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James McKeen Cattell (1860-1944) James McKeen Cattell was born on Mary 25, 1860 in Easton, Pennsylvania. He attended Lafayette College and began his graduate studies at Johns Hopkins University under G. Stanley Hall. Cattell left Johns Hopkins after a disagreement with Hall and then went to Leipzig, Germany to work and finish his graduate degree with William Wundt. He also worked with Hermann Lotze. Cattell finished his Ph.D. in 1896 under Wundt and began lecturing at University of Cambridge in England. He was professor at the University of Pennsylvania and established the first psychology laboratory there. After UPenn he moved to Columbia University and became the department head there. He became the president of the APA in 1895, founded the Psychological Review in 1894, and was the editor for the journal Science. Cattell's biggest contributions to psychology were in the field of mental tests and statistical reasoning. He helped to establish psychology as a legitimate science and showed the importance of data collection and statistical evidence. He researched individual differences, easured simple metnal processes, and was an influentially involved in the APA and many scientific publications. When working on scientific journals he worked to feature many empirical studies in hopes of establishing the importance of research and empirical evidence in psychology.

Leta Stetter Hollingworth (1886-1939) Leta Stetter was born on Mary 25, 1886 in Nebraska. She went to the University of Nebraska, where she met her future husbad Harry Hollingworth, and graduated in 1906 with a Bachelor of Arts degree and a teaching certificate. She began her career teaching, however, when she moved to New York she was no longer able to work as a teacher because she was married. Hollingworth then began to work at the Clearing House for Mental Defectives. Here, she was in charge of giving Binet intelligence tests. After this, she worked at the Bellevue Hospital as the chief at the psychological lab. She received her doctorate under E.L. Thordike and began teaching at a Teacher's college afterwards., where she remained for the rest of her career Throughout her career, L.S. Hollingworth became interested in children with mental gifts and also in women and their abilities. She was one of the first to study children in an education setting and recognize the impact an educational setting may have on one's intellectual abilities. Her dissertation work dealt with women and the misconception of their "psychological impairment" during menstruation. Her work and research established the psychology of women and also challenged many beliefs of big psychologists, like her adviser E.L. Thordike.

Harry Hollingworth (1880-1956) Harry Hollingworth was born in DeWitt, Nebraska in 1880. Before enrolling in college at the age of 23 at the University of Nebraska, he taught for two years and went to preparatory school. He was an instructor at Barnard College and was approached by the Coca-Cola company to investigate the psychological effects of caffeine. His studies helped bring psychology into the field of advertisement. His three studies utilized blind and double blind conditions which had not been seen in psychological research before. After the publicity he received from his work with Coca-Cola he was approached by many other businesses. His work with businesses became the foundation of the field of psychology that is now known as industrial psychology.

Robert Sessions Woodworth (1869-1962) Robert Woodworth was born on October 17, 1869 in Belchertown, Massachusetts. He received his degree from Amherst College and taught mathematics for four years before returning to Harvard University as an undergraduate in 1895. Here he studied psychology with William James and E.L. Thorndike. Following his undergraduate career he became an assistant in the psychology department at Harvard and then went on to a graduate fellowship at Columbia University under James Cattell.

Kazweier (talk) 19:42, 9 October 2012 (UTC)kz