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Delos Donald “Wick” Wickens (October 6, 1909 – April 9, 1988) was an American psychologist, behaviorist, and author. He taught at Ohio State University from 1946 until his retirement in 1980. Wickens discovered the release from proactive inhibition through his research on proactive interference buildup. His analysis of human behavior culminated in his work “Encoding Categories of Words; an Empirical Approach to Meaning,” which remains one of the most widely cited articles in the history of recent psychology. ==Background== Wickens was born on October 6, 1909, in Rochester, New York. He received a BA from Centre College in 1931 followed by an MA in English literature and a PhD in Psychology at the University of North Carolina in 1933. While a graduate student, “Wick,” as he was called by his friends, was employed part-time taking care of laboratory research animals for the Psychology Department, which contributed to his fascination with animal research and the experimental approach toward understanding human and animal behavior. He was married to Carol Dow Wickens, who often helped him with his research, until her death in 1982. Over the years he received a number of honors and awards. These included the American Psychological Foundation’s Distinguished Teaching Award, the highly prestigious Warren Medal from the Society of Experimental Psychologists, a Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of North Carolina, and a Distinguished Research Award from Ohio State University. He was a prolific writer, authoring or coauthoring over 100 experimental or theoretical articles, contributing the section on classical conditioning to the Encyclopedia of Psychology, and was associate editor of the Journal of Experimental Psychology from 1966 to 1973. It is estimated that during his 35 years at OSU he helped over 1,000 graduate students from all fields of psychology, and 79 psychologists completed their PhDs under his direction. Wick died in his sleep on April 9, 1988, in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. He is survived by two sons, both professors of psychology: Christopher, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and Thomas, University of California at Los Angeles.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Delos Wickens」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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