Harold Ernest Burtt

Harold Ernest Burtt also in the name variant Harold E. Burtt (born April 26, 1890 in Haverhill , Essex County , Massachusetts , † August 15, 1991 in Columbus , Franklin County , Ohio ) was an American psychologist and professor .

Life

Family and education

Harold Ernest Burtt, son of Winslow Jordan Burtt (1850-1922) and his wife Annie B. nee Boyer (1860-1942), attended Dartmouth College in Hanover , New Hampshire , where he received his Bachelor of Arts in 1911 . Burtt, who originally had a career as a mathematician , turned to studying psychology at Harvard University , including with Hugo Münsterberg , in 1913 he obtained a Master of Arts and in 1915 a Ph. D. in clinical psychology .

Harold Ernest Burtt married in June 1916 Ruth Madeline (1886–1977), the daughter of Hiram Pearson Macintosh (1859–1934) and his wife Ruth Mary née Brown (1861–1954). The son Benjamin Pickering, who was born in Newburyport in 1921, came from the marriage . Harold Ernest Burtt died in Columbus in the summer of 1991 at the old age of 101.

Professional background

After graduating, Harold Ernest Burtt taught at Simmons College and Harvard University until 1917. In 1918 he served in the United States Army Air Service during World War I. There he examined the significance of lie detectors for the United States Army Intelligence (USAI) together with William Marston at the National Research Council Board . In 1919 he got a job as an instructor in psychology at Ohio State University , where he was promoted to assistant professor in 1921 , and in 1923 to full professor . In 1938 he was appointed head of the Psychology Department , and in 1960 he was ceremoniously retired.

Harold Ernest Burtt, one of the co-founders of the Association for the Advancement of Applied Psychology in 1938, made a name for himself with contributions to applied and industrial psychology . Frank Stanton, one of his students, established the Harold E. Burtt Chair in Psychology in his honor at Ohio State University .

Fonts

• Auditory illusions of movement, a preliminary study, 1917
• Psychology and industrial efficiency, Appleton, New York, London, 1929
• Legal psychology, Prentice-Hall, New York, 1931
• Psychology of advertising, Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, Mass., 1936
• together with Gardner Murphy : Principles of employment psychology, Harper & Bros., New York, London, 1942
• Applied psychology , Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1957, 1960 (1962)
• An interpretation of bird behavior, Collier-Macmillan, London, 1967

literature

• Robert Cecil Cook: Who's who in American education a biographical dictionary of eminent living educators of the United States, volume X, Who's Who in American Education, New York, 1941, p. 169.
• Who was who in America. : volume VIII, 1982-1985 with world notables , Marquis Who's Who, Chicago, Ill., 1985, p. 64.
• Paul W. Thayer, James T. Austin: Harold E. Burtt (1890-1991): Obituary, in: American psychologist, volume 47, American Psychological Association, Washington, 1992
• Laura L. Koppes, Paul W. Thayer, Andrew J. Vinchur, Eduardo Salas: Historical perspectives in industrial and organizational psychology, in: Series in applied psychology, Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ, 2007, p. 48 ff.

Web links

• Literature by and about Harold Ernest Burtt in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Harold Ernest Burtt papers