Background
Chapman, Loren J. was born on January 5, 1927 in Muncie, Indiana, United States. Son of Herbert L. and Lurana Gertrude (Treff) Chapman.
Chapman, Loren J. was born on January 5, 1927 in Muncie, Indiana, United States. Son of Herbert L. and Lurana Gertrude (Treff) Chapman.
AB cum laude, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1948. Master of Science, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1952. Doctor of Philosophy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1954.
United States Public Health Service postdoctorate research fellow, University of Chicago, 1954-1956; instructor, assistant professor, University of Chicago, 1956-1959; associate professor, U. Kentucky, Lexington, 1959-1962; from associate professor to professor, Southern Illinois U., Carbondale, 1962-1967; professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1966-1993; National Institute of Mental Health research scientist, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1988-1993; professor emeritus, since 1994.
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Psychological Association (Distinguished Science award for application of psychology 1999). Member American Psychopathol. Association, Society Research Psychopathology (president 1989, Joseph Zubin award 1992), American Psychological Society (William James fellow 1995).
Married Jean Marilyn Paulsen, June 6, 1953. Children: Nancy, Laurence.