Leo Postman
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Leo Joseph Postman (June 7, 1918 – April 22, 2004) was a Russian-born American psychologist known for his research on human memory.
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Born | Leo Joseph Postman (1918-06-07)June 7, 1918 |
Died | April 22, 2004(2004-04-22) (aged 85) Marblehead, Massachusetts, United States |
Education | City College of New York Harvard University |
Known for | Human memory |
Spouse | Dorothy Lerman Postman |
Awards | Warren Medal of the Society of Experimental Psychologists (1974) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Psychology |
Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
Thesis | The time-error in auditory perception (1946) |
Doctoral students | Marcia K. Johnson[1] David McNeill |
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