author
G. E. (George Everett) Partridge
b. 1870
A pioneering American psychologist, educator, and writer, he explored child study, education, and personality at a time when psychology was still finding its public voice. He is especially remembered for helping popularize the term "sociopath" in the early 20th century.
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The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History
by G. E. (George Everett) Partridge
About the author
Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, on May 31, 1870, George Everett Partridge built his career in the early years of American psychology. He studied at Harvard and later earned a Ph.D. at Clark University, where he worked with the influential psychologist G. Stanley Hall.
Partridge taught psychology and education and wrote books that brought new psychological ideas to teachers, students, and general readers. His work often focused on childhood, individual development, and human behavior, reflecting the strong link he saw between psychology and everyday life.
He is now most often noted for popularizing the term "sociopath" in 1930. Even so, his wider body of work shows a writer interested not only in diagnosis or theory, but in how people grow, learn, and fit into society.