John E. Hunter, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetJohn E. Hunter
American psychologist
Date of Birth: 29-Mar-1939
Date of Death: 26-Jun-2002
Profession: psychologist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About John E. Hunter
- John E.
- "Jack" Hunter (29 March 1939 – June 26, 2002) was an American psychology professor known for his work in methodology.
- His best-known work is Methods of Meta-Analysis: Correcting Error and Bias in Research Findings.
- The International Communication Association named a research award in his honor.Hunter received his Ph.D.
- in psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- He taught at Michigan State University for most of his career.
- He co-authored two books and authored or co-authored over 200 articles and book chapters on a wide variety of methodological topics, including confirmatory and exploratory factor analysis, meta-analysis, measurement theory and methods, statistics, and research methods.
- He also published numerous research articles on such substantive topics as intelligence, attitude change, the relation between attitudes and behavior, validity generalization, differential validity/selection fairness, and selection utility.
- In 1994 he was one of 52 signatories on "Mainstream Science on Intelligence," an editorial written by Linda Gottfredson and published in the Wall Street Journal, which aimed to promote a reasoned discussion of the heated debate arising from publication of The Bell Curve on intelligence.
- Hunter received the Distinguished Scientific Award for Contributions to Applied Psychology (joint with Frank L.
- Schmidt), and the Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) (also joint with Schmidt).
- He was a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, and of SIOP.
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