Boris Mikhailovich Teplov (russian: Борис Михайлович Теплов; , in
Tula, Russia
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– 28 September 1965, in
Moscow
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) was a Soviet
psychologist
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who studied problems of inborn individual differences and talents (e.g. musical talents, warlord talents etc.) and a founder of a Soviet psychological school of
Differential psychology
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. His well-known opponent was
Aleksey Leontyev
Aleksei Nikolayevich Leontiev ( rus, Алексе́й Никола́евич Лео́нтьев, p=lʲɪˈonʲtʲjɪf; February 18, 1903 – January 21, 1979), was a Soviet developmental psychologist and philosopher and a founder of activity theory ...
who believed that people's talents are not inborn but rather determined by education and other external influence. Boris Teplov was
editor-in-chief
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of the principal Russian journal on psychology ''
Voprosy Psikhologii''.
External links
Temperament and Personality
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1896 births
1965 deaths
Soviet psychologists
Moscow State University alumni
Academicians of the USSR Academy of Pedagogical Sciences
Academicians of the RSFSR Academy of Pedagogical Sciences