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Born: July 13, 1875; Died: October 11, 1932
June Downey was the daughter of Evangeline and Col. Stephen Downey, a territorial delegate to the US Congress who was instrumental in the establishment of the University of Wyoming, from which she graduated in 1895 with a degree in Greek and Latin. Aesthetic and literary interests took her to the University of Chicago where, after publishing her first psychological article on group emotional impressions of piano music in the American Journal of Psychology in 1897, she obtained her A.M. in 1898 and returned to Wyoming to teach English and Philosophy (Hogan and Thompson 2003). She was drawn steadily toward experimental psychology, attending Cornell University for a summer session in 1901 and eventually, after publishing a volume of poems, The Heavenly Dykes (Downey 1904), returned to Chicago. There, sponsored by James Rowland Angell, she completed a thesis on control processes in handwriting for her Ph.D. in...
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Devonis, D.C. (2012). Downey, J. E.. 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_86
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