Suniya Luthar (1958-2023)
Am Psychol. 2024 Apr 15. doi: 10.1037/amp0001355. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTCo-founder Emerita of Authentic Connections, Founder of Authentic Connections Groups, and Professor Emerita at Columbia University's Teachers College, Suniya Luthar passed away on February 16, 2023. Suniya was born on December 9, 1958, in New Delhi, India, where she studied for BA (1978) and MA (1980) degrees and served as a lecturer on child development (1981-1984), all at Lady Irwin College. After decades of studying youth across the economic spectrum, Suniya concluded that ultimately children's ability to be resilient is most linked to their...
Source: The American Psychologist - April 15, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jacob A Burack Source Type: research
Robert Rosenthal (1933-2024)
Am Psychol. 2024 Apr 15. doi: 10.1037/amp0001356. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTRobert Rosenthal died on January 5, 2024, in Riverside, California, at the age of 90. Born March 2, 1933, in Giessen, Germany, just as the Nazis came to power, the young Bob-he always insisted that everyone call him "Bob"-and his family fled in 1939 to Rhodesia (a British African protectorate) before making it to New York and then Los Angeles. Bob's dissertation derived from the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT). It compared projection in paranoid schizophrenic patients versus a normal control group after an experimental manipulation. Bob analyz...
Source: The American Psychologist - April 15, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Howard S Friedman Source Type: research
Rational reasons for irrational beliefs
Am Psychol. 2024 Apr 15. doi: 10.1037/amp0001321. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAccording to many, we live in "posttruth" times, with the pervasiveness of falsehoods being an existential threat to democracy and the functioning of free societies. Why do people believe and propagate falsehoods? Current accounts focus on psychological deficiencies, heuristic errors, self-enhancing motivations, and motivations to sow chaos. Here, we advance a complementary, outwardly (vs. inwardly) oriented, and ultimate (vs. proximate) account that people often believe and spread falsehoods for socially functional reasons. Under this view, fa...
Source: The American Psychologist - April 15, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Michael Barlev Steven L Neuberg Source Type: research
Michael E. Connor (1942-2023)
Am Psychol. 2024 Apr 11. doi: 10.1037/amp0001350. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTMemorializes Michael E. Connor (1942-2023), beloved academician, clinician, consultant, author, mentor, and friend. His work focused on issues affecting Black communities and families, the psychological well-being of Black men, maintaining and improving relationships with children, and exercise and sports psychology. This was evidenced in his clinical work with children, adults, and athletes; his community service with organizations like Man to Man: Urban Youth Advocates and the Black Infant Health Program; and his scholarly achievements, inclu...
Source: The American Psychologist - April 11, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Bedford Palmer Rashika J Rentie Source Type: research
Thomas Max Achenbach (1940-2023)
Am Psychol. 2024 Apr 11. doi: 10.1037/amp0001342. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTMemorializes Thomas Max Achenbach (1940-2023). He is known for groundbreaking contributions to developmental psychopathology, a field that was shaped in part by his 1974 book with that title, and for creating the Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment (ASEBA), arguably the world's most widely used suite of procedures for assessing child, youth, adult, and older adult strengths and emotional and behavioral problems. His research revealed robust broadband syndromes of psychopathology, giving rise to the terms "internalizing" and "extern...
Source: The American Psychologist - April 11, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: John R Weisz Masha Y Ivanova Frank C Verhulst Source Type: research
Richard M. Suinn (1933-2024)
Am Psychol. 2024 Apr 11. doi: 10.1037/amp0001347. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTRichard M. Suinn, an eminent psychologist known for his work in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), sports psychology, ethnic minority issues, and professional association leadership, passed away on January 5, 2024, in Fort Collins, Colorado, at the age of 90 years. Suinn was born on May 8, 1933, in Hawai'i. Suinn was an expert in anxiety management and developed the widely used Mathematics Anxiety Rating Scale. He was the first psychologist appointed team psychologist to a U.S. Olympic team, applying his CBT expertise to five Olympic teams. Su...
Source: The American Psychologist - April 11, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gordon C Nagayama Hall Frederick T L Leong Stanley Sue Source Type: research
Michael E. Connor (1942-2023)
Am Psychol. 2024 Apr 11. doi: 10.1037/amp0001350. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTMemorializes Michael E. Connor (1942-2023), beloved academician, clinician, consultant, author, mentor, and friend. His work focused on issues affecting Black communities and families, the psychological well-being of Black men, maintaining and improving relationships with children, and exercise and sports psychology. This was evidenced in his clinical work with children, adults, and athletes; his community service with organizations like Man to Man: Urban Youth Advocates and the Black Infant Health Program; and his scholarly achievements, inclu...
Source: The American Psychologist - April 11, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Bedford Palmer Rashika J Rentie Source Type: research
Thomas Max Achenbach (1940-2023)
Am Psychol. 2024 Apr 11. doi: 10.1037/amp0001342. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTMemorializes Thomas Max Achenbach (1940-2023). He is known for groundbreaking contributions to developmental psychopathology, a field that was shaped in part by his 1974 book with that title, and for creating the Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment (ASEBA), arguably the world's most widely used suite of procedures for assessing child, youth, adult, and older adult strengths and emotional and behavioral problems. His research revealed robust broadband syndromes of psychopathology, giving rise to the terms "internalizing" and "extern...
Source: The American Psychologist - April 11, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: John R Weisz Masha Y Ivanova Frank C Verhulst Source Type: research
Richard M. Suinn (1933-2024)
Am Psychol. 2024 Apr 11. doi: 10.1037/amp0001347. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTRichard M. Suinn, an eminent psychologist known for his work in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), sports psychology, ethnic minority issues, and professional association leadership, passed away on January 5, 2024, in Fort Collins, Colorado, at the age of 90 years. Suinn was born on May 8, 1933, in Hawai'i. Suinn was an expert in anxiety management and developed the widely used Mathematics Anxiety Rating Scale. He was the first psychologist appointed team psychologist to a U.S. Olympic team, applying his CBT expertise to five Olympic teams. Su...
Source: The American Psychologist - April 11, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gordon C Nagayama Hall Frederick T L Leong Stanley Sue Source Type: research
Michael E. Connor (1942-2023)
Am Psychol. 2024 Apr 11. doi: 10.1037/amp0001350. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTMemorializes Michael E. Connor (1942-2023), beloved academician, clinician, consultant, author, mentor, and friend. His work focused on issues affecting Black communities and families, the psychological well-being of Black men, maintaining and improving relationships with children, and exercise and sports psychology. This was evidenced in his clinical work with children, adults, and athletes; his community service with organizations like Man to Man: Urban Youth Advocates and the Black Infant Health Program; and his scholarly achievements, inclu...
Source: The American Psychologist - April 11, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Bedford Palmer Rashika J Rentie Source Type: research
Thomas Max Achenbach (1940-2023)
Am Psychol. 2024 Apr 11. doi: 10.1037/amp0001342. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTMemorializes Thomas Max Achenbach (1940-2023). He is known for groundbreaking contributions to developmental psychopathology, a field that was shaped in part by his 1974 book with that title, and for creating the Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment (ASEBA), arguably the world's most widely used suite of procedures for assessing child, youth, adult, and older adult strengths and emotional and behavioral problems. His research revealed robust broadband syndromes of psychopathology, giving rise to the terms "internalizing" and "extern...
Source: The American Psychologist - April 11, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: John R Weisz Masha Y Ivanova Frank C Verhulst Source Type: research
Richard M. Suinn (1933-2024)
Am Psychol. 2024 Apr 11. doi: 10.1037/amp0001347. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTRichard M. Suinn, an eminent psychologist known for his work in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), sports psychology, ethnic minority issues, and professional association leadership, passed away on January 5, 2024, in Fort Collins, Colorado, at the age of 90 years. Suinn was born on May 8, 1933, in Hawai'i. Suinn was an expert in anxiety management and developed the widely used Mathematics Anxiety Rating Scale. He was the first psychologist appointed team psychologist to a U.S. Olympic team, applying his CBT expertise to five Olympic teams. Su...
Source: The American Psychologist - April 11, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gordon C Nagayama Hall Frederick T L Leong Stanley Sue Source Type: research
Responses to political partisans are shaped by a COVID-19-sensitive disease avoidance psychology: A longitudinal investigation of functional flexibility
Am Psychol. 2024 Mar 28. doi: 10.1037/amp0001318. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTHow do natural changes in disease avoidance motivation shape thoughts about and behaviors toward ingroup and outgroup members? During the COVID-19 pandemic, political party affiliation has been a strong predictor in the United States of COVID-19-related opinions, attitudes, and behaviors. Using a six-wave longitudinal panel survey of representative Americans (on Prolific, N = 1,124, from April 2020 to February 2021), we explored how naturally occurring changes across time in both risks of COVID-19 infection and people's disease avoidance motiva...
Source: The American Psychologist - March 28, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ahra Ko Steven L Neuberg Cari M Pick Michael E W Varnum D Vaughn Becker Source Type: research
Responses to political partisans are shaped by a COVID-19-sensitive disease avoidance psychology: A longitudinal investigation of functional flexibility
Am Psychol. 2024 Mar 28. doi: 10.1037/amp0001318. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTHow do natural changes in disease avoidance motivation shape thoughts about and behaviors toward ingroup and outgroup members? During the COVID-19 pandemic, political party affiliation has been a strong predictor in the United States of COVID-19-related opinions, attitudes, and behaviors. Using a six-wave longitudinal panel survey of representative Americans (on Prolific, N = 1,124, from April 2020 to February 2021), we explored how naturally occurring changes across time in both risks of COVID-19 infection and people's disease avoidance motiva...
Source: The American Psychologist - March 28, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ahra Ko Steven L Neuberg Cari M Pick Michael E W Varnum D Vaughn Becker Source Type: research
Responses to political partisans are shaped by a COVID-19-sensitive disease avoidance psychology: A longitudinal investigation of functional flexibility
Am Psychol. 2024 Mar 28. doi: 10.1037/amp0001318. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTHow do natural changes in disease avoidance motivation shape thoughts about and behaviors toward ingroup and outgroup members? During the COVID-19 pandemic, political party affiliation has been a strong predictor in the United States of COVID-19-related opinions, attitudes, and behaviors. Using a six-wave longitudinal panel survey of representative Americans (on Prolific, N = 1,124, from April 2020 to February 2021), we explored how naturally occurring changes across time in both risks of COVID-19 infection and people's disease avoidance motiva...
Source: The American Psychologist - March 28, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ahra Ko Steven L Neuberg Cari M Pick Michael E W Varnum D Vaughn Becker Source Type: research
