biography
pronunciation:
[muhkdoogl]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1871–1938)
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| biography:
| Psychologist, born in Chadderton, Lancashire, NW England, UK. After studying at Manchester, Cambridge, and Göttingen universities, in 1898 he accompanied an anthropological expedition to the Torres Strait. He held academic posts at both Oxford and Cambridge, and in 1920 went to Harvard as professor of psychology. In 1927 he transferred to Duke University, NC, where he conducted experiments in parapsychology. Influential in establishing experimental and physiological psychology, he expounded his theories in the well-known Introduction to Social Psychology (1908). |
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