Recently, however, the examination of the ages at which several of the great critics have produced their best works has shown that I have by no means reason to be depressed" (Ammons, 1962, p. 836). The list included English philosopher Thomas Hobbes, sixty-three; Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza, forty-five; German philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz, sixty-eight; English philosopher John Locke, fifty-eight; and German philosopher Immanuel Kant, fifty-seven. (He could have added that Russian scientist Ivan Pavlov was fifty-six years old when he first proposed the principle of the conditioned reflex.)
Hull was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1935, to the National Academy of Sciences in 1936, and to the presidency of the American Psychological Association 1935. He received the Warren Medal of the Society of Experimental Psychologists in 1945. A measure of his influence is that during the decade spanning 1941 to 1950 approximately 40 percent of all experimental articles published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology and the Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology included references to his work (Spence, 1952). Today Hull is best remembered for one theoretical publication on learning theory, Principles of Behavior (1943).
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