Hogan's Academic Genealogy

Wm James: Received M.D. from Harvard in 1869. No formal education in psychology.

James R. Angell: Received M.A. from Harvard in 1892. Located at University of Chicago in 1894 where he was a colleague of John Dewey and mentor of John B. Watson.

Harvey A. Carr: Received PhD at University of Chicago in 1905. Returned to University of Chicago to replace John B. Watson in 1908. Later succeeded Angell as Chairman of Psychology Department. It was under Carr that Functionalism peaked as a formally defined discipline.

J.A. McGeoch: Received PhD at University of Chicago (date unknown). Was a leading proponent of Interference theory of forgetting. Published Forgetting and the Law of Disuse in Psychological Review (1932) stating that forgetting does not occur through decay or disuse but through retroactive interference. Also published a text entitled Psychology of Human Learning.

Arthur Melton: Date and place where PhD was received is unknown. Studied retroactive interference in humans. One of his significant publications was Implications of Short-term Memory for a General Theory of Learning.

Donald A. Riley: Received PhD from Ohio State University in 1950. Located at University of California, Berkeley. A colleague of E.C. Tolman. Published empirical work on discrimination learning in animals, including such topics as selective stimulus control and relational learning using pigeons, rats and monkeys. Published text entitled Discrimination Learning. While interests were primarily in animal learning and memory, he also studied memory for forms in humans. Retired from Berkeley in 1991 and kindly provided this genealogy to an NKU undergraduate student, Steven Priestle, who was mentored by D. Hogan.

Thomas R. Zentall: Received PhD from University of California, Berkeley in 1969. Located at the University of Kentucky since 1975. Interests include various cognitive processes in animals -memory, concept learning and learning by imitation.

David E. Hogan: Received PhD from University of Kentucky in 1979. Interests include evolutionary psychology, observational learning and superstitious behavior of animals.

...and his loyal students who affectionately refer to their experimental subjects as ...Da Birds...