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Graphology and the Psychology of Handwriting Volume 24
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The imaginal reaction to poetry: the affective and the aesthetic judgment
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June Etta Downey was an American psychologist and writer. She chaired the Department of Psychology and Philosophy at the University of Wyoming.
Background
June Etta Downey was born on July 13, 1875, in Laramie, Wyoming, United States. She was the second child and first daughter of Colonel Stephen Wheeler and Evangeline (Owen) Downey. She came of pioneer stock and her father was one of the first territorial delegates from Wyoming to the United States Congress.
Education
Having attended the public schools of Laramie and the University Preparatory School, Downey entered the University of Wyoming and was graduated with the class of 1895. As a student her primary interest was in literature and languages. Granted a fellowship in philosophy at the University of Chicago in 1906, she was awarded the degree of Ph. D. the next year, the subject of her thesis, which was later published, being "Control Processes in Modified Handwriting: An Experimental Study. "
Career
After graduation Downey taught in the public schools of her native town. In 1898-1899 she was instructor in English at the university. Her attention was turning more and more to psychological problems, however, and in 1899 she became instructor in English and philosophy. Her interest in psychology was intensified by the acquaintance she made with the experimental procedures of Edward Bradford Titchener at a summer session at Cornell University in 1901. The following year she became assistant professor of English and philosophy at the University of Wyoming and in 1905, professor of philosophy and English. Returning to Wyoming after her fellowship, Downey became head of her department and in 1915 was made professor of psychology and philosophy, which position she held until her death.
That Downey was a person of exceptional versatility is shown by the range of topics covered in her researches. Her experimental studies dealt with problems of color blindness, types of dextrality, handwriting, imagery, muscle-reading, esthetics, will-temperament testing, and other aspects of personality. Like her father she was a pioneer. When she made her earliest contributions the field of personality measurement had been little explored. Previous to 1920 while other American psychologists were working with the Binet tests she was experimenting with methods for measuring aspects of personality other than intelligence. She stressed personality as an integrated whole, a configuration, and developed tests to demonstrate her theory. She had gone to New York City to address a meeting of the National Eugenics Congress when she was taken seriously ill and later died following an operation.
Downey's first psychological study, "A Musical Experiment, " appeared in the American Journal of Psychology for October 1897, and thereafter she averaged more than two psychological publications annually until her death, besides six books in the same field and numerous reviews. In addition to Control Processes in Modified Handwriting, already mentioned, she was the author of Graphology and the Psychology of Handwriting (1919), The Will-Temperament and Its Testing (1923), The Kingdom of the Mind (1927), Creative Imagination: Studies in the Psychology of Literature (1929), and, with Edward E. Slosson, of Plots and Personalities (1922). Her versatility is shown further by her poems, plays, stories, essays, and other popular writings, many of which were never published; a volume of her poems, The Heavenly Dykes, appeared in 1904.
Downey was a member of the Society of Experimental Psychologists, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Personality
Downey was a person of exceptional versatility. By her students and coworkers she was respected not only for her great breadth of interests but even more for her ability as a teacher and for her sound judgment and sympathetic understanding.
Interests
Downey was greatly interested in the creative arts. She wrote poems, plays, and stories throughout her life.