Sometimes textbook authors operate under a handicap. The subject matter can be experienced as dry, especially by introductory students. This author, Edwin G. Boring, operated under a different handicap: his name.
Somehow, I see this also as a handicap in getting students to enroll in his courses.
By the way, he wrote A History of Experimental Psychology, which was published back in 1950. It's a challenging textbook, and Professor Boring very liberally threw German expressions around.
7 comments:
Too funny!
When I was a teenager, I read a book called "The Making of a Psychiatrist", it was a good book.
But yes, yours has an unfortunate title.
Sometimes chance works in surprising ways.
A pen name would have been appropriate.
that put a smile on my face.
While I am free as a Cloud-ia!
ALOHA from Honolulu
ComfortSpiral
=^..^= <3
It reminds me of the "author game," in which one picks appropriate author-title matches, such as: "A Brief History of the Balkans," by Hugo Slavia; and, "Climbing the Social Ladder," by Marion Ford DeMoney.
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