Jack Block, Emeritus Professor of Psychology and a member of IHD for many years, died on January 13, 2010. As many of you know, Professor Block published research based on longitudinal studies in IHD. Professor Block conducted his most influential work in collaboration with his late wife, Jeanne Humphrey Block. He was widely known for longitudinal research projects, spanning decades, examining the factors that influence development. He explored the impact of divorce on children, effects of early childhood experiences on political values, antecedents of drug use and abuse, the genesis of depression, and differences in the development of boys and girls. He was known as a rigorous methodologist and an incisive critic who engaged in vigorous debate and made major contributions to key theoretical issues in psychology: the continuity/discontinuity of personality over time, conceptual models of personality, sex-role development, and improving the reliability of clinical judgments about character and personality.
http://psychology.berkeley.edu/faculty/docs/Block_obituary.pdf
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/02/02/BALP1BPTLL.DTL
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
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