John Bascom Wolfe (July 8, 1904 – January 5, 1988) was an American

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behavioural psychologist Behaviorism is a systematic approach to understand the behavior of humans and other animals. It assumes that behavior is either a reflex elicited by the pairing of certain antecedent stimuli in the environment, or a consequence of that individ ...

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chimpanzee The chimpanzee (; ''Pan troglodytes''), also simply known as the chimp, is a species of Hominidae, great ape native to the forests and savannahs of tropical Africa. It has four confirmed subspecies and a fifth proposed one. When its close rel ...

s. Born: Dryden, Virginia on July 8, 1904. Married Lillian Schuck (Yale Ph.D. and board certified clinical psychologist, August 31, 1933). Children: Ann Lee Wolfe Little and Lyn Janette Wolfe Wickelgren. Education: A.M. in Mathematics, Emory and Henry College 1925; A.M., University of Virginia, 1929; Ph.D. in Psychology, University of Illinois, 1932. Jobs/Positions: National Research Council Fellow at the Yale University Yerkes Primate Lab, 1932–1936. Faculty member in Mathematics and Coach of Football, Basketball, and Baseball at Union College, Barbourville, KY 1926–1929. Professor of Psychology and Chair, University of Mississippi, 1936–1969. While Chair, he instituted the Ph.D. program in experimental psychology and, with his wife, Lillian Wolfe, as the primary clinician on the faculty the APA certified clinical Ph.D. Program. President of the Southern Society of Psychology and Philosophy, 1952. Founder and Temporary President (during the founding) of the Southeastern Psychological Association 1954–1955. President of the Southeastern Psychological Association, 1955–1956. Member of

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Works

* ''The Effect of Delayed Reward upon Learning in the White Rat'' (Baltimore, 1934) * ''Some Experimental Tests of 'Reasoning' in White Rats'' (with S.D.S. Spragg; n.p., 1934) * ''Effectiveness of Token-rewards for Chimpanzees'' (Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1936) * ''An Exploratory Study of Food-storing in Rats'' (Baltimore, 1939) * ''The Impact and Potential Change in Chimpanzee Condition-Based Reasoning'' (University of Florida Press, 1940)

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1904 births 1988 deaths 20th-century American psychologists Emory and Henry Wasps football players Union (Kentucky) Bulldogs football coaches People from Lee County, Virginia Coaches of American football from Virginia Players of American football from Virginia {{US-psychologist-stub