Charles Schoff Watson

Background

Watson, Charles Schoff was born on August 16, 1932 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Charles Burton Piatt and Anna Mary (Schoff) Frazer.

Education

AB, Indiana U., 1958; Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology, Indiana U., 1963.

Career

Assistant professor, University Texas, Austin, 1961-1965; from associate professor to professor psychology, Washington University, St. Louis, 1967-1977; director research, Boys Town National Research Hospital, Omaha, Nebraska, 1977-1983; professor, chair speech & hearing department, Indiana U., Bloomington, 1983-1991; professor speech, hearing, & psychology, Indiana U., since 1992. Senior research associate Center Institute for the Deaf, St. Louis, 1965-1977. Director Institute for Study of Human Capabilities, Indiana U., since 1986.

President Comm. Disorders Technology, Inc., Bloomington, since 1988. Advisor, chairman National Research Council Committee on Hearing, Bioacoustics & Biomechs., 1970-1995. Panelist on sensory physiology & reception National Science Foundation, Washington, 1976-1979.

Achievements

• Charles Schoff Watson has been listed as a noteworthy psychology professor by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• book

  • AASERT-92. Aystematic Method of Uncertainty Reduction for Complex Sound Perception

Membership

Served in the United States Navy, 1950-1955, Japan, Italy, Lebanon. Fellow American Psychological Association, Acoustical Society of America (chair technical committee on psychological acoustics 1976-1978). Member Psychonomic Society.

Interests

• Avocations: tennis, sailing, singing.

Connections

Married Elizabeth Patti, 1955 (divorced 1969). Children: Ann, Mary; Married Betty Unger, July 12, 1970. Children: Katharine, Elizabeth.

Father:

Charles Burton Piatt Frazer

Mother:

Anna Mary (Schoff) Frazer

Spouse:

Elizabeth Patti

Spouse:

Betty Unger

child:

Katharine Watson

child:

Elizabeth Watson

child:

Mary Watson

child:

Ann Watson