ABSTRACT
This was the Golden Age of American psychology (Rice, 2005), and Illinois was among the most gilded centers of psychology. Hunt joined an impressive roster of American psychologists at the University of Illinois-Raymond Cattell, Lyle Lanier, Paul T. Young, and Charles Osgood were leaders in the Ÿeld, junior faculty included Robert Glaser and Arthur Irion, and present at the university were such prominent psychologists as O. Hobart Mowrer, Society for the Study of Psychological Issues cofounder Ross Stagner, and comparative psychologist turned
clinical psychology pioneer C. M. “Red” Louttit (Farreras, 2005). Also at the university was George Stoddard, by this time a grand old man of American psychology.
