CARL HOVLAND
Carl Iver Hovland known as one of psychologic
researcher and one of the father of communication. He was born in Chicago on June 12th
1912 and died on April 16th 1961. He was an amazing person that wrote many
articles on “Journal of Experimental Psychology” when he was 32 years old. As a
young professor, he also recruited by Samuel Stouffer in the War Department
during World War II. And a month before his death, he was honored with the
award of the Warren Medal by the Society of Experimental Psychologist.
Carl Hovland entered Northwestern University at the age of 16, receiving his
B.A. in 1932 and his M.A. the following year. Then he transferred to Yale,
where he obtained the Ph.D. in 1936. By the time he had his doctorate, Hovland
had published a dozen research papers and collected data for at least half a
dozen. Four of these papers were in the American Journal of Physiology, two in
the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, and others in Psychological Journals.
Carl
Hovland's influence on the methodology of social science research seemed
different from other research. One of his best-known papers was the problems of
reconciling conflicting results derived from experimental and survey studies of
attitude change.
His
concern in human psychology and his spirit to do research about human
psychology made us admired him as a researcher and as a teacher. We admired him
as a researcher because of his spirit to study human psychology encourage us to
keep his spirit to continue learning about human psychology. We also admired
him as a teacher because of his journal we could learn many things about human
psychology that we don’t know before.
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