Myers, Charles Samuel, 1873-1946 (psychologist)
Biography
Charles Samuel Myers (1873-1946), psychologist, was born in London on 13 March 1873. He attended the City of London School, and entered Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, in 1891, becoming a Fellow in 1919. In 1898 he joined the Cambridge anthropological expedition to the Torres Straits, where he carried out experimental studies on the sensory reactions of the natives and studied their music. He returned to Cambridge in 1902, and was demonstrator in experimental psychology, 1904-1907, and university lecturer and reader, 1907-1930. He was also Professor of Experimental Psychology at King's College, London, 1906-1909. Myers moved to London in 1922, becoming principal of the National Institute of Industrial Psychology, which he had founded with H.J. Welch in 1921, and devoted himself to its development. He died at Winsford Glebe, Somerset, on 12 October 1946.
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Summary of Report from the Psychological Laboratory, Cambridge, for month ending August 16th 1918, 19180816
These notes constitute a writing-up of an investigation conducted at the Psychology Laboratory. The purpose is described as follows: 'It was decided first chiefly to investigate the question of individual variability from day to day in auditory acuity and ? localisation. The object of the research was to ascertain how far the tests as they are at present applied at the Crystal Palace, may be regarded as giving a reliable measure of a subject's ability.'