RIBOT, THEODULE ARMAND (1839- )

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RIBOT, THEODULE ARMAND (1839- ) , French psychologist, was born at Guingamp on the 18th of December 1839, and was educated at the Lycee de St Brieuc. In r856 he began to teach, and was admitted to the lcole Normale Superieure in 1862. In 1885 he gave a course of lectures on " Experimental Psychology " at the Sorbonne, and in x888 was appointed professor of that subject at the College of France. His thesis for his

doctor

DOCTOR (Lat. for " teacher ")

's degree, republished in 1882, H6ridite: etude psychologique (5th ed., 1889), is his most important and best known book. Following the experimental and synthetic methods, he has brought together a large number of instances of inherited peculiarities; he pays particular attention to the physical

element

ELEMENT (Lat. elementum)

of mental life, ignoring all spiritual or non-material factors in man. In his work on La Psychologie anglaise contemporaine (187o), he shows his sympathy with the sensationalist school, and again in his translation of

Herbert

Spencer

SPENCER
SPENCER,
HERBERT
(1820-1903)
SPENCER, JOHN CHARLES SPENCER, 3RD
EARL
- EARL
(1782-1845)
SPENCER, JOHNPOYNTZ SPENCER
SPENCER, WILLIAM ROBERT (1769-1834)

's Principles of Psychology. Besides numerous articles, he has written on Schopenhauer, Philosophie de Schopenhauer (1874; 7th ed., 1896), and on the contemporary psychology of Germany (La Psychologie allemande contemporaine, 1879; 13th ed., 1898), also four little monographs on Les Maladies de la memoire (1881; 13th ed., 1898); De la volonte (1883; 14th ed., 1899); De la personnalite (1885; 8th ed., 1899); and La Psychologie de l'attention (1888), which

supply

SUPPLY (through Fr. from Lat. supplere, to fill up)

useful data to the student of mental disease.
Other works by him are:La Psychologie des sentiments (1896); L'Evolution des idees generaley (1897) ; Essai sur l'imagination creatrice (1900) ; La Logique. des sentiments (19o4); Essai sur les passions (1906). Of the above the following have been translated into English:English Psychology (1873); Heredity: a Psycho-logical Study of its Phenomena, Laws, Causes, and Consequences (1875); Diseases of Memory: An Essay in the Positive Psychology (1882) ; Diseases of the Will (New

York

, 1884) ; German Psychology of to-day, tr. J. M. Baldwin (New

York

, 1886) ; The Psychology of Attention (Open Court Publishing Company, Chicago, 1890); Diseases of Personality (Chicago, 1895) ; The Psychology of the Emotions (1897); The Evolution of General Ideas, tr. F. A. Welby (Chicago, 1899) ; Essay on the Creative Imagination, tr. A. H. N. Baron (1906).

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