ACADEMIC PEDIGREE

A Genealogy of Direct Doctoral Descent
 
 

FIVE LINEAGES

GENERATION	FIRST	SECOND	THIRD	FOURTH	FIFTH
I.	William James 1,3,4,5,6,7,8	Wilhelm Wundt 3,4,6,7			William James 1,3,4,5,6,7,8
	1901 Harvard	1885 Leipzig	1886 Leipzig		1878 Harvard
II.	Edwin B. Holt 3,6	Hugo Münsterberg 1,3,4,6,7,8	James McKeen Cattell 1,3,5,6,7,8		Granville Stanley Hall 1,3,4,6,7
	1915 Harvard		1899 Columbia	1905 Columbia	1886 Johns Hopkins
III.	Edward C. Tolman 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8		Robert S. Woodworth 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8	V. A. C. Henmon 3	Joseph Jastrow 1,3
	1928 Berkeley		1923 Columbia	1918 Wisconsin
IV.	Robert C. Tryon		Harold E. Jones	Clark L. Hull 1,3,4,6,7,8
	1947 Berkeley			1936 Yale
V.	Donald T. Campbell 2,5,7,8,9			Carl I. Hovland 2,3,4,5,6,7,8
	1972 Northwestern			1941 Yale
VI.	David A. Kenny 8,9			David C. McClelland 2,7,8
	1975 Harvard
VI.	Dean Keith Simonton

  N.B.: Tolman received his PhD under both Holt and Münsterberg, with Holt primary; although Jastrow supervised Hull's doctoral thesis, Hull identified Henmon as his mentor in graduate school; Campbell received his under both Tryon and Jones; and Simonton received his under both Kenny and McClelland, with Kenny the supervisor of his thesis and his Harvard mentor.
 
 

Notes

¹President, American Psychological Association (APA).
²Recipient, APA's Distinguished Scientific Contribution or Gold Medal awards.
³Entry in Zusne's (1984) Biographical Dictionary of Psychology (1984).
⁴Entry in World Who's Who in Science (1968).
⁵Member, National Academy of Sciences.
⁶Entry in Encyclopaedia Britannica (1994).
⁷Entry in Sheely, Chapman & Conroy's (1997) Biographical Dictionary of Psychology.
⁸Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
⁹Distinguished Scientist Award, Society for Experimental Social Psychology.
 
 

Sources

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Hovland, C. I. (1937). The generalization of conditioned responses: II. The sensory generalization of conditioned responses with varying intensities of tone. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 51, 279-291.

Innis, N. K. (1992). Tolman and Tryon: Early research on the inheritance of the ability to learn. Special Issue: The history of American psychology. American Psychologist, 47, 190-197.

Sanford, R. N., Eichhorn, D. H., & Honzik, M. P. (1944). Harold E. Jones. Journal of Consulting Psychology, 8, 198.

Winter, D. G. (1998). David C. McClelland: Personality and motivation researcher 1917-1998. APS Observer, 11, 37-38.

Zusne, L. (1984). Biographical dictionary of psychology. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
 

Revised: July 18, 2012

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