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Paul E. Meehl
American psychologist (1920-2003) · United States · On the map · Academics · Died at 83
Paul Everett Meehl was an American clinical psychologist. He was the Hathaway and Regents' Professor of Psychology at the University of Minnesota, and past president of the American Psychological Association.
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Paul Meehl's dominant schizogene theory of schizophrenia: Proposed effects across the human organism and the environment are displayed. CNS = central nervous system. (Adapted from Meehl 1962, Meehl 1989b, Meehl 1990b.)![Depiction of Coherent Cut Kinetics procedures for identifying a latent "taxon" with a 30% base rate.[46] The "hitmax" interval distinguishing between the two categorical groups is shown with vertical dotted lines.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Taxometrics_with_Coherent_Cut_Kinetics.png/1280px-Taxometrics_with_Coherent_Cut_Kinetics.png)
Depiction of Coherent Cut Kinetics procedures for identifying a latent "taxon" with a 30% base rate.[46] The "hitmax" interval distinguishing between the two categorical groups is shown with vertical dotted lines.Awards
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A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Meehl as the 74th most cited psychologist of the 20th century, in a tie with Eleanor J. Gibson. Throughout his nearly 60-year career, Meehl made seminal contributions to psychology, including empirical studies and theoretical accounts of construct validity, schizophrenia etiology, psychological assessment, behavioral prediction, metascience, and philosophy of science.
