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Mary Whiton Calkins was born on March 30, 1863, in Hartford, Connecticut. She was the eldest of eight children. Her parents were Wolcott and Charlotte Whiton Calkins. Mary was close with her family. In 1880, she moved to Newton, Massachusetts with her family to begin her education and remained there for the rest of her life. Her family moved ...
- American
- Bachelor of Arts in classics and philosophy, unawarded PhD in psychology (see text)
1905 APA President. Mary Whiton Calkins was the 14th President of APA and the first woman to serve in that office. Although she earned her PhD at Harvard under William James, Calkins was refused the degree by the Harvard Corporation (who continues to refuse to grant the degree posthumously) on the grounds that Harvard did not accept women.
Aug 8, 2023 · Her major contributions to psychology include the invention of the paired association technique and her work in self-psychology. Self-psychology was based on Calkins' belief that the conscious self should be the primary focus of psychology. Despite Mary Whiton Calkins' contributions, Harvard maintains its refusal to grant Calkins the degree she ...
Professional Life. Calkins was born in Hartford, Connecticut on March 30, 1863. She was raised in Buffalo, New York until the age of 17, when her family moved to Massachusetts. Calkins...
EARLY LIFE. Mary Whiton Calkins was born on March 30, 1863 in Hartford, Connecticut. Her father was Wolcott Calkins and a Presbyterian minister. She was from a close knit family, especially to her mother, and the eldest of five children.
Calkins was born the eldest of five children, to Charlotte Whiton Calkins and Wolcott Calkins, a Presbyterian minister. She grew up and lived in Buffalo, New York, until the family moved to Newton, Massachusetts when she was seventeen.
Calkins was born in 1863 in Hartford, Connecticut but ended up moving with her family to Massachusetts where she completed most of her studies (Mary Whiton Calkins: American philosopher and psychologist, 2023). Calkins’s father, Wolcott Calkins, was a Protestant clergyman and her mother, Charlotte Whiton, a social activist.
