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Clark, Lee Anna

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Early Life and Educational Background

Clark was born in Vermont on June 11, 1951, but spent most of her early years in Denver, Colorado. She attended Cornell University, graduating in 1972 in the College Scholar Program with a self-designed Psycholinguistics major, after which she taught English at Japan’s Sapporo Medical School for 3 years. She then returned to Cornell University, taught Japanese in its Intensive Language program, and completed an M.A. in East Asian Studies in 1977. She did her doctoral work at the University of Minnesota in Clinical Psychology with a minor emphasis in Personality. There she met and married David Watson. Working with James N. Butcher and Auke Tellegen as her major advisors, she integrated her background in Japan studies with her work in clinical psychology, collecting her dissertation data at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan, where she developed a consolidated translation of the MMPI, integrating multiple previous translations into a single version...

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Clark, L.A. (2017). Clark, Lee Anna. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_402-1

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