Joseph Delboeuf

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Joseph Rémi Léopold Delbœuf (September 30, 1831 in Liege, Belgium — August 14, 1896 in Bonn, Germany) was a Belgian philosopher, mathematician, experimental psychologist, hypnotist and psychophysicist.[1]

Delboeuf began his psychophysical experimentation on brightness in 1865 with Gustav Fechner. The most important idea that Delboeuf introduced to psychophysics was that of the sense distance (contraste sensible).[1]

Delboeuf is probably best known for his description the Delboeuf illusion in 1893. Many experiments have been performed on this illusion since that time.

Works

Articles in Popular Science Monthly

  • "Dwarfs and Giants", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 22, April 1883
  • "What May Animals Be Taught?", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 29, June 1886
  • "The Psychology of Lizards", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 43, September 1893
  • "Affections and Jealousies of Lizards", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 50, January 1897
  • "In a World Half as Large", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 52, March 1898

See also

Further reading

  • François Duyckaerts, (1992). Joseph Delbœuf philosophe et hypnotiseur,
  • LeBlanc, A. (2004). Thirteen Days: Joseph Delboeuf versus Pierre Janet on the Nature of Hypnotic Suggestion, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 40, 123-147.

References

  1. ^ a b Leonard Zusne (1984). "Biographical Dictionary of Psychology". Google Books. Retrieved 2015-06-28.
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