biography
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Calkins, Mary Whiton
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| female
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| lived:
| (1863–1930)
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| biography:
| Psychologist, born in Hartford, Connecticut, USA. She studied at Harvard and taught at Wellesley College (1887–1929). During the 1890s, she conducted research on memorization-by-association at Harvard, and was influenced by William James. Often called ‘the first lady of psychology’, she was a personality theorist who described the self as an integral unit that could be studied in its many variables. |
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