crash – IBM SPSS Statistics 28 fails to open in macOS 12 (Monterrey)

After a number of makes an attempt, the answer I discovered was to run SPSS with sudo from the terminal:

sudo -b "/Functions/IBM SPSS Statistics/SPSS Statistics.app/Contents/MacOS/stats" 

To facilitate the execution of SPSS on this situation, it’s handy to create a shell script that may be executed by double-clicking on it in Finder (a .command file). To create the script in your Desktop, observe these steps:

1. Open Terminal
2. cd ~/Desktop
3. echo 'sudo -b "/Functions/IBM SPSS Statistics/SPSS Statistics.app/Contents/MacOS/stats"' > SPSS.command
4. chmod a+x SPSS.command

Now you’ll be able to double-click the file SPSS.command, enter your password and SPSS will open.