Douglas Medin

Douglas L. "Doug" Medin (born June 13, 1944)[1] is the Louis W. Menk Professor of Psychology at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.[3]

Douglas L. Medin
Born (1944-06-13) June 13, 1944[1]
Alma materMoorhead State College, University of South Dakota
SpouseLinda Powers[2]
AwardsMember of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the National Academy of Sciences[3]
Scientific career
FieldsPsychology
InstitutionsNorthwestern University
ThesisForm perception and pattern reproduction by monkeys (1968)
Doctoral advisorRoger Davis[2]

Early life and education

Medin first became interested in psychology when he was an eighth-grader in Algona, Iowa. During this time, he and his classmates were sorted into two groups depending on their singing abilities; Medin was assigned to the non-singers' group.[2] He attended Moorhead State College, graduating in 1965 with a B.A. in psychology, and went on to receive his M.A. and Ph.D. in psychology from the University of South Dakota in 1966 and 1968, respectively.[4] His Ph.D. thesis focused on the way that rhesus monkeys perceive shapes.[2]

Career

Medin joined Rockefeller University in 1968 as a postdoctoral fellow, where he became an assistant professor the following year.[4] He remained at Rockefeller until 1978, when he joined the University of Illinois as an associate professor.[2][4] He joined the faculty of the University of Michigan in 1989,[2] and remained there for three years until joining the faculty of Northwestern University in 1992, because it "held better professional opportunities for his wife, Linda Powers," according to a profile of Medin in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.[2]

Research

Medin is best known for his research on concepts and categorization.[5] He has also studied the "role of expertise and culture in the conceptual organization of biological categories."[6]

Honors and awards

Medin was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002, and into the National Academy of Sciences in 2005.[4]

References
  1. "Douglas Medin". Library of Congress. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
  2. Mossman, K. (19 November 2007). "Profile of Douglas Medin". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104 (48): 18883–18885. Bibcode:2007PNAS..10418883M. doi:10.1073/pnas.0710219104. PMC 2141876. PMID 18025454.
  3. "Douglas Medin Profile". Northwestern University. Retrieved 26 September 2015.
  4. "Douglas L. Medin Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Northwestern University. Retrieved 26 September 2015.
  5. "Douglas L. Medin". Association for Psychological Science. 30 April 2013. Retrieved 26 September 2015.
  6. "Kanwisher, Medin Elected to National Academy of Sciences". Psychological Science Agenda. May 2005. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
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