John Frederick Dashiell (April 30, 1888 – May 3, 1975) was an American psychologist and a past president of the

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Biography

Dashiell was born in 1888 in

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. Early in his career, Dashiell taught at

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and Oberlin College. Dashiell became a department head at the

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. He was an APA president in 1938. In his presidential address that year, he called for psychology to reconnect with philosophy for its methodology and logic. He was president of the

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in 1953–1954.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dashiell, John 1888 births 1975 deaths Presidents of the American Psychological Association Waynesburg University faculty Princeton University faculty University of Minnesota faculty University of North Carolina alumni 20th-century American psychologists