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Walter Van Dyke Bingham.

Pages: 1 –16

This chapter presents an autobiographical sketch of Walter Van Dyke Bingham. What have I done, in peace and in wartime, to advance psychotechnology and to open doors of opportunity for psychologists by finding the talented, encouraging their advancement, making known their potentialities in...

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Edwin Garrigues Boring.

Boring, Edwin Garrigues

Pages: 27 –52

This chapter presents an autobiographical sketch of Edwin Garrigues Boring. Here am I, a psychologist, born in Philadelphia on October 23, 1886, now sixty-four years old, and asked to write my professional autobiography, to tell what I think I have accomplished, wherein I believe I have failed...

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Cyril Burt.

Burt, Cyril

Pages: 53 –73

This chapter presents an autobiographical sketch of Cyril Burt. I have always thought that every psychologist should regard himself as a kind of problem child, brought to his own psychological laboratory to be studied by the self-same methods and along much the same lines that he would adopt with...

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Richard M. Elliott.

Elliott, Richard M.

Pages: 75 –95

This chapter presents an autobiographical sketch of Richard M. Elliott. A dissection of one's personality can neither be done in short compass nor would it be in keeping with the spirit of this series. The plain fact, well-known to the members of the committee who selected the contributors to...

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Agostino Gemelli.

Gemelli, Agostino

Pages: 97 –121

This chapter presents an autobiographical sketch of Agostino Gemelli. This autobiography will tell only of my career as a psychologist, and, since that career began comparatively late, I shall omit mention of the years between my birth in Milan on January 18, 1878, and my last years as a...

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Arnold Gesell.

Gesell, Arnold

Pages: 123 –142

This chapter presents an autobiographical sketch of Arnold Gesell. William James doubted that the science of psychology can ever become so refined that biographies will be written in advance of the life career. Even autobiographic retrospection, however objective, has its shortcomings. I shall...

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Clark L. Hull.

Hull, Clark L.

Pages: 143 –162

This chapter presents an autobiographical sketch of Clark L. Hull. Following a series of illnesses in college my general health was greatly enfeebled. A year was required to recover even partially from this shock, and this period was spent at my parents' home on the farm in Michigan. This turn of...

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Walter S. Hunter.

Hunter, Walter S.

Pages: 163 –187

This chapter presents an autobiographical sketch of Walter S. Hunter. From February of 1901 to April of 1905, I attended school in Saginaw, Texas during the term and worked in the fields in the summer. Indeed, until my graduation from the University of Texas in June, 1910, I did a man's job in...

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David Katz.

Katz, David

Pages: 189 –211

This chapter presents an autobiographical sketch of David Katz. It seems unlikely that even a professional astrologer could have predicted from my horoscope that psychology would become my lot. I was born on the first of October, 1884, in Kassel, in the Prussian province of Hessen-Nassau. My...

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Albert Michotte.

Michotte, Albert

Pages: 213 –236

This chapter presents an autobiographical sketch of Albert Michotte. When publication of my autobiography was proposed to me, my first reaction was to decline this honor. My life, academic and scientific as well as private, has proceeded so simply, so regularly, and indeed so logically, that it...

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