Paul Thomas Young (1892–1978) was an American experimental psychologist and inventor.O'Kelly, L. I., ''Paul Thomas Young: 1892-1978'', American Journal of Psychology 92 (3), 1979, p. 551-553

/ref> Young originally studied at Occidental College and

Princeton Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ni ...

, and subsequently at

Cornell Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to teach a ...

, where his doctoral adviser was

Edward Titchener Edward Bradford Titchener (11 January 1867 – 3 August 1927) was an English psychologist who studied under Wilhelm Wundt for several years. Titchener is best known for creating his version of psychology that described the structure of the min ...

. For most of his career, he was a faculty member at the

University of Illinois The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Univer ...

. In 1928, he constructed the ''pseudophone'', an acoustic device that induced a form of auditory illusion by distorting the direction from which an audible sound appeared to originate.Roeckelein, J. E., ''Elsevier's Dictionary of Psychological Theories'', Elsevier 2006, p. 655. Young's primary area of research interest was motivation and emotion, in both humans and animals. He received the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the

American Psychological Association The American Psychological Association (APA) is the largest scientific and professional organization of psychologists in the United States, with over 133,000 members, including scientists, educators, clinicians, consultants, and students. It ha ...

in 1965.''Paul Thomas Young: Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award.'' American Psychologist 20 (12), 1965, S. 1084–1088.

Key publications

* ''Emotion in man and animal: Its nature and relation to attitude and motive.'' Oxford, England: Wiley, 1943. * ''The role of affective processes in learning and motivation.'' Psychological Review 66 (2), 1959, S. 104–125. * ''Motivation and emotion: a survey of the determinants of human and animal activity.'' Oxford, England: Wiley, 1961.

References

20th-century American psychologists Cornell University alumni 1892 births 1978 deaths {{US-psychologist-stub