Western Psychological Association Research Articles

Dorothy Hansen Eichorn (1924-2018).

Presents an obituary for Dorothy Hansen Eichorn, who passed away on March 22, 2018. Eichorn was a noted developmental psychologist and organizational leader. She was involved in several notable studies in development, but the most significant was probably her role in the Berkeley Growth Study, which continued for five decades. Dorothy was active in several professional organizations, including the American Psychological Association (APA), where she served on its Board of Directors, as well as president of APA Division 7 (Developmental Psychology). She also served as president of the Western Psychological Association. But her most important organizational contribution came through the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).

2016 reports of the regional associations.

Presents the 2016 reports of the following Regional Associations: the Eastern Psychological Association; the Midwestern Psychological Association; the New England Psychological Association; the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association; the Southeastern Psychological Association; the Southwestern Psychological Association; the Western Psychological Association; and the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record

2014 reports of the Regional Associations.

Includes the 2014 reports of the following Regional Associations: Eastern Psychological Association; Midwestern Psychological Association; New England Psychological Association; Rocky Mountain Psychological Association; Southeastern Psychological Association; Southwestern Psychological Association; Western Psychological Association; and the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved).

Howard H. Kendler (1919–2011).

Presents an obituary for Howard H. Kendler. Kendler was born in New York City on June 9, 1919, and died in Santa Barbara, California, on February 17, 2011. Kendler majored in psychology at Brooklyn College, where he was an assistant to Abraham Maslow, the father of humanistic psychology, and did a research project on the psychology of thinking under the supervision of Solomon Asch, a leading Gestalt psychologist. Howard Kendler's career was characterized by insightful experiments and a consistent analysis of the fundamental issues of the nature of our science, its methods, and its role in the community. The breadth of his knowledge and the depth of his thinking on these issues are rare. Although he did not settle these issues, he brought them into clear focus and forcefully advocated for his point of view. He was a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and Tel-Aviv University and was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He held the offices of president of the Western Psychological Association, chairman of the Board of Governors of the Psychonomic Society, and president of the Division of General Psychology and the Division of Experimental Psychology of the American Psychological Association.

On 50 Years of Giving Psychology Away: An Interview with Philip Zimbardo

Philip G. Zimbardo, emeritus professor of psychology at Stanford University, is internationally recognized as the voice and face of contemporary American psychology. He earned his PhD in social psychology from Yale University in 1959 and has since received seven honorary doctorates for his contributions to psychology and society. The author of more than 300 publications and 50 books, Zimbardo's research spans 20 topics, including shyness, evil, teaching, persuasion, hypnosis, dissonance, time perspective, and heroism. He is best known for his landmark study, the Stanford Prison Experiment; his widely seen TV series, Discovering Psychology; and his best-selling textbook, Psychology and Life. He is past president of the Western Psychological Association (WPA) and the American Psychological Association (APA), and has received distinguished teaching awards from WPA, APA, Stanford University, Phi Beta Kappa, and the Society for the Teaching of Psychology. His aim to “give psychology away” is evident in all he does. George M. Slavich is a Beck Institute Scholar, Society in Science: Branco Weiss Fellow, and National Institute of Mental Health Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychology and Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He completed undergraduate and graduate coursework at Stanford University, received his PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Oregon, and completed clinical training at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School. His research investigates the characteristics, causes, and consequences of life stress in major depression. He is also deeply devoted to teaching and mentoring. He founded the Stanford Undergraduate Psychology Conference and WPA Student Council; he also cofounded the Society of Clinical Psychology's Section on Graduate Student and Early Career Psychologists. For these contributions and others, he received the 2004 Albert Bandura Graduate Research Award, the 2005 Edwin B. Newman Graduate Research Award, and the 2005 Wilbert J. McKeachie Teaching Excellence Award.

The Role of Psychology in a Liberal Arts Education: An Interview with Diane F. Halpern

Diane F. Halpern is the Past-President of the American Psychological Association (APA) and Director of the Berger Institute for Work, Family, and Children and Professor of Psychology at Claremont McKenna College. Her earlier appointments include professor of psychology, Chair and Dean of Undergraduate Studies at California State University, San Bernardino. Her teaching, service to psychology, and research have been recognized with many awards, including the 2002 Outstanding Teaching Award from the Western Psychological Association, Wang Family Excellence Award, American Psychological Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching, Distinguished Career Contributions to Education and Training, G. Stanley Hall Lecture, and the Outstanding Professor Award from California State University-Statewide. Maureen McCarthy is the Director of Precollege and Undergraduate Programs for the APA. She provides leadership and management oversight of programs and initiatives to enhance the teaching and learning of psychology in high schools, community colleges, and undergraduate programs; coordinates programs with initiatives of national organizations, projects, and agencies that share the mission of enhancing teaching and faculty development; and initiates research pertaining to needs, achievements, and characteristics of undergraduate psychology. Effective spring 2005, she became a faculty member at Kennesaw State University, where she teaches experimental psychology and research methods.

Western Psychological Association: Report of the Seventy-Eighth Annual Meeting.

Western Psychological Association: Report of the Seventy-Eighth Annual Meeting.

Western Psychological Association: Report of the Seventy-Eighth Annual Meeting.

Western Psychological Association: Report of the Seventy-Eighth Annual Meeting.

Western Psychological Association: Report of the Seventy-Fourth Annual Meeting.

Western Psychological Association: Report of the Seventy-Fourth Annual Meeting.

Western Psychological Association: Report of the Seventy-Fourth Annual Meeting.

Western Psychological Association: Report of the Seventy-Fourth Annual Meeting.

Dissonance and the Return of the Self-Concept

vergent perceptions of the causes of behavior. Morristown, NJ: General Learning Press. Kelley, H. H. (1967). Attribution theory in psychology. In D. Levine (Ed.), Nebraska Symposium on Motivation (Vol. 15). Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. Kiesler, C., Collins, B. E., & Miller, N. (1969). Attitude change: A critical analysis of theoretical approaches. New York: Wiley. Levy, D. A., & Collins, B. E. (1989, August). A working modelfor the latent structure of influence. Paper presented at the meeting of the American Psychological Association, New Orleans. Levy, D. A., & Collins, B. E. (1990, April). Conscious and unconscious processes in interpersonal influence. Paper presented at the meeting of the Western Psychological Association, Los Angeles. Lewin, K., Lippett, R., & White, R. K. (1939). Patterns of aggressive behavior in experimentally created social climates. Journal of Social Psychology, 10, 271-299. Schachter, S. (1951). Deviation, rejection and communication. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 46, 190-207. Scher, S. J., & Cooper, J. (1989). Motivational basis of dissonance: The singular role of behavioral consequences. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 56, 899-906. Taylor, S. E. (1981). The interface of cognitive and psychology. In J. Harvey (Ed.), Cognition, behavior, and the environment. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. Tversky, A., & Kahneman, D. (1974). Judgment under uncertainty: Heuristics and biases. Science, 185, 1124-1131.

Western Psychological Association: Report of the Seventieth Annual Meeting.

Western Psychological Association: Report of the Seventieth Annual Meeting.

Western Psychological Association: Report of the Seventieth Annual Meeting.

Western Psychological Association: Report of the Seventieth Annual Meeting.

Natural support systems and coping with major life changes

American Journal of Community PsychologyVolume 8, Issue 2 p. 159-172 Article Natural support systems and coping with major life changes Barton J. Hirsch, Corresponding Author Barton J. Hirsch University of Oregon, Oregon, USASearch for more papers by this authorBarton J. Hirsch, Corresponding Author Barton J. Hirsch Social Ecology Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, 94305 Stanford, CaliforniaSearch for more papers by this author Barton J. Hirsch, Corresponding Author Barton J. Hirsch University of Oregon, Oregon, USASearch for more papers by this authorBarton J. Hirsch, Corresponding Author Barton J. Hirsch Social Ecology Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, 94305 Stanford, CaliforniaSearch for more papers by this author First published: 01 April 1980 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00912658Citations: 326 This article is based on a dissertation presented to the University of Oregon. The author is grateful to members of his dissertation committee, which included James G. Kelly, Edward Lichtenstein, Malcolm McFee, and Lonnie R. Snowden. Appreciation is expressed also to Beverlene Kiekel and Darlene Walhood who served as interviewers. Financial support was provided via a grant from the Biomedical Research Support Program, National Institutes of Health (RR 07080). An abbreviated version of this article was presented at the meeting of the Western Psychological Association, San Francisco, April 1978. AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume8, Issue2April 1980Pages 159-172 RelatedInformation

Assimilation and Contrast of Presidential Candidates' Issue Positions, 1972

Voter assimilation, the tendency to exaggerate the similarity between their favored candidate's position on issues and their own position, and contrast, the tendency to exaggerate the distance between their nonpreferred candidate's position on issues and their own position, were examined in the University of Michigan Center for Political Studies 1972 national election study. Significant assimilation effects were found on all nine issues considered, for both McGovern and Nixon voters, replicating and extending findings for the Vietnam issue in 1968 election data. Contrast effects occurred primarily on issues which polarized the electorate and on which the candidates were viewed as distinct. Assimilation was enhanced both by party identification and by attraction to preferred candidate. These moderators did not uniformly enhance contrast. Michael King is Associate Professor of Psychology, California State University, Chico. The author expresses appreciation to Jon Ebeling and Sam Shurtleff for helpful comments on the manuscript. The data for this study were originally collected by the Center for Political Studies of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan and were made available for analysis through the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research. Some of the findings in this paper were presented at the Western Psychological Association Meetings at Los Angeles in April, 1976. POQ 41(1977-78) 515-522 This content downloaded from 157.55.39.136 on Thu, 19 May 2016 04:46:51 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms

Western Psychological Association: Proceedings of the Fifty-Third Annual Meeting.

Western Psychological Association: Proceedings of the Fifty-Third Annual Meeting.

Proceedings of the Fifty-second Annual Meeting of the Western Psychological Association.

Proceedings of the Fifty-second Annual Meeting of the Western Psychological Association.

Proceedings of the Fifty-First Annual Meeting of the Western Psychological Association.

Proceedings of the Fifty-First Annual Meeting of the Western Psychological Association.

Personality test patterns of rehabilitation center alcoholics, psychiatric inpatients and normals

Journal of Clinical PsychologyVolume 26, Issue 3 p. 366-371 Psychodiagnostic Methods: Personality Inventories and Projectives Personality test patterns of rehabilitation center alcoholics, psychiatric inpatients and normals† Don Spiegel, Don Spiegel Brentwood Hospital, Veterans Administration Center, Los AngelesSearch for more papers by this authorPatricia A. Hadley, Patricia A. Hadley Aclon (Calif.) Rehabilitation CenterSearch for more papers by this authorRobert G. Hadley, Robert G. Hadley California State College, Los AngelesSearch for more papers by this author Don Spiegel, Don Spiegel Brentwood Hospital, Veterans Administration Center, Los AngelesSearch for more papers by this authorPatricia A. Hadley, Patricia A. Hadley Aclon (Calif.) Rehabilitation CenterSearch for more papers by this authorRobert G. Hadley, Robert G. Hadley California State College, Los AngelesSearch for more papers by this author First published: July 1970 https://doi.org/10.1002/1097-4679(197007)26:3<366::AID-JCLP2270260333>3.0.CO;2-UCitations: 8 † The results of the research on which this paper is based were presented at the Western Psychological Association convention, Vancouver, B. C., June, 1969. AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume26, Issue3July 1970Pages 366-371 RelatedInformation

Proceedings of the Fiftieth Annual Meeting of the Western Psychological Association.

Proceedings of the Fiftieth Annual Meeting of the Western Psychological Association.