SOURCE: “From Laws of Learning to a Science of Values: Efficiency and Morality in Thorndike's Educational Psychology,” in American Psychologist, Vol. 53, No. 10, October, 1998, pp. 1145-52.
In the following essay, Beatty discusses the ways in which Thorndike developed and then marketed his notions about using scientific methodology in educational psychology to create an empirical way of measuring morality and character.
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