Paul Thomas Young

Paul Thomas Young (1892–1978) was an American experimental psychologist and inventor.[1]

For other people named Paul Young, see Paul Young (disambiguation).

Young originally studied at Occidental College and Princeton, and subsequently at Cornell, where his doctoral adviser was Edward Titchener. For most of his career, he was a faculty member at the University of Illinois. In 1928, he constructed the pseudophone, an acoustic device that induced a form of auditory illusion by distorting the direction from which an audible sound appeared to originate.[2][3]

Young's primary area of research interest was motivation and emotion, in both humans and animals. He received the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the American Psychological Association in 1965.[4]

Key publications
  • Emotion in man and animal: Its nature and relation to attitude and motive. Oxford, England: Wiley, 1943.
  • The role of affective processes in learning and motivation. Psychological Review 66 (2), 1959, S. 104–125.
  • Motivation and emotion: a survey of the determinants of human and animal activity. Oxford, England: Wiley, 1961.

References
  1. O'Kelly, L. I., Paul Thomas Young: 1892-1978, American Journal of Psychology 92 (3), 1979, p. 551-553.
  2. Perina, Kaja. Auditory Illusion, Psychology Today, Nov 1 2001
  3. Roeckelein, J. E., Elsevier's Dictionary of Psychological Theories, Elsevier 2006, p. 655.
  4. Paul Thomas Young: Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award. American Psychologist 20 (12), 1965, S. 1084–1088.


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