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Born: November 21, 1875; Died: August 14, 1949
Dunlap was a native Californian, born in Diamond Spring, El Dorado County, in placer country. His undergraduate education he gained at Berkeley: There he was inspired to a career in psychology by a person whose eclecticism Dunlap carried forward, George M. Stratton. After completing his graduate work at Harvard with Münsterberg in 1903, Dunlap – whose earliest publications were in philosophy – taught at California until 1906 and then moved to Johns Hopkins University, where he lasted through the time of James Mark Baldwin and John B. Watson until 1936, when he moved to the University of California at Los Angeles. There he chaired the Department until his retirement in 1946.
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He played a visible and central role in the development of psychology as an academic and professional discipline: he was President of the American Psychological Association in 1922, contributed to the...
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Devonis, D.C. (2012). Dunlap, Knight. In: Rieber, R.W. (eds) Encyclopedia of the History of Psychological Theories. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0463-8_87
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