About Dr. Elaine Aron
Dr. Aron earned her M.A. from York University in Toronto in clinical psychology and her Ph.D. at Pacifica Graduate Institute in clinical depth psychology as well as interning at the C. G. Jung Institute in San Francisco. Besides beginning the study of the innate temperament trait of high sensitivity in 1991, she, along with her husband Dr. Arthur Aron, are two of the leading scientists studying the psychology of love and close relationships. They are also pioneers in studying both sensitivity and love using functional magnetic resonance imaging. She maintains a small psychotherapy practice in Mill Valley and San Francisco.
Articles for Professionals on Research and TheoryElaine N. Aron and Arthur Aron (1997). "Sensory-Processing Sensitivity and Its Relation to Introversion and Emotionality," Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 73, No. 2, 345-368.
E. N. Aron (2000). "High Sensitivity as One Source of Fearfulness and Shyness," in Extreme Fear, Shyness, and Social Phobia: Origins, Biological Mechanisms, and Clinical Outcomes. Eds. L. A. Schmidt and J. Schulkin. New York: Oxford University Press,pp. 251-272.
E. N. Aron (1996). "Counseling the Highly Sensitive Person." Counseling and Human Development, 28, 1-7.
E. N. Aron (2004). "The Impact of Temperament on Intimacy and Closeness." In The Handbook of Closeness and Intimacy. Eds. D. Mashek and A. Aron. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Aron, E. N., Aron, A., & Davies, K. (2005). "Adult Shyness: The Interaction of Temperamental Sensitivity and a Negative Childhood Environment." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 181-197.
Aron, E. N. (2004). "Revisiting Jung's Concept of Innate Sensitiveness." Journal of Analytical Psychology, 49, 337-367.
E. Aron, The Clinical Implications of Jungs Concept of Sensitiveness, Journal of Jungian Theory and Practice, 8,2006, 11-43. Available online at
www.junginstitute.org or download the PDF
Jagiellowicz, J., Xu, X., Aron, A., Aron, E., Cao, G,, Feng, T., & Weng, X. (2010) The trait of sensory processing sensitivity and neural responses to changes in visual scenes. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. [Advance Access published March 4, 2010; will appear in May issue]
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Aron, A., Ketay, S., Hedden, T., Aron, E. N., Markus, H. R., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (2010) Temperament trait of sensory processing sensitivity moderates cultural differences in
neural response. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. [Advance Access published April 13, 2010; will appear in June issue]
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(If you have access to library materials on line, search PsychInfo and you will also find articles written by other psychologists on sensitivity or sensory-processing sensitivity as well as on related ideas such as "biological sensitivity to context." Search for "sensitivity.")
The three articles titled "Sensory-Processing Sensitivity and Its Relation to Introversion and Emotionality," "Revisiting Jung's Concept of Innate Sensitiveness," and "Adult Shyness: The Interaction of Temperamental Sensitivity and a Negative Childhood Environment" can be obtained easily online through university libraries, or perhaps from the websites of the journals themselves. If you are a researcher and cannot obtain these three online, reprints can be obtained by sending $5.00 to cover postage to the PO Box address below. We cannot provide the chapters at all, or the articles to the general public, because we don't own the copyright. (Reprints of the articles are sent to fellow researchers as a professional courtesy.)
Media or Researcher Contact Channels
Media contacts requesting interviews or arranging for possible speaking opportunities, and researchers seeking contact regarding the concept of high sensitivity may write to Elaine Aron at:
2439 28th Avenue,
San Francisco, CA 94116
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