Ellis Paul Torrance
Psychologist, Author
1915 – 2003
Who was Ellis Paul Torrance?
Ellis Paul Torrance was an American psychologist from Milledgeville, Georgia.
After completing his undergraduate degree at Mercer University, Torrance completed a Master's degree at the University of Minnesota, and then a doctorate from the University of Michigan. His teaching career spanned from 1957 to 1984, first at the University of Minnesota and then later the University of Georgia, where he became professor of Educational Psychology in 1966.
Torrance is best known for his research in creativity. His major accomplishments include 1,871 publications:88 books; 256 parts of books or cooperative volumes; 408 journal articles; 538 reports, manuals, tests, etc.; 162 articles in popular journals or magazines; 355 conference papers; and 64 forewords or prefaces. He also created the Future Problem Solving Program International, the Incubation Curriculum Model, and the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking.
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- Born
- Oct 8, 1915
Milledgeville - Also known as
- E. Paul Torrance
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Mercer University
- University of Michigan
- Employment
- University of Georgia
- Died
- Jul 12, 2003
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on July 23, 2013
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