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Stoelting

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Stoelting is a company founded in 1886, based in Illinois, United States, in the field of psychological assessments, physiological assessment, and psychophysiological measurement.

History

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Stoelting was founded as the Chicago Laboratory Supply and Scale Co. by Christian Hans Stoelting[1] in 1886.

From 1903 to 1943, Stoelting was the principal producer of psychological assessments and therapeutic products[2] of the material culture of American psychology, with products that were supplied globally.[3]

Stoelting continues to produce psychological assessments, including the Leiter-3, Merrill-Palmer-Revised, and Stroop, Color & Word Test,[4], polygraphs, and equipment for experimental psychology.

References

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  1. ^ Marquis, Albert (1911). The Book of Chicagoans: A Biographical Dictionary of Leading Living Men of the City of Chicago. A.N. Marquis & Company.
  2. ^ Stoelting. "Apparatus, tests and supplies for psychology, psychometry, psychotechnology, psychiatry, neurology, anthropology, phonetics, physiology, and pharmacology. Chicago (Collection Rand B. Evans). The Virtual Laboratory Max Planck Institute for the History of Science website". Retrieved August 5, 2015.
  3. ^ Yoshimura (2016). "Early Psychological Apparatuses Stored in Japan: Imported, Replicated, and Reformed Apparatuses before World War II". Jpn Psychol Res. 58: 32–45. doi:10.1111/jpr.12112.
  4. ^ "Buros Mental Measurement Yearbook".
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