Paul Shafer Siegel (1918-2002)

Presents an obituary of Paul Shafer Siegel. Paul Shafer Siegel was born in Richmond, Virginia, on January 12, 1918. Siegel died at age 84 on December 24, 2002, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Siegel's principal interests were in learning and motivation, but he could become enthusiastic about topics far from his base if they were challenging and subject to good design. He investigated the effects of emotionality on food and water intake, the relation of water intake to privation interval in the absence of food, and the importance of the dark-light cycle, among other topics. He extended the investigations of motivation and learning in laboratory rats to the investigation of behavior in retardates. He was interested in the effects of incentive motivation and in discrimination learning in those research participants. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)