Edwin G. Boring

Edwin Garrigues Boring (October 23, 1886-July 1, 1968) was an experimental psychologist who later became one of the first historians of psychology.

Life

Edwin Garrigues Boring was born in Philadelphia, in 1886.

He received a degree in engineering from Cornell University, in 1908.He returned to Cornell for an M.A. degree in psychology, in 1912 and PhD in 1014. He taught at Cornell from 1911 to 1918 and at Clark University from 1919 to 1922. The Edwin Boring began his long career at Harvard University. He taught at Harvard from 1922 until his retirement in 1957 and director of the ppsychological laboratory there from 1924 to 1949. Under his direction the developments of psychology and philosophy were separated in 1934, and in 1945 the divisions experimental and physiological psychology were separated from those of social and clinical psychology.

From 1924 to 1949 Boring was director of the psychological laboratory at Harvard University, where his goal became to free psychology from its status as a subsection of the Department of Philosophy. Boring was successful and established an independent Department of Psychology in 1934. His emphasized the use of the experimental method to investigate psychological questions rather than the tools of philosophy.

He was president of the American Psychological Association in 1928.

Books

Boring, E. G. (1942). Sensation and perception in the history of experimental psychology. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts.

Boring, E. G. (1950). A history of experimental psychology (2nd ed.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

External links

• Short biography
• National Academy of Sciences
• Edwin G. Boring
• The History Channel - Boring
• Revisionist view of Boring

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