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Elaine N. Aron is an American clinical research psychologist and author.^[1] Aron has published numerous books and scholarly articles about inherited temperament and interpersonal relationships,^[2] especially on the subject ofsensory processing sensitivity, beginning withThe Highly Sensitive Person (1996),^[3] which has sold over a million copies.^[4]

Aron graduatedPhi Beta Kappa from theUniversity of California, Berkeley, and later earned a Master of Arts inclinical psychology fromYork University (Toronto) and a Ph.D. in clinical depth psychology atPacifica Graduate Institute (Santa Barbara, California).^[2][8] She interned at the C. G. Jung Institute in San Francisco.^[2]

Aron maintains a psychotherapy practice inMill Valley, California.^[8]

Aron is married toSUNY-Stony Brook psychology professorArthur Aron, with whom she collaborates in studies of the interaction of childhood environment withSPS in predicting adult functioning.^[9] In nearly 50 years of studying love, the couple developed a 36-question list, since used in hundreds of studies, to create closeness in a lab setting, to break down barriers between strangers, and improve understanding between police officers and community members.^[10]

Aron's son is television writer Elijah Aron.^[10]

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• The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You (1996)
• The Highly Sensitive Person's Workbook (1999)
• The Highly Sensitive Person in Love: Understanding and Managing Relationships When the World Overwhelms You (2001)
• The Highly Sensitive Child: Helping Our Children Thrive When the World Overwhelms Them (2002)
• The Undervalued Self: Restore Your Love/Power Balance, Transform the Inner Voice That Holds You Back, and Find Your True Self-Worth (2010)
• Psychotherapy and the Highly Sensitive Person: Improving Outcomes for That Minority of People Who Are the Majority of Clients (2010)
• The Highly Sensitive Parent: Be Brilliant in Your Role, Even When the World Overwhelms You (2020)

• Aron, Elaine; Aron, Arthur (1997)."Sensory-Processing Sensitivity and its Relation to Introversion and Emotionality"(PDF).Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.73 (2):345–368.doi:10.1037/0022-3514.73.2.345.PMID 9248053.Archived(PDF) from the original on May 13, 2015.
• Aron, E. N.; Aron, A.; Davies, K. (2005)."Adult shyness: The interaction of temperamental sensitivity and an adverse childhood environment"(PDF).Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.31 (2):181–197.doi:10.1177/0146167204271419.PMID 15619591.S2CID 1679620. Note 3 (p. 195) cites Chenet al. (1992) re social and cultural unacceptability adding to environmental stressors.
• Aron, Elaine N., Ph.D., (July 21, 2011)"Understanding the Highly Sensitivity Person: Sensitive, Introverted, or Both? | Extraverted HSPs face unique challenges" (Archived April 19, 2013, atarchive.today)Psychology Today.
• Aron, Elaine N. (February 2, 2012)."Time Magazine: 'The Power of (Shyness)' and High Sensitivity".Psychology Today.Archived from the original on February 12, 2012.
• Aron, E.; Aron, A.; Jagiellowicz, J. (2012)."Sensory processing sensitivity: A review in the light of the evolution of biological responsivity"(PDF).Personality and Social Psychology Review.16 (3):262–282.doi:10.1177/1088868311434213.PMID 22291044.S2CID 2542035.Archived(PDF) from the original on May 13, 2015.
• Greven, Corina U.; Lionetti, Francesca; Booth, Charlotte; Aron, Elaine N.; et al. (March 2019)."Sensory Processing Sensitivity in the context of Environmental Sensitivity: A critical review and development of research agenda (Review article)".Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews.98. Elsevier:287–305.doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2019.01.009.hdl:2066/202697.PMID 30639671.

• Aron, Elaine N. (February 2, 2012)."Time Magazine: 'The Power of (Shyness)' and High Sensitivity".Psychology Today.Archived from the original on February 12, 2012.

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