| Abstract: | Memorializes Ross Stagner, a major contributor to psychology as a profession and a science. He served on the board of directors of the American Psychological Association (APA) and was president of 2 divisions of APA (Personality and Social Psychology and Industrial Psychology). He was also president of the Illinois Psychological Association and the Midwestern Psychological Association and a member of the executive council and the board of editors of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. Stagner described and conducted the first American research on fascist attitudes and developed a measure of those attitudes. The publication of that research preceded publication of The Authoritarian Personality, in which the California F-Scale is described. These 2 instruments were similar in agreeing on an antidemocratic personality type, on fundamental components of that personality, and in attempting to assess fascist attitudes without appearing to do so. He published more than 90 research and theoretical articles and ore than 25 chapters and sections in books and encyclopedias on topics ranging from personality from a scientific perspective, introductory psychology, union–management relations, and international conflicts. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
