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Born: May 20, 1890; Died: October 11, 1984
Born Catherine Cox in San Jose, CA, Miles obtained her B.A. from Stanford in 1911 and M.A. 2 years later in German language and literature. Thereafter, she was at the College of the Pacific and moved upward through the academic ranks there through 1920. During the First World War, Miles, adevout Quaker, contributed to the humanitarian efforts of the American Friends Service and was involved in distributing food in Germany after the war.
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She returned to Stanford in 1920 to pursue adoctorate with Lewis S. Terman, who at that time was beginning his longitudinal studies of genius. These did not offer sufficient material at the time for her dissertation, so Cox chose aproblem based on Terman’s procedure for estimating intelligence from historical data. She conducted ameticulous historiographic study of the personal characteristics related to intelligence of over 300 eminent...
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Cox, C.M. (1925). On the early mental development of agroup of eminent men. PhD thesis, Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford, CA.
Miles, C.C. (1937). The role of individual differences in social psychology. Social Forces, 15, 469–472.
Miles, C.C. (1939). Individual differences in personality. In E.G. Boring, H.S. Langfeld, & H.P. Weld (Eds.), Introduction to psychology. New York: Wiley.
Miles, C.C. (1946). Gifted children. In L. Carmichael (Ed.), Manual of child psychology. New York: Wiley.
Terman, L., & Miles, C.C. (1936). Sex and personality: Studies in masculinity and femininity. New York: McGraw-Hill.
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Devonis, D.C. (2012). Cox, C. 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_83
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