Aric Sigman

Aric Sigman is an American psychologist. His writings have been revered by many who see the declining awareness of good parenting practices and the increasingly deteriorating psychological condition of children in first world countries. His work has been published in a multitude of scientific journals, as mentioned on his website. https://adc.bmj.com/content/97/11/935.short However, a review of his many publications reveals co-authorship of only 4 peer reviewed original research studies. Excluding newspaper and website articles the remaining 17 article are opinion, commentary and reviews of others work. Consequently, the Scopus Scholar h-index associated with Dr Aric Sigman is 4Below the level deemed acceptable for appointment as Junior faculty at a University

Sigman was born in the United States into a Jewish family.His father and grandfather were both professors of medicine.He has lived in Britain since 1973.

He has made many appearances on day-time TV.For instance, he appeared in 1994 in the role of an Agony Uncle giving advice to children on the Saturday Morning children's programme Live & Kicking.He is quite involved in the field of health education writing in numerous tabloids such as Britain's Daily Mail.He lectures in schools on the subject of PSHE (Personal, social health and economic) education.

He has published medical journal articles and has authored books too.These have centred on subjects popular with the tabloid media such as alcoholism, eating disorders and the influence on children of hours spent in front of an electronic screen such as a TV or computer.

In 1982, Sigman released a 45 single on Savman Productions, a company owned by his brother Nick Sigman.

He had an A-side track "Come On" and the B-side track "I am a Nerd," both performed in a new wave, synth style, with lyrics about a science-oriented, math scholar who has a penchant for computers.,

Sigman has been labeled as a "pseudoscientist" and accused of "cherry picking scientific literature". His essays have been described as fanciful, and deliberately incomplete. His articles have been sharply criticized for their omissions by scientists such as Dr Ben Goldacre and the NHS. One such example of this is in his use of the paper "The Internet Paradox" in his Article "Well connected? The biological implications of ‘social networking’ ". In this article, he cites the 1989 paper The Internet Paradox", which finds a weak correlation between Internet use and depression/loneliness. However, when the same authors revisited their sample group 3 years later, and found that the observed effects had dissipated, and that "This sample generally experienced positive effects of using the Internet on communication, social involvement, and well-being."

In an article in the Guardian in 2011, his paper in the Biologist was described as "misrepresenting individual studies" by Professor Dorothy Bishop. In response to these claims Sigman said that "It was clear that my article on daycare wasn't a scientific paper."