Edwin Boring
Edwin Garrigues (Garry) Boring was an American experimental psychologist, Professor of Psychology at Clark University and at Harvard University, who later became one of the first historians of psychology. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Boring as the 93rd most cited psychologist of the 20th century, tied with John Dewey, Amos Tversky, and Wilhelm Wundt.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Philadelphia
- Educated at
- Cornell UniversityCornell University College of Engineering
- Awards
- 🏆 Honorary Fellow of the British Psychological Society
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Edward B. Titchener
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Stanley Smith Stevens📖 Cooper Harold Langford📖 Leo Hurvich📖 Leo Postman📖 Dorwin Cartwright
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Trending topics shown first"began that metamorphosis of German psychology which was to alter the Teutonic worm of sensory content into the American butterfly of functional reality."
"So far as consciousness goes, one does one's thinking before one knows what he is to think about."
"Half the time I read Hayek's The Sensory Order with amazement at the extent of his reading and comprehension … he is right … most of the time."
"It is not likely that the history of psychology can be written in the next three centuries without mention of Freud's name and still claim to be a general history of psychology... Perhaps, had Freud b…"
"Broca’s famous observation was in itself very simple. There had in 1831 been admitted at the Bicêtre, an insane hospital near Paris, a man whose sole defect seemed to be that he could not talk. He com…"
"Sometimes I fear that, if Harvard does not give up trying to turn itself from an Institution of Learning into an Educational Institution, we may have a generation of professors whose duty it will be t…"
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1886
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Birth1968
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