(1933-1984) Obedience to Authority The Small World Experiment - "Six Degrees of Separation"
In 1954 Harvard’s Department of Social Relations took the unusual step of admitting a bright young student who had not taken a single psychology course....
(1920-2012) Father of the Cognitive Revolution Cognitive Psychology, Psycholinguistics, and Cognitive Neuroscience
“My problem is that I have been persecuted by an integer.” So began perhaps the most famous paper in the history of experimental psychology. The Harvard...
(1863-1916) Pioneer of Applied Psychology in Industrym Law, Medicine and Education
Hugo Münsterberg came to Harvard in 1892 with a doctorate in psychology, earned under the supervision of Wilhelm Wundt at the University of Leipzig, and a...
John Lindsley Professor of Psychology in memory of William James and of African and African American Studies
Jim Sidanius was a Professor in the departments of Psychology and African and African American Studies at Harvard University. He received his Ph.D. at the...
Stanley Smith Stevens (Image Source: Fairchild M.D. (2016) Stevens, Stanley Smith. In: Luo M.R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Color Science and Technology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8071-7_314)
(1906-1973) The Power Law Psychophysical Scaling and Measurement Theory
In 1934 Stanley Smith Stevens received his Ph.D. from the newly independent psychology department at Harvard, and two years later accepted a position as...
(1899-1972) Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory Nobel Prize lecture (1961) for work in the Department of Psychology
The only Nobel Prize awarded to a scientist for work in the Department of Psychology at Harvard went to a biophysicist who had spent much of his early...
(1904-2001) Personality and Motivation for Competence Effects of Personality on Political Opinions
Robert White earned his Bachelor of Arts in History in 1925 from Harvard College, and a Masters in American History in 1926 from Harvard....Read more about Robert Winthrop White
