Catharine Cox

Catharine Morris Cox Miles (1890-1984) was an American psychologist known for her work on intelligence and genius.

Catharine Cox earned a Ph.D. from Stanford University and later married Walter R. Miles.

She was a professor of clinical psychology at the Yale medical School and affiliated with Yale's Institute of Human Relations. Earlier she worked at Stanford with Stanford-Binet creator Lewis Terman in issues related to IQ. She is also known for her historiometric study of IQ estimates of three hundred prominent figures who lived prior to IQ testing.

References

• Cox CM. Early Mental Traits of Three Hundred Geniuses. (Genetic Studies of Genius Series) 1926: Stanford University Press, ISBN 0-8047-0010-9.
• Cox, C. M. (1976). A dossier on Charlotte Brontë. In W. W. Dennis & M. Dennis (Eds.), The intellectually gifted (pp. 47-50). New York: Grune & Stratton. (Original work published 1926)
• Cox, C. M. (1976). Excerpts from the early writings of geniuses selected and arranged by Lewis M. Terman. In W. W. Dennis & M. Dennis (Eds.), The intellectually gifted (pp. 25-45). New York: Grune & Stratton. (Original work published 1926)
• Cox, C. M. (1976). The early mental traits of three hundred geniuses. In W. W. Dennis & M. Dennis (Eds.), The intellectually gifted (pp. 17-24). New York: Grune & Stratton. (Original work published 1926)
• Cox, C. M. (1983). The early mental traits of three hundred geniuses. In R. S. Albert (Ed.), Genius and eminence (pp. 46-51). Oxford: Pergamon. (Original work published 1926)
• Miles CC. The Rôle of Individual Psychological Difference in Social Psychology. Social Forces 15 (1937): 469-472.
• Walter R. and Catharine Cox Miles Papers via Archives of the History of American Psychology

External links

Website of Cox's "Three Hundred Geniuses"

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