Louis Charles Henri Piéron (18 July 1881 – 6 November 1964) was a
French psychologist
A psychologist is a professional who practices psychology and studies mental states, perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and social processes and behavior. Their work often involves the experimentation, observation, and interpretation of how indi ...
. He was one of the founders of scientific psychology in France. He developed the
Toulouse-Piéron Cancellation Test (TP) with
Édouard Toulouse.
Biography
Henri Piéron was Professor of Physiology of Sensation at the
Collège de France
The Collège de France (), formerly known as the ''Collège Royal'' or as the ''Collège impérial'' founded in 1530 by François I, is a higher education and research establishment (''grand établissement'') in France. It is located in Paris ne ...
from 1923 to 1951. He took part in the first
Davos University Course (a project to start an international university based in
Davos
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) in 1928, along with many other prominent academics such as
Albert Einstein
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and
Hans Driesch
Hans Adolf Eduard Driesch (28 October 1867 – 17 April 1941) was a German biologist and philosopher from Bad Kreuznach. He is most noted for his early experimental work in embryology and for his neo-vitalist philosophy of entelechy. He has also ...
. The same year, he created the ''Institut national d'orientation professionnelle'' (INOP), which became the ''Institut national d'étude du travail et d'orientation professionnelle''
Inetop in 1942, and is now supported by the
Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers
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. After founding the first institute for "careers", he took charge of training guidance counsellors and conducted research into the field of counselling psychology. He became president of the
Société zoologique de France
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in 1946.
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1881 births
1964 deaths
French psychologists
Place of birth missing
Collège de France faculty
Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences
20th-century psychologists
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