Research Guides: Psychology: Biographies

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Biography and Genealogy Master Index This link opens in a new window
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Indexed resources on where to find biographical material on people from all time periods, geographic locations, and fields of endeavor.
Gale In Context: Biography This link opens in a new window
Includes biographical entries covering international figures from all time periods and areas of study.
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Full-text articles from multi-volume encyclopedias, biographical collections, business plan handbooks, company history compilations, consumer health references, and specialized reference sources.

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Biographical Memoirs
Brief biographies of deceased National Academy of Sciences members, written by those who knew them or their work.
Psychology Biographies
From AllPsych, Psych Central's Virtual Psychology Classroom
SACNAS Biography Project
From the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.

Books in the Library Collection

Fifty Key Thinkers in Psychology by Sheehy, Noel
Call Number: REF BF109 .A1 S49 2004
Publication Date: 2004
Focuses on fifty major influential figures on psychology, ranging from the earliest days of the discipline 200 years ago to the present day.
The Great Psychologists, 4th ed. by Watson, Robert Irving
Call Number: BF81 .W35 1978
Publication Date: 1978
Summary of psychological philosophies and methodologies from Hippocrates to Freud.
Portraits of Pioneers in Psychology. Volume I by Kimble, Gregory A.
Call Number: BF109 .A1 P67 1991
Publication Date: 1991
Presents biographical portraits of 22 of psychology's pioneers, portraits of them as men and women as well as scientists.
Portraits of Pioneers in Psychology. Volume II by Kimble, Gregory A.
Call Number: BF109 .A1 P67 1991 v. 2
Publication Date: 1996
Covers figures from the early era of psychology, but includes biographies of more recent psychologists as well, including Dorothea Dix, John Dewey, and Robert Yerkes.
Portraits of Pioneers in Psychology. Volume III by Kimble, Gregory A.
Call Number: BF109 .A1 P67 2003 v.3
Publication Date: 1998
Chronicles the lives of these giants in the field and outline their influences on psychology today.
Portraits of Pioneers in Psychology. Volume IV by Kimble, Gregory A.
Call Number: BF109 .A1 P67 1991 v. 4
Publication Date: 2000
Covers a whole range of disciplines, vividly depicting twenty-one preeminent men and women whose lives spanned the 19th and 20th centuries, including Evelyn Hooker, Francis Cecil Sumner, and Roger W. Sperry.
Portraits of Pioneers in Psychology. Volume V by Kimble, Gregory A.
Call Number: BF109 .A1 P67 2003 v.5
ISBN: 0805844139
Publication Date: 2003
Traces the origins of the major currents in psychology—from behavioral genetics to conditioning and learning, from personality and psychotherapy to gender, politics, and race. Features 20 pioneers who include G. Stanley Hall, Margaret Floy Washburn, William McDougall, Kurt Goldstein, June Etta Downey, and Frederick M. Lord.
Portraits of Pioneers in Psychology. Volume VI by Dewsbury, Donald A.
Call Number: BF109 .A1 P67 1991 v. 6
Publication Date: 2006
Collection of 17 profiles pays tribute to several big names in psychology, such as Abraham Maslow, Henry Murray, Edmund Clark Sanford, James McKeen Cattell, Robert Woodworth, and Nobel Prize winner Niko Tinbergen, and some perhaps lesser known luminaries who nonetheless made significant contributions to the field.
Psychologists and Their Theories for Students by Kristine M. Krapp
Publication Date: 2004
Covers the major psychological theories and the people who developed them.
Women in Psychology: A Bio-Bibliographic Sourcebook by O'Connell, Agnes N.
Call Number: BF109 .A1 W65 1990
Publication Date: 1990
Contains in-depth discussions on the life and achievements of 36 eminent women in the field, providing thorough bibliographical information on them as well.