Goldine C. Gleser (1915 – 2004) was an American psychologist and statistician known for her research on the statistics of psychological testing, on generalizability theory, on defence mechanisms, on the psychological effects on child survivors of the Buffalo Creek flood, for her work with Mildred Trotter on estimation of stature, and for her participation in the Cincinnati Radiation Experiments.
She studied mathematics at Washington University in St. Louis, graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1935 and earning a master's degree in 1936.
Although she was working towards a doctorate in mathematics, she interrupted her studies to marry a civil engineer, and later switched to psychology, completing a Ph.D. at Washington University in 1950.
[1][2] Gleser began part-time work at the University of Cincinnati in 1956, and in 1964 became a full professor of psychiatry and psychology.
She was director of the university's psychology division beginning in 1967, and chief outpatient psychologist at Cincinnati General Hospital from 1968 to 1972.