Elaine Aron
Psychologist and author
Elaine N. Aron is an American clinical research psychologist and author.[ 1] Aron has published numerous books and scholarly articles about inherited temperament and interpersonal relationships,[ 2] especially on the subject of sensory processing sensitivity , beginning with The Highly Sensitive Person (1996),[ 3] which has sold over a million copies.[ 4]
Education
Aron is known for research into sensory processing sensitivity (SPS) as graphically summarized by Greven et al. (review article, 2019). A person with a high measure of SPS is said to be a highly sensitive person (HSP ).[ 6] [ 7]
Aron graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California, Berkeley , and later earned a Master of Arts in clinical psychology from York University (Toronto) and a Ph.D. in clinical depth psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute (Santa Barbara, California).[ 2] [ 8] She interned at the C. G. Jung Institute in San Francisco.[ 2]
Professional practice and personal life
Aron maintains a psychotherapy practice in Mill Valley, California .[ 8]
Aron is married to SUNY-Stony Brook psychology professor Arthur Aron , with whom she collaborates in studies of the interaction of childhood environment with SPS in predicting adult functioning.[ 9] In nearly 50 years of studying love, the couple developed a 36-question list, since used in hundreds of studies, to create closeness in a lab setting, to break down barriers between strangers, and improve understanding between police officers and community members.[ 10]
Aron's son is television writer Elijah Aron.[ 10] Her grandsons are Elliot and Simon Aron, 14 and 18 respectively.
Published works
Books
Source:[ 11]
The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You (1996)
The Highly Sensitive Person's Workbook (1999)
The Highly Sensitive Person in Love: Understanding and Managing Relationships When the World Overwhelms You (2001)
The Highly Sensitive Child: Helping Our Children Thrive When the World Overwhelms Them (2002)
The Undervalued Self: Restore Your Love/Power Balance, Transform the Inner Voice That Holds You Back, and Find Your True Self-Worth (2010)
Psychotherapy and the Highly Sensitive Person: Improving Outcomes for That Minority of People Who Are the Majority of Clients (2010)
The Highly Sensitive Parent: Be Brilliant in Your Role, Even When the World Overwhelms You (2020)
Scholarly journal articles
Aron, Elaine; Aron, Arthur (1997). "Sensory-Processing Sensitivity and its Relation to Introversion and Emotionality" (PDF) . Journal of Personality and Social Psychology . 73 (2): 345–368. doi :10.1037/0022-3514.73.2.345 . PMID 9248053 . Archived (PDF) from the original on May 13, 2015.
Aron, E. N.; Aron, A.; Davies, K. (2005). "Adult shyness: The interaction of temperamental sensitivity and an adverse childhood environment" (PDF) . Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin . 31 (2): 181–197. doi :10.1177/0146167204271419 . PMID 15619591 . S2CID 1679620 . Note 3 (p. 195) cites Chen et al. (1992) re social and cultural unacceptability adding to environmental stressors.
Aron, Elaine N., Ph.D., (July 21, 2011) "Understanding the Highly Sensitivity Person: Sensitive, Introverted, or Both? | Extraverted HSPs face unique challenges" (Archived April 19, 2013, at archive.today ) Psychology Today .
Aron, Elaine N. (February 2, 2012). "Time Magazine: 'The Power of (Shyness)' and High Sensitivity" . Psychology Today . Archived from the original on February 12, 2012.
Aron, E.; Aron, A.; Jagiellowicz, J. (2012). "Sensory processing sensitivity: A review in the light of the evolution of biological responsivity" (PDF) . Personality and Social Psychology Review . 16 (3): 262–282. doi :10.1177/1088868311434213 . PMID 22291044 . S2CID 2542035 . Archived (PDF) from the original on May 13, 2015.
Greven, Corina U.; Lionetti, Francesca; Booth, Charlotte; Aron, Elaine N.; et al. (March 2019). "Sensory Processing Sensitivity in the context of Environmental Sensitivity: A critical review and development of research agenda (Review article)" . Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews . 98 . Elsevier: 287–305. doi :10.1016/j.neubiorev.2019.01.009 . hdl :2066/202697 . PMID 30639671 .
Magazine articles
See also
References
^ Bradberry, Travis; Greaves, Jean (2012-09-10). "Emotional Intelligence Appraisal - Multi-Rater Edition". doi :10.1037/t11828-000 .
^ a b c "Elaine N. Aron, PhD" . WebMD.com . 2013. Archived from the original on November 15, 2020.
^ Aron, Elaine (6 March 2014). The highly sensitive person . London. ISBN 978-0-00-738477-8 . OCLC 875631050 . {{cite book }}
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^ Lally, Maria (October 12, 2015). "Highly sensitive people: a condition rarely understood" . The Telegraph . U.K. Archived from the original on October 18, 2015.
^ Boterberg, Sofie; Warreyn, Petra (2016), "Making sense of it all: The impact of sensory processing sensitivity on daily functioning of children" , Personality and Individual Differences , 92 : 80–86, doi :10.1016/j.paid.2015.12.022 , hdl :1854/LU-7172755 , archived from the original on May 23, 2016
^ Booth, Charlotte; Standage, Helen; Fox, Elaine (1 Dec 2015), "Sensory-processing sensitivity moderates the association between childhood experiences and adult life satisfaction", Personality and Individual Differences , 87 : 24–29, doi :10.1016/j.paid.2015.07.020 , PMC 4681093 , PMID 26688599
^ a b "About Dr. Elaine Aron" . HSperson.com . 2014. Archived from the original on December 21, 2020.
^ "Arthur Aron, PhD" . psychology.stonybrook.edu . 2010. Archived from the original on September 27, 2020.
^ a b Anwar, Yasmin (February 12, 2015). "Creating love in the lab: The 36 questions that spark intimacy" . Berkeley News . University of California, Berkeley. Archived from the original on November 14, 2020.
^ "Books by Elaine N. Aron" . goodreads.com . 2021. Archived from the original on January 9, 2021.
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