- Catharine Cox
Catharine Morris Cox Miles (
May 20 ,1890 -October 11 ,1984 ) [cite journal
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journal =The American Journal of Psychology
volume =99
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pages =431–433
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date =1986
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accessdate =2007-11-30 ] was an American psychologist known for her work on intelligence andgenius .Born in
San Jose, CA , to Lydia Shipley Bean and Charles Ellwood Cox.Catharine Cox earned a Ph.D. fromStanford University and in 1927 marriedpsychologist Walter R. Miles .She was a professor of clinical psychology at the Yale Medical School and affiliated with Yale's Institute of Human Relations. Earlier she worked at Stanford with
Stanford-Binet creatorLewis Terman in issues related toIQ . She is also known for herhistoriometric study of IQ estimates of three hundred prominent figures who lived prior to IQ testing.References
*Cox CM. "Early Mental Traits of Three Hundred Geniuses". (Genetic Studies of Genius Series) 1926: Stanford University Press, ISBN 0-8047-0010-9.
*Cox, C. M. (1976). A dossier on Charlotte Brontë. In W. W. Dennis & M. Dennis (Eds.), The intellectually gifted (pp. 47-50). New York: Grune & Stratton. (Original work published 1926)
*Cox, C. M. (1976). Excerpts from the early writings of geniuses selected and arranged by Lewis M. Terman. In W. W. Dennis & M. Dennis (Eds.), The intellectually gifted (pp. 25-45). New York: Grune & Stratton. (Original work published 1926)
*Cox, C. M. (1976). The early mental traits of three hundred geniuses. In W. W. Dennis & M. Dennis (Eds.), The intellectually gifted (pp. 17-24). New York: Grune & Stratton. (Original work published 1926)
*Cox, C. M. (1983). The early mental traits of three hundred geniuses. In R. S. Albert (Ed.), Genius and eminence (pp. 46-51). Oxford: Pergamon. (Original work published 1926)
*Miles CC. [http://spartan.ac.brocku.ca/~lward/sup/Miles_1937.html The Rôle of Individual Psychological Difference in Social Psychology] . "Social Forces" 15 (1937): 469-472.
* [http://www3.uakron.edu/ahap/miles_c.htm Walter R. and Catharine Cox Miles Papers] via Archives of the History of American PsychologyExternal links
* [http://hem.bredband.net/b153434/Index.htm Website of Cox's "Three Hundred Geniuses"]
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