Marcia Guttentag

Marcia Guttentag (November 9, 1932 – November 4, 1977) was clinical social psychologist whose work focused on psychological issues related to children, poverty, women's rights, and mental health. As one of the founders of the Evaluation Research Society, Guttentag is known for being a pioneer in promoting evaluation research as a distinct field of social science. She was an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. During her presidency she edited two issues of the Journal of Social Issues. and served a term as its president. She contributed her efforts to other professional organizations including UNESCO, the New York State Psychological Association, the New York Academy of Sciences, the American Sociological Association, and the Society for Experimental Social Psychology.

The American Evaluation Association named its Promising New Evaluator Award in honor of Guttentag. Adelphi University elected Guttentag to its University Academy of Distinction as a distinguished alumna in 1975. which served as a reference guide to research methodology in what was then a new field of study (Volume 1), with the methodology illustrated using case-studies of evaluation research (Volume 2).

Guttentag died suddenly of a heart attack on November 4, 1977. Too Many Women?: The Sex Ratio Question As compared to popular music of the 1970s, The Magic Flute and other songs of the classical period were much more romantic, glorifying courtship and the institution of marriage. In contrast, in the 1970s, the sex-ratio of adult men to adult women in the United States had dropped below 1.0.

Books

Guttentag, M., & Bray, H. (1976). Undoing sex stereotypes: Research and resources for educators . McGraw-Hill. Guttentag, M., Oglesby, M., Kiresuk, T., & Cahn, J. (1975). The evaluation of training in mental health. New York: Behavioral Publications. Guttentag, M., Salasin, S., & Belle, D. (Eds.). (1980). The mental health of women (Vol. 23). Academic Press. Guttentag, M., & Secord, P. F. (1983). Too many women?: The sex ratio question . Sage. Struening, E.L., & Guttentag, M. (1975). Handbook of evaluation research . Sage.

Representative publications Denmark, F. L., & Guttentag, M. (1967). Dissonance in the self-concepts and educational concepts of college-and non-college-oriented women. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 14(2), 113–115. Guttentag, M. (1971). Models and methods in evaluation research. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 1(1), 75–93. Guttentag, M. (1973). Evaluation of social intervention programs. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 218(1), 3–13. Guttentag, M. (1976). Evaluation and society. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 3(1), 31–40. Guttentag, M., & Ross, S. (1972). Movement responses in simple concept learning. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 42''(4), 657–665.