found: Washington post WWW site, viewed June 15, 2021(in obituary dated June 4, 2021: Arthur W. Staats, a psychologist who made a science of the "timeout," a disciplinary technique that gave exasperated parents an alternative to spanking and helped usher in a new era of child-rearing in the second half of the 20th century, died April 26 at his home in Honolulu. He was 97. Dr. Staats was an emeritus professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Arthur Wilbur Staats was born in Greenburgh, N.Y., on Jan. 17, 1924. He enrolled in the University of California at Los Angeles, where he received a bachelor's degree in 1949, a master's degree in 1953 and a PhD in 1956, all in psychology. Dr. Staats taught at Arizona State University, the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Wisconsin at Madison before joining the University of Hawaii in 1966. He retired in 1997. Dr. Staats wrote numerous books on topics including human behavior, learning and language)
