James Birren | Academic Influence

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According to Wikipedia, James E. Birren was one of the founders of the organized field of gerontology. He was a past president of The Gerontological Society of America, and author of over 250 publications. Personal life Birren was born on April 4, 1918 in Chicago. With the original intent to study engineering, Birren enrolled in Wright Junior College to study technical subjects. Birren changed his mind due to the Great Depression in America and decided to transfer to Chicago Teachers College to pursue what he thought to be a more practical career. It was there he took his first course in psychology, and he was encouraged by his professors to attend graduate school at Northwestern University.

James Birren's Published Works

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Published Papers

Handbook of the psychology of aging, 3rd ed. (1985) (598)
The Concept and measurement of quality of life in the frail elderly (1991) (449)
Achieving and maintaining cognitive vitality with aging. (2002) (293)
Behavioral slowing with age: Causes, organization, and consequences. (1980) (285)
Handbook of Mental Health and Aging (1992) (283)
Aging and speed of behavior: possible consequences for psychological functioning. (1995) (275)
Emergent Theories of Aging (1988) (258)
Aging and biography : explorations in adult development (1996) (239)
Handbook of Aging and the Individual (1961) (220)
The psychology of aging. (1966) (210)
Translations in gerontology--from lab to life. Psychophysiology and speed of response. (1974) (207)
Age changes in pupil size. (1950) (182)
Analysis of the WAIS subtests in relation to age and education. (1961) (174)
Wisdom: The elements of wisdom: overview and integration (1990) (162)
Handbook of the psychology of aging, 4th ed. (1996) (151)
Research on the psychology of aging: Principles, concepts and theory. (1985) (146)
Encyclopedia of gerontology : age, aging, and the aged (1997) (128)
Age changes in conduction velocity, refractory period, number of fibers, connective tissue space and blood vessels in sciatic nerve of rats (1956) (126)
Human aging: A biological and behavioral study. (1963) (115)
Age changes and cohort difference in personality. (1972) (109)
Wisdom in History. (2005) (103)
Creativity in Adulthood and Old Age: Relations to Intelligence, Sex and Mode of Testing (1985) (100)
Aging, brain damage, and psychomotor slowing. (1970) (98)
Thirteen – Aging and Attentional Processes (1990) (92)
Telling the Stories of Life through Guided Autobiography Groups (2001) (87)
Reaction Time as a Function of the Cardiac Cycle in Young Adults (1963) (85)
Psychology of Adult Development and Aging (1983) (84)
Encyclopedia of gerontology (2007) (82)
Variables affecting creative contributions across the adult life span. (1977) (81)
Guiding Autobiography Groups for Older Adults: Exploring the Fabric of Life (1991) (79)
Speed of Behavior as an Indicator of Age Changes and the Integrity of the Nervous System (1979) (77)
Guiding autobiography groups for older adults (1991) (74)
History, concepts, and theory in the psychology of aging (1996) (65)
Age differences in response speed as a function of controlled variations of stimulus conditions: evidence of a general speed factor. (1962) (64)
Toward an experimental psychology of aging. (1970) (64)
Age and Sex Differences in Satisfying Love Relationships across the Adult Life Span (1981) (64)
Speed response as a function of perceptual difficulty and age. (1955) (64)
Aging : scientific perspectives and social issues (1976) (60)
The Gifted Group at Mid-Life (1960) (59)
Three – Concepts of Time and Aging in Science (1990) (57)
Age differences in finger, jaw, and foot reaction time to auditory stimuli. (1955) (57)
Aging and technological advances (1985) (54)
A Brief History of the Psychology of Aging (1961) (51)
One – The Concepts, Models, and History of the Psychology of Aging (1990) (49)
A factorial analysis of the Wechsler-Bellevue Scale given to an elderly population. (1952) (49)
The relation of writing speed to age and to the senile psychoses. (1951) (48)
CREATIVITY IN ADULTHOOD AND OLD AGE: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY (1982) (46)
Age Changes in Rate and Level of Visual Dark Adaptation (1950) (46)
Age differences in backward dichoptic masking. (1975) (46)
The process of aging in the nervous system (1959) (44)
Human Development over the Life Span through Education (1973) (44)
Autobiography: Exploring the self and encouraging development. (1996) (43)
Metaphors of Aging in Science and the Humanities (1991) (43)
17 – Concepts and Content of Quality of Life in the Later Years: An Overview (1991) (41)
Measurement of change in research on aging: Old and new issues from an individual growth perspective (1996) (41)
Age and Decision Strategies (1969) (40)
Reaction time as a function of age and behavioral predisposition to coronary heart disease. (1973) (39)
Set in relation to age. (1957) (37)
Age and male erectile responsiveness (1977) (37)
Handbook of aging and the individual : psychological and biological aspects (1960) (36)
Age Changes in the Factor Structure of Intellectual Abilities in Adulthood and Old Age (1980) (36)
Psychological Aspects of Aging (1960) (35)
Age changes in the light threshold of the dark adapted eye. (1948) (35)
Age and strength. (1947) (34)
Adult Development through Guided Autobiography: The Family Context. (1990) (34)
The significance of age changes in speed of perception and psychomotor skills. (1956) (33)
Autobiographical memory and the narrative self over the life span (2006) (33)
Mental Abilities and Psychomotor Responses in Healthy Aged Men. (1963) (32)
Relations of Development and Ageing (1964) (31)
The history of geropsychology. (2001) (30)
Differential decline in the Wechsler-Bellevue subtests in the senile psychoses. (1951) (30)
Age, response speed, and cardiovascular functions. (1962) (29)
Age differences in learning a two-choice water maze by rats. (1962) (29)
Psychological examinations of children who later became psychotic (1944) (29)
Behavior, aging, and the nervous system : biological determinants of speed of behavior and its changes with age (1965) (29)
Interdisciplinary Relationships: Interrelations of Physiological, Psychological, and Psychiatric Findings in Healthy Elderly Men. (1963) (29)
Aging and slowing of behavior: consequences for cognition and survival. (1991) (29)
Cognition, Stress, and Aging (1985) (28)
The effect of salicylate upon pain sensitivity. (1950) (28)
The nature of time: implications for research on aging. (1988) (27)
Interrelations of Mental and Perceptual Tests Given to Healthy Elderly Men. (1963) (26)
The Projects of Life Reflected in Autobiographies of Old Age (1996) (25)
Swimming speed of the albino rat. II. Fatigue, practice, and drug effects on age and sex differences. (1958) (24)
Static equilibrium and vestibular function. (1945) (24)
Age differences in verbal associations. (1966) (23)
Age and Creativity: Implications for Education and Teachers (1976) (23)
The aged in cities. (1969) (22)
Rate of addition as a function of difficulty and age (1951) (22)
Age, health, and employment (1986) (22)
Age and responses to sequences of repetitive and interruptive signals. (1967) (21)
Education and aging (1986) (21)
Swimming speed of the albino rat: I. Age and sex differences. (1958) (19)
The measurement of intellectual decline in the senile psychoses. (1951) (18)
Are there sex differences in creativity across the adult life span? (1975) (17)
Some factors affecting vocabulary size in later maturity; age, education, and length of institutionalization. (1949) (17)
Decision making and age (1970) (17)
Aging and Leisure (1961) (17)
Pain measurement by the radiant heat method: individual differences in pain sensitivity, the effects of skin temperature, and stimulus duration. (1951) (17)
The differential decline of subtest scores of the Wechsler-Bellevue intelligence scale in 60-69-year-old individuals. (1950) (17)
The relation of problem length in simple addition to time required, probability of success, and age. (1954) (16)
Psychological aspects of aging: intellectual functioning. (1968) (16)
Standardization of two tests of equilibrium: the railwalking test and the ataxiagraph (1945) (15)
Vibratory Sensitivity in the Aged (1947) (15)
Age and Skill: Motor, Intellectual and Social (1969) (15)
Intellectual deterioration in the aged: agreement between the Wechsler-Bellevue and the Babcock-Levy. (1950) (15)
A history of geropsychology in autobiography (2000) (15)
The understanding of death and dying in a life-span perspective. (1993) (13)
Age Changes in Human Abilities: A 28-Year Longitudinal Study. (1976) (12)
Effects of anoxia on performance at several simulated altitudes. (1946) (12)
Age differences in startle reaction time of the rat to noise and electric shock. (1955) (11)
The study of lives in progress: Approaches to research on life stories (2002) (11)
A Brief History of the Psychology of Aging, Part II (1961) (11)
Aging and Psychological Adjustment (1958) (11)
Concepts and criteria of mental health and aging. (1981) (10)
Reminiscence, Life Review, and Autobiography: Emergence of a New Era (2013) (10)
Handbook of Ageing and the Individual (1961) (10)
Health and aging : perspectives and prospects (1988) (10)
Where To Go From Here (1997) (10)
Research on the psychologic aspects of aging. (1963) (10)
Age differences in continuous word associations measured by speech recordings. (1962) (10)
Aging and Technological Advances: Introduction (1984) (9)
Fuzzy analysis of older adult consumer attitudes and decision-making styles: socioeconomic differences in fuzziness (1995) (8)
Aging in America: roles for psychology. (1983) (7)
Chapter X: Aging and Psychological Adjustment (1958) (7)
Hayflick-NIH Settlement. (1982) (7)
Editorial: New Models of Aging: Comment on Need and Creative Efforts (1995) (7)
Examining the History and Current Status of Aging Theory Introduction (1996) (6)
Standardization of a test of hand strength. (1946) (6)
Susceptibility to seasickness; a questionnaire approach. (1947) (6)
Aging, divided attention, and dual-task performance (2020) (6)
History of Gerontology (2007) (6)
Effects of age on the discrimination of lifted weights. (1959) (6)
Why study aging (1958) (6)
Using the gift of long life: Psychological implications of the age revolution. (2000) (6)
A Life-Span Perspective For Education. (1973) (6)
Progress in Research on Aging in the Behavioral and Social Sciences (1980) (6)
Spiritual Maturity in Psychological Development (1991) (6)
Sociopsychologic studies of the aging process. Increments and decrements in the intellectual status of the aged. (1968) (6)
AGE DIFFERENCES IN ASSOCIATIVE BEHAVIOR. (1965) (5)
Academic and professional training in the psychology of aging. (1973) (5)
Time required to treat dental defects in 71,015 naval personnel, with regional and age variations. (1946) (5)
Where to go from here : discovering your own life's wisdom in the second half of your life (1997) (5)
Rules and reason in the forced retirement of commercial airline pilots at age 60 (1995) (4)
Creativity, Productivity, and Potentials of the Senior Scholar (1990) (4)
Toward an Interdisciplinary Approach (1972) (4)
Introduction to the Study of Human Aging. (1963) (4)
Self-Aspect Reconstruction through Guided Autobiography: Exploring Underlying Processes (2014) (4)
Summary and Interpretations. (1963) (4)
Gifts and talents of elderly people: The persimmon's promise. (2009) (3)
TRANSFORMATIONAL REMINISCENCE: LIFE STORY WORK By John Kunz and F. G. Soltys (2009) (3)
Age Changes in Mental Abilities (1954) (3)
A bibliography of doctoral dissertations on aging from American institutions of higher learning, 1970-1972. (1973) (3)
Accuracy of age statements by the elderly. (1950) (3)
Late life dementia. (1989) (3)
Research on aging: a frontier of science and social gain. (1968) (3)
Doctoral training in gerontology: an analysis of dissertations on problems of aging in institutions of higher learning in the United States, 1934-1969. (1971) (3)
A FOLLOW-UP STUDY OF CARD-SORTING PERFORMANCE IN ELDERLY MEN. (1965) (3)
Developmental psychology, a life-span approach (1981) (2)
Age Related Change and the Individual (1981) (2)
Handbook of Aging and the Individual: Psychological and Biological Aspects. (1960) (2)
Personality and aging: Modes of coping and the meaning of stress (1995) (2)
An analysis of doctoral dissertations on aging written in institutions of higher learning in the United States, 1969 to 1975. (1980) (2)
Age and Fitness Differences in the Effects of Posture and Exercise on Information Processing Speed (1993) (2)
I have to do it myself. (2000) (2)
Guided Autobiography's Developmental Exchange: What's in it for Me? (2011) (2)
The relation of structural changes of the eye and vitamin A to elevation of the light threshold in later life. (1950) (2)
Age differences in social conformity on a task of auditory signal detection. (1972) (2)
Effects of Age and Practice on Attention and Stages of Information Processing Using CRT with Fixed and Variable Foreperiods (1988) (2)
Aging and Psychological Adjustment: Problem Solving and Motivation (1961) (1)
A bibliography of doctoral dissertations on aging from American institutions of higher learning, 1934-1969. (1971) (1)
Symposium. Examining the History and Current Status of Aging Theory (1996) (1)
A bibliography of doctoral dissertations on aging from American institutions of higher learning, 1969-1971. (1972) (1)
BOEING, E. G.: Sensation and Perception in the History of Experimental Psychology. New York, Henry Holt, 1942. (1944) (1)
Influences on dental defects in naval personnel. (1946) (1)
Time is the Messenger (1992) (1)
Health and aging in our society: perspectives on mortality and the emergence of geriatrics. (1979) (1)
A bibliography of doctoral dissertations on aging from American institutions of higher learning, 1971-1973. (1974) (1)
Reaction Time as a Function of the Cardiac Cycle in Young Adults (1963) (1)
A bibliography of doctoral dissertations on aging from American institutions of higher learning, 1973-1975. (1976) (1)
A Bibliography of Doctoral Dissertations on Aging from American in stitutions of Higher Learning, 1970-1972 (1973) (1)
Psychological limitations that occur with age. (1956) (1)
Light aversion motivation in psychologic studies of aging in rats. (1957) (1)
A GLANCE AT CEREBRAL BIOLOGY IN THE AGED (1969) (1)
The Relation of stress and age : a selected bibliography (1975) (1)
Effects of Age, Gender, Activation, Stimulus Degradation and Practice on Attention and Visual Choice Reaction Time (1988) (1)
Supplement Issue of the Journal of Gerontology Symposia of the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Gerontological Society (1958) (1)
Health Care in the 21st Century: The Social and Ethical Context (1985) (1)
Reaction Time as a Function of the Cardiac Cycle in Young Adults (1963) (1)
Decision making and age : NATO Advanced Study Institute, University of Thessaloniki, August 14-19 (1967) (1969) (0)
How Skills Change as Men Mature. (1959) (0)
Nursing home discharge planning ... a low profile service of growing importance. (1995) (0)
Neurological Basis of Behaviour (1959) (0)
Understanding Old Age (1953) (0)
A bibliography of doctoral dissertations on aging from American institutions of higher learning, 1971-1973. (1974) (0)
The Age Revolution: Benefits and Concerns (2000) (0)
Intellectual Capacities, Aging, and Man’s Environment (2018) (0)
Fifteen Annual Meetings Later (1962) (0)
The Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center and gerontology and geriatrics education. (1980) (0)
Contents, Vol. 18, 1975 (1975) (0)
When the aged, dying patient needs a listener. (1966) (0)
Robert W. Kleemeier--gerontologist. (1966) (0)
Changes in Speed and Timing (1955) (0)
Hayflick-NIH Settlement (1982) (0)
Title Page / Index / Preface / Introduction (1969) (0)
Swedish Pension Plans (1948) (0)
Nathan W. Shock, PhD. gerontologist. (1978) (0)
Contributions to the Psychobiology of Aging. (1967) (0)
Research Design and Methods (2005) (0)
GERONTOLOGY; discussion group. (1958) (0)
Aging Comes of Age. (1957) (0)
MORGAN, CLIFFORD T.: Physiological Psychology. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1943, 623 pp. $4.00. (1944) (0)
Memories and adjustment to old age. (1988) (0)
Insight and progress in the psychology of aging. (1968) (0)
A view from the social and behavioral sciences. (1987) (0)
Promoting Mental Health of Older People Through Group Methods: A Practical Guide. (1967) (0)
Introductory remarks. (1969) (0)
Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards for 1977 (1973) (0)
PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF AGINGl (1959) (0)
Chapter IV: Aging and Psychological Adjustment: Problem Solving and Motivation (1961) (0)
Loving Happily Ever After: Age Differences in Satisfying Love Relationships. (1978) (0)
Hayflick-NIH Settlement (1982) (0)
RAPPAPORT, DAVID: Emotions and Memory. The Menninger Clinic Monograph Series No. 2. Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins Co., 1943, 282 pp. (1943) (0)
The Clinical Psychiatry of Late Life. (1966) (0)
Aging Invigorated through Autobiography@@@A History of Geropsychology in Autobiography (2002) (0)
Influences on Dental Defects in Naval Personnel. (1946) (0)
Age differences in choice reaction times to verbal stimuli. (1967) (0)
A bibliography of doctoral dissertations on aging from American institutions of higher learning, 1972-1974. (1975) (0)
Age changes in visual perception and its relation to response latency (1959) (0)
The British May Be a Lap Ahead. (1979) (0)
The Regulatory Role of the Nervous System in Aging (1971) (0)
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE EFFECT ON MEN OF CONTINUOUS VERSUS INTERMITTENT EXPOSURE TO A TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT (1945) (0)
[White House Conference on Aging, 1981. Research in Aging. Report and Executive Summary of the Technical Committee.]. (1981) (0)
Psychology for the Fighting Man. Committee of the National Research Council and Science Service. Washington & New York, Infantry Journal and Penguin Books, 1943, 456 pp. (1944) (0)

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