Leo Postman

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| birth_name = Leo Joseph Postman

| birth_date = {{birth date |1918|06|07}}

| birth_place = St. Petersburg, Russia

| death_date = {{death date and age |2004|04|22 |1918|06|07}}

| death_place = Marblehead, Massachusetts, United States

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| fields = Psychology

| workplaces = University of California, Berkeley

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| education = City College of New York
Harvard University

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| thesis_title = The time-error in auditory perception

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| thesis_year = 1946

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| doctoral_students = Marcia K. Johnson{{Cite journal |url=https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/in-appreciationleo-joseph-postman |title=In Appreciation: Leo Joseph Postman |issue=10 |date=2004-10-08 |journal=APS Observer |volume=17 |language=en-US |access-date=2019-06-02}}

David McNeill

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| known_for = Human memory

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| awards = Warren Medal of the Society of Experimental Psychologists (1974)

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Leo Joseph Postman (June 7, 1918 – April 22, 2004) was a Russian-born American psychologist known for his research on human memory.

Career

He taught at the University of California, Berkeley from 1950 to his retirement in 1987. In 1961, he founded Berkeley's Institute of Human Learning, which later became the Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Psychological Association, as well as the president of the Western Psychological Association in 1968.

In 1974, he was awarded the Warren Medal from the Society of Experimental Psychologists.{{Cite press release |title=Psychologist Leo Postman dies at 85 |date=2004-05-03 |publisher=University of California, Berkeley |url=https://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/05/03_postman.shtml |access-date=2019-06-02 |website=www.berkeley.edu}}

Death and legacy

He died of heart failure at his home in Marblehead, Massachusetts on April 22, 2004. His 2005 obituary in American Psychologist described him as "one of the most prolific psychologists of the last century".{{Cite journal |last=Brown |first=Donald R. |date=February 2005 |title=Leo Joseph Postman (1918-2004) |journal=The American Psychologist |volume=60 |issue=2 |pages=191–192 |doi=10.1037/0003-066X.60.2.191 |issn=0003-066X |pmid=15740451}}

Leo Postman

Career

Death and legacy

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