John Dillingham Dodson

John Dillingham Dodson
Born	1879 Allen County, Kentucky
Died	1955 (aged 75–76) Warren County, Kentucky

John Dillingham Dodson (1879 in Allen County Ky – 1955 in Warren County Ky),[1] was an American psychologist. In 1908, together with Robert Yerkes, Dodson proposed the Yerkes–Dodson Law relating motivation and habit.[2] He obtained a master's degree from Harvard University and was the first PhD graduate of the psychology department of the University of Minnesota.[1] His fate after the publication of his seminal paper with Yerkes became a mystery with inquiries first raised in 1921 and continuing through 2001.[1] Research published in 2012 finds he spent much of his academic life teaching at the Bowling Green College of Commerce,[1] which became part of Western Kentucky University.

References

1. Brothen, Thomas (Feb 2012). "What ever happened to John Dodson?". History of Psychology. 15 (1): 100–05. doi:10.1037/a0024801.
2. Yerkes RM, Dodson JD (1908). "The relation of strength of stimulus to rapidity of habit-formation". Journal of Comparative Neurology and Psychology. 18 (5): 459–82. doi:10.1002/cne.920180503.