Our sympathy goes out to Colin's family and friends. We have lost one of the great contributors to our field. We will always remember the first time we met Colin, in 1998, and the wonderful and witty emails we exchanged in the years afterward. We'll always be grateful to Colin for trusting The Bulletin to us and for his delight as it became PACA.
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Bio
Colin Martindale, Ph.D., was an important contributor to the study of creativity and aesthetics, but also made contributions to psycholinguistics, computerized content analysis, author attribution, psychoanalytic theory, statistical method, personality, abnormal psychology, interpersonal attraction, and oligonucleotide frequencies in DNA. He received his B.A. summa cum laude from the University of Colorado in 1964 and his Ph.D. in clinical psychology in 1970 from Harvard University. He was awarded a Doctorat Homoris Causa from the Université Catholique de Louvain. He was professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Maine, Honorary Professor of Psychology and Art at the Perm State Institute of Arts and Culture in Perm, and an academician at the International Informatization Academy in Moscow. Earlier in his career, he was acting director of clinical training at the University of Maine and a Visiting Scientist at the Nijmegen Institute for Cognition Research and Information Technology at the University of Nijmegen. He was the author, editor, or co-editor of 14 convention proceedings, journal special issues, and books, including "The Clockwork Muse". He authored over 185 articles, chapters and reviews. He gave around 195 papers, invited addresses and colloquia worldwide. He served as editor of Empirical Studies of the Arts, APA Div. 10's Bulletin of Psychology and the Arts, and co-editor of Baywood Publishing Company's "Foundations and Frontiers of Aesthetics" series. He served on the editorial boards of Poetics, The Creativity Research Journal, The Journal of Creative Behavior, The Journal of Mind and Behavior, and John Benjamin Publishing Company's "Linguistic Approaches to Literature" book series. Among his honors and awards are the First Prize in the Ninth Annual Creative Talent Awards Program of the American Institutes for Research for his Ph.D. dissertation, the American Association for the Advancement of Science Sociopsychological Prize, The Gustav Theodor Fechner Award for Outstanding Contributions to Psychology and the Arts from the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics, the Rudolf Arnheim Award for Outstanding Contributions to Psychology and the Arts and the Paul M. Farnsworth Award for Outstanding Service, both for APA's Div. 10. Martindale served as APA Division 10 president and as president of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics.---
