Edwin Boring | Academic Influence

Why Is Edwin Boring Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Edwin Garrigues Boring was an American experimental psychologist, Professor of Psychology at Clark University and at Harvard University, who later became one of the first historians of psychology. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Boring as the 93rd most cited psychologist of the 20th century, tied with John Dewey, Amos Tversky, and Wilhelm Wundt.

Edwin Boring's Published Works

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Published Papers

A History of Experimental Psychology. (1645)
Elements of psychophysics (1031)
Sensation and Perception. (Scientific Books: Sensation and Perception in the History of Experimental Psychology) (878)
A history of experimental psychology, 2nd ed. (588)
Sensation and perception in the history of experimental psychology (500)
Determinants of Apparent Visual Size with Distance Variant (453)
A history of introspection. (347)
Intelligence as the Tests Test It. (282)
A new ambiguous figure. (183)
The Dictionary of Philosophy (180)
The Stimulus-Error (130)
The nature and history of experimental control. (119)
Foundations of psychology (117)
Mathematical vs. scientific significance. (105)
A source book in the history of psychology (102)
Mind and mechanism. (86)
History, psychology, and science : selected papers (72)
The use of operational definitions in science. (67)
The factor of speed in intelligence (64)
Auditory Theory with Special Reference to Intensity, Volume, and Localization (63)
Important psychologists, 1600–1967 (61)
The psychology of controversy. (54)
CUTANEOUS SENSATION AFTER NERVE‐DIVISION (53)
Size constancy and Emmert's law (50)
Visual perception as invariance. (49)
The perception of the visual world. (48)
The Moon Illusion and the Angle of Regard (48)
Masters and Pupils among the American Psychologists (47)
The Logic of the Normal Law of Error in Mental Measurement (46)
A Chart of the Psychometric Function (45)
Cognitive Dissonance: Its Use in Science: A scientist, like any other human being, frequently holds views that are inconsistent with one another. (43)
The Apparent Size of the Moon as a Function of the Angle of Regard: Further Experiments (43)
The woman problem (41)
The Beginning and Growth of Measurement in Psychology (41)
Women in American psychology; factors affecting their professional careers. (40)
Temporal Perception and Operationism (39)
The role of theory in experimental psychology. (37)
SIZE-CONSTANCY IN A PICTURE. (37)
A Model for the Demonstration of Facial Expression (34)
Rejoinders and second thoughts (31)
Dual Role of the Zeitgeist in Scientific Creativity (31)
The Perception of Objects (29)
Psychologist At Large (29)
Drives toward War (27)
On the Moon Illusion. (26)
The Nature of Tonal Brightness. (25)
The Problem of Originality in Science (25)
Women in American psychology: prolegomenon. (24)
Gestalt psychology: Its nature and significance. (24)
A history of psychology in autobiography, Vol V. (24)
Psychologist at large : an autobiography and selected essays (24)
A History of Psychology in Autobiography, Vol IV. (23)
The Two-Point Limen and the Error of Localization (23)
Women in American psychology; statistics from the OPP questionnaire. (23)
Encyclopedia of Educational Research (21)
Titchener's Experimentalists (20)
The Society of Experimental Psychologists: 1904-1938 (20)
Eponym as placebo (19)
The Truth About the Truth. (19)
The Control of Attitude in Psycho-physical Experiments. (19)
The Moon Illusion as a Function of Binocular Regard (19)
Psychology as science and profession. (19)
On the subjectivity of important historical dates: Leipzig 1879 (18)
Capacity to Report upon Moving Pictures as Conditioned by Sex and Age. A Contribution to the Psychology of Testimony (18)
The Dependence of Apparent Visual Size upon Illumination (17)
The founding of the APA. (16)
A note on the origin of the word psychology (16)
Human Nature vs. Sensation: William James and the Psychology of the Present (16)
Psychology for the Fighting Man. (15)
Psychology for the armed services (15)
Psychology and social relations at Harvard University. (15)
What is Emmert's law? (15)
The life and work of Sigmund Freud. Vol. I. The formative years and the great discoveries: 1856-1900. (14)
Fechner: Inadvertent founder of psychophysics (14)
The Relation of the Attributes of Sensation to the Dimensions of the Stimulus (14)
First report of the Subcommittee on Survey and Planning for Psychology. (14)
The bibsonian visual field. (14)
A psychological function is the relation of successive differentiations of events in the organism. (14)
Notes on the negative reaction under light-adaptation in the planarian. (13)
The book review. (13)
Intelligence test scores of Northern and Southern white and Negro recruits in 1918 (12)
Readings in the history of psychology. (12)
Temporal Judgments after Sleep. (12)
Was this analysis a success (12)
Koffka's principles of Gestalt psychology. (12)
Urban's Tables and the Method of Constant Stimuli (12)
Preface: the celebrations of the American Psychological Association. (11)
The Pitch of Tonal Masses (11)
Psychology for eclectics. (10)
Helmholtz's treatise on physiological optics. (10)
Did Fechner measure sensation (10)
On the Moon Illusion. (10)
Psychophysiological systems and isomorphic relations. (9)
Statistical frequencies as dynamic equilibria. (9)
Statistics of the American Psychological Association in 1920. (9)
The "Gestalt" Psychology and the "Gestalt" Movement (8)
Titchener on meaning. (8)
A New System for the Classification of Odors (8)
Titchener and the Existential (8)
The Number of Observations upon Which a Limen May be Based (7)
Apparent Visual Size as a Function of Distance for Monocular Observers (7)
THE PHYSIOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS. (7)
Newton and the Spectral Lines. (7)
The psychologist's circle. (7)
The Thermal Sensitivity of the Stomach (6)
The Psychophysics of Color Tolerance (6)
The Size of the Differential Limen for Pitch (6)
Review of Contemporary schools of psychology. (6)
Learning in dementia precox. (6)
Karl M. Dallenbach. (6)
A Hundred years of psychology 1833-1933 : with additional part on developments 1933-1947 (6)
SECTION OF PSYCHOLOGY: Women in American Psychology: Factors Affecting Their Careers* (5)
Learning vs. Training for Graduate Students. (5)
Processes referred to the alimentary and urinary tracts: A qualitative analysis. (5)
The new Harvard psychological laboratories. (5)
Is There a Generalized Psychometric Function (5)
CITATIONS OF SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE. (5)
A Demonstration of Insight: The Horse-and-Rider Puzzle (4)
Communality in Relation to Proaction and Retroaction (4)
The Lag of Publication in Journals of Psychology (4)
ANOTHER NOTE ON SCIENTIFIC WRITING. (4)
The Nature of Psychology. (4)
Standards for the Ph.D. degree in psychology by the American Psychological Association's Committee on the Ph.D. degree in psychology. (4)
Sir Thomas Wrightson's Theory of Hearing (3)
Policy and plans of the APA. V. Basic principles. (3)
I. - A color solid in four dimensions (3)
When and How to Reply to a Questionary (3)
The Social Stimulus to Creativity. (3)
Scientific Induction and Statistics (3)
Psychological necrology (1903-1927). (3)
The spirits against Bosh. (2)
Current trends in psychology; a special review. (2)
Psychological necrology; 1928-1952. (2)
A manual of psychological experiments (2)
Proceedings of the twenty-ninth annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Chicago, Illinois, December 28-30, 1920. (2)
The physiological basis of thirst. (2)
An operational restatement of G. E. M?ller's psychophysical axioms. (2)
Proceedings of the thirty-first annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 27, 28, 29, 1922. (2)
THE LAW OF EFFECT. (2)
Introspection in Dementia Precox (2)
The Psychological Basis of Appetite (2)
Proceedings of the thirtieth annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Princeton, New Jersey, December 28, 29, 30, 1921. (2)
The Subcommittee on a Textbook of Military Psychology. (1)
Color and camouflage. (1)
A PRIORI USE OF THE GAUSSIAN LAW. (1)
EDWARD WHEELER SCRIPTURE: 1864-1945. (1)
The Policy and Planning Board of the American Psychological Association. (1)
On Eschewing Teleology. (1)
Psychologists' opinions vs. their sense of evidence (1)
Propaganda and psychological warfare. (1)
In the Name of Science (1)
Psychologists' Letters and Papers (1)
PREDILECTION AND SAMPLING OF HUMAN HEIGHTS. (1)
On the Computation of the Probable Correctness of Differences (1)
Annual Report of the Policy and Planning Board of the American Psychological Association: 1949. (1)
Science Keeps on Becoming. (1)
The Construction and Calibration of Koenig Cylinders (1)
The historical background for national trends in psychology: Remarks of discussant (1)
Efficiency and fatigue. (1)
Review of Modern Woman: The Lost Sex. (1)
WAS THIS ANALYSIS A SUCCESS (1)
Urban's Tables Again. (1)
Comments on the Proposal for a Psychological Museum. (1)
Delboeuf Disks and the Kirschmann Photometer (1)
Psychology for the fighting man: report of the Subcommittee on a Textbook of Military Psychology. (1)
The Marking System in Theory (1)
What To Do about ESP. (1)
Panic and mobs. (1)
Ninth International Congress of Psychology: Report of the Treasurer: January 10, 1928-August 8, 1930. (0)
Equilibrium and bodily orientation. (0)
On Eschewing Teleology (0)
Newton and the Spectral Lines (0)
Smell in war. (0)
The Sensations: Their Functions, Processes and Mechanisms@@@The Human Senses (0)
The nature of man. (0)
Assessing opinion and discovering facts. (0)
On the Moon Illusion (0)
Differences among the peoples of the world. (0)
The use of psychology in war. (0)
The Psychology of Perception: Its Importance in the War Effort (0)
Vision. A study of its basis; with an historical perspective by E. G. B (0)
A psychological research exchange. (0)
Jan Evangelista Purkinye (0)
Review of Association Theory To-day: An Essay in Systematic Psychology . (0)
A Daniel come to judgment, on Barker and Weaver on Kenistons on Kronhausens on sex. (0)
An Introduction to Abnormal Psychology. (0)
The Etymology of "Fission". (0)
Psychological necrology (1953-1964). (0)
On Eschewing Teleology (0)
Annual report of the Policy and Planning Board of the American Psychological Association: 1946. (0)
The ear as a military instrument. (0)
Sensation and Perception in the History of Experimental Psychology (0)
Why science was what it was. (0)
Review of The new man in Soviet psychology. (0)
Und-verbindungen on Coercive Persuasion. (0)
Some of my best friends are superior. (0)
The 1953 Meeting of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
Newton and the Spectral Lines (0)
A Compressed Air System for Demonstrational Purposes (0)
The Elements of Scientific Psychology (0)
Method in the investigation of sensibility after the section of a cutaneous nerve. (Preliminary communication.) (0)
Book review (0)
On Eschewing Teleology. (0)
Filing Reprints (0)
CP, Pohlman, and Hard Science. (0)
The Department of Apparatus Notes (0)
The Etymology of "Fission" (0)
Review of Americans vs. Germans: The First AEF in action. (0)
Perception vicariously perceived. (0)
An Ally for Empiricism. (0)
Physical conditions of efficiency. (0)
Emotion: Fear and anger. (0)
Letters to the Editor (0)
Selection from psychology : a factual textbook (0)
Motivation and morale. (0)
Systematic psychology: Prolegomena. (0)
Selected works: Book Review. (0)
Banning bad books. (0)
Visual adaptation and night vision. (0)
Biotropes, Sociotropes, and Teaching. (0)
Letter to the Editor. (0)
Morgan's "Instinct and Experience". (0)
New Apparatus for Acoustical Experiments (0)
Selection of men. (0)
An Introduction to Abnormal Psychology.A History of Experimental Psychology.The Foundations of Experimental Psychology (0)
Smell, taste and somesthesis. (0)
Demonstrational Experiments in Memory (0)
Predilection and Sampling of Human Heights (0)
Reprints: The new ethic. (0)
The Law of Effect (0)
Predilection and Sampling of Human Heights (0)
FILING REPRINTS. (0)

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