Background
Sears, Robert Richardson was born on August 31, 1908 in Palo Alto, California, United States. Son of Jesse Brundage and Stella Louise (Richardson) Sears.
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This report is a summary and appraisal of published investigations, both experimental and observational, that relate to problems and concepts deriving from Freudian theory.
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Sears, Robert Richardson was born on August 31, 1908 in Palo Alto, California, United States. Son of Jesse Brundage and Stella Louise (Richardson) Sears.
Bachelor of Arts, Stanford University, 1929; Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1932.
He was for many years the head of the psychology department at Stanford and later dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences there, continued the long-term Intelligence Quotient studies of Lewis Madison Terman at Stanford, and authored many pivotal papers and books on various aspects of psychology. He received his Artium Baccalaureus degree from Stanford in 1929 and a Doctor of Philosophy from Yale University in 1932.
After leaving Yale, Sears was first an instructor in psychology at the University of Illinois from 1932 to 1936 and at the same time was a clinical psychologist at the Institute for Juvenile Research there.
He returned to Yale as an associate professor of psychology in 1936 and remained there until 1942. From 1942 until 1949 he was director of the Iowa Child Welfare Research Station at the University of Iowa. where he worked with such luminaries as Kurt Zadek Lewin From 1949 until 1953 he directed the Laboratory of Human Development at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
In 1953 Sears returned to Stanford where he served as chair of the Psychology department until 1961, Dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences from 1961 to 1970, and David Starr Jordan Professor of Psychology from 1970 until 1975. Sears was president of the American Psychological Association in 1951.
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Trustee Center Advanced Study Behavioral Sciences, 1953-1975, fellow, 1968-1969. Member American Philosophical Society, American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Psychological Association (president 1950-1951), Western Psychological Association (president 1964), Society Research Child Development (editor monographs 1971-1975, president 1973-1975), National Research Council (Chairman of Commission child development 1947-1950, division anthropology and psychology 1945-1948), Social Science Research Council (vice Chairman, Board Of Directors 1950-1953), Sigma Xi.
Married Pauline Kirkpatrick Snedden, June 25, 1932. Children— David O'Keefe, Nancy Louise.