John E. "Jack" Hunter (29 March 1939 – June 26, 2002) was an American

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professor known for his work in methodology. His best-known work is ''Methods of Meta-Analysis: Correcting Error and Bias in Research Findings.'' The

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named a research award in his honor.https://www.icahdq.org/donations/fund.asp?id=15211 Hunter received his

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in psychology from the

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. 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

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, measurement theory and methods, statistics, and research methods. He also published numerous research articles on such substantive topics as

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, 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 "

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," an editorial written by

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and published in the ''

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'', which aimed to promote a reasoned discussion of the heated debate arising from publication of ''

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'' on

. 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

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, the

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, and of SIOP.

Publications

Hunter wrote or contributed to several publications. His 1990 book, co-authored with Schmidt and listed below, cites 15 publications by Hunter, beginning with a 1977 paper, and 17 co-authored publications, of which from 1977 onwards, 12 were co-authored with Schmidt. * * *

References

1939 births 2002 deaths University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni Michigan State University faculty Fellows of the American Psychological Association 20th-century American psychologists {{US-psychologist-stub