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The Integration of Psychology & Christianity: A Domain-Based Approach

The Integration of Psychology & Christianity: A Domain-Based Approach

Leslie H. Hicks (1927–2020).

Memorializes Leslie H. Hicks (1927-2020). Hicks was born in Washington, DC, where he spent the majority of his career as department chair of psychology at Howard University. He upheld high academic standards, promoted psychological science, and advanced African Americans in research. He cofounded the university's PhD program in psychology (1968). Hicks continued mentoring after retirement in 2016, dedicating nearly 65 years of service as an educator. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).

Henry Gleitman (1925-2015).

Presents an obituary of Henry Gleitman (1925-2015). Gleitman was an author of major papers in animal learning, memory, theater, and the psychology of language, including one book with Lila Gleitman (Phrase and Paraphrase, 1970). Gleitman was among the very best teachers in the history of psychology. He taught introductory psychology about 100 times, engaging the minds of some 30,000 students, each exposed to his enlightening, expansive, and entertaining synthesis of psychology. Gleitman came to the University of Pennsylvania in 1964 as Professor and Chair of Psychology. Over a 5-year period, he shaped the department into a first-rate teaching center for both undergraduate and graduate students, and demonstrated the compatibility and mutually reinforcing values of teaching and research. The University of Pennsylvania was uniquely blessed to count him among its faculty for 50 years (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved).

Obituary: Professor Keith Rayner (1943–2015)

Distinguished Professor Keith Rayner, Atkinson Family Chair of Psychology at UC San Diego, passed away on January 21, 2015. He was 71 years old. Keith was born June 20th, 1943, in Dover, England. His family immigrated to the United States in 1949, and settled in Salt Lake City, Utah. He received Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the University of Utah before earning a Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1974. Keith began his career at the University of Rochester in 1973. He moved to the University of Massachusetts in 1978, where he became Distinguished University Professor in 1991. In 2008, he was recruited to UC San Diego as the Atkinson Family Chair in Psychology. Keith received many awards for his distinguished career. He delivered the Bartlett Lecture in recognition of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Experimental Psychology Society. He also received the William James Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Association for Psychological Science, the Division 3 Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Psychological Association, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Literacy Association, a research award from the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, and an Outstanding Mentor Award from Women in Cognitive Science. He was a Chinese Academy of Sciences Distinguished Visiting Professor, and the Carnegie Centennial Professor for Scotland. Keith was the world's leading expert in the study of the cognitive mechanisms underlying the ability to read in children and adults. In the 1970s, he pioneered the use of eye-tracking methodology in psychological research, which enabled the precise measurement and manipulation of read text with millisecond control. Through Keith's work, researchers can accurately predict how long an adult will look at each word on a page as they engage in the skilled reading of natural text, as accounted for by the E–Z Reader Model, developed with his colleagues and students. In addition to illuminating our understanding of the operation of a critical human skill, this research has significant promise for realistically improving adult reading performance and for the teaching of skilled reading to children. Keith published over 400 peer-reviewed research articles across his career, including over 130 since his arrival at UC San Diego in 2008. He co-wrote The Psychology of Reading in 1989, and edited or co-edited 10 volumes of research on reading and eye movements. His research was continuously funded across his career by the National Institutes of Health, and he received funding from the National Science Foundation, Microsoft Research, and the Office of Naval Research. One of Keith's proudest achievements was his record of training and placement of graduate students and post-doctoral researchers he mentored. He has placed 19 graduate students and 25 post-doctoral researchers in faculty positions around the world, as well as four graduate students and four post-doctoral researchers in professional positions in industry and government. Keith left a deep mark on his colleagues in his discipline and at the University of Massachusetts and at UC San Diego, as well as the dozens of students and scholars he has mentored throughout the world across his 40-year career. He was an avid sports fan, especially of the Boston Red Sox, the New England Patriots, and the Boston Celtics. He was an active member of the LDS church and served in various capacities throughout his life. He is survived by his wife Susan, his children, Ashley (Jason) and Jonathan (Becky), his two granddaughters, Isabel and Samantha, his mother Olive, siblings Pete (Kathy), Sue (Brent), and Julie. A ceremony in honor of Keith's academic accomplishments will be held in the coming months and will be announced separately. Colleagues and friends can express memories of Keith at http://www.forevermissed.com/keith-rayner/. In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to the Keith Rayner Memorial Award, to which contributions can be made at https://giveto.ucsd.edu/make-a-gift?id=1b28a2d1-db81-43c9-bc84-37a99b44fff6.

Associative learning and representation. An EPS workshop for N. J. Mackintosh, 9 July 2002.

The papers published in this Special Issue are based upon presentations at a workshop on Associative Learning and Representation, which was sponsored by the Experimental Psychology Society and hosted by Emmanuel College, Cambridge. The workshop celebrated the contribution of Professor Nicholas Mackintosh to animal learning and conditioning in particular and experimental psychology in general in the year of his retirement from the Chair of Psychology at the University of Cambridge after 21 years in post. The date of the workshop, 9 July 2002, was particularly auspicious as it was the day of Professor Mackintoshs birth 67 years ago. Moreover, it is particularly fitting that this tribute is published in the Comparative and Physiological Psychology Section (B) of Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, which he founded in 1981 during his editorship of the Journal between 1977 and 1984.

Faculty Conception of Justice: Spotlight on Elizabeth Vozzola

Elizabeth C. Vozzola is Associate Professor and Chair of Psychology and Director of the Honors Program at Saint Joseph College in West Hartford, Connecticut. She has published on the moral and ethical issues about multiculturalism, affirmative action, and service learning. This summary of her work highlights research done with college faculty regarding principles of hiring.

Science in the Service of the Far Right: Henry E. Garrett, the IAAEE, and the Liberty Lobby

Henry E. Garrett (1894–1973) was the President of the American Psychological Association in 1946 and Chair of Psychology at Columbia University from 1941 to 1955. In the 1950s Garrett helped organize an international group of scholars dedicated to preventing race mixing, preserving segregation, and promoting the principles of early 20th century eugenics and “race hygiene.” Garrett became a leader in the fight against integration and collaborated with those who sought to revitalize the ideology of National Socialism. I discuss the intertwined history the International Association for the Advancement of Ethnology and Eugenics (IAAEE), the journal Mankind Quarterly, the neofascist Northern League, and the ultra‐right‐wing political group, the Liberty Lobby. The use of psychological research and expertise in the promotion of neofascism is examined.

An Opportunity for Empiricism

Howard Gardner, professor ofeducation and codirector ofProject Zero at Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts), is recipient ofa MacArthur Prize Fellowship (1981-1986), the Grawemeyer Award in Education (1990), an American Psychological Association (APA) William James Award, and an APA National Psychology Awardfor Excellence in the Media . Gardner is author ofCreating Minds : An Anatomy of Creativity Seen Through the Lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham, and Gandhi ; Leading Minds ; and Frames of Mind and coauthor, with D . H. Feldman and M. Csikszentmihalyi, of Changing the World : A Framework for the Study of Creativity . 0 David Lubinski, associate professor ofpsychology, director ofthe Psychometrics and Applied Individual Differences Division, and codirector of the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY) at Iowa State University (Ames), is coeditor, with R . V . Dawis, ofAssessing Individual Differences in Human Behavior : New Methods, Concepts, and Findings and coauthor, with R . V. Dawis, ofthe chapter Aptitudes, Skills, and Proficiencies in M. D . Dunnette and L . Hough (Eds .) Handbook of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (Vol. 3, 2nd ed .) . a Camilla P. Benbow, distinguished professor, chair ofpsychology, and codirector ofSMPY and ofthe Office of Precollegiate Programs for Talented and Gifted (OPPTAG) at Iowa State University, is a member ofthe Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars and coeditor, with J. C . Stanley, of Academic Precocity and, with D . Lubinski, of the forthcoming Intellectual Talent : Psychometric and Social Issues .

Psychology in Turkey

Abstract Several reviews of the history and development of psychology in Turkey (Acars Bazarans Le Compte, 1980; Tan, 1971; Vassaf, 1987) point to its European origins.' The first Chair of Psychology was established, and the first course in psychology was introduced at Istanbul University as early as 1915 by Anschiitz, one of a number of German professors invited to that university. This was during the last days of the Ottoman Empire, before the establishment of the Turkish Republic in 1923.

Educational psychology research in Greece

Although psychological research in Greece has a history of more than half a century, studies based on research methodology as we mean it today are, with rare exceptions, the product of only about two decades. Some of the main reasons include the following: (1) There was not an independent department, or even an independent chair, of psychology at either of the two major universities of our country, namely, the universities of Athens and Thessaloniki. The climate being more favorable for psychology at the University of Thessaloniki, the establishment of a chair of psychology became possible there, finally, in 1964. It was 12 years after that date that the first chair of psychology was established at the University of Athens with a professor elected to it 1 year later. (In 1970 three chairs of psychology were established (although only one completed) at the University of Yannena, a university founded in 1964, while in the most recently established faculty of philosophy at the University of Crete and in that of the University of Patras, the teaching of courses in psychology is assigned to psychologists holding a PhD without any of them being named professor as yet.) (2) There were meager or completely lacking funds for psychological research in our universities. (3) There was a lack of sufficient numbers of persons trained in research methodology in the social sciences. Considering the situation sketched so far, it is superfluous, I believe, to add anything on the subject, concerning educational psychology as a separate branch, more so because the percentage of educational psychologists in Greece is comparatively very small, the great majority being in the clinical field.

Sample Bias Resulting From a Requirement for Written Parental Consent

The parents of an eligible sample of 1618 students in grades four through twelve were contacted to obtain written permission for their children to complete questionnaires related to alcohol and drugs. The distributions of students across the parental response categories (consent-denied, no-reply, or consent-granted) were compared on the student variables of sex, grade level, ethnic group, and reading and vocabulary test scores. The explicit consent procedure produced a sample that was approximately half the size of the eligible population and overrepresented white students while underrepresenting blacks and Asian Americans. There was no evidence of sample bias with respect to student gender, and the evidence regarding bias on academically related measures was mixed. Kathleen A. Kearney was a doctoral candidate at Washington State University when this work was completed; she is now self-employed in Dublin, Ireland. Ronald H. Hopkins is Professor and Chair of Psychology at Washington State University. Armand L. Mauss is Professor of Sociology at Washington State University. Ralph A. Weisheit was a postdoctoral research associate in the Social Research Center at Washington State University when this work was completed; he is now Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice Sciences, Illinois State University at Normal. This research was supported in part by Grant No. 5 H84 AA03734 from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. The authors thank Don A. Dillman and J. Scott Long for their helpful comments on an earlier draft of this paper. Requests for reprints should be addressed to Ronald H. Hopkins, Department of Psychology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164. Public Opinion Quarterly Vol. 47:96-102 ? 1983 by the Trustees of Columbia University Published by Elsevier Science Publishing Co., Inc. 0033-362X/83/0047-96/$2.50 This content downloaded from 157.55.39.200 on Thu, 01 Dec 2016 05:43:46 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms

A Conference on Problems of the Will

An intercollegiate research conference on problems of the psychology of the will and the shaping of qualities of the will was held in Riazan' from February 3 to 6. This conference was prepared and called on the initiative of the Chair of Psychology of Riazan' Teachers College (Professor V. I. Selivanov heads this chair). In opening the conference, the rector of Riazan' Teachers College, Docent P. P. Kir'ianov, noted the vast importance of resolving problems of the will and of developing new properties of the will in Soviet people for the purpose of shaping a communist-oriented personality. Questions of shaping qualities of the will in schoolchildren have to occupy a special place in this problem.

Prof. James Drever

PROF. JAMES DREVER has recently retired from the chair of psychology in the University of Edinburgh, which he has held since its foundation in 1931. In 1918 he was elected to the Coombe lectureship in psychology at Edinburgh, and in 1924 he became University reader. When lecturer he had eighty students, and an assistant to help him. Shortly before the present War, the number of his students had increased to nearly six hundred, and his staff comprised a reader, two lecturers and four instructors. Prof. Drever graduated in arts in Edinburgh in 1893 and spent two years in studying medicine. Owing, however, to various difficulties he was then compelled to become a schoolmaster. But in 1907 he became assistant to the professor of education at Edinburgh, where he founded the Educational Laboratory, taking a keen interest in problems relating to human instinct, in the treatment of delinquent and difficult children, and in the institution of the degree of bachelor of education and of postgraduate psychological research for students of education. These early efforts led to his later work on the psychological treatment of the psycho-neuroses, on developing performance tests of intelligence, on colour-blindness, and on instituting university teaching in medical and industrial psychology. His son has been appointed by the "University to succeed him in his professorship.

Progress of Psychiatry in 1901

The record of American psychiatry for the past year is not an eventful one so far as matters of interest to trans-Atlantic readers are concerned. At the beginning of the year the subject of interest was the New York Pathological Institute and the difficulties that involved its management. For a number of months it has been in a state of suspended activity—not dead but sleeping—and now appears to be about to start again on a fresh career of usefulness. A new organisation has been planned, an advisory board appointed, consisting of recognised authorities in their departments, and including representatives of the related specialties of psychology and general biology, as well as those of pathology, neurology, and psychiatry. The gentlemen who have accepted positions on the board are well known, and their interest in the Institute and its aims undoubted. Their names will carry weight; Professor McKeen Cattell holds the chair of psychology in Columbia University, Professors Ewing and Herter represent the two great medical schools of Bellevue and Cornell, Dr. H. A. Hern, of Albany, a well-known neurologist, Dr. Bumpus, of the American Museum of Natural History, Drs. Pilgrim and Macdonald, representing the State Hospitals, and Dr. Frederick Peterson, ex officio, as commissioner of lunacy, complete the board. These gentlemen will exercise a general oversight over the work, and when a new working staff has been appointed, we may look for good work, carried on under more favourable conditions than was formerly the case. It is the intention in their reorganisation not only to carry on original research as in the past, but to utilize the Institute for special instruction of the members of the different asylum staffs in psychiatry and special research work. It will be located in one of the departments of the Manhattan Hospital until such time as a special reception hospital for the insane can be provided.