| Authorised form of name | McDougall; William (1871 - 1938); psychologist |
| Dates | 1871 - 1938 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Mills Hill, Tonge, Chadderton, Lancashire, England |
| Date of birth | 22 June 1871 |
| Place of death | Durham, North Carolina, USA |
| Date of death | 28/11/1938 |
| Occupation | psychologist |
| Research field | Social psychology |
| Psychology |
| Physiology |
| Activity | Education:
Realgymnasium in Weimar, Germany; Manchester University; St John's College, Cambridge MD (Camb); MA; DSc
Career:
Joined Alfred Cort Haddon's (FRS 1899) Cambridge anthropological expedition to the Torres Strait, New Guinea, as the winner of the Grainger prize at Cambridge (1898); co-founded the British Psychological Society (1901); reader in experimental psychology at University College, London (1901-1907); Wilde reader in mental philosophy, Oxford (1904-1907); pursued research and published widely; treated shell-shock victims of the First World War (1914-1918); served as a major in the Royal Army Medical Corps (1915-1919); took up the William James chair of psychology at Harvard (1920-1927); accepted the psychology chair at Duke University, North Carolina (1927). |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 02/05/1912 |
| Age at election | 41 |
| Proposer | Charles Scott Sherrington; Henry Head; Frederick Walker Mott; Francis Gotch; Conwy Lloyd Morgan; Augustus Desire Waller; John Hughlings Jackson;William Halse Rivers Rivers; John Scott Haldane; William Abbott Herdman; Henry Charlton Bastian |
| Relationships | Parents: Isaac Shimwell McDougall, a chemical manufacturer, and Rebekah Smalley.
Spouse: Annie Amelia Hickmore (b. 1878/9), daughter of Henry Hickmore, a government contractor (23 May 1900).
Children: Three sons and two daughters. |
| PublishedWorks | RCN 8092
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| OtherInfo | Known for hormic psychology.
Popularised psychology. |
| Royal Society Obituary or Memoir | Click to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices) |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1939-1941 vol 3 pp 39-62, plate, by Major Greenwood and May Smith
References:
P Lovie and A D Lovie, 'Charles Edward Spearman, FRS (1863-1945)' in NR 1996 vol 50 pp 75-88 |
| Code | NA7996 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| NLB/42/245 | Copy letter from John Rose Bradford, Secretary RS [Secretary of the Royal Society] to Sir H Llewellyn Smith, KBC, Permanent Secretary, Marine Department of the Board of Trade, 7 Whitehall Gardens, SW | 29 April 1910 |
| NLB/45/787 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr W [William] McDougall FRS | 8 May 1912 |
| NLB/45/793 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr W [William] McDougall FRS | 13 May 1912 |
| NLB/50/504 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [William] McDougall, Fellow of the Royal Society | 21 July 1914 |
| RR/20/19 | Referee's report by William McDougall, on a paper 'On light-sensations and the theory of forced vibrations' by George James Burch | May 1913 |
| RR/36/54 | Referee's report by William McDougall, on a paper 'On the measurability of intensities of sensation' by Lewis Fry Richardson | [March 1928] |
| RR/36/53 | Referee's report by William McDougall, on a paper 'On trying-to-think imagery and conductance' by Lewis Fry Richardson | [March 1928] |
| RR/21/126 | Referee's report by William McDougall, on a paper 'The influence of timbre and loudness on the localisation of sounds' by Charles Samuel Myers | [July 1914] |
| EC/1912/08 | McDougall, William: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |