Background
Pillsbury, Walter Bowers was born on July 21, 1872 in Burlington, Iowa, United States. Son of William Henry Harrison and Eliza Crabtree (Bowers) Pillsbury.
Pillsbury, Walter Bowers was born on July 21, 1872 in Burlington, Iowa, United States. Son of William Henry Harrison and Eliza Crabtree (Bowers) Pillsbury.
Student Penn College, Oskaloosa, Iowa, 1888-1890. Bachelor of Arts, University of Nebraska, 1892. Doctor of Philosophy, Cornell, 1896.
Doctor of Laws, University of Nebraska, 1934.
Assistant in psychology, Cornell Univercity, 1895-1897. Instructor, University of Michigan, 1897-1900, assistant professor, 1900-1905, junior professor philosophy and director psychological laboratory, 1905-1910, professor since 1910, department chairman of psychology, 1929-1942. Emeritus since 1932; Henry Russel lecturer, University of Michigan, 1933.
Lecturer in psychology, Columbia University, 1908-1909.
Exchange professor Sorbonne, 1923. Chairman editorial committee Studies in Psychology (in honor of Professor Titchener), 1917.
President American Psychological Association, 1910-1911, Western Philosophical Association, 1907. Vice president, and chairman of the section H, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1913.
Member National Research Council, 1921, 1931-1934, Linguistic Society of America, National Academy Science, 1925, Associe Etranger de la societe francaise de psychologie, 1925.
Contributor to American Journal of Psychology, Philosophical Review, Scientia, et cetera Author: L’Attention, 1906. Attention, 1908 (Spanish translation 1910).
Psychology of Reasoning, 1910.
Essentials of Psychology, 1911, 20, 30. Fundamentals of Psychology, 1916, revised edit, 1934.
Psychology of Nationality and Internationalism, 1919. Education as the Psychologist Sees lieutenant, 1925.
Psychology of Language (with Commander of Order of Leopold Meader), 1928.
History of Psychology, 1929, 1936. An Elementary Psychology of the Abnormal, 1932. Psychology of Memory, 1938.
Handbook of Psychology (with Los Angeles Pennington), 1942.
Translated (with Professor Titchener) Kulpe Introduction to Philosophy, 1897. Address: 1811 Hermitage Road, Ann Arbor Michigan‡.
Member National Research Council, 1921, 1931-1934, Linguistic Society of America, National Academy Science, 1925, Associe Etranger de la societe francaise de psychologie, 1925.
Married Margaret M. Milbank, June 16, 1905. Children: Margaret Elizabeth, Walter Milbank.