James C. Coyne Explained

James C. Coyne (born 22 October 1947) is an American psychologist.

Education and career

Born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, Coyne attended New London High School in New London, Connecticut.[1] He received his B.A. (1968) from Carnegie-Mellon University and his Ph.D. in psychology (1975) from Indiana University Bloomington (dissertation title Depression and the Response of Others).[2] After being a Clinical Psychology Intern at the University of Florida in 1972–3, he was an instructor at Miami University from 1973 to 1975, where he became an assistant professor in 1975. He became professor at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 1999, and became an emeritus professor there upon his retirement in 2013.[3]

Coyne was named an ISI Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics in 2001, and was ranked #200 in a 2014 list of the most eminent psychologists of the post-World War II era.[1] [4]

Research

Coyne's research from the 1980s[2] [5] suggested that negative responses by others to depressive behavior can increase the social isolation of depressed individuals, potentially leading to a "depressive spiral".[6] [7]

A 2007 study led by Coyne found that positive emotional well-being was not associated with increased life expectancy among head and neck cancer patients.[8] [9] [10]

Views

Coyne has criticized the field of positive psychology and the research claiming that a positive attitude can impact one's health.[11] [12] He has also criticized studies which have concluded that personality traits are linked to an increased risk of cancer death.[13]

Coyne has stated that a 1970s study by Ellen Langer, which found that elderly people given plants to take care of lived longer than those who were not, would not have "much credibility today, nor would it meet the tightened standards of rigor."[14]

Coyne has also criticized studies that claimed to have shown that acceptance and commitment therapy was effective in reducing rehospitalization in cases of psychosis. In his article "Troubles in the Branding of Psychotherapies as "Evidence Supported'",[15] Coyne stated:

In 2015, Coyne attacked Gabriele Oettingen's book Rethinking Positive Thinking and accused Oettingen of aggressively promoting pseudoscience while ignoring other research in clinical psychology.[16] [17] Coyne pointed out that as part of Oettingen's aggressive promotional campaign for her book, her own son created Wikipedia articles about her work.[17]

In 2017, Coyne attacked his co-editors at the Journal of Health Psychology, calling one a "disgusting old fart neoliberal hypocrite" and telling another to "f*** off. Let's get all this backchannel bullshit into the open, you ol' sleazebag".[18] The disagreements were over the special issue on the PACE trial for chronic fatigue syndrome, which three of his co-editors considered to be too one-sided.[18]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Biography . Coyne of the Realm . en . 2018-10-24.
  2. Coyne . James C. . April 1976 . Depression and the response of others . . 85 . 2 . 186–193 . 1254779 . 10.1037/0021-843x.85.2.186.
  3. Web site: The 2014 Newly-Retired Faculty . University of Pennsylvania Almanac . 6 May 2014.
  4. Diener . Ed . Oishi . Shigehiro . Park . JungYeun . 2014-08-25 . An incomplete list of eminent psychologists of the modern era. . Archives of Scientific Psychology . en . 2 . 1 . 20–31 . 10.1037/arc0000006 . 2169-3269. free .
  5. Strack . Stephen . Coyne . James C. . April 1983 . Social confirmation of dysphoria: shared and private reactions to depression . . 44 . 4 . 798–806 . 6842366 . 10.1037/0022-3514.44.4.798.
  6. Lara . Maria Elena . Klein . Daniel N. . August 1999 . Psychosocial processes underlying the maintenance and persistence of depression: implications for understanding chronic depression . . 19 . 5 . 553–570 . 10467491 . 10.1016/s0272-7358(98)00066-x.
  7. Book: Daly, John A. . 2011 . Personality and interpersonal communication . Knapp . Mark L. . Daly . John A. . The Sage Handbook of Interpersonal Communication . 4th . Thousand Oaks, CA . . 131–168 (141) . 9781412974745 . 731536397.
  8. Coyne. James C.. Pajak. Thomas F.. Harris. Jonathan. Konski. Andre. Movsas. Benjamin. Ang. Kian. Deborah Watkins Bruner. Watkins Bruner. Deborah. Emotional well-being does not predict survival in head and neck cancer patients. Cancer. 1 December 2007. 110. 11. 2568–2575. 10.1002/cncr.23080. 17955501. free.
  9. Web site: Mood doesn't help in cancer survival . Los Angeles Times . 5 November 2007 . 13 February 2015 . Gellene, Denise.
  10. Web site: Hope May Be Useless Against Cancer . Discover . February 2008 . 13 February 2015 . Barone, Jennifer.
  11. Web site: Positive psychology advances, with growing pains . Monitor on Psychology . April 2011 . 13 February 2015 . Azar, Beth.
  12. Web site: Can meditation really slow aging? . CNN . 10 July 2014 . 20 April 2015 . Marchant, Jo.
  13. Web site: Personality not linked to cancer risk or prognosis . Reuters . 13 August 2010 . 13 February 2015 . Norton, Amy.
  14. Web site: What if Age Is Nothing but a Mind-Set? . . 26 October 2014 . 13 February 2015 . Grierson, Bruce.
  15. Web site: Coyne . James C. . James C. Coyne . Troubles in the branding of psychotherapies as 'evidence supported' . 22 October 2012 . plos.org . . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304014203/http://blogs.plos.org/mindthebrain/2012/10/22/troubles-in-the-branding-of-psychotherapies-as-evidence-supported/ . 4 March 2016 . 4 May 2016.
  16. Web site: Coyne . James C . Do positive fantasies prevent dieters from losing weight? . 16 September 2015 . plos.org . . https://web.archive.org/web/20151002095242/http://blogs.plos.org/mindthebrain/2015/09/16/do-positive-fantasies-prevent-dieters-from-losing-weight/ . 2 October 2015 . 7 November 2015.
  17. Web site: Coyne . James C . Promoting a positive psychology self-help book with a Wikipedia entry . 23 September 2015 . plos.org . . https://web.archive.org/web/20151008102125/http://blogs.plos.org/mindthebrain/2015/09/23/promoting-a-positive-psychology-self-help-book-with-a-wikipedia-entry/ . 8 October 2015 . 7 November 2015.
  18. Web site: The Times: Scientists trade insults over myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) study . 1 August 2017 . meassociation.org.uk . . 27 October 2017.

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