Donald Templer
{{Short description|American psychologist}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2019}}
Donald I. Templer was a retired American psychologist best known for ideas on race and intelligence, and his association with the white nationalist group American Renaissance. He was formerly a professor of psychology at Alliant International University in Fresno, California.{{cite book|title=The Myth of Race|title-link=The Myth of Race|chapter=America's virulent racists: The sick ideas and perverted "science" of the American Renaissance Foundation|chapter-url=http://www.salon.com/2014/10/11/americas_virulent_racists_the_sick_ideas_and_perverted_science_of_the_american_renaissance_foundation/|last=Sussman |first=Robert Wald |authorlink=Robert Sussman|date=11 October 2014|via=Salon.com|access-date=8 August 2016}}
Education and career
Templer received his Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky in 1967.{{cite journal|last1=Beshai|first1=J. A.|title=Dialogue with Donald Templer|journal=OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying|date=1 June 2007|volume=54|issue=4|pages=337–349|doi=10.2190/U341-87P1-2T58-2M2Q|pmid=18186427|s2cid=145565995}} He was a professor of psychology at Alliant International University in Fresno, California.
Research
= Death Anxiety Scale =
Templer developed the Death Anxiety Scale, the best-known scale used to measure death anxiety, in 1970.{{Cite journal|last=Templer|first=Donald I.|date=1 April 1970|title=The Construction and Validation of a Death Anxiety Scale|journal=The Journal of General Psychology|volume=82|issue=2|pages=165–177|doi=10.1080/00221309.1970.9920634|issn=0022-1309|pmid=4394812}}{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ziZACwAAQBAJ | title=Death Anxiety Handbook: Research, Instrumentation, And Application | publisher=Taylor & Francis | author=Neimeyer, Robert A. | year=2015 | pages=32| isbn=9781317763673 }}
= Race and intelligence =
Templer's most recent studies focused on race and intelligence and he spoke on the subject at white nationalist American Renaissance conferences. Templer and Hiroko Arikawa argued in a 2006 study that colder climates favor higher IQs because it is more difficult to live in such areas.{{cite web|title=Why Is Average IQ Higher in Some Places?|url=http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-is-average-iq-higher-in-some-places/|author=Eppig, Christopher|date=6 September 2011|work=Scientific American|access-date=8 August 2016}}{{cite journal|last1=Templer|first1=Donald I.|last2=Arikawa|first2=Hiroko|date=March 2006|title=Temperature, skin color, per capita income, and IQ: An international perspective|journal=Intelligence|volume=34|issue=2|pages=121–139|citeseerx=10.1.1.174.945|doi=10.1016/j.intell.2005.04.002}} Templer described "race realists" as modern-day Galileos, and argued that the compensated sterilization of welfare recipients would be cost saving, and prevent "burdens" on society.
== Retraction of 2012 article ==
On 17 June 2020, publisher Elsevier announced it was retracting an article that Templer and J. Philippe Rushton had published in 2012 in the Elsevier journal Personality and Individual Differences.{{Cite journal |last1=Rushton |first1=J. Philippe |last2=Templer |first2=Donald I. |date=2012-07-01 |title=RETRACTED: Do pigmentation and the melanocortin system modulate aggression and sexuality in humans as they do in other animals? |journal=Personality and Individual Differences |language=en |volume=53 |issue=1 |pages=4–8 |doi=10.1016/j.paid.2012.02.015 |issn=0191-8869|doi-access=free }}{{Retracted|doi=10.1016/j.paid.2021.110726|http://retractionwatch.com/2020/06/17/elsevier-journal-to-retract-2012-paper-widely-derided-as-racist/ Retraction Watch|http://retractionwatch.com/2020/12/29/psychology-journal-retracts-two-articles-for-being-unethical-scientifically-flawed-and-based-on-racist-ideas-and-agenda/ Retraction Watch|intentional=yes}}{{cite web|title=Personality and Individual Differences Retracts Rushton and Templer Article|url=https://www.journals.elsevier.com/personality-and-individual-differences/announcements/rushton-and-templer-article|access-date=19 June 2020}} The article claimed that there was scientific evidence that skin color was related to aggression and sexuality in humans.{{cite web|title=Elsevier journal to retract 2012 paper widely derided as racist|date=17 June 2020|url=https://retractionwatch.com/2020/06/17/elsevier-journal-to-retract-2012-paper-widely-derided-as-racist/|access-date=19 June 2020}}{{Cite book|url=https://www.journals.elsevier.com/personality-and-individual-differences/announcements/rushton-and-templer-article|title=Personality and Individual Differences Retracts Rushton and Templer Article|publisher=Elsevier|year=2020}}
= Penis size =
In 2002, he published the book Is Size Important?, which focuses on variations in human penis size and preferences for penises of certain sizes. He appeared on the Howard Stern Show to discuss this subject in 2007, where Stern referred to him as "Dr. Penis".{{Cite web|url=https://www.pressreader.com/canada/calgary-herald/20071213/282153581942481|title=Does Size Matter?|author=Keenan, Tom|website=Calgary Herald|date=13 December 2007|access-date=3 November 2017}}
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