Wendell Johnson | |
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| Born | April 16, 1906 Roxbury, Kansas, US |
| Died | August 29, 1965 (aged 59) Iowa City, Iowa, US |
| Known for | Research into stuttering, Monster Study |
| Title | Louis W. Hill Research Professor |
| Board member of | American Speech and Hearing Association[1] |
| Children | Nicholas Johnson |
| Academic background | |
| Education | University of Iowa, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. |
| Thesis | The Influence of Stuttering on the Personality (1931) |
| Doctoral advisor | Lee Edward Travis |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Psychology |
| Sub-discipline | Speech–language pathology |
| School or tradition | General semantics |
| Institutions | University of Iowa |
| Website | Wendell Johnson memorial home page, archived October 13, 2007 |
Wendell Johnson (April 16, 1906 – August 29, 1965) was an American psychologist, author and was a proponent of general semantics (or GS). His life work contributed greatly to speech–language pathology, particularly in understanding the area of stuttering, as Johnson himself stuttered. The Wendell Johnson Speech and Hearing Center at University of Iowa is named after him. Aside from his contributions to stuttering, he posthumously became known for his controversial experiment nicknamed the "Monster Study".