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Thurstone, L(ouis) L(eon) (sh)




born May 29, 1887, Chicago, Ill, U.S.
died Sept. 29, 1955, Chapel Hill, N.C.

U.S. psychologist.

He taught primarily at the University of Chicago (1927-52). Concerned with the measurement of people's attitudes and intelligence, he was instrumental in the development of psychometrics. His principal work, The Vectors of the Mind (1935; revised as Multiple-Factor Analysis, 1947), presented the technique of multiple-factor analysis to explain correlations between results in psychological tests.