Edward W. Scripture
| Edward Wheeler Scripture | |
|---|---|
| Born | Edward Wheeler Scripture May 21, 1864 Mason, New Hampshire |
| Died | July 31, 1945 (aged 81) Henleaze, England |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields |
Psychology Speech science |
| Institutions |
Clark University Yale University Columbia University University of Vienna |
| Alma mater |
College of the City of New York (BA, 1884) University of Leipzig (PhD, 1891) University of Munich (MD, 1906) |
| Doctoral advisor | Wilhelm Wundt |
| Doctoral students | Carl Seashore |
| Spouse | May Kirk Scripture |
Edward Wheeler Scripture (May 21, 1864 – July 31, 1945) was an American physician and psychologist. He founded the experimental psychology laboratory at Yale University, directed the Vanderbilt Speech Clinic at Columbia University and was a founder of the American Psychological Association. Trained under experimental psychology pioneer Wilhelm Wundt, Scripture became best known for his contributions to speech science.
Edward Wheeler Scripture was born in Mason, New Hampshire on May 21, 1864. As a child, his family lived in New York City where he later completed his undergraduate education at the College of the City of New York in 1884. He met and married May Kirk in Berlin in 1890. The couple had three children. Scripture received a Ph.D from the University of Leipzig under his advisor Wilhelm Wundt. His graduate dissertation addressed the association of ideas.
After graduation from Leipzig, Scripture and his family returned to the United States in 1891 where he was hired as faculty by Granville Stanley Hall at Clark University. He continued working at Clark University for one year and then took a faculty appointment at Yale University. He established an experimental psychology laboratory at Yale where he and his wife conducted research on phonetics. While at Yale, Scripture developed a timer for studying reaction times known as a pendulum chronoscope, otherwise known as a pendulum timer. On July 8, 1892, Scripture along with Granville Stanley Hall co-founded the American Psychological Association. In 1902, Scripture received the first grant for experimental psychology from the Carnegie Institution in order to study the sounds of human speech. After a debate concerning the definition of the science of psychology with George Trumbull Ladd, Chair of the department, Scripture was fired from Yale in 1903. Ladd was also let go by Yale.
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