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Edwin G. Boring, 1961 (Photographer unknown: Gift. Dr. Boring; Source: Images from the History of Medicine (NLM), Record: 101410611)
Edwin G. Boring, 1961 (Photographer unknown: Gift. Dr. Boring; Source: Images from the History of Medicine (NLM), Record: 101410611)

Edwin G. Boring

(1886-1968)
First Major Historian of Psychology
Visual Perception Research

Edwin Garrigues “Gary” Boring was an experimental psychologist and a historian of psychology.  He joined the Harvard faculty as an associate...

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Roger Brown

Roger Brown

(1925-1997)
Pioneer of the Modern Science of Language
Solidarity in Language and Syntheses of Social Psychology

Roger W. Brown was Professor of Social Psychology at Harvard University from 1962 to 1994.  Today Brown is acknowledged as the founder of...

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Jerome Bruner, circa 1936 at Duke University as a junior (Image Source: The Chanticleer 1936, Wikimedia Commons)
Jerome Bruner, circa 1936 at Duke University as a junior (Image Source: The Chanticleer 1936, Wikimedia Commons)

Jerome Bruner

(1915-2016)
Perceptual Organization, Cognition, and Learning Theory
The Role of Narrative in Psychology and Law

“Any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.”
– from The Process of Education...

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