Stuart Sutherland

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Stuart Sutherland
Born
Norman Stuart Sutherland

(1927-03-26)26 March 1927
Died8 November 1998(1998-11-08) (aged 71)
EducationKing Edward's School, Birmingham
Alma materUniversity of Oxford (BA, DPhil)
SpouseJose Louise Fogden (married 1956)
Children2
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Sussex
ThesisVisual shape discrimination in animals with special reference to actapus vulgaris lamarck (1957)
Academic advisorsJohn Zachary Young
Doctoral studentsNicholas Mackintosh[1]

(Norman) Stuart Sutherland (26 March 1927 – 8 November 1998) was a British psychologist and writer.[2][3]

Education

Sutherland was educated at

PhD[4] which was awarded in 1957 for research supervised by John Zachary Young.[citation needed
]

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
  • 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.[.
  • Irrationality[6]

References

  1. .
  2. ^ Biography of Sutherland on the University of Sussex website
  3. ^ Pinter & Martin publishers of Irrationality and Breakdown
  4. .
  5. ^ Levens, R.G.C., ed. (1964). Merton College Register 1900-1964. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 537.
  6. ^
  7. ^ Men change too (1987)[ISBN missing]