L. L. Thurstone Psychometric Laboratory
Established | 1952 |
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Address | 235 East Cameron Ave. University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S. |
Website | quantpsych.unc.edu |
L. L. Thurstone Psychometric Laboratory is a psychometrics and quantitative psychology laboratory housed within the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It was founded by Louis Leon Thurstone in 1952.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
Contents
1 History
2 Directors
3 References
4 External links
History
The lab was located at Nash hall from 1952 to 1967 and moved to its present location at Davie Hall in 1967.
Directors
- Louis Leon Thurstone
- Thelma Thurstone
Lyle V. Jones (1957-1974, 1979-1992)
John Bissell Carroll (1974-1979)
David Thissen (1992-2003)
Robert C. MacCallum (2003-2010)
Patrick J. Curran (2010-2017)
Daniel J. Bauer (2017-)
References
^ Jones, Lyle V., and David Thissen. "1 A History and Overview of Psychometrics." Handbook of statistics 26 (2006): 1-27.
^ Luce, R. Duncan. "Thurstone and sensory scaling: Then and now." (1994): 271.
^ https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/view.php?eadid=ICU.SPCL.PSYCHOMETRIC University of Chicago. Psychometric Laboratory. Records
^ Jones, L. V. (1998). L. L. Thurstone's vision of psychology as a quantitative rational science. In G. A. Kimble & M. Wertheimer (Eds.), Portraits of pioneers in Psychology, Vol. III, pp. 85-102. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
^ Wood, D. A. (1962). Louis Leon Thurstone: Creative thinker, dedicated teacher, eminent psychologist. Princeton, NJ: Educational Testing Service.
^ Thurstone, L. L. (1952). L. L. Thurstone. In E. G. Boring, H. S. Langfeld, H. Werner, & R. M. Yerkes (Eds.), A history of psychology in autobiography, Vol. IV, pp. 295-321. Worcester, MA: Clark University Press.
External links
Webpage at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill- History
- History of the Psychometric Lab
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