George Butterworth (psychologist)

{{Short description|British psychologist (1946–2000)}}

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| name = George Butterworth

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| birth_date = 1946

| death_date = 2000

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| alma_mater = University of Oxford

| thesis_title= The development of the object concept in human infants

| thesis_url = https://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=oxfaleph013370730&context=L&vid=SOLO&lang=en_US&search_scope=LSCOP_ALL&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=local&query=any,contains,George%20Butterworth&facet=rtype,include,thesis&offset=0

| thesis_year= 1974

| discipline= Psychology

| sub_discipline=Developmental Psychology

| workplaces= University of Southampton; University of Stirling; University of Sussex

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George Butterworth (1946–2000){{cite web|url=http://www.psypress.com/developmental-psychology-9781841691923 |title=Developmental Psychology: A Student's Handbook |publisher=Psychology Press, Taylor and Francis Group |accessdate=5 November 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111012015108/http://psypress.com/developmental-psychology-9781841691923 |archivedate=12 October 2011 }}{{cite journal|url=http://www.sussex.ac.uk/press_office/bulletin/25feb00/article7.html|title=George Butterworth, Obituary|journal=Bulletin the University of Sussex Newsletter|date=25 February 2000|accessdate=5 November 2011}} was a British professor of psychology, who studied infant development.{{cite book|last=Bryant|first= P. E.|year=2008|title=Theories of Infant Development|editor1-first=G.|editor1-last=Bremner|editor2-first= A.|editor2-last=Slater|publisher=Blackwell Publishing|location=Malden, Massachusetts|doi=10.1002/9780470752180.after |chapter-url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9780470752180.after |chapter=Afterword: Tribute to George Butterworth|isbn=978-0-470-75218-0|pages=355–361}}