Stuart Sutherland
Stuart Sutherland | |
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Born | Norman Stuart Sutherland 26 March 1927 |
Died | 8 November 1998 | (aged 71)
Education | King Edward's School, Birmingham |
Alma mater | University of Oxford (BA, DPhil) |
Spouse | Jose Louise Fogden (married 1956) |
Children | 2 |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | University of Sussex |
Thesis | Visual shape discrimination in animals with special reference to actapus vulgaris lamarck (1957) |
Academic advisors | John Zachary Young |
Doctoral students | Nicholas Mackintosh[1] |
(Norman) Stuart Sutherland (26 March 1927 – 8 November 1998) was a British psychologist and writer.[2][3]
Education
Sutherland was educated at
]Career and research
Sutherland held a lecturing post at Oxford from 1960, and was elected a Fellow of
Experimental Psychology
; with the young colleagues he appointed, he rapidly built an international reputation for Sussex in this field.
Among psychologists, Sutherland is best known for his theoretical and empirical work in
behaviourism in the first half of the twentieth century. He was also interested in human perception and cognition, and in 1992 he published Irrationality: The enemy within,[6] a lay reader's guide to the psychology of cognitive biases
and common failures of human judgement.
Among a wider public, Sutherland is most famous for his 1976 autobiography Breakdown, detailing his struggles with
manic depression
. A second edition of Breakdown was published in 1995. Stuart Sutherland died from a heart attack in November 1998.
Bibliography
(incomplete; excludes
journal
articles, of which Sutherland published many)
- The methods and findings of experiments on the visual discrimination of shape by animals, 1961[ISBN missing]
- Animal discrimination learning, 1969 (Edited, with R. M. Gilbert)[ISBN missing]
- Mechanisms of animal discrimination learning, 1971 (with Nicholas Mackintosh)[ISBN missing]
- Breakdown, 1976, second edition published 1995 ISBN 978-1-905177-20-2
- Prestel and the user: a survey of psychological and ergonomic research, 1980.[ISBN missing]
- The psychology of vision, 1980 (Edited, with Christopher Longuet-Higgins)[ISBN missing]
- Discovering the human mind, 1983.[ISBN missing]
- Men change too, 1987[7]
- Macmillan Dictionary of Psychology. 1990.[ISBN 0-8245-2509-4.
- Irrationality[6]
References
- EThOS uk.bl.ethos.710358.
- ^ Biography of Sutherland on the University of Sussex website
- ^ Pinter & Martin publishers of Irrationality and Breakdown
- EThOS uk.bl.ethos.671962.
- ^ Levens, R.G.C., ed. (1964). Merton College Register 1900-1964. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 537.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-905177-07-3
- ^ Men change too (1987)[ISBN missing]