Paul Thomas Young
American psychologist (1892–1978)
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Paul Thomas Young (1892–1978) was an American experimental psychologist and inventor.[1]
Young originally studied at Occidental College and Princeton, and subsequently at Cornell, where his doctoral adviser was Edward Titchener. For most of his career, he was a faculty member at the University of Illinois. In 1928, he constructed the pseudophone, an acoustic device that induced a form of auditory illusion by distorting the direction from which an audible sound appeared to originate.[2][3]
Young's primary area of research interest was motivation and emotion, in both humans and animals. He received the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the American Psychological Association in 1965.[4]
Key publications
- Emotion in man and animal: Its nature and relation to attitude and motive. Oxford, England: Wiley, 1943.
- The role of affective processes in learning and motivation. Psychological Review 66 (2), 1959, S. 104–125.
- Motivation and emotion: a survey of the determinants of human and animal activity. Oxford, England: Wiley, 1961.
