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Tracy Kendler

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According to Wikipedia, Tracy Kendler, née Sylvia Seedman was an American research psychologist known for her research in discrimination learning. Early life and education Kendler was born Sylvia Seedman in Brooklyn, New York, and changed her name to Tracy at a young age. She was encouraged to find a husband instead of attending university, but matriculated at Brooklyn College, where she began to work with Abraham Maslow. She and her future husband, Howard H. Kendler, moved to the University of Iowa for their graduate studies, where she studied for a master's degree with Kenneth Spence and did research in neobehaviorism for her Ph.D., which she earned in 1943. Kendler was not offered any paying employment at the university during her studies; she worked concurrently at a state mental hospital as a clinical psychologist, for the Army as a statistician, and as a volunteer psychologist.

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