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Elizabeth Hall Journalism     Psychology Today 1967 - 1976 Elizabeth left her career as a librarian to join the staff of an exciting new magazine.  Psychology Today had published only three issues when Elizabeth joined them in 1967, but soon became the talk of the publishing world, with its staff meeting on the beach of Del Mar, California, featured in Time Magazine.   Elizabeth stayed with Psychology Today, for nine years, and soon became Managing Editor. In 1976, she left the magazine to start Human Nature.  While Elizabeth was Managing Editor of the magazine, she interviewed a series of prominent behavioral scientists for its pages.  Those featured in the magazine: D.O. Hebb, psychologist, McGill University, Montreal Jean Piaget, psychologist, Director, Institute for Psychology, Geneva Barbel Inhelder, psychologist, University of Geneva, Geneva Arthur Koestler, journalist, novelist, London Jerome Bruner, psychologist, Harvard University Charles DeCarlo, educator, President, Sarah Lawrence College Robert Rimmer, novelist, Cambridge, Massachusetts B.F. Skinner, psychologist, Harvard University George Steiner, literary critic, Cambridge University Charles Osgood, psychologist, University of Illinois at  Champaign-  Urbana Niko Tinbergen, ethologist, Oxford University Sir Edmund Leach, anthropologist, Cambridge University Idries Shah, Institute for Cultural Research, Tunbridge Wells, U.K. Edward T. Hall, anthropologist, Northwestern University, Chicago   For Psychology Today, Elizabeth interviewed Nobel-prize winning ethologist, Niko Tinbergen.  This photo was taken at High Slakes, the Tinbergen vacation home in the Cumberland Region of Northern England, during the 1973 interview. © Terry Spencer, 1973. *    *    * Human Nature 1976 - 1979     Elizabeth was Editor-In-Chief of Human Nature, a magazine about the human sciences.  The magazine's first issue was published in January 1978.  The fourth issue, published in April of that year, featured Elizabeth and her late husband, Scott O'Dell on the cover.  The articles featured in this issue were, "The Egalitarian Waltz", "How Education Affects the Mind", "Society and Sex Roles", "The Wisdom of Humor", and "Does Medicine Keep Us Well?" As Editor-in-Chief of Human Nature, she had no time for additional journalism pieces.   *   *   * Miscellaneous Articles 1979 - 1990   After 1979, Elizabeth wrote magazine articles for such magazines as Geo, Childbirth Educator, Psychology Today, America Illustrated, Topic, Span, and Ladies Home Journal.  She also continued to interview prominent behavioral scientists for Psychology Today: Sandra Scarr, psychologist, University of Virginia Erik Erikson, professor emeritus of human development, Harvard University June Reinisch, psychologist, Director of the Kinsey Institute, Illinois Judith Rodin, psychologist, Yale University, Connecticut Robert Zajonc, psychologist, University of Michigan Clifford Grobstein, embryologist, University of California, San Diego Peter Drucker, management consultant, Claremont Graduate School, CA Gunther Gebel-Williams, animal trainer, Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus Eleanor Maccoby, psychologist, Stanford University, California Joseph Adelson, psychologist, University of Michigan Bruno Bettelheim, psychoanalyst, California Jerome Bruner, psychologist, New School for Social Research, New  York, New York Jerome Kagan, psychologist, Harvard University, Massachusetts.   Elizabeth also contributed a chapter entitled, “Motherhood,” in Every Woman’s Emotional Well-being, Edited by Carol Tavris, Doubleday & Company (1986).   © 2002. All Rights Reserved. No image or text may be reproduced without written consent. Equine Design 4 U Last Updated: May 24, 2002