Gregory Kimble

{{Short description|American psychologist}}

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| birth_name = Gregory Adams Kimble

| birth_date = {{birth date |1917|10|21}}

| birth_place = Mason City, Iowa

| death_date = {{death date and age |2006|01|15|1917|10|21}}

| death_place = Durham, North Carolina

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| nationality = American

| fields = Psychology

| workplaces = Duke University

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| education = University of Iowa (Ph.D., 1945)

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| thesis_title = Classical conditioning as a function of the time between conditioned and unconditioned stimuli

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| thesis_year = 1945

| doctoral_advisor = Kenneth W. Spence

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| awards = 1996 Ernest R. Hilgard Lifetime Achievement Award from Division 1 of the American Psychological Association
1998/1999 Award for Distinguished Career Contributions to Education and Training from the American Psychological Association

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Gregory Adams Kimble (October 21, 1917 – January 15, 2006) was an American general psychologist and a professor at Duke University, a position from which he retired in 1984.{{Cite magazine |date=March–April 1999 |title=1998/1999 APA Education and Training Awards |url=http://www.apa.org/ed/precollege/ptn/1999/03/issue.pdf |publisher=American Psychological Association |magazine=Psychology Teacher Network |access-date=2018-06-11}} He was known for his efforts to unify psychology as a single scientific discipline,{{Cite magazine |last=Simonton |first=Dean Keith |author-link=Dean Keith Simonton |date=2015-03-31 |title=Unifying Psychology as a Physical Science |url=https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/unifying-psychology-as-a-physical-science |magazine=APS Observer |language=en-US |publisher=Association for Psychological Science |volume=28 |issue=4}} and for his lifelong devotion to behaviorism.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MWq-MaC1_1YC |title=Control: A History of Behavioral Psychology |last=Mills |first=John A. |date=2000-08-01 |publisher=NYU Press |isbn=9780814761243 |pages=187 |language=en}} He also served as an advisor to the magazine Psychology Today in the 1980s, when it was owned by the American Psychological Association (APA),{{Cite news |url=https://www.science.org/content/article/rehab-psychology-mag |title=Rehab for Psychology Mag |last=Holden |first=Constance |date=1999-05-11 |work=Science |access-date=2018-06-11 |language=en}}{{Cite magazine |last=Mervis |first=Jeffrey |date=1988-04-04 |title=Society Learns From Magazine Sale |url=https://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/9413/title/Society-Learns-From-Magazine-Sale/ |magazine=The Scientist}} of which he became a fellow in 1951.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OtFQAQAAIAAJ |title=Psychology and Learning |date=1985 |publisher=American Psychological Association |isbn=9780912704937 |pages=7 |language=en}} His positions at the APA itself included presidency of its Divisions of General Psychology and Experimental Psychology. He received the APA's Award for Distinguished Career Contributions to Education and Training in 1999,{{Cite journal |last=No authorship indicated |date=1999 |title=Gregory Adams Kimble: Award for Distinguished Career Contributions to Education and Training. |journal=American Psychologist |language=en |volume=54 |issue=11 |pages=979–988 |doi=10.1037/h0088208 |issn=1935-990X}} as well as the C. Alan Boneau Award from the APA's Division of General Psychology.{{Cite journal |last=Boneau |first=C. Alan |last2=Wertheimer |first2=Michael |date=2006 |title=Obituaries: Gregory A. Kimble (1917-2006). |journal=American Psychologist |language=en |volume=61 |issue=6 |pages=632–633 |doi=10.1037/0003-066x.61.6.632 |issn=1935-990X}}