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Théodule-Armand Ribot
Scientist · Philosopher · 1839–1916
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Théodule-Armand Ribot was a French psychologist who helped establish experimental psychology as an academic field in France. He taught at the Sorbonne and became professor of experimental psychology at the Collège de France in 1888. His influential studies examined heredity, memory, will, personality, attention, and emotion, often linking mental life to physiological processes.
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Read quote → ✓Source verified“La mémoire est, par essence, un fait biologique ; par accident, un fait psychologique.”
Read quote → ✓Source verified“« La mémoire, telle que le sens commun l’entend et que la psychologie ordinaire la décrit, loin d’être la mémoire tout entière, n’en est qu’un cas particulier, le plus élevé et le plus complexe. »”
