Hunter B. Shirley (December 25, 1927 – November 1, 2010) born Hunter Barentine Shirley, was a longtime licensed clinical psychologist and a former associate professor at Wisconsin State University where he headed a psychological research laboratory devoted to evaluating the world's first analog model of the mind.
He was most recently the Director of the International Division of the American Institute of Applied Behavioral Research and Human Relations Training.
With offices in Staré Splavy near Prague, Shirley was in charge of a "Think tank" performing behavioral science research for NGOs and government agencies.
His final work The Human Mind: A Guided Tour, a comprehensive compilation of his theories on the emotional system and the human mind developed over a lifetime of clinical and field studies, is in the final phases of editing in preparation for publication.
There he remarried Ava Shirley with whom he lived for the last ten years of his life until he died in 2010 in Česká Lípa in the Czech Republic.