The American Journal of Psychology, Volume 8Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener, Karl M. Dallenbach, Madison Bentley, Edwin Garrigues Boring, Margaret Floy Washburn University of Illinois Press, 1897 - Psychology |
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| Title | The American Journal of Psychology, Volume 8 |
| Editors | Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener, Karl M. Dallenbach, Madison Bentley, Edwin Garrigues Boring, Margaret Floy Washburn |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press, 1897 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Jul 3, 2007 |
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