Clifford Thomas Morgan (July 21, 1915 – February 12, 1976) was an American psychologist whose research was in the fields of

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and

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. Morgan was born in the Minotola section of

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(which since became part of

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). He was the author of the 1943 textbook ''Physiological Psychology'', as well as a co-founder of the

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in 1959, of which he served as the first chairman. He also established three academic journals from 1964 to 1966: ''Psychonomic Science'', ''Psychonomic Monograph Supplements'', and '' Perception & Psychophysics''. He went on to give these journals to the Psychonomic Society in 1967. In his honor, the Society for Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology, Division 6 of the

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, awards the Clifford T. Morgan Distinguished Service to Div. 6 Award.

References

"Psychology's shadows: A public and private view of controversy", by Donald A. Dewsbury, PhD
(on Morgan &

Norman Maier Norman Raymond Frederick Maier (1900–1977) was an American experimental psychologist who worked primarily at the University of Michigan. He invented the two-cords problem and co-authored ''Principles of Animal Psychology.'' Biography Althou ...

) 1915 births 1976 deaths 20th-century American psychologists Experimental psychologists Maryville College alumni University of Rochester alumni Harvard University Department of Psychology faculty Johns Hopkins University faculty University of Texas at Austin faculty People from Buena Vista Township, New Jersey {{US-psychologist-stub