Paul Thomas Young

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Paul Thomas Young (born May 20, 1892 , † June 15, 1978 ) was an American psychologist and university professor who dealt primarily with motivation and emotion in humans and animals.

Live and act

Young studied at Occidental College and Princeton University . In 1918 he received his doctorate from Cornell University under the experimental psychologist Edward Bradford Titchener . After a brief stint at the University of Minnesota , he went to the University of Illinois , where he researched and taught until his retirement in 1960.

As part of his doctorate, Young examined in an experimental design whether pleasant and unpleasant emotions can be experienced at the same time. In doing so, he came to the conclusion that this is not the case. "Mixed feelings" would come about through a mixture of affective and cognitive components. This topic also shaped his further research activity, initially with the help of introspective methods in humans. In 1926 he spent his sabbatical in Berlin with Wolfgang Köhler , Max Wertheimer and Kurt Lewin . He later used a behavioral approach to investigate , among other things, the aversions and preferences of rats in relation to food intake .

Awards

Works

  • PT Young: Emotion in man and animal: Its nature and relation to attitude and motive. Oxford, England: Wiley, 1943.
  • PT Young: The role of affective processes in learning and motivation. Psychological Review 66 (2), 1959, pp. 104-125, doi : 10.1037 / h0045997 .
  • PT Young: Motivation and Emotion: A Survey of the Determinants of Human and Animal Activity. Oxford, England: Wiley, 1961.

Literature on PT Young

  • Lawrence I. O'Kelly: Paul Thomas Young: 1892-1978. American Journal of Psychology 92 (3), 1979, pp. 551-553, ( JSTOR 1421573 ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Thomas Young: Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award. American Psychologist 20 (12), 1965, pp. 1084-1088.
personal data
SURNAME Young, Paul Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1892
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 1978