Edwin A. Fleishman

Edwin A. Fleishman (born March 10, 1927[1]) is an American psychologist best known for his work in the field of industrial and organizational psychology. Among his notable achievements was a taxonomy for describing individual differences in perceptual-motor performance.

He graduated Loyola College in Maryland in 1945, then served in the United States Navy.[1] He earned his doctorate in applied psychology in 1951 from Ohio State University under Harold E. Burtt, then took a position with the United States Air Force. He was the President of Advanced Research Resources Organization (ARRO) and was a professor at Yale University.[2] However, Fleishman produced his greatest and best known quantity of work as a professor at George Mason University. He also served as a visiting professor at the University of California.

He is also past president of the International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP), the American Psychological Association's (APA) Divisions of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Evaluation and Measurement, and its Society of Engineering Psychologists, as well as the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP).[1]

He is the author of several books and was the Editor of the Journal of Applied Psychology and the recipient of APA's Distinguished Scientific Award for the Applications of Psychology in 1980.[3][4]

In 1994 he was one of 52 signatories on "Mainstream Science on Intelligence[5]", an editorial written by Linda Gottfredson and published in the Wall Street Journal, which declared the consensus of the signing scholars on issues related to the controversy about intelligence research that followed the publication of the book The Bell Curve.

Selected publications

Fleishman, Edwin A. (1964). The structure and measurement of physical fitness. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Fleishman, Edwin A.; Quaintance, M. K. (1984). Taxonomies of human performance: The description of human tasks. New York, NY: Academic Press.

Fleishman, Edwin A.; Reilly, M. E. (1992). Handbook of human abilities: Definitions, measurements, and job task requirements. Bethesda, MD: Management Research Institute.

References
  1. "Edwin A. Fleishman, SIOP Past President". siop.org. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
  2. "MRI : Edwin A Fleishman, PhD Psychology, President, human abilities and job skills (Management Research Institute)". managementresearchinstitute.com. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
  3. "APA Distinguished Scientific Award for the Applications of Psychology". apa.org. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
  4. "Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology: Edwin A. Fleishman". American Psychologist. 54 (11). November 1999. doi:10.1037/0003-066x.54.11.1003.
  5. Gottfredson, Linda (December 13, 1994). Mainstream Science on Intelligence. Wall Street Journal, p A18.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.