James Birren

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James Birren is affiliated with the following schools: University of California, Los Angeles, Northwestern University, University of Southern California

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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.

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Handbook of the psychology of aging, 3rd ed. (1985) (592)
The Concept and measurement of quality of life in the frail elderly (1991) (485)
Achieving and maintaining cognitive vitality with aging. (2002) (306)
Handbook of Mental Health and Aging (1992) (299)
Behavioral slowing with age: Causes, organization, and consequences. (1980) (285)
Aging and speed of behavior: possible consequences for psychological functioning. (1995) (282)
Emergent Theories of Aging (1988) (260)
Aging and biography : explorations in adult development (1996) (247)
Handbook of Aging and the Individual (1961) (219)
Translations in gerontology--from lab to life. Psychophysiology and speed of response. (1974) (208)
The psychology of aging. (1966) (199)
Age changes in pupil size. (1950) (194)
Analysis of the WAIS subtests in relation to age and education. (1961) (174)
Wisdom: The elements of wisdom: overview and integration (1990) (173)
Handbook of the psychology of aging, 4th ed. (1996) (159)
Research on the psychology of aging: Principles, concepts and theory. (1985) (147)
Encyclopedia of gerontology : age, aging, and the aged (1997) (140)
Human aging: A biological and behavioral study. (1963) (114)
Age changes and cohort difference in personality. (1972) (112)
Wisdom in History. (2005) (107)
Creativity in Adulthood and Old Age: Relations to Intelligence, Sex and Mode of Testing (1985) (104)
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) (88)
Reaction Time as a Function of the Cardiac Cycle in Young Adults (1963) (86)
Psychology of Adult Development and Aging (1983) (83)
Variables affecting creative contributions across the adult life span. (1977) (81)
Encyclopedia of gerontology (2007) (81)
Guiding Autobiography Groups for Older Adults: Exploring the Fabric of Life (1991) (78)
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) (75)
History, concepts, and theory in the psychology of aging (1996) (69)
Speed response as a function of perceptual difficulty and age. (1955) (66)
Toward an experimental psychology of aging. (1970) (65)
Age and Sex Differences in Satisfying Love Relationships across the Adult Life Span (1981) (64)
Age differences in response speed as a function of controlled variations of stimulus conditions: evidence of a general speed factor. (1962) (63)
Aging : scientific perspectives and social issues (1976) (60)
Three – Concepts of Time and Aging in Science (1990) (59)
Age differences in finger, jaw, and foot reaction time to auditory stimuli. (1955) (58)
Aging and technological advances (1985) (54)
The Gifted Group at Mid-Life (1960) (54)
A factorial analysis of the Wechsler-Bellevue Scale given to an elderly population. (1952) (51)
A Brief History of the Psychology of Aging (1961) (51)
One – The Concepts, Models, and History of the Psychology of Aging (1990) (49)
Age differences in backward dichoptic masking. (1975) (49)
The relation of writing speed to age and to the senile psychoses. (1951) (49)
Age Changes in Rate and Level of Visual Dark Adaptation (1950) (49)
CREATIVITY IN ADULTHOOD AND OLD AGE: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY (1982) (46)
Human Development over the Life Span through Education (1973) (45)
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) (43)
The process of aging in the nervous system (1959) (43)
Measurement of change in research on aging: Old and new issues from an individual growth perspective (1996) (41)
Age and Decision Strategies (1969) (41)
Reaction time as a function of age and behavioral predisposition to coronary heart disease. (1973) (40)
Set in relation to age. (1957) (38)
Age Changes in the Factor Structure of Intellectual Abilities in Adulthood and Old Age (1980) (36)
Age and strength. (1947) (36)
Handbook of aging and the individual : psychological and biological aspects (1960) (36)
Adult Development through Guided Autobiography: The Family Context. (1990) (35)
Age changes in the light threshold of the dark adapted eye. (1948) (35)
Aging and slowing of behavior: consequences for cognition and survival. (1991) (35)
The significance of age changes in speed of perception and psychomotor skills. (1956) (33)
Mental Abilities and Psychomotor Responses in Healthy Aged Men. (1963) (33)
Psychological Aspects of Aging (1960) (33)
Autobiographical memory and the narrative self over the life span (2006) (33)
The history of geropsychology. (2001) (31)
Differential decline in the Wechsler-Bellevue subtests in the senile psychoses. (1951) (31)
Relations of Development and Ageing (1965) (30)
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)
Age, response speed, and cardiovascular functions. (1962) (29)
The nature of time: implications for research on aging. (1988) (28)
The effect of salicylate upon pain sensitivity. (1950) (27)
Cognition, Stress, and Aging (1985) (26)
Static equilibrium and vestibular function. (1945) (26)
Interrelations of Mental and Perceptual Tests Given to Healthy Elderly Men. (1963) (25)
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)
Age differences in verbal associations. (1966) (24)
Age and Creativity: Implications for Education and Teachers (1976) (23)
Age, health, and employment (1986) (22)
Rate of addition as a function of difficulty and age (1951) (22)
The aged in cities. (1969) (22)
Aging and Leisure (1961) (22)
Education and aging (1986) (21)
Age and responses to sequences of repetitive and interruptive signals. (1967) (21)
Swimming speed of the albino rat: I. Age and sex differences. (1958) (19)
Pain measurement by the radiant heat method: individual differences in pain sensitivity, the effects of skin temperature, and stimulus duration. (1951) (18)
The measurement of intellectual decline in the senile psychoses. (1951) (18)
Are there sex differences in creativity across the adult life span? (1975) (17)
Decision making and age (1970) (17)
Some factors affecting vocabulary size in later maturity; age, education, and length of institutionalization. (1949) (17)
The relation of problem length in simple addition to time required, probability of success, and age. (1954) (16)
The differential decline of subtest scores of the Wechsler-Bellevue intelligence scale in 60-69-year-old individuals. (1950) (16)
A history of geropsychology in autobiography (2000) (16)
Standardization of two tests of equilibrium: the railwalking test and the ataxiagraph (1945) (15)
Psychological aspects of aging: intellectual functioning. (1968) (15)
Age and Skill: Motor, Intellectual and Social (1969) (15)
Vibratory Sensitivity in the Aged (1947) (15)
Intellectual deterioration in the aged: agreement between the Wechsler-Bellevue and the Babcock-Levy. (1950) (15)
The understanding of death and dying in a life-span perspective. (1993) (13)
The study of lives in progress: Approaches to research on life stories (2002) (12)
Age Changes in Human Abilities: A 28-Year Longitudinal Study. (1976) (12)
Aging and Psychological Adjustment (1958) (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)
A Brief History of the Psychology of Aging, Part II (1961) (11)
Handbook of Ageing and the Individual (1961) (11)
Age differences in continuous word associations measured by speech recordings. (1962) (11)
Health and aging : perspectives and prospects (1988) (10)
Concepts and criteria of mental health and aging. (1981) (10)
Reminiscence, Life Review, and Autobiography: Emergence of a New Era (2013) (10)
Aging, divided attention, and dual-task performance (2020) (10)
Where To Go From Here (1997) (10)
Research on the psychologic aspects of aging. (1963) (10)
Aging and Technological Advances: Introduction (1984) (9)
Standardization of a test of hand strength. (1946) (8)
Chapter X: Aging and Psychological Adjustment (1958) (7)
Editorial: New Models of Aging: Comment on Need and Creative Efforts (1995) (7)
Hayflick-NIH Settlement. (1982) (7)
Fuzzy analysis of older adult consumer attitudes and decision-making styles: socioeconomic differences in fuzziness (1995) (7)
Aging in America: roles for psychology. (1983) (7)
History of Gerontology (2007) (6)
Progress in Research on Aging in the Behavioral and Social Sciences (1980) (6)
Examining the History and Current Status of Aging Theory Introduction (1996) (6)
Using the gift of long life: Psychological implications of the age revolution. (2000) (6)
Susceptibility to seasickness; a questionnaire approach. (1947) (6)
Spiritual Maturity in Psychological Development (1991) (6)
Effects of age on the discrimination of lifted weights. (1959) (6)
A Life-Span Perspective For Education. (1973) (6)
Why study aging (1958) (6)
Toward an Interdisciplinary Approach (1972) (5)
AGE DIFFERENCES IN ASSOCIATIVE BEHAVIOR. (1965) (5)
Introduction to the Study of Human Aging. (1963) (5)
Summary and Interpretations. (1963) (5)
Sociopsychologic studies of the aging process. Increments and decrements in the intellectual status of the aged. (1968) (5)
Where to go from here : discovering your own life's wisdom in the second half of your life (1997) (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)
Creativity, Productivity, and Potentials of the Senior Scholar (1990) (4)
Accuracy of age statements by the elderly. (1950) (4)
Self-Aspect Reconstruction through Guided Autobiography: Exploring Underlying Processes (2014) (4)
Doctoral training in gerontology: an analysis of dissertations on problems of aging in institutions of higher learning in the United States, 1934-1969. (1971) (4)
Rules and reason in the forced retirement of commercial airline pilots at age 60 (1995) (4)
Gifts and talents of elderly people: The persimmon's promise. (2009) (4)
A bibliography of doctoral dissertations on aging from American institutions of higher learning, 1970-1972. (1987) (3)
I have to do it myself. (2000) (3)
Late life dementia. (1989) (3)
Research on aging: a frontier of science and social gain. (1968) (3)
A FOLLOW-UP STUDY OF CARD-SORTING PERFORMANCE IN ELDERLY MEN. (1965) (3)
Age Changes in Mental Abilities (1954) (3)
TRANSFORMATIONAL REMINISCENCE: LIFE STORY WORK By John Kunz and F. G. Soltys (2009) (3)
Handbook of Aging and the Individual: Psychological and Biological Aspects. (1960) (2)
An analysis of doctoral dissertations on aging written in institutions of higher learning in the United States, 1969 to 1975. (1980) (2)
Guided Autobiography's Developmental Exchange: What's in it for Me? (2011) (2)
Age and Fitness Differences in the Effects of Posture and Exercise on Information Processing Speed (1993) (2)
Personality and aging: Modes of coping and the meaning of stress (1995) (2)
Developmental psychology, a life-span approach (1981) (2)
The relation of structural changes of the eye and vitamin A to elevation of the light threshold in later life. (1950) (2)
Age Related Change and the Individual (1981) (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)
A bibliography of doctoral dissertations on aging from American institutions of higher learning, 1969-1971. (1972) (1)
GERONTOLOGY FOR THE 21 ST CENTURY (2006) (1)
Influences on dental defects in naval personnel. (1946) (1)
Light aversion motivation in psychologic studies of aging in rats. (1957) (1)
A bibliography of doctoral dissertations on aging from American institutions of higher learning, 1973-1975. (1976) (1)
Psychological limitations that occur with age. (1956) (1)
Effects of Age, Gender, Activation, Stimulus Degradation and Practice on Attention and Visual Choice Reaction Time (1988) (1)
A bibliography of doctoral dissertations on aging from American institutions of higher learning, 1934-1969. (1971) (1)
A bibliography of doctoral dissertations on aging from American institutions of higher learning, 1971-1973. (1974) (1)
Symposium. Examining the History and Current Status of Aging Theory (1996) (1)
The Relation of stress and age : a selected bibliography (1975) (1)
Aging and Psychological Adjustment: Problem Solving and Motivation (1961) (1)
Time is the Messenger (1992) (1)
BOEING, E. G.: Sensation and Perception in the History of Experimental Psychology. New York, Henry Holt, 1942. (1944) (1)
Health and aging in our society: perspectives on mortality and the emergence of geriatrics. (1979) (1)
A GLANCE AT CEREBRAL BIOLOGY IN THE AGED (1969) (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)
Chapter IV: Aging and Psychological Adjustment: Problem Solving and Motivation (1961) (0)
A view from the social and behavioral sciences. (1987) (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)
GERONTOLOGY; discussion group. (1958) (0)
Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards for 1977 (1973) (0)
The Regulatory Role of the Nervous System in Aging (1971) (0)
Age changes in visual perception and its relation to response latency (1959) (0)
A bibliography of doctoral dissertations on aging from American institutions of higher learning, 1972-1974. (1975) (0)
When the aged, dying patient needs a listener. (1966) (0)
Promoting Mental Health of Older People Through Group Methods: A Practical Guide. (1967) (0)
Contents, Vol. 18, 1975 (1975) (0)
The Age Revolution: Benefits and Concerns (2000) (0)
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE EFFECT ON MEN OF CONTINUOUS VERSUS INTERMITTENT EXPOSURE TO A TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT (1945) (0)
Age differences in choice reaction times to verbal stimuli. (1967) (0)
The Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center and gerontology and geriatrics education. (1980) (0)
Aging Invigorated through Autobiography@@@A History of Geropsychology in Autobiography (2002) (0)
Fifteen Annual Meetings Later (1962) (0)
Memories and adjustment to old age. (1988) (0)
MORGAN, CLIFFORD T.: Physiological Psychology. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1943, 623 pp. $4.00. (1944) (0)
The British May Be a Lap Ahead. (1979) (0)
Robert W. Kleemeier--gerontologist. (1966) (0)
Aging Comes of Age. (1957) (0)
Hayflick-NIH Settlement (1982) (0)
[White House Conference on Aging, 1981. Research in Aging. Report and Executive Summary of the Technical Committee.]. (1981) (0)
PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF AGINGl (1959) (0)
Loving Happily Ever After: Age Differences in Satisfying Love Relationships. (1978) (0)
Title Page / Index / Preface / Introduction (1969) (0)
Research Design and Methods (2005) (0)
RAPPAPORT, DAVID: Emotions and Memory. The Menninger Clinic Monograph Series No. 2. Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins Co., 1943, 282 pp. (1943) (0)
Influences on Dental Defects in Naval Personnel. (1946) (0)
Neurological Basis of Behaviour (1959) (0)
The Clinical Psychiatry of Late Life. (1966) (0)
Understanding Old Age (1953) (0)
Nursing home discharge planning ... a low profile service of growing importance. (1995) (0)
Contributions to the Psychobiology of Aging. (1967) (0)
Nathan W. Shock, PhD. gerontologist. (1978) (0)
How Skills Change as Men Mature. (1959) (0)
Changes in Speed and Timing (1955) (0)
Swedish Pension Plans (1948) (0)
Insight and progress in the psychology of aging. (1968) (0)
Decision making and age : NATO Advanced Study Institute, University of Thessaloniki, August 14-19 (1967) (1969) (0)
Intellectual Capacities, Aging, and Man’s Environment (2018) (0)
Introductory remarks. (1969) (0)

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