11-May-2021

Podcast: What was the impetus for the development of the Reiss Motivation Profile®?

 

In an interview with RMP Master Juergen Ruff, Maggi M. Reiss, President of IDS Publishing Corporation, reveals how animal learning studies with rats and rabbits eventually led to the development of a powerful tool for understanding why people do what they do.

 

 
Is President of IDS Publishing Corporation. After graduating from Smith College with a Bachelor of Arts degree awarded magna cum laude, she earned a read more...
Is President of IDS Publishing Corporation. After graduating from Smith College with a Bachelor of Arts degree awarded magna cum laude, she earned a Master’s degree in psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her undergraduate education was supported by two prestigious fellowships from the National Science Foundation, and her graduate studies were supported by a distinguished fellowship from the National Institute of Mental Health. She worked as a school psychologist for 25 years and also served as an educational judge for 12 years, deciding disputes between parents and school districts concerning students with special needs. In her role as President of IDS, she was instrumental in transitioning the company from a national publisher of products for people with developmental disabilities into a global publisher of the Reiss Motivation Profile®. Her primary responsibilities are to maintain the RMP’s high scientific standards and to increase its global presence. Specifically, she edited five books on the RMP, was the force behind the creation of the Reiss School Motivation Profile® (RSMP), standardized the scale names across all versions of the test, updated the interpretations for the reports, wrote explanations for the average desires, expanded the RSMP to assess all 16 basic desires, developed guidelines for certification training, worked with professional translators to ensure the precise translation of the test items into 19 languages, and added seven new partnerships. She has written numerous articles about the Reiss Motivation Profile® as The Science of Motivation® and has given talks in several states in addition to three foreign countries.
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