Guy Montrose Whipple

Guy Montrose Whipple (June 12, 1876 – August 1, 1941) was an American educational psychologist known for developing psychological tests of human intelligence and personality.[4][5] His other research interests included gifted education, literacy, vocational education,[6] and the psychology of eyewitness testimony.[7][8] A 1997 article about giftedness described Whipple as "an all-but-forgotten pioneer in this field".[9]: 7 

Guy Montrose Whipple
Born(1876-06-12)June 12, 1876
Danvers, Massachusetts
DiedAugust 1, 1941(1941-08-01) (aged 65)
Clifton, Massachusetts
CitizenshipAmerican
Education
Known forPsychological testing
Spouse
Clarice Johnson Rogers
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(m. 1901⁠–⁠1941)​
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Children3[2]
Scientific career
FieldsEducational psychology
Institutions
Doctoral advisorEdward B. Titchener[3]

Whipple was born on June 12, 1876, in Danvers, Massachusetts, to John Francis Whipple and Cornelia Eliza Whipple (née Hood).[10] He received his A.B. degree from Brown University in 1897. He then worked at Clark University for a year before joining Cornell University in 1898, where he worked as an assistant in psychology until 1902. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell in 1900 under the supervision of Edward B. Titchener,[3][4] who gained a negative impression of Whipple's interest in psychology during this time.[11] He went on to join the faculty of the University of Illinois in 1914 before joining the University of Michigan, where he was Professor of Experimental Education from 1919 to 1925.[4]

Whipple was a founding member of the advisory committee for the Division of Applied Psychology at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now known as Carnegie Mellon University),[3] as well as one of four founding editors of the Journal of Educational Psychology.[4] He also served alongside Lewis Terman as a member of the American Psychological Association's Committee on the Psychological Examination of Recruits, which helped to develop the Army Alpha and Beta tests used on American soldiers during World War I.[6] He was the editor of elementary school textbooks for D. C. Heath and Company from 1928 to 1937.[4] He died in Clifton, Massachusetts on August 1, 1941, after a brief illness.[4]

References
  1. "Guy Montrose Whipple Bio". University of Michigan. Archived from the original on 2016-12-22. Retrieved 2018-09-25.
  2. "DR. GUY M. WHIPPLE, EDUCATOR AND EDITOR; Psychologist Had Served D. C. Heath, School Book Publisher". The New York Times. 1941-08-03. Retrieved 2018-09-25.
  3. Koppes, Laura L. (2014-02-04). Historical Perspectives in Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Psychology Press. p. 43. ISBN 9781317824480.
  4. Ruckmick, Christian A. (1942). "Guy Montrose Whipple: 1876-1941". The American Journal of Psychology. 55 (1): 132–134. JSTOR 1417042.
  5. Allen, Colin (2002-11-01). "What do you see?". Psychology Today. Retrieved 2018-09-25.
  6. Jolly, Jennifer L. (January 2007). "Historical Perspectives: Guy M. Whipple". Gifted Child Today. 30 (1): 55–57. doi:10.4219/gct-2007-21. ISSN 1076-2175. S2CID 142583002.
  7. Otgaar, Henry; Howe, Mark L.; Merckelbach, Harald; Muris, Peter (2018-09-14). "Who Is the Better Eyewitness? Sometimes Adults but at Other Times Children" (PDF). Current Directions in Psychological Science. 27 (5): 378–385. doi:10.1177/0963721418770998. ISSN 0963-7214. PMC 6187487. PMID 30369724.
  8. Hollin, Clive R. (2013). Psychology and Crime: An Introduction to Criminological Psychology. Routledge. p. 254. ISBN 9780415497039.
  9. Borland, James H. (1997). "The Construct of Giftedness". Peabody Journal of Education. 72 (3/4): 6–20. doi:10.1080/0161956x.1997.9681863. JSTOR 1493033.
  10. campus), University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign (1918). The Semi-centennial Alumni Record of the University of Illinois. University of Illinois. p. 962.
  11. Routh, Donald K. (2013-11-21). Clinical Psychology Since 1917: Science, Practice, and Organization. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 9. ISBN 9781475797121.
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