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Born: July 19, 1878; Died: June 21, 1955
Dearborn was born in Marblehead, MA. He attended Wesleyan University in Connecticut, graduating with a B.A. in 1900 and attending as a graduate student in 1900–1901. He taught for a time in Connecticut schools and received an M.A. from Wesleyan in 1903. He then went to Columbia for his Ph.D. work under the direction of W. S. Woodworth and J. McK. Cattell. Dearborn was one of several researchers, including C. H. Judd who also had Wesleyan connections, inducted into the study of eye movements by the technical advances in their measurement and photographic recording pioneered by Dodge and Erdmann between 1896 and 1898. Dearborn, in his 1905 thesis, The Psychology of Reading: An Experimental Study of the Reading Pauses and Movements of the Eye, wrote that he was “indebted to Professor Dodge for whatever knowledge I may have secured of the technique and methods of the experiments” (Dearborn 1906, p. 150).
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Devonis, D.C. (2012). Dearborn, Walter F.. 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_124
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