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Born: September 25, 1863; Died: March 16, 1945
Edmund Burke Delabarre first studied psychology with Charles Edward Garman (1850–1907) at Amherst, graduating in 1883, and then over the next several years studied with William James at Harvard between 1888 and 1890 (contributing a short reminiscence of this time to the Psychological Review’s commemoration of 50 years of the American Psychological Association in 1943), with Binet at the Sorbonne, and with Münsterberg at Freiburg, with whom he took his Ph.D. in 1891 with a thesis on sensations of movement.
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He returned to America and founded Brown laboratory, twelfth in the US (Mitchell 1993). In 1896, he replaced Muensterberg at Harvard as director of the Psychological Laboratory for one year. He continued as director of the Brown Department and was succeeded by Leonard Carmichael. Delabarre’s psychological interests and publications at the beginning of his career were...
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Devonis, D.C. (2012). Delabarre, E. B.. 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_88
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