Laurance F. Shaffer
Laurance F. Shaffer | |
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Born | (1903-08-12)August 12, 1903 |
Died | July 20, 1976(1976-07-20) (aged 72) |
Known for | Past president, American Psychological Association |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Psychology |
Laurance Frederic Shaffer (August 12, 1903 – July 20, 1976) was an American psychologist and a past president of the American Psychological Association (APA).
Biography
Shaffer was a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Air Forces and he opened the first pilot selection examining unit during World War II.[1] He was a department chair at Columbia University and he served as editor of the Journal of Consulting Psychology.[2] Shaffer promoted the concept of mental hygiene, which combined the notions of health promotion and psychological adjustment. He was the APA president in 1953.[3]
References
- ^ "On September 21". American Psychological Association. Retrieved November 12, 2014.
- ^ Routh, Donald (1994). Clinical Psychology Since 1917: Science, Practice and Organization. Springer. p. 34. ISBN 0306444526. Retrieved November 12, 2014.
- ^ Devonis, David (2014). History of Psychology 101. Springer Publishing Company. p. 56. ISBN 978-0826195692. Retrieved November 12, 2014.
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Presidents of the American Psychological Association
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- George Trumbull Ladd (1893)
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- Carl Seashore (1911)
- Edward Thorndike (1912)
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- Raymond Dodge (1916)
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- John Wallace Baird (1918)
- Walter Dill Scott (1919)
- Shepherd Ivory Franz (1920)
- Margaret Floy Washburn (1921)
- Knight Dunlap (1922)
- Lewis Terman (1923)
- G. Stanley Hall (1924)
- I. Madison Bentley (1925)
- Harvey A. Carr (1926)
- Harry Levi Hollingworth (1927)
- Edwin Boring (1928)
- Karl Lashley (1929)
- Herbert Langfeld (1930)
- Walter Samuel Hunter (1931)
- Walter Richard Miles (1932)
- Louis Leon Thurstone (1933)
- Joseph Peterson (1934)
- Albert Poffenberger (1935)
- Clark L. Hull (1936)
- Edward C. Tolman (1937)
- John Dashiell (1938)
- Gordon Allport (1939)
- Leonard Carmichael (1940)
- Herbert Woodrow (1941)
- Calvin Perry Stone (1942)
- John Edward Anderson (1943)
- Gardner Murphy (1944)
- Edwin Ray Guthrie (1945)
- Henry Garrett (1946)
- Carl Rogers (1947)
- Donald Marquis (1948)
- Ernest Hilgard (1949)
- J. P. Guilford (1950)
- Robert Richardson Sears (1951)
- J. McVicker Hunt (1952)
- Laurance F. Shaffer (1953)
- Orval Hobart Mowrer (1954)
- E. Lowell Kelly (1955)
- Theodore Newcomb (1956)
- Lee Cronbach (1957)
- Harry Harlow (1958)
- Wolfgang Köhler (1959)
- Donald O. Hebb (1960)
- Neal E. Miller (1961)
- Paul E. Meehl (1962)
- Charles E. Osgood (1963)
- Quinn McNemar (1964)
- Jerome Bruner (1965)
- Nicholas Hobbs (1966)
- Gardner Lindzey (1967)
- Abraham Maslow (1968)
- George Armitage Miller (1969)
- George Albee (1970)
- Kenneth B. Clark (1971)
- Anne Anastasi (1972)
- Leona E. Tyler (1973)
- Albert Bandura (1974)
- Donald T. Campbell (1975)
- Wilbert J. McKeachie (1976)
- Theodore H. Blau (1977)
- M. Brewster Smith (1978)
- Nicholas Cummings (1979)
- Florence Denmark (1980)
- John J. Conger (1981)
- William Bevan (1982)
- Max Siegel (1983)
- Janet Taylor Spence (1984)
- Robert Perloff (1985)
- Logan Wright (1986)
- Bonnie Strickland (1987)
- Raymond D. Fowler (1988)
- Joseph Matarazzo (1989)
- Stanley Graham (1990)
- Charles Spielberger (1991)
- Jack Wiggins Jr. (1992)
- Frank H. Farley (1993)
- Ronald E. Fox (1994)
- Robert J. Resnick (1995)
- Dorothy Cantor (1996)
- Norman Abeles (1997)
- Martin Seligman (1998)
- Richard Suinn (1999)
- Patrick H. DeLeon (2000)
- Norine G. Johnson (2001)
- Philip Zimbardo (2002)
- Robert Sternberg (2003)
- Diane F. Halpern (2004)
- Ronald F. Levant (2005)
- Gerald Koocher (2006)
- Sharon Brehm (2007)
- Alan E. Kazdin (2008)
- James H. Bray (2009)
- Carol D. Goodheart (2010)
- Melba J. T. Vasquez (2011)
- Suzanne Bennett Johnson (2012)
- Donald N. Bersoff (2013)
- Nadine Kaslow (2014)
- Barry S. Anton (2015)
- Susan H. McDaniel (2016)
- Antonio Puente (2017)
- Jessica Henderson Daniel (2018)
- Rosie Phillips Davis (2019)
- Sandra Shullman (2020)
- Jennifer F. Kelly (2021)
- Frank C. Worrell (2022)
- Thema Bryant (2023)
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