Jean Macfarlane, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Jean Macfarlane

American psychologist & scholar

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-1894

Place of Birth: Selma, California, United States

Date of Death: 04-Mar-1989

Profession: psychologist, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Jean Macfarlane

  • Jean Walker Macfarlane (1894–1989) was an American psychologist.
  • She was born in Selma, California.
  • In 1922 she earned a doctoral degree in psychology at Berkeley; she was the second person ever to do so, the first being Olga Bridgman in 1915.
  • In 1927 Macfarlane founded Berkeley's Institute of Human Development, originally called the Institute of Child Welfare.In 1928 Macfarlane began a lifelong study of 250 individuals born that year and the next year that still continues, known as the Guidance Study, which provides information on normal personalities; previously psychological theories were mostly based on information about abnormal personalities.
  • She was a professor at Berkeley from 1929 until 1961.In 1963 Macfarlane received the American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished contributions to the Science and Profession of Clinical Psychology.
  • In 1972 she won The G.
  • Stanley Hall Award for Distinguished Contribution to Developmental Psychology, along with Margaret Harlow and Harry Harlow.
  • It is the American Psychological Association's highest honor in developmental psychology.Macfarlane was president of the California State Psychological Association and of the Western Psychological Association, as well as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Psychological Association and president of its Division of Clinical Psychology.During her undergraduate career, Macfarlane became a close friend of Theodora Kroeber, and her passion for psychology influenced Kroeber's decision to major in that discipline.
  • Betty Friedan thanked her in her book The Feminine Mystique.

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