Peter Molenaar

Last updated
Peter C. M. Molenaar
Born1946 (age 7677)
Nationality Dutch
Alma mater University of Utrecht
Awards2013 Sells Award for Distinguished Multivariate Research from the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology
Scientific career
Fields Developmental psychology
Mathematical psychology
Institutions University of Amsterdam
Pennsylvania State University

Peter C. M. Molenaar (born 1946) [1] is a Dutch developmental and mathematical psychologist who is Distinguished Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at Pennsylvania State University (Penn State). [2] He is the editor-in-chief of Multivariate Behavioral Research . [3]

Contents

Biography

Molenaar received two bachelor's degrees from the University of Utrecht: one in 1972 and one in 1976. He also received two master's degrees from the University of Utrecht in 1976, one in mathematical psychology and one in psychophysiology, before earning his Ph.D. in Social Sciences from the same university in 1981. He then served on the faculty of the University of Amsterdam, where he eventually became head of the Department of Methodology, before joining the faculty of Penn State in 2005. In 2013, he received the Sells Award for Distinguished Multivariate Research from the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology. [4]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">George Armitage Miller</span> American psychologist (1920–2012)

George Armitage Miller was an American psychologist who was one of the founders of cognitive psychology, and more broadly, of cognitive science. He also contributed to the birth of psycholinguistics. Miller wrote several books and directed the development of WordNet, an online word-linkage database usable by computer programs. He authored the paper, "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two," in which he observed that many different experimental findings considered together reveal the presence of an average limit of seven for human short-term memory capacity. This paper is frequently cited by psychologists and in the wider culture. Miller won numerous awards, including the National Medal of Science.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Raymond Cattell</span> British-American psychologist (1905–1998)

Raymond Bernard Cattell was a British-American psychologist, known for his psychometric research into intrapersonal psychological structure. His work also explored the basic dimensions of personality and temperament, the range of cognitive abilities, the dynamic dimensions of motivation and emotion, the clinical dimensions of abnormal personality, patterns of group syntality and social behavior, applications of personality research to psychotherapy and learning theory, predictors of creativity and achievement, and many multivariate research methods including the refinement of factor analytic methods for exploring and measuring these domains. Cattell authored, co-authored, or edited almost 60 scholarly books, more than 500 research articles, and over 30 standardized psychometric tests, questionnaires, and rating scales. According to a widely cited ranking, Cattell was the 16th most eminent, 7th most cited in the scientific journal literature, and among the most productive psychologists of the 20th century. He was, however, a controversial figure, due in part to his friendships with and intellectual respect for white supremacists and neo-Nazis.

Robert Duncan Luce was an American mathematician and social scientist, and one of the most preeminent figures in the field of mathematical psychology. At the end of his life, he held the position of Distinguished Research Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of California, Irvine.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Quantitative psychology</span> Field of scientific study

Quantitative psychology is a field of scientific study that focuses on the mathematical modeling, research design and methodology, and statistical analysis of psychological processes. It includes tests and other devices for measuring cognitive abilities. Quantitative psychologists develop and analyze a wide variety of research methods, including those of psychometrics, a field concerned with the theory and technique of psychological measurement.

Robert A. Rescorla was an American psychologist who specialized in the involvement of cognitive processes in classical conditioning focusing on animal learning and behavior. Rescorla was a Professor Emeritus of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn). He received his B.A. in Psychology with minors in Philosophy and Math from Swarthmore College in 1962 and later received his Ph.D. under Richard Solomon from University of Pennsylvania in 1966. From there, he began his career at Yale. Eventually, Rescorla returned to the University of Pennsylvania to continue his research.

Martha Kent McClintock is an American psychologist best known for her research on human pheromones and her theory of menstrual synchrony.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nancy Segal</span> American psychologist (born 1951)

Nancy L. Segal is an American evolutionary psychologist and behavioral geneticist, specializing in the study of twins. She is the Professor of Developmental Psychology and Director of the Twin Studies Center, at California State University, Fullerton. Segal was a recipient of the 2005 James Shields Award for Lifetime Contributions to Twin Research from the Behavior Genetics Association and International Society for Twin Studies.

Frank Ritter is a professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology, professor in the Department of Psychology, and professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Penn State University. Before coming to Penn State, he was a lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Nottingham, and a visiting distinguished professor in the Psychology Department at Chemnitz University of Technology (Germany).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Princeton University Department of Psychology</span>

The Princeton University Department of Psychology, located in Peretsman-Scully Hall, is an academic department of Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey. For over a century, the department has been one of the most notable psychology departments in the country. It has been home to psychologists who have made well-known scientific discoveries in the fields of psychology and neuroscience.

The Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology (SMEP) is a small academic organization of research psychologists who have interests in multivariate statistical models for advancing psychological knowledge. It publishes a journal, Multivariate Behavioral Research.

Multivariate Behavioral Research is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Taylor & Francis Group on behalf of the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology. The editor-in-chief is Peter Molenaar. Its 2017 impact factor is 3.691.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jan de Leeuw</span> Dutch statistician and psychometrician (born 1945)

Jan de Leeuw is a Dutch statistician and psychometrician. He is distinguished professor emeritus of statistics and founding chair of the Department of Statistics, University of California, Los Angeles. In addition, he is the founding editor and former editor-in-chief of the Journal of Statistical Software, as well as the former editor-in-chief of the Journal of Multivariate Analysis and the Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics.

Kathleen Marie "Katie" Gates is an American neuroscientist, quantitative psychologist, and faculty member in the L. L. Thurstone Psychometric Laboratory at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is known for her contributions to network analysis, time series analysis, and structural equation modeling toward the development and dissemination of methods for quantifying intra-individual change and person-specific processes as they unfold across time.

Daniel John Bauer is an American statistician, professor, and director of the quantitative psychology program at the University of North Carolina, where he is also on the faculty at the Center for Developmental Science. He is known for rigorous methodological work on latent variable models and is a proponent of integrative data analysis, a meta-analytic technique that pools raw data across multiple independent studies.

Jay Belsky is an American child psychologist and the Robert M. and Natalie Reid Dorn Professor of Human Development at the University of California, Davis. He is noted for his research in the fields of child development and family studies. He was a founding investigator of the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development in the United States, and of the National Evaluation of Sure Start in the United Kingdom. He has been an ISI Highly Cited Researcher since 2002.

William Raymond Shadish Jr. was an American psychologist and statistician who was a distinguished professor and founding faculty member at the University of California, Merced. He was known for his work in the field of behavioral science, especially on the topics of program evaluation, causal inference, meta-analysis, and the study of methodology.

Jenae M. Neiderhiser is an American behavior geneticist who is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Human Development and Family Studies at Pennsylvania State University, where she is also co-director of the Gene Environment Research Initiative.

Joseph Lee Rodgers III is an American psychologist and the Lois Autrey Betts Professor of Psychology and Human Development at Vanderbilt University. He is also the George Lynn Cross Research Professor Emeritus at the University of Oklahoma, where he taught from 1981 to 2012. He is a past president of the Society for the Study of Social Biology, the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology, and Divisions 5 and 34 of the American Psychological Association. From 2006 to 2011, he was editor-in-chief of Multivariate Behavioral Research. He received his Ph.D. in quantitative psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1981, with a minor in biostatistics. He has been a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 2012. His substantive research has focused on topics such as the relationship between birth order and human intelligence, as well as adolescent risk behaviors, like sexual activity and drug use. His methodological research focuses on behavior genetics, exploratory data analysis, and correlation and regression.

Stephen Gano West is an American quantitative psychologist and professor of psychology at Arizona State University. He was the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Personality from 1986 to 1991, of Psychological Methods from 2001 to 2007, and of Multivariate Behavioral Research in 2015. He was also the president of the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology from 2007 to 2008. He was educated at Cornell University and the University of Texas at Austin, and received the Society for Personality and Social Psychology's Murray Award in 2000.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ellen Hamaker</span> Dutch-American psychologist, and statistician

Ellen Louise "E.L." Hamaker is a Dutch-American psychologist, and statistician. Since 2018 she has been a full professor at Utrecht University, holding the chair Longitudinal Data Analysis at the Department of Methodology and Statistics. Her work focuses on the development of statistical models for the analysis of intensive longitudinal data in psychology, mainly within the frameworks of structural equation modeling and time series analysis.

References

  1. Grasman, Raoul (March 2004). "Stochastic maximum likelihood mean and cross-spectrum structure estimation: analytic and neuromagnetic Monte Carlo results": 11.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. "Molenaar, Peter". Penn State College of Health and Human Development. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  3. "Multivariate Behavioral Research Call for Papers". Explore Taylor & Francis Online. Retrieved 2018-07-27.
  4. "Professor Molenaar receives Sells Award for Distinguished Mulitvariate Research". Penn State News. 2013-10-30. Retrieved 2018-07-24.