Carl Porter Duncan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American psychologist
Date of Birth: 27-Dec-1921
Place of Birth: Presque Isle, Maine, United States
Date of Death: 09-Aug-1999
Profession: psychologist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Carl Porter Duncan
- Carl Porter Duncan (December 27, 1921 – August 9, 1999) was a professor of experimental psychology at Northwestern University. Carl P.
- Duncan was born on December 27, 1921, in Presque Isle, Maine. His father, Henry Beecher Duncan, was a farmer and his mother Vivian Howlett Duncan, a schoolteacher. Duncan received his BA degree from University of Maine.
- He also received an MA degree (1944) and a PhD degree (1947) in experimental psychology at Brown University, both under the direction of Harold Schlosberg.
- His PhD thesis, The Effect of Electroshock Convulsions on Learning and Retention in The Rat is regarded as seminal, a classic study in cognitive neuroscience. Duncan met his wife, Marie Castaldi, while at Brown University, and they were married in 1948.
- She received her doctor of medicine degree in 1951, and practiced in adolescent psychiatry.
- They had no children. Professor Duncan, after getting his PhDs at Brown, began working at Northwestern University in 1947.
- In 1966 he was elected president of the Midwestern Psychological Association.
- In the American Psychological Association (APA), Professor Duncan was a fellow of Division 3, a member of its executive committee from 1962 to 1964, and one of its representatives to the APA Council of Representatives from 1966 to 1968.
- He served as the secretary-treasurer to the Society of Experimental Psychologists from 1970 to 1973.
- He was also chair of the Section on Psychology of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1973.
- From 1972 to 1985, he served as a book review editor for the American Journal of Psychology. Duncan retired with the title of professor emeritus in 1987, after a 40-year career at Northwestern University and stayed in the Chicago area (specifically, in Libertyville, Illinois) for the rest of his life. Duncan suffered a fatal fall on August 9, 1999, while trimming a tree.
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