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| birth_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US1958257|24}}| death_place = Princeton, New Jersey, US| death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | other_names = | fields = Psychology| workplaces = Harvard UniversityPrinceton University| education = | alma_mater = | thesis_title = Über die heterochrome Helligkeitsvergleichung| thesis_url =weblink| thesis_year = 1909| doctoral_advisor = Carl Stumpf| doctoral_students = | known_for = Past president, American Psychological Association| awards = | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | spouse = | partner = | children = | website = }}Herbert Sidney Langfeld (July 24, 1879 – February 25, 1958) was an American psychologist and a past president of the American Psychological Association (APA).

Biography

Herbert Langfeld was born in Philadelphia on July 24, 1879.MAGAZINE,weblink Herbert Sidney Langfeld, Princeton Alumni Weekly, LIX, 11, 27, 1958-11-28, 2023-05-05, Google Books, He grew up in Philadelphia and was initially drawn to a diplomatic career. He was working for the American Embassy in Berlin when he was attracted to psychology. He earned a PhD in 1909 at the University of Berlin. He took a faculty position at Harvard University and ultimately went to Princeton University, where he became the psychological laboratory director and later the department chair for psychology.JOURNAL, Bartlett, F. C., Herbert Sidney Langfeld: 1879-1958, American Journal of Psychology, 1958, 71, 3, 616–619, 1420272, 13571476, While at Princeton he also directly influenced the ecological psychology approach of J. J. Gibson through his phenomenological ideas.JOURNAL, The History and Philosophy of Ecological Psychology, Lorena, Lobo, Manuel, Heras-Escribano, David, Travieso, Bernhard, Hommel, Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02228, 2018-11-27, 2228, 30555368, 6280920, free, Langfeld was APA president in 1930.WEB, Former APA presidents,weblink American Psychological Association, November 12, 2014, He also held leadership positions with the International Congress of Psychology and the Psychology Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.WEB, Biography of Herbert S. Langfeld,weblink OhioLINK, November 12, 2014, He died from heart disease in Princeton, New Jersey on February 25, 1958.NEWS,weblink Dr. Herbert Sidney Langfeld, 78; Served as Camouflage Adviser, Newsday, Princeton, New Jersey, Hempstead, New York, 70, 1958-02-26, 2023-05-05, Newspapers.com,

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