Curriculum VitaeJack Block

Office Address: Department of Psychology

Tolman Hall

University of California

Berkeley, California 94720-1650

510-215-7600 or 642-0405; Fax: 510-215-7665

jblock@socrates.berkeley.edu

Born: Brooklyn, New York

April 28, 1924

Education: Brooklyn College. B.A., 1945

University of Wisconsin. M.A., 1946

Stanford University. Ph.D., 1950

Major field of study: Clinical Psychology

Minor fields of study: Sociology and Physiology

Professional Experience:

Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley. Associate Professor, 1957-62; Professor, 1962-1991; Professor Emeritus, 1991 - to date.

Institute of Human Development, University of California, Berkeley. Research Psychologist, 1960-65; 1994-to date.

University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia. Visiting Professor, May-July 1983.

Yale-Harvard-Florence Project, Florence, Italy. Research Associate, 1972-73.

Institute for Social Research, Oslo, Norway. Research Associate, 1963-64.

Institute of Personality Assessment and Research, University of California, Berkeley. Assistant to Associate Research Psychologist, 1952-57.

Social Science Research Council Summer Institute on Computer Simulation of Cognitive Processes, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, 1958.

Social Science Research Council Summer Institute on Mathematics for the Social Sciences, Stanford University, 1955.

Langley Porter Clinic, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, California. Assistant Research Psychologist, 1950-54.

Stanford Child Guidance Clinic, Stanford University. Trainee in Clinical-Child Psychology, 1948-50.

Palo Alto Veterans Administration Hospital, Palo Alto, California. Clinical Psychology Intern, 1948-50.

Mendota Veterans Administration Hospital, Mendota, Wisconsin. Clinical Psychology Intern, 1946-47.

The Henry Murray Research Center, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Visiting Scholar, December 1986-May 1987.

Research Experience:

University of California, San Francisco. Research on Communication Patterns and Psychotherapy (with Jurgen Ruesch and Gregory Bateson), 1950-53.

Palo Alto Medical Research Foundation. "An Investigation of the Parents of Schizophrenic Children" (with Don D. Jackson, Jeanne H. Block, and Virginia Patterson) NIH Grant M-719, 1954-55.

University of California, Berkeley. Institute of Personality Assessment and Research program research on the assessment of effective functioning, the assessment of medical students, and the assessment of creative writers, 1952-57.

University of California, Berkeley. Institute of Personality Assessment and Research. NIH research grant for the study of affective responsiveness and affective appropriateness, 1955-57.

University of California, Berkeley. Institute of Human Development and the Psychology Department. NIH research grants for the longitudinal study of personality development and the antecedents of character, 1960-69. NSF research grant for conduting an assessment of loingitudinally followed subjects as they reach age 30, 1995-1998.

University of California, Berkeley. Department of Psychology. NIMH research grant MH-16080 for a longitudinal study of ego and cognitive development in young children (with Jeanne H. Block), 1968-1973; renewed 1973-1977; renewed 1977-1980; renewed 1980-1986; renewed 1986-1991: renewed 1993-1999.

University of California, Berkeley. Department of Psychology. NIH Maternal and Child Health Research grant to study survival skills in young children (with Jeanne H. Block and Ditsa Kafry), 1977-1980.

University of California, Berkeley. Department of Psychology. Grant from the W. T. Grant Foundation for the study of parent-child interaction (with Jeanne H. Block), 1979-80. A second grant from the W. T. Grant Foundation was awarded for 1986-1987.

Professional Society Memberships:

American Psychological Association

American Psychological Society

Society for Research in Child Development

International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development

Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues

Psychometric Society

European Association of Personality Psychology

Society for Life History Research

Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychologists

Sigma Xi

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Professional Offices:

APA Council Representative, Division 7, American Psychological

Association, 1977-80.

Member, Committee on Personality, Division 8, APA, 1976-1979.

President, Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology, 1981.

Special Honors and Awards:

Buckel Fellow, Stanford University, 1948.

Social Science Research Council Summer Fellow, 1954 and 1958.

Foundation Fund for Research in Psychiatry Fellowship, 1960.

National Institute of Mental Health Special Research Fellowship,

1963-64.

Appleton-Century-Crofts Award for the book, The Challenge of Response Sets, 1965.

Hofheimer Prize for Research, American Psychiatric Association.

Honorable mention for the book, Lives Through Time, 1971.

Phillips Visitor, Haverford College, March 1976.

Elected to Fellow Status, American Psychological Association

(Fellow in Divisions 1, 5, 7, 8, and 9).

James McKeen Cattell Fellow, 1978 - 1979.

Scholar-in-Residence, Rockefeller Foundation Study Center, Bellagio, Italy, May 1979.

Recipient of a succession of NIMH and other research grants, 1955 - continuing.

Henry A. Murray Award for 1985, Division of Personality and Social Psychology, American Psychological Association.

Humphrey Fellowship, Ben-Gurion University, Israel, December 1987.

G. Stanley Hall Award for 1990, Division of Developmental Psychology, American Psychological Association.

Social Policy Award for 1990-1992 of the Society for Research on Adolescence for my research on drug usage.

Bruno Klopfer Award of the Society for Personality Assessment, 1998 for advancing the field of personality assessment.

Saul B. Sells Award for lifetime achievement of the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology, 1998.

Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Professional Activities (partial accounting only, since 1970):

Editorial Board, Multivariate Experimental Psychology, 1976-1980; Chairman, 1978-79.

Editorships refused: Personality Section of Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1980 and 1985; Journal of Research in Personality, 1978.

Nominations refused: for President, Western Psychological Association, 1987; for President, Division 8 (Personality and Social Psychology), American Psychological Association, 1988; Division 5 (Psychometric Society), American Psychological Association, 1991.

Consulting Editor, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1970-75, 1987 - 1991; Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1977 - 1983?; Psychological Review, 1983 - 1988?; Psychosomatic Medicine, 1966-72; Psychological Inquiry, 1990 - continuing; Journal of Research on Adolescence, 1990 - continuing; Journal of Research on Personality, 1994-continuing.

Manuscript Reviewer, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (all three sections), Psychosomatic Medicine, Psychological Review, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Child Development, Psychometrika, Developmental Psychology, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, Journal of Educational Psychology, Psychological Bulletin, Review of Educational Research, American Psychologist, Perceptual and Motor Skills, Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, Multivariate Behavioral Research, Journal of Research in Personality, American Journal of Education, Journal of Personality, Psychological Bulletin, Journal of Experimental Psychology, Journal of Research on Adolescence, Psychological Inquiry; International Journal of Behavioral Development; Psychological Science.

Research Review Activities (partial accounting):

Member, National Institute of Mental Health Personality and Cognition Research Review Committee, 1966-70.

Ad Hoc Research Reviewer, National Science Foundation, The Grant Foundation, Canadian Research Council, Foundation for Child Development, NIMH Clinical Projects Research Review Committee, NIMH Clinical Research Branch, others.

Research Consultant: To various research projects, both local and nation-wide. (Partial listing - University of Minnesota; SUNY at Stonybrook; Children's Hospital Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts; Los Angeles Neuropsychiatric Clinic, University of California Medical School, Los Angeles, California; University of Denver; US Forest Service; United Nations; Rand Corporation; MacArthur Foundation), William T. Grant Foundation.

Chairman, National Institute of Mental Health Cognition, Emotion and Personality Research Review Committee, 1982 - 1985.

Member, ADAMHA Planning Committee for the Conference on Statistical Concepts and Methods in Longitudinal Studies, 1981.

Special Program Development Consultant, NIMH Center for the Study of Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 1981.

Member, Science Advisory Committee, Henry Murray Research Center for the Study of Lives, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1990-continuing.

Publications

Books and Tests

Block, J. (1961). The Q-Sort Method in Personality Assessment and Psychiatric Research. Springfield, Illinois: C.C. Thomas. (Reprinted by Consulting Psychologists Press, Palo Alto, California in 1978).

Block, J. (1962). The California Q-set. Palo Alto, California: Consulting Psychologists Press.

Block, J. (1965). The Challenge of Response Sets: Unconfounding Meaning, Acquiescence and Social Desirability in the MMPI. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts.

Block, J. (1971). Lives through time. Berkeley, California: Bancroft Books.

Block, J. & Block, J. H. (1980). The California Child Q-set. Palo Alto, California: Consulting Psychologists Press.

Olweus, D., Block, J., & Radke-Yarrow, M. (Eds.) (1986). Development of antisocial and prosocial behavior: Research, theories, and issues. New York: Academic Press, 1986.

Block, J. (1990). The California Q-set (CAQ-90, revised form). Palo Alto, California: Consulting Psychologists Press.

Block, J. (2002). Personality as an affect-processing system. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Articles in Journals and Chapters in Books

Block, J., Levine, L., & McNemar, Q. (1951). Testing for the existence of psychometric patterns. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 46, 356-359.

Block, J., & Block, J. H. (1951). An investigation of the relationship between intolerance of ambiguity and ethnocentrism. Journal of Personality, 19, 303-311.

Block, J. H., & Block, J. (1952). An interpersonal experiment on reactions to authority. Human Relations, 5, 91-98.

Ruesch, J., Block, J. & Bennett, L. (1953). The assessment of communication: I. A method for the analysis of social interaction. Journal of Psychology, 35, 59-80.

Block, J. (1952). The assessment of communication: II. Role variations as a function of interactional context. Journal of Personality, 21, 272-286.

Block, J., & Bennett, L. (1955). The assessment of communication. III. Perceptions and transmission as a function of the social situation. Human Relations, 8, 317-325.

Block, J., & Thomas, H. (1955). Is satisfaction with self a measure of adjustment? Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 5l, 254-259.

Block, J., & Petersen, P. (1955). Some personality correlates of confidence, caution and speed in a decision situation. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 51, 34-41.

Block, J. (1955). Personality characteristics associated with fathers' attitudes toward child rearing. Child Development, 26, 41-48.

Block, J. (1955). The difference between Q and R. Psychological Review, 62, 356-358.

Block, J. (1956). A comparison of the forced and unforced Q-sorting procedures. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 16, 481-493.

Block, J. (1957). A comparison between ipsative and normative ratings of personality. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 54, 50-54.

Block, J., & Baker, B. O. (1957). Accuracy of interpersonal prediction as a function of judge and object characteristics. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 54, 37-43.

Block, J. (1957). A study of affective responsiveness in a lie-detection situation. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 55, 11-15.

Block, J. (1957). Studies in the phenomenology of emotion. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 54, 358-363.

Block, J. (1958). An unprofitable application of the semantic differential. Journal of Consulting Psychology, 22, 235-236.

Jackson, D., Block, J., Block, J. H., & Patterson, V. (1958). Psychiatrists' conceptions of schizophrenic parents. Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry, 79, 448-459.

Block, J. H., Patterson, V., Block, J., & Jackson, D. (1958). A study of the parents of schizophrenic and neurotic children. Psychiatry, 21, 387-397.

Block, J., & Chang, J. (1960). A study of identification in male homosexuals. Journal of Consulting Psychology, 24, 307-310.

Block, J. (1960). Commonality in word association and personality. Psychological Reports, 7, 332.

Block, J. (1960). On the number of significant findings to be expected by chance. Psychometrika, 25, 369-380.

Patterson, V., Block, J. H., Block, J., & Jackson, D. (1960). The relation between intention to conceive and symptoms during pregnancy. Psychosomatic Medicine, 22, 373-376.

Block, J. (1961). A perspective on the MacAndrew-Geertsma reanalysis. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 17, 89-90.

Block, J. (1961). Ego identity, role variability, and adjustment. Journal of Consulting Psychology, 25, 392-397.

Block, J. (1961). Ego strength and conflict discrimination: A failure to replicate. Journal of Consulting Psychology, 25, 551-552.

Block, J. (1961). Review of M. Demartino (Ed.), Dreams and Personality Dynamics. American Journal of Psychology, 74, 162.

Block, J. (1962). Measurement dimensions in a palmar resistance situation. Psychological Reports, 11, 319-331.

Block, J. (1962). Measuring personality change. In H. H. Strupp & L. Luborsky (Eds.), Research in Psychotherapy, (Vol. II, pp. 271-272). Washington, D. C.: American Psychological Association.

Block, J. (1962). Some differences between the concepts of social desirability and adjustment. Journal of Consulting Psychology, 26, 527-530.

Block, J. (1963). The equivalence of measures and the correction for attenuation. Psychological Bulletin, 60, 152-156.

Block, J., & Turula, E. (1963). Identification, ego control and adjustment. Child Development, 34, 945-954.

Block, J. (1964). Recognizing attenuation effects in the strategy of research. Psychological Bulletin, 62, 214-216.

Moyles, C., Tuddenham, R., & Block, J. (1965). Simplicity/ complexity or symmetry/asymmetry? A reanalysis of the Barron-Welsh Art Scale. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 20, 685-690.

Block, J. (1967). Remarks on Jackson's "Review" of Block's Challenge of Response Sets. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 27, 499-502.

Block, J. (1968). Personality measurement. International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, Vol. 12, (pp.30-37). New York: The Macmillan Company.

Block, J. (1968). Some reasons for the apparent inconsistency of personality. Psychological Bulletin, 70, 210-212.

Block, J. (1968). Review of I. A. Berg (Ed.), Response Set in Personality Assessment. Contemporary Psychology, 13, 90-92.

Siegelman, E., & Block, J. (1969). Two parallel scalable sets of Piagetian tasks. Child Development, 40, 951-956.

Block, J. (1970). Amendation to Cohen's cautions regarding the measurement of profile similarity. Psychological Bulletin, 73, 307-308.

Siegelman, E., Block, J., Block, J. H., & von der Lippe, A. (1970). Antecedents of optimal psychological adjustment. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 35, 283-289.

Block, J. (1970). Review of A. Mehrabian, An Analysis of Personality Theories. Contemporary Psychology, 15, 4.

Block, J. (1971). On further conjectures regarding acquiescence. Psychological Bulletin, 76, 205-210.

Block, J., Block, J. H., Siegelman, E., & von der Lippe, A. (1971). Optimal psychological adjustment: Response to Miller's and Bronfenbrenner's discussions. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 36, 325-328.

Block, J. (1972). The shifting definitions of acquiescence. Psychological Bulletin, 78, 10-12.

Block, J., von der Lippe, A., & Block, J. H. (1973). Sex-role and socialization patterns: Some personality concomitants and environmental antecedents. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 41, 321-341.

Patterson, V., Block, J. H., & Block, J. (1973). Attitudinal and developmental data from parents of disturbed and normal children. In S. A. Szurek & I. N. Berlin (Eds.), Clinical Studies in Childhood Psychoses (pp. 450-463). New York: Brunner Mazel.

Block, J., Block, J. H., & Harrington, D. M. (1974). Some misgivings about the Matching Familiar Figures Test as a measure of reflection-impulsivity. Developmental Psychology, 10, 611-632.

Block, J., Block, J. H., & Harrington, D. M. (1975). Comment on the Kagan-Messer reply. Developmental Psychology, 11, 249-252.

Werner, P. D., & Block, J. (1975). Sex differences in the eyes of expert personality assessors: Unwarranted conclusions. Journal of Personality Assessment, 39, 110-113.

Block, J. (1975). Change and sameness in personality development: Unwarranted conclusions. International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 6, 277-281.

Block, J. (1976). Review of R. Coles, The Mind's Fate: Ways of Seeing Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis. Contemporary Psychology, 21, 507.

Block, J. (1977). Advancing the psychology of personality: Paradigmatic shift or improving the quality of research? In D. Magnusson & N. S. Endler (Eds.), Psychology at the Crossroads: Current Issues in Interactional Psychology (pp. 37-63). Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Block, J. H., Block, J., & Folkman, W. S. (1978). Fire and Children: Learning survival skills. United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service Research Paper PSW-119. (Also in: Resources in Education, 1978, February. (Abstract No. 144 720)

Block, J. (1977). An illusory interpretation of the first factor of the MMPI. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 45, 930-935.

Block, J. (1977). Correlational bias in observer ratings: Another perspective on the Berman-Kenny study. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 35, 870-880.

Block, J. (1977). The P-scale and psychosis: Continued concerns. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 86, 431-434.

Block, J. (1977). The Eysencks and psychoticism. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 86, 653-654.

Block, J. & Block, J. H. (1977). The developmental continuity of ego control and ego resiliency: Some accomplishments and some problems. Resources in Education, December. (Abstract No. 142274)

Harrington, D. M., Block, J. H., & Block, J. (1978). Intolerance of ambiguity in preschool children: Psychometric considerations, behavioral manifestations and parental correlates. Developmental Psychology, 4, 247-256.

Block, J. (1978). Test review of H. J. Eysenck & B. G. Eysenck, The Eysenck Personality Questionnaire. In O. Buros (Ed.), The Eighth Mental Measurements Yearbook (pp.805-809). New Jersey: The Gryphon Press.

Block, J. (1978). Claridge and Birchall, different forms of the P Scale, and dependable moderators. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 87, 669-672.

Block, J. (1978). Review of G. Vaillant, Adaptation to life. Contemporary Psychology, 23, 538-539.

Block, J., Weiss, D. S., & Thorne, A. (1979). How relevant is a semantic similarity interpretation of personality ratings? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 37, 1055-1074.

Block, J. H., & Block, J. (1980). The role of ego-control and ego-resiliency in the organization of behavior. In W. A. Collins (Ed.), The Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology (Vol. 13, pp. 39-101). Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (Wiley).

Buss, D. M., Block, J. H., & Block, J. (1980). Preschool activity level: Personality correlates and developmental implications. Child Development, 51, 401-408.

Block, J. (1980). From infancy to adulthood: A clarification. Child Development, 51, 622-623.

Block, J. (1981). Some enduring and consequential structures of personality. In A. I. Rabin (Ed.), Further explorations in personality (pp. 27-43). New York: Wiley.

Block, J., & Block, J. H. (1981). Studying situational dimensions: A grand perspective and some limited empiricism. In D. M. Magnusson (Ed.), Toward a psychology of situations: An interactional perspective (pp. 85-103). Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Block, J., Buss, D. M., Block, J. H., & Gjerde, P. (1981). The cognitive style of breadth of categorization: The longitudinal consistency of personality correlates. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 40, 770-779.

Block, J. H., Block, J., & Morrison, A. (1981). Parental agreement-disagreement on child rearing orientations and gender-related personality correlates in children. Child Development, 52, 965-974.

Block, J. (1981). Review of J. Loevinger, Scientific Ways in the Study of Ego Development. Contemporary Psychology, 26, 245-246.

Block, J. (1981). Review of O.G. Brim, Jr. & J. Kagan (Eds.), Constancy and Change in Human Development. Contemporary Psychology, 26, 746-750.

Block, J. (1982). Assimilation, accommodation, and the dynamics of personality development. Child Development, 53, 281-295.

Block, J., & Ozer, D. J. (1982). Two types of psychologists: Remarks on the Mendelsohn, Weiss and Feimer contribution. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 42, 1171-1181.

Funder, D. C., Block, J. H., & Block, J. (1983). Delay of gratification: Some longitudinal personality correlates. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 44, 1198-1213.

Harrington, D. M., Block, J., & Block, J. H. (1983). Predicting creativity in preadolescence from divergent thinking in early childhood. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 45, 609-623.

Block, J., & Lanning, K. (1984). Attribution therapy requestioned: A secondary analysis of the Wilson-Linville study. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 46, 705-708.

Block, J. H., & Block, J. (1984). A longitudinal study of personality and cognitive development. In S. Mednick, M. Harway, & K. M. Finello (Eds.), Handbook of longitudinal research, Vol. 1. Birth and childhood cohorts (pp. 328-352). New York: Praeger Press.

Keyes, S., & Block, J. (1984). Prevalence and patterns of substance use among early adolescents. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 13, 1-14.

Roberts, G. C., Block, J. H., & Block, J. (1984). Continuity and change in parents' child rearing practices. Child Development, 55, 586-597.

Gjerde, P., Block, J., & Block,J. H. (1985). The longitudinal consistency of Matching Familiar Figures Test performance from early childhood to preadolescence. Developmental Psychology, 21, 262-271.

Block, J., & Gjerde, P. F. (1986). Distinguishing between antisocial behavior and undercontrol. In D. Olweus, J. Block, & M. Radke-Yarrow (Eds.), Development of antisocial and prosocial behavior: Research, theories, and issues (pp. 177-206). New York: Academic Press.

Block, J. H., Block, J., & Gjerde, P. F. (1986). The personality of children prior to divorce: A prospective study. Child Development, 57, 827-840.

Gjerde, P. F., Block, J., & Block, J. H. (1986). Egocentrism and ego-resiliency: Personality characteristics associated with perspective-taking from early childhood to adolescence. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 51, 423-434.

Olweus, D., Block, J., & Radke-Yarrow, M. (1986). Introduction. In D. Olweus, J. Block, & M. Radke-Yarrow (Eds.), Development of antisocial and prosocial behavior: Research, theories, and issues (pp. 1-9). New York: Academic Press.

Block, J., Gjerde, P.F., & Block, J. H. (1986). Continuity and transformation in the psychological meaning of category breadth. Developmental Psychology, 22, 832-840.

Block, J., Gjerde, P., & Block, J. H. (1986). More misgivings about the Matching Familiar Figures Test as a measure of reflection-impulsivity: Absence of construct validity in preadolescence. Developmental Psychology, 22, 820-831.

Block, J., & Funder, D. C. (1986). Social roles and social perception: Individual differences in attribution and "error." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 51, 1200-1207.

Harrington, D. M., Block, J. H., & Block, J. (1987). Testing aspects of Carl Rogers' theory of creative environments: Child-rearing antecedents of creative potential in young adolescents. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 52, 851-860.

Block, J. (1987). Misgivings about the Matching Familiar Figures Test: Premature or overdue? Developmental Psychology, 23, 740-741.

Block, J., Block, J. H., & Gjerde, P. F. (1988). Parental functioning and the home environment in families of divorce: Prospective and concurrent analyses. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 27, 207-213.

Block, J., Block, J. H., & Keyes, S. (1988). Longitudinally foretelling drug usage in adolescence: Early childhood personality and environmental precursors. Child Development, 59, 336-355.

Vaughn, B. E., Block, J. H., & Block, J. (1988). Parental agreement on child-rearing during early childhood and the psychological characteristics of adolescents. Child Development, 59, 1029-1033.

Gjerde, P. F., & Block, J. (1988). Depressive symptomatology and personality during late adolescence: Gender differences in the externalization-internalization of symptom expression. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 97, 475-486.

Block, J. (1989). A critique of the Act Frequency Approach to personality. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 56, 234-245.

Funder, D. C., & Block, J. (1989). The role of ego-control, ego-resiliency, and IQ in delay of gratification in adolescence. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 57, 1041-1050.

Shedler, J., & Block, J. (1990). Adolescent drug use and psychological health: A longitudinal inquiry. American Psychologist, 45, 612-630).

Block, J. (1990). Review of E. Mavis Hetherington, Richard M. Lerner, & Marion Perlmutter (Eds.), Child Development in Life-Span Perspective. Contemporary Psychology. 35, 672-674.

Block, J. (1990). More remarks on social desirability. American Psychologist, 45, 1076-1077.

Block, J., & Gjerde, P. F. (1990). Depressive symptomatology in late adolescence: A longitudinal perspective on personality antecedents. In J. E. Rolf, A. Masten, D. Cicchetti, K. Neuchterlein, & S. Weintraub (Eds.), Risk and protective factors in the development of psychopathology (pp. 334-360). New York: Cambridge University Press.

Block, J. (1990). Biography of Jeanne Humphrey Block. In A. N. O'Connell & N. F. Russo (Eds.), Women in Psychology (pp. 40-48). New York: Greenwood Press.

Block, J. (1990). Review of Michael Rutter (Ed.), Studies of psychosocial risk: The power of longitudinal data. Human Development, 33, 321-324.

Kogan, N. & Block, J. (1991). Field dependence-independence from early childhood through adolescence: Personality and socialization aspects. In S. Wapner & J. Demick (Eds.) Bio-psycho-social factors in the field dependence-independence cognitive style across the life span (pp. 177-207). Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Gjerde, P. F., Block, J., & Block, J. H. (1991). Preadolescent antecedents of depressive symptomatology at age 18: A prospective study. Journal of Youth and Adolescence. 1, 215-230.

Block, J., Gjerde, P. F., & Block, J. H. (1991). Personality antecedents of depressive tendencies in 18-year-olds: A prospective study. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 60, 726-738.

Gjerde, P. F., Block, J., & Block, J. H. (1991). The pre-school family context of 18-year-olds with depressive symptoms: A prospective study. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 1, 63-91.

Caspi, A., Block, J., Block, J. H., Klopp, B., Lynam, D., Moffitt, T. E., & Stouthamer-Loeber, M. (1992). A "common-language" version of the California Child Q-set for personality assessment. Psychological Assessment, 4, 512-523.

Block, J. (1993). Studying personality the long way. In D. C. Funder, R. Parke, R., C. Tomlinson-Keasy, & K. Widaman (Eds.), Studying lives through time: Approaches to personality and development (pp. 9-41). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Block, J. & Robins, R. W. (1993). A longitudinal study of consistency and change in self-esteem from early adolescence to early adulthood. Child Development, 94, 909-923.

Block, J. (1993). Paradox lost. Psychological Inquiry, 4, 272-273.

Westenberg, M., & Block, J. (1993). Ego development and individual differences in personality. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 65, 792-800.

Colvin, C. R. & Block, J. (1994). Do positive illusions foster mental health? An evaluation of the Taylor and Brown formulation. Psychological Bulletin, 116, 3-20.

Block, J., & Colvin, C. R. (1994). Positive illusions and wellbeing: Separating fiction from fact. Psychological Bulletin, 116, 28.

Block, J. (1995). A contrarian view of the five-factor approach to personality description. Pychological Bulletin, 117, 187-215.

Block, J. (1995). Going beyond the five factors given: Rejoinder to Costa and McCrae and to Goldberg and Saucier. Psychological Bulletin, 117, 226-229.

Samuels, C. A., & Block, J. (1995). Eye color and behavioral inhibition. Journal of Research in Personality, 29, 139-144.

Block, J. (1995). Interesting questions. Addiction, 90, 764-765.

Colvin, C. R., Block, J., & Funder, D. C. (1995). Overly-positive self evaluations and personality: Negative implications for mental health. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 68, 1152-1162.

Block, J. (1995). On the relation between IQ, impulsivity, and delinquency: Remarks on the Lynam, Moffitt, and Stouthamer-Loeber interpretation. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 104, 395-398.

Block, J. (1996). Some jangly remarks on Baumeister and Heatherton. Psychological Inquiry, 7, 28-32.

Block, J., & Kremen, A. (1996). IQ and Ego-resiliency: Clarifying their conceptual and empirical linkage and separateness. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 70, 349-361.

Gjerde, P. F., & Block, J. (1996). A developmental perspective on depressive symptoms in adolescence: Gender differences in autocentric-allocentric modes of impulse regulation. In D. Cicchetti & S. L. Toth (Eds.), Adolescence, Opportunities, and Challenges: Rochester Symposium on Developmental Psychopathology (Vol. 7)(pp. 167-196). Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press.

Colvin, C. R., Block, J., & Funder, D. C. (1996). Psychometric truths in the absence of psychological meaning: A reply to Zuckerman and Knee. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 70, 1252-1255.

Block, J., & Kogan, N. (1998). Parental teaching strategies and children’s cognitive style. International Journal of Educational Research, 29, 187-204.

Cramer, P., & Block, J. (1998). Preschool antecedents of defense mechanism use in young adults: A longitudinal study. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 159-169.

Kremen, A. M., & Block, J. (1998). The roots of ego control. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75, 1062-1075.

Block, J. (1999). Regarding "A person-centered approach to development. In (F. E. Weinert & W. Schneider (Eds.). Individual development from 3 to 12: Findings from the Munich longitudinal study, (pp. 320-323). New York: Cambridge University Press.

Block, J. (2000). Three tasks for personality psychology. In L. R. Bergman, R. B. Cairns, L. G. Nilsson, & L. Nystedt (Eds.). Developmental science and the holistic approach, (pp. 155-164). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Block, J. (2001). Millennial contrarianism. Journal of Research in Personality, 35, 98-107.

Onishi, M., Gjerde, P. F., & Block, J. (2001). Personality implications of romantic attachment patterns in young adults: A multi-method, multi-informant study. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 27, 1097-1110.

Block, J. (2002). Longitudinal change and regression toward the mean. Child Development.

Kremen, A. M, & Block, J. (2002). Absorption: Construct explication by Q-sort assessments of personality. Journal of Research in Personality, 36, 252-259.

Cramer, P., & Block, J. Defense mechanisms and psychopathology. Manuscript submitted for publication.

Block, J. Societal and conceptual variables risk and preventive factors, and the provenance of resiliency. Manuscript submitted for publication.

Block, J., Franz, C., & Kremen, A. M. (1997). Continuity and change in self-percepts: From preadolescence through early and late adolescence to young adulthood. Manuscript in preparation.

Block, J., & Franz, C. Trajectories of drug use from adolescence to young adulthood. Manuscript in preparation.

Block, J. & Watson, D. The Stroop effect and its relations to ego-control and ego-resilience in adolescence. Manuscript in preparation.

Block, J., & Shedler, J. (1988). Some relations between personality, blood pressure, and heart rate. Unpublished manuscript, University of California, Berkeley.

Ozer, D. J., & Block, J. (1988). Personality and IQ change from childhood to adolescence. Unpublished manuscript, University of California, Berkeley.

Gjerde, P.F., Block, J., & Block, J.H. (1988). Perceptions of consistent upbringing in adolescence: Familial and personality concomitants of congruent socialization. Unpublished manuscript, University of California, Berkeley.

Roberts, G. C., Block, J. H., & Block, J. (1984). Sex differentiation in socialization practices across time. Unpublished manuscript, University of California, Berkeley.

Block, J. H., Block, J., & Eaton, D. (1985). A longitudinal perspective on the meaning of field dependence-independence. Unpublished manuscript, University of California, Berkeley.

Block, J., Block, J. H., & Eaton, D. (1985). The longitudinal consistency of activity level from nursery school to adolescence. Unpublished manuscript, University of California, Berkeley.

Block, J. H., Block, J., Eaton, D. (1985)). A longitudinal perspective on the relationship between field dependence-independence and cognitive restructuring ability. Unpublished manuscript, University of California, Berkeley.

Harrington, D. M., Block, J. H., & Block, J. (1985). Environmental antecedents of creativity at age 11 years: Parents' preschool child-rearing attitudes and practices, parent-child interactions, and early home environments. Unpublished manuscript, University of California, Berkeley.

Block, J., & Block, J. H. Parental and personality antecedents of early menarche? Unpublished manuscript..

Block, J. Ego-resiliency through time: Antecedents and ramifications. Manuscript available.

Other Publications

Block, J. (1950). An experimental investigation of the construct of ego control. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Stanford University, Stanford, California.

Block, J. & Bailey, D. (May, 1955). Q-sort item analysis of a number of MMPI scales. Technical Memorandum OERL-TM-55-7. Officer Education Research Laboratory, Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Alabama.

Block, J. & Gough, H. G. (May 1955). An application of the Q-sort technique to the California Psychological Inventory. Technical Memorandum OERL-TM-55-8. Officer Education Research Laboratory, Air Force Personnel and Training Research Center, Air Research and Development Command, Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Alabama, pp. V-27.

Block, J. & Petersen, P. (May, 1955). Q-sort item analysis of a number of Strong Vocational Interest Inventory Scales. Technical Memorandum OERL-TM-55-9. Officer Education Research Laboratory, Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Alabama.

MacKinnon, D. W., Crutchfield, R. S., Barron, F., Block, J., Gough, H. G., & Harris, R. E. (April, 1958). An assessment study of Air Force officers. Part I. Design of the study and description of the variables. Technical Report WADC-TR-58-91 (I), ASTIA Document No. AD 151 040. Wright Air Development Center, Personnel Laboratory, Lackland Air Force Base, Texas.

Barron, F., Block, J., MacKinnon, D. W., & Woodworth, D. G. (December, 1958). An assessment study of Air Force officers. Part III. Assessment correlates of criteria of officer effectiveness. Technical Report WADC-TR-58-91 (III), ASTIA Document No. AD 210 218. Wright Air Development Center, Personnel Laboratory, Lackland Air Force Base, Texas.

Block, J. & Krasnow, E. (1969). RANCOR: A Monte Carlo computer program that statistically tests whether two correlation or covariance matrices are different.

Block, J. & Block, J. H. (1973). Ego development and the provenance of thought: A longitudinal study of ego and cognitive development in young children. Progress report to the National Institute of Mental Health, University of California, Berkeley (in mimeograph; 92 pages, single-spaced).

Block J. H., & Block, J. (February, 1975). Fire and young children: A study of attitudes, behavior, and maternal teaching strategies. Technical Report for the Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, Forest Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture.

Block, J. & Block, J. H. (1980). A longitudinal study of ego and cognitive development. Research application to the National Institute of Mental Health, University of California, Berkeley. (Approved for five years of support as of December 1980). (In mimeograph, 92 pages single spaced).

Kafry D., Block, J. H., & Block, J. (1981) Childrens' Survival Skills: A basis for functioning in society. Final Report to the Maternal and Child Health and Crippled Children's Service Research Grants Program, University of California, Berkeley. (In mimeograph; 122 pages, single spaced lus appendices).

Block, J. (1985). A longitudinal study of ego and cognitive development. Research application to the National Institute of Mental Health, University of California, Berkeley. (Approved for five years of support as of April 1986). (In mimeograph, 59 pages single-spaced).

Conference, Public Lecture, and Forum Participation (partial accounting only, and dating from 1970):

Invited participant, NIMH Conference on Early Childhood, Harvard University, November 1970.

Invited Colloquium, University of Chicago, April 1970.

Invited participant, NIMH Conference on Issues Involved in the Study and Rehabilitation of a Sensorily Disadvantaged Child, Children's Hospital, Los Angeles, February 1971 and May 1971.

Conference organizer and participant, NIMH Conference on Developmental Aspects of Self-Regulation, La Jolla, California, February 1972.

Invited participant, Conference on Life-Span Developmental Psychology: Personality and Socialization, West Virginia University, May 1972.

Invited participant, Workshop on Multidimensional Scaling, Bell Laboratories and University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 1972.

Invited participant, NIMH Conference on Children at Risk: The Search for the Antecedents of Schizophrenia, Dorado Beach, Puerto Rico, October 1972.

Invited Participant, Psychological Research Institute, University of Milan, Italy. Working conference on Research in Family Structure and Personality Development, May 1973.

Invited participant, NATO Advanced Study Institute on Stress and Anxiety in Modern Life, Murnau, Germany, June 1973.

Invited colloquium, University of Waterloo, Canada, December 1974.

Invited colloquium, Stanford University, Stanford, California, April, 1975.

Invited participant, Social Science Research Council Conference on Affective Development, New York, New York, May 1975.

Invited participant, Conference on the Society for the Study of Life History and Psychopathology, University of Rochester, New York, May 1975.

Invited participant, International Symposium on Interactional Psychology, Saltsjobaden, Sweden, June 1975.

Invited participant, NATO Conference on Dimensions of Anxiety and Stress, Oslo, Norway, July 1975.

Invited participant, American Psychological Association Symposium on The Future of Personality Measurement, sponsored by Divisions 5, 8, 12, 7, 15, 17, and 22, Chicago, Illinois, September 1975.

Invited colloquium, Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, October 1975.

Invited as Phillips Distinguished Visitor, Haverford College, March 1976.

Invited participant, NIMH Conference on Research in Early Adolescence, Washington, D.C. May 1976.

Invited colloquium, Stanford University, Stanford, California, January 1977.

Invited colloquium, University of California, Riverside, California, January 1977.

Invited talk, Society of Experimental Social Psychologists, Los Angeles, California, November 1977.

Invited as Distinguished Visitor in Personality Psychology, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, November 1977.

Invited participant, Conference on Early Social Development, Zentrum fur interdisziplinare Forschung, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, West Germany, May 1978.

Invited talk, Explorations - '78, a conference to honor the 40th anniversary of the publication of Explorations in personality by Henry A. Murray and his colleagues, Michigan State University, November 1978.

Invited talk, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, March 1979.

Invited participant, Symposium on The Situation in Psychological Theory and Research, Lovik, Stockholm, Sweden, June 1979.

Invited participant, Symposium on Continuity and Discontinuity between Behavioral Variables at Different Ages of Life, International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden, June 1979.

Invited colloquium, Stanford University, Stanford, California, February 1981.

Invited speaker, Ciba Foundation Symposium on Temperamental differences in infants and young children, London, England, September 1981 (unable to participate because of family illness).

Invited participant, International Conference on Personality Development from a person-environment interaction perspective, Stockholm, Sweden, June 1982.

Conference organizer (together with Dan Olweus) and participant, International Conference on Development of Antisocial and Prosocial May, June and July, Behavior, Voss, Norway, July 1982.

Invited colloquia, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, May, June and July 1983.

Invited colloquium, Institute of Child Education, Melbourne, Australia, June 1983.

Invited colloquium, Monash University, June 1983.

Invited colloquium, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, June 1983.

Invited colloquium, Sydney University, Sydney, Australia, June 1983.

Invited colloquium, Macquarrie University, Sydney, Australia, June 1983.

Invited colloquium, Laboratory of Developmental Psychology, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland, October 1983.

Invited participant, Social Science Research Council Conference on Selfhood in Life-Course Perspectives, October 1985.

Invited colloquium, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada, February 1986.

Invited speaker, Festschrift for Leona Tyler, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, March 1986.

Invited speaker, Radcliffe Center for the Study of Lives, Cambridge, Mass., January 1987.

Invited speaker, Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 1987.

Invited speaker, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, March 1987.

Invited participant, Conference on the Diagnosis of Temperament, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, West Germany, September 1987.

Invited lecturer, University of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden, September 1987.

Invited lecturer, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, September 1987.

Invited lecturer, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel, December 1987.

Invited MillerComm public lecturer, University of Illinois, February 1988.

Invited speaker, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, October 1989.

Invited speaker, University of California, Davis, February 1990.

Invited speaker, University of California, Santa Cruz, February 1990.

Invited lecturer, MacArthur Summer Training Seminar on Developmental Psychopathology, Center For Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California, August 1990.

Invited speaker, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, October 1990.

Invited participant, Special Colloquium on Child & Adolescent Mental Disorders Research: Problems and Prospects for the 1990's, National Institute of Mental Health, Rockville, Maryland, November 1990.

Invited speaker, University of Michigan, March 1991.

Central participant, special conference on "Lives Through Time: Assessment and Theory in Personality Psychology from a Longitudinal Perspective," sponsored by the American Psychological Association, the Henry A. Murray Research Center of Radcliffe College, and the Center for Family Studies of the University of California at Riverside, Palm Springs, November 1991.

Invited participant, special conference on Fostering Resilience, sponsored by the Institute for Mental Health Initiatives and the National Institute of Mental Health, Washington, D.C., December 1991.

Invited speaker, University of California at Riverside, February 1992.

Invited speaker on the Big Five at the meetings of the European Association of Personality Psychology, June 1994

Invited speaker to Max-Planck Institute for Psychological Research Conference on the Longitudinal Study on the Genesis of Individual Competencies. Ringberg Castle, Tegernsee, Germany, July 1994

Participant in various NIMH conferences and workshops on depression (March 1994), studying the individual course of behavior (November 1994), etc.

Invited speaker at Wik’s Castle Symposium: Developmental Science and the holistic approach; A symposium followed up at the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, May 24-28, 1997.

Invited speaker, Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Mat 29, 1997

Invited speaker (3 colloquia) at the Social Development Research Center, University of North Carolina, March 16-18, 1998.

Speaker at the conference: Landmark Studies of the Twentieth Century, held at the Henry Murray Center for the Study of Lives, Radcliffe College, April 23-25, 1999.