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THEODULE ARMAND RIBOT (1839- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 286 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RIBOT (1839- )  , See also:French psychologist, was See also:born at See also:Guingamp on the 18th of See also:December 1839, and was educated at the Lycee de St Brieuc . In r856 he began to See also:teach, and was admitted to the lcole Normale Superieure in 1862 . In 1885 he gave a course of lectures on " Experimental See also:Psychology " at the See also:Sorbonne, and in x888 was appointed See also:professor of that subject at the See also:College of See also:France . His thesis for his See also:doctor's degree, republished in 1882, H6ridite: etude psychologique (5th ed., 1889), is his most important and best known See also:book . Following the experimental and synthetic methods, he has brought together a large number of instances of inherited peculiarities; he pays particular See also:attention to the See also:physical See also:element of See also:mental See also:life, ignoring all spiritual or non-material factors in See also:man . In his See also:work on La Psychologie anglaise contemporaine (187o), he shows his sympathy with the sensationalist school, and again in his See also:translation of See also:Herbert See also:Spencer's Principles of Psychology . Besides numerous articles, he has written on See also:Schopenhauer, Philosophie de Schopenhauer (1874; 7th ed., 1896), and on the contemporary psychology of See also:Germany (La Psychologie See also:allemande contemporaine, 1879; 13th ed., 1898), also four little monographs on See also: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 See also:supply useful data to the student of mental disease . Other See also:works by him are:—La Psychologie See also:des sentiments (1896); L'See also:Evolution des idees generaley (1897) ; Essai sur l'See also:imagination creatrice (1900) ; La Logique. des sentiments (19o4); Essai sur les passions (1906) . Of the above the following have been translated into See also:English:—English Psychology (1873); See also:Heredity: a Psycho-logical Study of its Phenomena, See also:Laws, Causes, and Consequences (1875); Diseases of Memory: An See also:Essay in the See also:Positive Psychology (1882) ; Diseases of the Will (New See also:York, 1884) ; See also:German Psychology of to-See also:day, tr . J . M . See also:Baldwin (New York, 1886) ; The Psychology of Attention (Open See also:Court See also:Publishing See also:Company, See also:Chicago, 1890); Diseases of See also:Personality (Chicago, 1895) ; The Psychology of the Emotions (1897); The Evolution of See also:General Ideas, tr .

F . A . Welby (Chicago, 1899) ; Essay on the Creative Imagination, tr . A . H . N . See also:

Baron (1906) .

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