Charles H. Judd

Charles Hubbard Judd (1873-1946)

Charles Hubbard Judd (born February 20, 1873 in Bareilly ( India ), † July 18, 1946 in Santa Barbara ) was an American developmental and social psychologist and university professor. His contributions helped create the foundations of these disciplines in the USA. In 1909 he was the president of the American Psychological Association .

His parents were missionaries in India; he did not come to the USA until 1879. Judd attended Wesleyan University in Connecticut, where he heard Andrew Campbell Armstrong. He received his doctorate from the University of Leipzig as the second American (after James McKeen Cattell ) with Wilhelm Wundt , whose main work Grundriss der Psychologie he translated into English. In doing so, he carried experimental psychology across the Atlantic. Judd headed the psychological laboratory at Yale University from 1907-1909 . From 1909 to 1938 he was director of the Department of Education at the University of Chicago .

Famous works are Genetic Psychology for Teachers (1903), Psychology of High-School Subjects (1915), Psychology of Social Institutions (1926), Education as Cultivation of the Higher Mental Processes (1936). In it he analyzed the developmental psychology of school curricula . He later expanded his research to include other social groups. Judd was an opponent of Edward L. Thorndike's transfer theory , which he thought was too closely tied to nearly identical transfers. He thought a loose generalization was possible. In particular, he criticized the speculation about neural connections. He was one of the first to do experiments on reading , which his student Guy Buswell in particular developed. The core was an eye movement camera to precisely measure attention.

Like Wundt, he also dealt with ethnic psychology , which he translated into social psychology . But that remained an episode and met with little interest in the USA. Jerome Bruner first opened up this as cultural psychology in the 1960s .

Fonts

Psychology of High School Subjects. Ginn and Company, 1915
with Leon Marshall: Lessons in community and national life. Series B, for the first class of the high school and the upper grades of the elementary school . United States. Bureau of Education; United States. Food and Drug Administration, 1918
with Guy Thomas Buswell : Silent Reading: A Study of the Various Types. No. 23. University of Chicago, 1922, ND 2018 ISBN 978-0265190128
The Psychology of Social Institutions , 1926
Education as Cultivation of the Higher Mental Processes, New York 1936

Web links

Guy Th. Buswell: Biography

Individual evidence

^ Adrian Brock: Charles Hubbard Judd: A Wundtian Social Psychologist in the United States. In: Psychology and History. 1992, accessed June 7, 2020 .
^ David C. Berliner, Robert C. Calfee: Handbook of Educational Psychology . Routledge, 1996, ISBN 978-0-8058-5080-2 ( google.de [accessed June 7, 2020]).
↑ Michael Cole: Cultural Psychology: A Once and Future Discipline . Harvard University Press, 1998, ISBN 978-0-674-17956-1 ( google.de [accessed June 7, 2020]).

personal data
SURNAME	Judd, Charles H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Judd, Charles Hubbard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH	February 20, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bareilly , India
DATE OF DEATH	July 18, 1946
Place of death	Santa Barbara, California , USA

[1] Adrian Brock: Charles Hubbard Judd: A Wundtian Social Psychologist in the United States. In: Psychology and History. 1992, accessed June 7, 2020 .

[2] David C. Berliner, Robert C. Calfee: Handbook of Educational Psychology . Routledge, 1996, ISBN 978-0-8058-5080-2 ( google.de [accessed June 7, 2020]).

[3] Michael Cole: Cultural Psychology: A Once and Future Discipline . Harvard University Press, 1998, ISBN 978-0-674-17956-1 ( google.de [accessed June 7, 2020]).