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Roy Franklin Richardson
Best known for an early 20th-century study of anger, this little-known psychologist and educator wrote with a practical interest in how emotions shape learning and behavior.
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Psychology and Pedagogy of Anger
by Roy Franklin Richardson
About the author
Roy Franklin Richardson is a little-documented author whose surviving reputation rests mainly on The Psychology and Pedagogy of Anger, first published in 1918. The book has remained accessible through public-domain and reprint editions, which suggests a modest but lasting interest in his attempt to connect psychological study with classroom practice.
From the record that is easy to confirm, Richardson wrote in the language of early academic psychology, focusing on anger as both an emotional experience and an educational problem. His work reflects a period when psychologists and teachers were increasingly trying to understand behavior scientifically and apply those ideas to schools.
Reliable biographical details about his personal life appear to be scarce in the sources I could confirm, so it is safest to remember him through the work itself: a serious, historically interesting contribution to educational psychology from the 1910s.