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 Edward Thorndike (1874-1949) was one of the most prominent researchers in the history of American psychology. During his long academic career, most of which was spent at Teachers College, Columbia University, he authored 50 books and more than 450 articles. In addition Thorndike created numerous intelligence and achievement tests for schools. He was deeply interested in measuring differences in intellectual capacity and performance among school children.
Throughout most of his professional career, Thorndike's thinking on human differences was informed by his eugenic beliefs. He was active in the eugenics movement from the 1910s throughout the 1930s. At various times in his career he belonged to the Eugenics Section of the American Breeders Association, the Eugenics Society of the USA, the American Eugenics Society, and the Eugenics Research Association.
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