Catharine Cox Miles
Catharine Cox Miles (birth name Catharine Morris Cox ; * 1890 in San Jose , California , † October 11, 1984 in Sandy Spring , Maryland ) was an American psychologist .
Life
Cox received his PhD from Stanford University and worked with u. a. with Lewis M. Terman . Catharine M. Cox was married to the experimental psychologist Walter R. Miles .
In 1926, Cox retrospectively measured the intelligence quotient of famous men and women who had lived between 1450 and 1850 on the basis of available data . Here, John Stuart Mill , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz performed particularly well. However, Cox's methodology has been criticized.
Publications
- Catharine M. Cox: The early mental traits of 300 geniuses. Stanford University Press, 1926
- Catharine Cox Miles: The Rôle of Individual Psychological Difference in Social Psychology . In: Social Forces. 15 (1937), pp. 469-472.
literature
- Robert R. Sears: Catharine Cox Miles: 1890-1984 . In: The American Journal of Psychology . tape 99 , no. 3 , 1986, pp. 431-433 , JSTOR : 1422495 .
Web links
- Estimated IQs of some of the Greatest Geniuses , article by Ulf Norlinger, 1998
- Cox's Study of 300 (301) Eminent Geniuses born from 1450 to 1850, including Flynn Effect Calculations, listed alphabetically and by descending IQ on the IQ Comparison Site
Individual evidence
- ↑ Laura Ball: Catharine Cox Miles - Psychology's Feminist Voices. In: www.feministvoices.com. Retrieved June 22, 2016 .
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SURNAME | Miles, Catharine Cox |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cox, Catharine Morris |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American psychologist |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1890 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | San Jose (California) |
DATE OF DEATH | October 11, 1984 |
Place of death | Sandy Spring , Maryland |