Elaine Aron

Elaine N. Aron is a clinical research psychologist and author.[4]

Aron is known for research into sensory processing sensitivity (SPS) as graphically summarized by Greven et al. (review article, 2019).[1] A person with a high measure of SPS is said to be a highly sensitive person (HSP).[2][3]

Aron has published numerous books and scholarly articles about inherited temperament and interpersonal relationships,[5] especially on the subject of sensory processing sensitivity, beginning with The Highly Sensitive Person (1996),[6] which has sold over a million copies.[7]

Education

Aron graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California, Berkeley, and later earned an 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).[5][8] She interned at the C. G. Jung Institute in San Francisco.[5]

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]

Published works

Books[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.

Magazine articles

See also

References
  1. Greven et al. 2019.
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. Bradberry, Travis; Greaves, Jean (2012-09-10). "Emotional Intelligence Appraisal - Multi-Rater Edition". doi:10.1037/t11828-000. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  5. "Elaine N. Aron, PhD". WebMD.com. 2013. Archived from the original on November 15, 2020.
  6. Aron, Elaine (6 March 2014). The highly sensitive person. London. ISBN 978-0-00-738477-8. OCLC 875631050.
  7. Lally, Maria (October 12, 2015). "Highly sensitive people: a condition rarely understood". The Telegraph. U.K. Archived from the original on October 18, 2015.
  8. "About Dr. Elaine Aron". HSperson.com. 2014. Archived from the original on December 21, 2020.
  9. "Arthur Aron, PhD". psychology.stonybrook.edu. 2010. Archived from the original on September 27, 2020.
  10. 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.
  11. "Books by Elaine N. Aron". goodreads.com. 2021. Archived from the original on January 9, 2021.
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