Raymond Cattell was an influential psychologist who developed new analytic techniques that allowed for more nuanced empirical measurements of the components of personality and intelligence.
Cattell did his doctoral work at University College London, under...
“To say that a reinforcement is contingent upon a response may mean nothing more than that it follows the response. It may follow because of some mechanical connection or because of the mediation of another organism; but conditioning takes place...
Erik Erikson’s relationship with Harvard spanned decades, coinciding with some of his most influential works. Born in Frankfurt, and trained in psychoanalysis in Vienna by Anna Freud, Erikson came to Boston in 1933. He accepted an appointment as a...
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 career working for the Hungarian Telephone and Post Office Laboratory on the design of telephone...
Gordon Willard Allport spent nearly his entire academic career at Harvard, completing both his bachelor’s degree and his PhD at the university, and serving as a faculty member from 1930 – 1967.
Allport pioneered research on human personality. At a time...
Henry A. Murray completed his undergraduate studies in history at Harvard in 1915. More than a decade later, with graduate degrees in medicine and biology from Columbia University, a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Cambridge, and an...
Karl Lashley joined the Harvard faculty in 1935, and in the ensuing twenty years he expanded his research on the representation and localization of sensory and motor activity in mammalian brains. Concurrent with the latter half of his tenure at Harvard...
Edwin Garrigues “Gary” Boring was an experimental psychologist and a historian of psychology. He joined the Harvard faculty as an associate professor in 1922, and by 1928 he was full professor. In 1956 he retired, as the Edgar Pierce Professor of...
Mary Whiton Calkins was ready for an academic career before the patriarchal academic world of the late nineteenth century was ready for her. After earning an undergraduate degree in 1882 from Smith College in classics and philosophy, Calkins began to...
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 medical degree from the University of Heidelberg. Having already established the second psychology...
