Gordon Haslam Turner | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1912 |
| Died | c. 1994 |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Toronto |
| Thesis | (1939) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Western Ontario |
Gordon Haslam Turner(born 1912) was a Canadian psychologist who had a reputation for his research in occupational psychology and as an academic administrator.
Turner was born in Montreal. He attended the University of Toronto from which he received his BA in 1935,his MA in 1936 and his Ph.D. in 1939. The topic of his PhD dissertation was the effect of fixed-pace work upon health (Turner,1943). He subsequently developed expertise in educational administration. [1]
He then worked for two years (1939–1941) with the YMCA Auxiliary Service and as a research assistant with the National Research Council. With the outbreak of the Second World War he joined the Directorate of Personnel Selection of the Canadian Army. After demobilization he joined the Department of Psychology at the University of Western Ontario (UWO) where he served as Professor and Head of the Department of Psychology (1954–1960). He continued to serve as Professor and Head of the Department of Psychology,at UWO's University College,until 1963. He served as Dean of UWO's Talbot College from 1967 to 1968. [2]
He was elected President of the Canadian Psychological Association in 1960. In his presidential address he decried the fragmentation of the study of human processes in psychology. [3]