Jack Michael (January 16, 1926 – November 12, 2020) was an American psychologist and professor at Western Michigan University.
His father Lester Lioniel was an automobile mechanic and his mother Willie did not work outside of the home.
[1] As a youth, he joined an inner city Hispanic gang but avoided fights, protected by members who needed his help with their own schoolwork.
[1] He was married to Alyce Dickinson, former chairman of the I/O department at Western Michigan University.
[1] As a professor at the University of Houston, he and his colleague Teodoro Ayllon conducted the well-known study The psychiatric nurse as a behavioral engineer (1959) in the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior (JEAB) where a token economy was employed for hospitalized patients with schizophrenia and intellectual disability.