Elias Hull Porter (1914 – 1987) was an influential psychologist. While at the University of Chicago Porter was a peer of other notable American psychologists, including Carl Rogers, Thomas Gordon, Abraham Maslow and Will Schutz. His work at Ohio State University and later at the University of Chicago contributed to Rogers’ development of Client-Centered Therapy. Porter’s primary contributions to the field of psychology were in the areas of non-di...
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Elias Hull Porter (1914 – 1987) was an influential psychologist. While at the University of Chicago Porter was a peer of other notable American psychologists, including Carl Rogers, Thomas Gordon, Abraham Maslow and Will Schutz. His work at Ohio State University and later at the University of Chicago contributed to Rogers’ development of Client-Centered Therapy. Porter’s primary contributions to the field of psychology were in the areas of non-directive approaches, Relationship Awareness Theory and psychometric tests. His career included military, government, business and clinical settings.
In the mid 1930s, Porter was a student of Calvin S. Hall (who had just completed doctoral studies with Edward C. Tolman at University of California, Berkeley) and Robert W. Leeper (who was heavily influence by Kurt Lewin). He completed his Masters work in 1938 at the University of Oregon, which documented that learning occurs in rats in mazes, even without the presence of rewards - and that the...
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