Jack Block
Jack Block | |
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| Born | April 28, 1924 |
| Died | January 13, 2010 (aged 85) |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | Psychologist, academic |
Jacob "Jack" Block (April 28, 1924 – January 13, 2010)
Block was born in
Block Study
His most renowned body of work, undertaken primarily with his wife, was a longitudinal study on a cohort of more than 100
One of Block's studies drew particular notice in the news media. Published in The Journal of Research in Personality in 2006, it found that subjects who at 3 years old had seemed thin-skinned, rigid, inhibited and vulnerable tended at 23 to be political conservatives. On the other hand, 3-year-olds characterized as self-reliant, energetic, somewhat dominating and resilient were inclined to become liberals.
Book publications
- "The Q-Sort Method in Personality Assessment and Psychiatric Research", 1961
- "The Challenge of Response Sets", 1965
- Lives Through Time, 1971
- Personality as an Affect-Processing System, 2002
- The Q-Sort in Character Appraisal, 2008
References
- ^ Fox, Margalit (February 6, 2010). "Jack Block, Who Studied Young Children Into Adulthood, Dies at 85". The New York Times. Retrieved February 7, 2010.
- ^ "Venturing a 30-Year Longitudinal Study", Block & Block 2006; see also one of the participants' book, Data Baby: My Life in a Psychological Experiment, Susannah Breslin 2023 (ISBN 9780306926006)
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