ellis Paul Torrance, who passed away on July, 12, 2003, after almost 60 years of research in creativity. Known as the "Father of Creativity," Paul legitimized its study with his development of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT). This battery of standardized tests, now translated into 32 languages, provided evidence that creative potential could be quantified and increased with practice. Since their development, the TTCT have been used in over 2,000 research studies, thus demonstrating Paul's influence on creativity research in the fields of psychology and education. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Award for distinguished professional contributions to knowledge: Paul E. Meehl.

Recognizing the diversity of roles and activities in which many professional psychologists are engaged, beginning in 1979, Professional Awards have been presented to individual members of the Association whose distinguished contributions have served to advance psychology as a profession in the areas of knowledge, professional practice, and public service. In 1993, the recipient of the Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Knowledge was Paul E. Meehl. Meehl's citation, biography, and selected bibliography are presented here. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Paul A. Kolers (1926-1986).

Presents an obituary for Paul Kolers, psychologist and University of Toronto faculty member, who died of lung cancer on January 27, 1986. Kolers' early work was in vision research, and he maintained that interest throughout his career, although in his later writings he became progressively more concerned with the nature of symbolic representation and other semi-philosophical problems of mind. He contributed substantially to our knowledge of perceptual and cognitive processes, both through his trenchant analyses and critiques of current theories, and through his own imaginative experimental demonstrations and theoretical insights. (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)     

John Paul Scott (1909-2000).

Presents an obituary for John Paul Scott. In 1945, Scott was the founding head of the new Division of Behavior Studies in Bar Harbor, Maine. In addition, he was responsible for the formation of the Animal Behavior Society (ABS). In 1968, Scott was appointed regents professor of psychology at Bowling Green State University. This position allowed him to build a superb canine research facility and to cultivate the practical implications of his work through the Center for the Study of Social Behavior, which he established. Among the many books he wrote were Animal behavior (1958), Guide dogs for the blind (with C. J. Pfaffenberger; 1976), and The evolution of social systems (1989). He also published more than 230 articles. Scott was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Animal Behavior Society, the American Psychological Association, and the New York Zoological Society. He remained intellectually active until his death in 2000. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Paul Shafer Siegel (1918-2002).

Presents an obituary of Paul Shafer Siegel. Paul Shafer Siegel was born in Richmond, Virginia, on January 12, 1918. Siegel died at age 84 on December 24, 2002, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Siegel's principal interests were in learning and motivation, but he could become enthusiastic about topics far from his base if they were challenging and subject to good design. He investigated the effects of emotionality on food and water intake, the relation of water intake to privation interval in the absence of food, and the importance of the dark-light cycle, among other topics. He extended the investigations of motivation and learning in laboratory rats to the investigation of behavior in retardates. He was interested in the effects of incentive motivation and in discrimination learning in those research participants. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: Benjamin B. Wolman (1908-2000).

Memorializes Benjamin B. Wolman for his many contributions to psychology. He was proudest of a modification of psychoanalysis that he called the interactional approach. Wolman founded the International Organization for the Study of Group Tensions and the International Journal of Group Tensions. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Carmi Harari (1920-2003).

Obituary for psychologist Carmi Harari (1920-2003). Among other things the obituary notes that, Harari was a noted psychoanalyst, clinical and forensic psychologist, disability examiner, and prolific workshop leader worldwide on issues of peacemaking and political psychology. He was an active officer and member of many international psychology groups, including the Psychologists for Social Responsibility, the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology, the National Accreditation Association for Psychoanalysis, the Council of Representatives of the APA (1974-1994), and the Committee on International Relations in Psychology. He served as president of the International Association of Applied Psychology, president of the New York State Psychological Association, and president of the Rockland County Psychological Society. Harari was an APA fellow in eight divisions, including Clinical, Psychotherapy, and Independent Practice. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Wilma E. Hirst (1914-2005).

This is an obituary for Wilma Elizabeth Hirst. Hirst was a pioneer in the history of school psychology who came from a background in teaching and educational psychology, worked her way through graduate school, balanced home life and career, and forged a distinguished career in teaching, psychological service, and school administration. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Paul A. Kolers (1926–1986).

Presents an obituary for Paul A. Kolers (1926–1986). Paul A. Kolers died of lung cancer in Toronto on January 27, 1986. He was born August 14, 1926, in New York City and obtained his BA degree from Queen's College in 1951, and his PhD degree from New York University in 1957. After holding several teaching and research positions, including posts at Bell Labs, Harvard University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he joined the Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto in 1970, a position he held until his death. Kolers's intellectual interests were wide ranging, both within psychology and across neighboring disciplines. He was deeply committed to the world of ideas--a commitment that made him a stimulating colleague, but often made him impatient with lines of work he considered misguided. His penetrating critical abilities were expressed in acerbic commentaries on various "information-processing" approaches. His own thinking was independent, but was connected to important historical streams in philosophy and psychology; he was an ingenious experimentalist and a creative theorist. In social situations he was a warm and amusing companion. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Paul B. Baltes (1939-2006).

Paul B. Baltes died in Berlin, Germany, on November 7, 2006, after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was probably the most influential developmental psychologist on the international scene at the time of his death. His broad scientific agenda was devoted to establishing and promoting the life-span orientation of human development-an area that he, more than any other scholar of modern times, shaped into its current form. The obvious part of Paul's scientific legacy resides in over 250 publications covering various aspects of developmental psychology. Their impact is attested to by his numerous awards and honors, including election to some of the most prestigious scientific organizations in the world. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Paul Meehl as methodologist-philosopher of science: The formulation of metascience.

Paul Meehl's contributions to methodology and the philosophy of science extend well beyond his widely known writings in such areas as construct validity and statistical significance testing. I describe one of Meehl's less well-known, but potentially most important, methodological undertakings: his work on metascience, or the science of science. Metascience could ultimately revolutionize our conceptualizations and understanding of science and provide considerable help to practicing scientists and scientific endeavors, including efforts to advance the development and appraisal of theories in psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Robert P. Abelson (1928-2005).

Presents an obituary for Robert Paul Abelson, who died in New Haven, Connecticut on July 13, 2005, from pneumonia brought on by Parkinson's disease. Dr. Abelson's wide-ranging intellect combined cognition with affect, the abstract with the everyday. His inclusive, collaborative orientation helped him become and remain a leading figure in multiple domains. He was a major contributor to social psychology, cognitive science, political psychology, and statistics, and he applied his insights and expertise to work of national importance. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Enrico E. Jones (1947-2003).

Reports the obituary of Enrico E. Jones (1947-2003), clinician, psychoanalyst, and researcher. Recipient of the Kenneth and Manie Clark Award, a National Research Council Fellowship, and a National Science Foundation Fellowship to work at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris, Jones left an impact whose integrity and loyalty to his many friends, colleagues and students were cherished gifts to those who knew him. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Bela Julesz (1928-2003).

Presents the obituary for Bela Julesz (1928-2003). Dr. Julesz is remembered for his contribution to the study of binocular vision, particularly his design of Julesz Random Dot Stereograms. In addition, he is noted for his research into the study of statistical properties of texture and the visual system's ability to apperceive variation in higher order statistics. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Paul T. Mountjoy (1924–2001).

Presents an obituary for Paul T. Mountjoy, a practitioner and advocate in the study of the history of psychology. The author begins by providing details on his career and accomplishments. Mountjoy uncovered early, informal uses of behavior technology, vigorously promoted Kantor’s interbehavioral psychology, and participated in the development of Western Michigan University’s (WMU’s) behavioral graduate program. Mountjoy's personal life and educational background are also described. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)