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1905–1998 England

Raymond Bernard Cattell, PhD, DSc (20 March 1905 – 2 February 1998) was a British-American psychologist, known for his psychometric research into intrapersonal psychological structure. His work also explored the basic dimensions of personality and temperament, the range of cognitive abilities, the dynamic dimensions of motivation and emotion, the clinical dimensions of abnormal personality, patterns of group syntality and social behavior, applications of personality research to psychotherapy and learning theory, predictors of creativity and achievement, and many multivariate research methods i

England
Psychologists

Also known as: Raymond Bernard Cattell

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Psychology is a more tricky field, in which even outstanding authorities have been known to run in circles, 'describing things which everyone knows in language which no one understands'.

Overt anxiety... that part of anxiety of which the individual is aware and ready to speak.

Dominance... is shown in assertive, independent, confident and stubborn behaviour.

(Personality is)... that which tells what a man will do when placed in a given situation.

Of course, science lives by confusing theories, but what were accepted as 'theories' even by the many professional psychologists and psychiatrists were very poor limitations of what physical scientists call a theory.

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