Gregory Adams Kimble (October 21, 1917 – January 15, 2006) was an American general psychologist and a professor at Duke University, a position from which he retired in 1984.[1] He was known for his efforts to unify psychology as a single scientific discipline,[2] and for his lifelong devotion to behaviorism.[3] He also served as an advisor to the magazine Psychology Today in the 1980s, when it was owned by the American Psychological Association (APA),[4][5] of which he became a fellow in 1951.[6] His positions at the APA itself included presidency of its Divisions of General Psychology and Experimental Psychology. He received the APA's Award for Distinguished Career Contributions to Education and Training in 1999,[7] as well as the C. Alan Boneau Award from the APA's Division of General Psychology.[1][8]
Gregory Kimble | |
|---|---|
| Born | Gregory Adams Kimble October 21, 1917 |
| Died | January 15, 2006 (aged 88) |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | University of Iowa (Ph.D., 1945) |
| Awards | 1996 Ernest R. Hilgard Lifetime Achievement Award from Division 1 of the American Psychological Association 1998/1999 Award for Distinguished Career Contributions to Education and Training from the American Psychological Association |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Psychology |
| Institutions | Duke University |
| Thesis | Classical conditioning as a function of the time between conditioned and unconditioned stimuli (1945) |
| Doctoral advisor | Kenneth W. Spence |
References
edit- ^ a b "1998/1999 APA Education and Training Awards" (PDF). Psychology Teacher Network. American Psychological Association. March–April 1999. Retrieved 2018-06-11.
- ^ Simonton, Dean Keith (2015-03-31). "Unifying Psychology as a Physical Science". APS Observer. Vol. 28, no. 4. Association for Psychological Science.
- ^ Mills, John A. (2000-08-01). Control: A History of Behavioral Psychology. NYU Press. p. 187. ISBN 9780814761243.
- ^ Holden, Constance (1999-05-11). "Rehab for Psychology Mag". Science. Retrieved 2018-06-11.
- ^ Mervis, Jeffrey (1988-04-04). "Society Learns From Magazine Sale". The Scientist.
- ^ Psychology and Learning. American Psychological Association. 1985. p. 7. ISBN 9780912704937.
- ^ No authorship indicated (1999). "Gregory Adams Kimble: Award for Distinguished Career Contributions to Education and Training". American Psychologist. 54 (11): 979–988. doi:10.1037/h0088208. ISSN 1935-990X.
- ^ Boneau, C. Alan; Wertheimer, Michael (2006). "Obituaries: Gregory A. Kimble (1917-2006)". American Psychologist. 61 (6): 632–633. doi:10.1037/0003-066x.61.6.632. ISSN 1935-990X.
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