Academic lineage of W. J. Brogden & Harry Harlow

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Can anyone tell me who W. J Brogden and/or Harry Harlow studied with? Harlow (creator of the wire mother monkey studies on affection) gained his MD at U of Stanford in 1930. I am trying to trace an academic lineage and I am stuck at these names. Thanks!

-- Kim Wade (kimberley.wade@vuw.ac.nz), January 26, 2002

Answers

According to L. Zusne's _Biogrpahical Dictionary of Psychology_, Harlow earned his PhD in Experimetnal Psychology at Stanford in 1930 under the supervision of Calvin P. Stone. There is no mention of an MD. Stone, in turn, earned his PhD at Minnesota in 1921 under Karl Lashley.

Zusne does not list Brogden.

-- Christopher Green (christo@yorku.ca), January 26, 2002.


I have tried to find out more information about W.J. Brogden using PsycInfo. Unfortunately, I have not been able to trace his PhD dissertation. He was at U. Wisconsin back to the mid-1940s at least (before that the journals do not porovide affiliations for authors). His earliest publication (at least among those journals included in the PsycInfo database) was:

Culler, E.; Finch, G.; Girden, E.; Brogden, W. (1935). Measurements of acuity by the conditioned-response technique. Journal of General Psychology, 12, 223-227.

I have not yet been able to find discover more about Culler, Finch, or Girden, which might give the key to his intellectual heritage.

-- Christopher Green (christo@yorku.ca), January 27, 2002.


Finch and Girden turn out to have been rather minor figures whose earliest publications were at about the same timeas Brogden's (though Finch co-authored a 1937 article with Yerkes and others). E. A. Culler is more significant, however, and may be your man. Elmer A. Culler was at the Univerisity of Rochester psych. dept. in the late 1910s or early 1920s (see the obit. of Nathan Gross at http://www.umich.edu/~urecord/0001/Sep05_00/28.htm) . The earliest publications listed for him on PsycInfo are 1926 articles in JEP and Arch. of Psych. (but he worked on the physiology of the ear and neurology of hearing, so there may well be earlier ones in non-psych. journals). He also had a 1941 article in _Ohio Journal of Science_ so one possible track is that he moved from Rochester to some school in Ohio. His works are still regularly cited, as a Yahoo! search will show.

-- Christopher Green (christo@yorku.ca), January 28, 2002.

The 1948 and 1963 APA Directories say that Wilfred John Brogden was born May 6, 1912. He earned his PhD at the University of Illinois in 1936. He was at the Johns Hopkins Medical School from 1936 to 1939 and at the University of Wisconsin after that. He was a psychology professor and was assistant (1946-1951) and associate (1951-1958) dean of the graduate school. He was made a Fellow of the APA in 1940.

-- Warren Street (warren@cwu.edu), February 01, 2002.

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