Clifford Thomas Morgan (July 21, 1915 – February 12, 1976) was an American psychologist whose research was in the fields of

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and

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. He was the author of the 1943 textbook ''Physiological Psychology'', as well as a co-founder of the

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in 1959, of which he served as the first chairman. He also established three academic journals from 1964 to 1966: ''Psychonomic Science'', ''Psychonomic Monograph Supplements'', and ''

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''. He went on to give these journals to the Psychonomic Society in 1967. In his honor, the Society for Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology, Division 6 of the

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, awards the Clifford T. Morgan Distinguished Service to Div. 6 Award.

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