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

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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