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词条 William Herbert Sheldon
释义

  1. Early life and education

  2. Work

  3. Allegations of Thefts at the American Numismatic Society in Federal Courts

  4. Death

  5. Publications

  6. See also

  7. References

  8. Further reading

{{Infobox person | name = William Herbert Sheldon | image =William Herbert Sheldon.jpg | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = November 19, 1898 | birth_place = Warwick, Rhode Island | death_date = {{d-da|September 17, 1977|November 19, 1898}} | death_place = Cambridge, Massachusetts | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | residence = | nationality = | other_names = | known_for = | education = | employer = | occupation = Psychologist and eugenicist | title = | salary = | networth = | height = | weight = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | boards = | religion = | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }}William Herbert Sheldon, Jr. (November 19, 1898 – September 17, 1977) was an American psychologist and numismatist. He created the field of somatotype and constitutional psychology that correlate body types with Temperament, illustrated by his Ivy League nude posture photos.[1] [1]

Early life and education

Sheldon was born in Pawtuxet, Rhode Island on November 19, 1898 to William Herbert Sheldon, Sr., a naturalist and animal breeder, and Mary Abby Greene, a village midwife. His godfather was the noted psychologist and philosopher, William James. He graduated from Warwick Veterans Memorial High School in 1915 and attended Brown University. After graduating, he worked in a range of fields before studying for his master's degree at the University of Colorado. Sheldon attended the University of Chicago and earned his Ph.D. in 1925. He taught psychology at the University of Chicago and at the University of Wisconsin. He attended the University of Chicago Medical Center, receiving his M.D. in 1933.[2][3]

Gaining a two-year fellowship in Europe allowed him to study under Carl Jung, and visit Sigmund Freud and Ernst Kretschmer. After Europe, he moved to Harvard University in 1938. He served in the Army Medical Corps at lieutenant colonel rank in the Second World War.[3]

From 1947 to 1959 he was Director of the Constitutional Laboratory at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He became a professor of medicine at the University of Oregon Medical School in 1951.[3][4]

Work

In psychology, he developed a new version of somatotypology by classifying people into endomorphic, mesomorphic, and ectomorphic, based on many photographs and measurements of nude figures at Ivy League schools.[3] Ron Rosenbaum writes: "He believed that every individual harbored within him different degrees of each of the three character components. By using body measurements and ratios derived from nude photographs, Sheldon believed he could assign every individual a three-digit number representing the three components, components that Sheldon believed were inborn -- genetic -- and remained unwavering determinants of character regardless of transitory weight change. In other words, physique equals destiny."[5]

In numismatics, he authored Early American Cents and later revised that work within Penny Whimsy (these were the most exhaustive catalogues of the varieties of early American large cents at that time). The Sheldon variety list for Early American Cents is still in use today. He also developed the "Sheldon scale" that graded coins on a numeric basis from 1 to 70, which is still standard among American numismatists.[6]

Allegations of Thefts at the American Numismatic Society in Federal Courts

William Herbert Sheldon was also a specialist in United States Cents. After his death, he was accused by the American Numismatic Society of expropriation (ie.substitution) of lower grade examples of his cent coins with high grade examples from the cabinets of the ANS, the oldest and most prestigious numismatic society in the United States. There is much on this subject on the internet. About the suits in federal court: see "ANS search for 129 missing cents becomes legal battle: Society attorney names late William Sheldon as suspect," by Bill Gibbs, Coin World Aug. 23, 1993; ANS Magazine, vol. 3. no. 2, Summer 2004, by ANS curator Robert W. Hoge; and "More on Collector Ted Naftzger and the Switched Large Cents," by John Kleeberg, The E-sylum, Vol. 11, No. 24, June 15, 2008, Article 17.

Death

Sheldon died in his office at the Biological Humanics Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts on September 17, 1977.[4]

Publications

  • Sheldon, William H. ♦ Psychology and the Promethean Will ♦ Harper & Brothers, 1936
  • Sheldon, William H. ♦ The Varieties of Human Physique (An Introduction to Constitutional Psychology) ♦ Harper & Brothers, 1940
  • Sheldon, William H. ♦ The Varieties of Temperament (A Psychology of Constitutional Differences) Harper & Brothers, 1942
  • Sheldon, William H. ♦ Varieties of Delinquent Youth (An Introduction to Constitutional Psychiatry) Harper & Brothers, 1949
  • Sheldon, William H. ♦ Atlas of Men ♦ Harper and Brothers, 1954
  • Sheldon, William H. ♦ Early American Cents, 1793–1814 ♦ Harper & Brothers, 1949
  • Sheldon, William H. ♦ Penny Whimsy ♦ Harper & Row, 1958

See also

  • Ivy League nude posture photos
  • Posture (psychology)
  • Somatotype and constitutional psychology

References

1. ^{{cite news | work = New York Times | title = Nude Photos Are Sealed At Smithsonian | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/21/us/nude-photos-are-sealed-at-smithsonian.html | quote=Later, other photographs were taken by W. H. Sheldon, a researcher who believed that there was a relationship between body shape and Temperament traits. Mr. Sheldon has since died. | date = January 21, 1995 | accessdate = December 1, 2011}}
2. ^{{citation|title=Sheldon, William Herbert (1898-1977)|author=Margaret Alic|work=Encyclopedia of Psychology|date=6 April 2001|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_g2699/is_0006/ai_2699000622/}}
3. ^1 2 3 {{cite news |author=Richard N. Walker |coauthors= |title=W. H. Sheldon |url=http://pb.rcpsych.org/content/2/6/104.2.full.pdf |quote= |newspaper=Nature in Psychiatric Bulletin |date=1978 |accessdate=2011-12-07 }}
4. ^1 {{cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=William H. Sheldon, 78. Correlated Physiques and Traits of Behavior. Headed Research Center |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/09/18/archives/william-h-sheldon-78-correlated-physiques-and-traits-of-behavior.html |quote= Dr. William Herbert Sheldon, a psychologist and researcher in correlating human biology and physique with social behavior, died Friday of a heart ailment at his office at the Biological Humanics Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was 78 years old. |work=The New York Times |date=September 18, 1977 |accessdate=2007-07-21 }}
5. ^1 {{Cite news |author=Ron Rosenbaum |title=The Great Ivy League Nude Posture Photo Scandal |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=990CE7D91131F936A25752C0A963958260 |quote=|newspaper=New York Times|date=1995-01-15 |accessdate=2008-03-11 }}
6. ^{{Cite web |url=http://www.acoin.com/grading.htm |title=Grading Coins |access-date=2009-09-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060204223614/http://www.acoin.com/grading.htm |archive-date=2006-02-04 |dead-url=yes |df= }}

Further reading

  • Gardner, Theories of personality (John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1959), pp. 336-377 (Sheldon's constitutional psychology.) - includes biography of Sheldon
  • Physique as Destiny: William H. Sheldon, Barbara Honeyman Heath and the Struggle for Hegemony in the Science of Somatotyping
  • "The varieties of Temperament", Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1942. downloadable versions: https://archive.org/details/TheVarietiesOfTemperamentAPsychologyOfConstitutionalDifferences
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