16 Facts About Paul Vitz

Paul Clayton Vitz was born on August 27,1935 and is an American psychologist who is a Senior Scholar at Divine Mercy University in Sterling, Virginia.

Paul Vitz is emeritus professor of psychology at New York University.

Paul Vitz's work focuses primarily on the relationship between psychology and Christianity.

Paul Vitz was born on August 27,1935, in Toledo, Ohio.

Paul Vitz moved to Minneapolis, and later to Cincinnati, Ohio, which he considers his hometown.

Paul Vitz graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a BA in psychology from the University of Michigan in 1957 and with a PhD in psychology from Stanford University in 1962.

Paul Vitz held a post-doc at Stanford University, from 1964 to 1965.

Paul Vitz was hired in the fall of 1965 as assistant professor in the psychology department of New York University.

Paul Vitz received tenure there in the fall of 1972.

Paul Vitz's research was focused on perceptual and cognitive psychology, especially sequential pattern learning and visual form perception and preferred levels of stimulus complexity.

Paul Vitz's career changed markedly in the mid-seventies with his conversion from atheism to Christianity and later, in 1979, to Catholicism.

Paul Vitz authored "Censorship: Evidence of bias in our children's textbooks", 1984.

The latter culminated in a book on what Paul Vitz claims are the psychological factors which produce atheism, "Faith of the Fatherless: The Psychology of Atheism", 1999 and a 2nd ed.

Paul Vitz has made basic contributions as an editor to "A Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the Person", 2020 and to "The Complementarity of Women and Men", 2021.

Paul Vitz is presently working on the origin of human consciousness, the relevance of the soul for psychology, and on the consequences of analog and digital coding.

Paul Vitz is married to Evelyn Birge Paul Vitz, a Professor of French at New York University specializing in medieval studies and in the performance of medieval and other narrative works.