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American Psychologist - Vol 67, Iss 1
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The American Psychologist is the official journal of the American Psychological Association. As such, the journal contains archival documents and articles covering current issues in psychology, the science and practice of psychology, and psychology's contribution to public policy. Archival and Association documents include, but are not limited to, the annual report of the Association, Council minutes, the Presidential Address, editorials, other reports of the Association, ethics information, surveys of the membership, employment data, obituaries, calendars of events, announcements, and selected award addresses. Articles published cover all aspects of psychology.
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Morton Edward Bitterman (1921–2011).
Presents an obituary for Mortan Edward "Jeff" Bitterman. Bitterman obtained his doctorate in 1945 and remained at Cornell as a professor until moving to the University of Texas (UT) in 1950 at the invitation of K. M. Dallenbach, a former mentor at Cornell. Over his career, Bitterman studied at least a dozen different species (often inventing new apparatus), and found that the laws underlying probability learning, extinction after partial reinforcement, and discrimination reversals differed across vertebrate species. Bitterman was invited to universities in two dozen countries around the world, where he actively promoted keen scientific study of comparative behavior to psychologists and to biologists and neuroscientists who needed the methods of behaviorists to link mechanism to function. He was a mentor and friend to several generations of behavioral scientists. Jeff Bitterman died at the age of 90, surrounded by family and friends, on May 10, 2011, in San Francisco, California. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)
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Agnes N. O'Connell (1933–2011).
Presents an obituary for Agnes N. O'Connell (1933-2011). The author comments that O'Connell will be remembered as a major pioneer in the study of women in psychology. She is best known for identifying and recognizing eminent women in psychology, recording and analyzing their contributions and life stories, and working to preserve their work for posterity within an appropriate historical and sociocultural context. She died at home on June 6, 2011, in Matawan, New Jersey, after a long battle with cancer. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)
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The ever-changing meanings of retirement.
Shultz and Wang (see record
2011-03464-001) drew attention to the ways in which understandings of retirement have changed over time, both in terms of the place of retirement in the lives of individuals and in terms of how retirement can no longer usefully be taken to comprise a single defining event. As the authors pointed out, psychological research has approached the study of retirement in a range of ways, including life span developmental perspectives, industrial/organizational approaches, and clinical and counseling studies. It is against this background that Shultz and Wang argued that psychology is well placed to make a unique contribution to research on retirement by taking forward three conceptualizations of retirement that can inform further work in this area, focusing on individual decision making, the longitudinal development process that ultimately leads to retirement, and the interactions between individuals and their environments by which individuals shape their experiences of retirement. Yet attempting to understand retirement in the terms that Shultz and Wang proposed will almost inevitably leave central elements of retirement unaddressed, for two reasons. Both of these factors pose challenges for any attempts to study retirement in the ways that Shultz and Wang proposed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)
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