Autor: Ashok Kumar Saxena

Adesh Agarwal is Professor and Head of the Department of Psychology at D.D.U. Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur. She started her university teaching career in 1963 at Lucknow University, but later moved to Gorakhpur University. She was also research associate at Florida State University and Ottawa University. She has published extensively in foreign and Indian journals in the areas of human motivation, time perspective, personality, human development, applied social and health psychology. She has contributed to edited volumes like Cognition and Culture: A Cross-cultural Approach to Cognitive Psychology, Motivation and Affective Processes, and Contemporary Games. She is also author of several books like Achievement Motivation and Time Perspective, Two Simulated inquiry Environments: A Social Simulation, Game and a CAI Based Information Retrieval System. She is also Member of Executive Committee of National Academy of Psychology, India. Under her leadership, Department of Psychology has received the coveted Special Assistance grant from University Grants Commission and is running the D.S.A. programme very successfully. Ashok Kumar Saxena (b. 1948), M.A. (1967, Gorakhpur, First Position), Ph.D. (1979, Gorakhpur) studied the problems of hostility and alienation in university students, delinquents and prisoners. In an LC.S.S.R. project formulated Alienation- Aggression hypothesis which is a better explanation than Frustration-Aggression hypothesis. Constructed Saxena Hostility scale, co-author of text books and member editorial board of journals, has made research contributions in the areas of verbal learning, Psycholinguistics, creativity, self-disclosure, self-evaluation, perception of authority and social responsibility. As an Applied Psychologist, did Radio-counselling and brainstorming sessions. The problem of distress in widows and rural poor received his exploratory attention. Distress by natural disasters is his current concern. A committed advocate of Indian Indigenous Psychology is busy developing Parasuram Syndrome.