Donald Winslow Fiske (August 27, 1916 – April 6, 2003) was an American psychologist.

Early life and education

Fiske was born in

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. He grew up in

Medford, Massachusetts Medford is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. At the time of the 2020 United States census, Medford's population was 59,659. It is home to Tufts University, which has its campus on both sides of the Medford and Somervill ...

. He graduated from

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

and, in 1948, earned a PhD from the

University of Michigan The University of Michigan (U-M, U of M, or Michigan) is a public university, public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest institution of higher education in the state. The University of Mi ...

Career

Fiske was a professor of psychology at the

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. Fiske specialized in methodological issues in

personality Personality is any person's collection of interrelated behavioral, cognitive, and emotional patterns that comprise a person’s unique adjustment to life. These interrelated patterns are relatively stable, but can change over long time per ...

, ability, and trait research. He was, with Donald T. Campbell, co-author of a seminal paper regarding the multitrait-multimethod approach to evaluating

construct validity Construct validity concerns how well a set of indicators represent or reflect a concept that is not directly measurable. ''Construct validation'' is the accumulation of evidence to support the interpretation of what a measure reflects.Polit DF Bec ...

.Campbell, D. T., & Fiske, D. W. (1959). "Convergent and discriminant validation by the multitrait-multimethod matrix". ''Psychological Bulletin'', 56, 81-105.

Personal life and death

Fiske had a wife, Barbara Page, a son,

Alan Fiske Alan Page Fiske (born 1947) is an American professor of anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, known for studying the nature of human relationships and cross-cultural variations between them. Early life and education Fiske was ...

(who became a professor of anthropology at the

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), and a daughter,

Susan Fiske Susan Tufts Fiske (born August 19, 1952) is an American psychologist who served as the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs in the Department of Psychology at Princeton University. She is a social psychologist known for her wo ...

(who became a professor of Psychology and Public Affairs at

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...

). He resided in

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, where he died on April 6, 2003.

References

1916 births 2003 deaths People from Lincoln, Nebraska Harvard University alumni University of Michigan alumni University of Chicago faculty 20th-century American psychologists People from Medford, Massachusetts Quantitative psychologists Presidents of the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology {{psychologist-stub