Karl M. Dallenbach was an American experimental psychologist and editor of The American Journal of Psychology for almost 50 years. He was a student of Edward Bradford Titchener, receiving his Ph.D. degree in 1913, and was a member of the faculties of departments of psychology at Oregon State University, Ohio State University, Cornell University, and The University of Texas at Austin.
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Dallenbach was born in Champaign, Illinois, on October 20, 1887, and died on December 23, 1971 (Dallenbach 1967; Boring 1958; Evans 1972; Evans 2006). He received his BA at the University of Illinois where he took classes in psychology from E. B. Titchener’s student, John Wallace Baird. After graduating from the University of Illinois Dallenbach received a fellowship to the University of Pittsburg in psychology, receiving there an MA degree in 1910. He had plans for a medical degree but when he received the Sage Fellowship in Psychology to Cornell University to study under...
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Evans, R.B. (2012). Dallenbach, Karl M.. In: Rieber, R.W. (eds) Encyclopedia of the History of Psychological Theories. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0463-8_318
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