Talk:Julian Rotter

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A fact from Julian Rotter appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on December 13, 2007.

[edit] Getting dates correct

Are people sure that Rotter is still alive? I am sure I read that he died some time ago (according to the web, he died in 1987, but I would like to check whether I can find any printed sources to verify that). Also, this article erroneously categorises Rotter, who was born in [[1916), as a birth from 1906!

Thank you for expanding the article. I fixed the error, and please feel free to fix anything else or improve the article. As for the question, is he still alive? I cannot find any evidence otherwise. He is listed as emeritus faculty at the University of Connecticut. Also, I searched New York Times archives and Lexis-Nexis to make sure. Where 1987 comes up in my searches, I think that is when he retired. [1] In 1993, he wrote an autobiography piece, which is listed in the "further reading" section of the article. --Aude (talk) 16:35, 11 December 2007 (UTC)