Jean Maria Arrigo (April 30, 1944 – February 24, 2024) was an American social psychologist and oral historian.
[1] Arrigo then earned a master's degree (1995), and PhD (1999) from Claremont Graduate University in social psychology.
[1] Arrigo was a member of a 2005 American Psychological Association (APA) task force evaluating the role of psychologists in U.S. intelligence and military interrogations of detainees.
[2] She became known for exposing conflicts of interest of most of the others on the nominally independent task force, who were allied in advance with advocates of harsh interrogation methods.
[3][4] For her whistleblowing actions, the APA honored Arrigo in 2015,[5] and the American Association for the Advancement of Science presented their 2015 AAAS Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility to her.