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Arnold Gesell

American psychologist
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Arnold Lucius Gesell
Born:
June 21, 1880, Alma, Wisconsin, U.S.
Died:
May 29, 1961, New Haven, Connecticut (aged 80)

Arnold Gesell (born June 21, 1880, Alma, Wisconsin, U.S.—died May 29, 1961, New Haven, Connecticut) was an American psychologist and pediatrician, who pioneered the use of motion-picture cameras to study the physical and mental development of normal infants and children and whose books influenced child rearing in the United States. As director of the Clinic of Child Development at Yale University (1911–48), he collected and published a vast quantity of data and amassed a large collection of films on child development. Gesell studied psychology at Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, where he came under the influence of G. Stanley Hall, one ...(100 of 497 words)

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