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.
Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:
'A Psychological Regard of Medical Education', 19331102
'A Study of the Affective Qualities' by Samuel Perkins Hayes, 1906
Application to the Financial Committee for funds to support the purchase of equipment for the Experimental Psychology Laboratory and its work
Blank invitation template from the Director (Myers) for the opening of the new building by the Vice-Chancellor on May 15th, 19140515
Charles Myers: Papers
Journal of expedition to Torres Straits, articles, lecture notes and correspondence
'Die Wirkung des Tonkomplexes bei Melodischer Gestaltung' by Sophie Belaiew-Exemplarsky and Boleslaus Jaworsky, 1926
'Industrial Psychology and the Modern World', 1937
Letter to Myers from G. E. Moore, 19130530
Moore discusses the question of whether a colleague called 'Adrian' can be added to the Lecture List or not. Special stipulations of the 'Special Board' might make this difficult.
Letter to Myers from H. A. Roberts, the Secretary of the Cambridge University Association, about benefactions to the fund for setting up the Experimental Psychology Laboratory, 1909
'List of Demonstrations', 19140609
This booklet was issued to coincide with the official opening of the new Physiology building and as part of the celebration of these new facilities.
'Memorandum from the Board of Psychological Studies to the Royal Commission on the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge'
The Board begs leave to submit a report requesting the establishment of several new posts to meet the demand for study in Psychology. Number of students currently attending courses in the last year (the document is undated) amounted to between 70 and 80, whereas there is only accommodation for about 50 with present facilities.
Notice of a course of lectures to be given by Dr Myers in General and Experimental Psychology during Michaelmas term, 1914, 19140530
These lectures were intended for medical students and candidates for Part I of the Diploma in Psychological Medicine.
Off-prints of research papers authored by Myers
'Psychological Conceptions in Other Sciences: the Herbert Spencer Lecture', 19290514
Remembering Dr Myers
Report by the Director, 1914
The report announces that planned courses of lectures have had to be cancelled and that it has been impossible to start a course in Psychology that year. However, a Mr Fox, Lecturer at the Training College for Schoolmasters, has been able to conduct a class in Educational Psychology.
Research notes of C S Myers
Speech about 'The New Psychological Laboratory at Cambridge', tracing the history of psychological research in Cambridge
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.'
'The Minute Book of the Board of Psychological Studies', 19201025 - 19261018
Writing about Myers
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