Educated at Cornell University, where he graduated in 1908, Boring taught at the University from 1913 to 1918, receiving his PhD there in 1915. In 1919, he was appointed professor of psychology at Clark University, where he taught until 1922 when he joined the faculty of Harvard University where he remained until his death. In 1924, he helped to establish the Psychological Laboratory at Harvard and became its director. In 1928, he was elected president of the American Psychological Association. In 1929, he published his most important work, A History of Experimental Psychology, and thus became one of the first historians of the field of psychology in America. In 1934, he was successful in establishing a separate Department of Psychology at Harvard, which had hitherto been a part of the Department of Philosophy. His other works include The Physical Dimensions of Consciousness (1933), Introduction to Psychology (1938), Sensation and Perception in the History of Experimental Psychology (1942), Psychology for the Fighting Man (1943), Psychologist at Large: an Autobiography and Selected Essays (1961) and A History of Psychology in Autobiography (1967).
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