Scott O Lilienfeld

The late Scott O. Lilienfeld was Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Psychology at Emory University, Atlanta, and Visiting Professor in the School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Melbourne. His primary areas of interest were personality and personality disorders, individual differences in cognitive bias propensity, evidence-based practice in clinical psychology, psychiatric classification, and applications of scientific thinking to psychology. He was (twice) past-president of the...See more

The late Scott O. Lilienfeld was Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Psychology at Emory University, Atlanta, and Visiting Professor in the School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Melbourne. His primary areas of interest were personality and personality disorders, individual differences in cognitive bias propensity, evidence-based practice in clinical psychology, psychiatric classification, and applications of scientific thinking to psychology. He was (twice) past-president of the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology and the recipient of several awards, including the James McKeen Cattell Award for Lifetime Contributions to Applied Psychological Science from the Association for Psychological Science and the Ernst R. Hilgard Award for Lifetime Career Contributions to General Psychology from Division 1 (General Psychology) of the American Psychological Association. He was the editor-in-chief of the journal Clinical Psychological Science and author or co-author of over a dozen books, including 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology (Wiley) and Psychology: From Inquiry to Understanding (Pearson). See less