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WILLIAM JAMES once declared that psychology was not a science, but only the hope of a science. Much water has flowed under the bridges since that statement was made, and psychology may fairly be said to have proved its claim to recognition, notwithstanding that it is still split up into warring schools or sects. Few men have done so much to bring about the change as R. S. Woodworth, professor of psychology at Columbia University. As a student under James at Harvard, and later on as an assistant to Cattell at Columbia, he came under two powerful influences, which helped to shape his career, and partly explain the breadth of his interest in psychological problems, both on the physiological and on the statistical side. He has recently passed his seventieth birthday, and his colleagues in the department of psychology at Columbia, where he has taught for thirty-six years, have, without his knowledge or consent, prepared this commemorative volume. It was a gracious act, and one which will be warmly approved by many who only know Prof. Woodworth by his writings.
Psychological Issues
Selected Papers of Prof. Robert S. Woodworth. With a Bibliography of his Writings. Pp. x + 421. (New York: Columbia University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1939.) 22s. net.
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Psychological Issues. Nature 145, 989 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145989a0
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