Lewis Terman

Lewis Terman
Born	Lewis Madison Terman (1877-01-15)January 15, 1877 Johnson County, Indiana, U.S.
Died	December 21, 1956(1956-12-21) (aged 79) Palo Alto, California
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Clark University (Ph.D., 1905) Indiana University Bloomington (B.A , M.A., 1903) Central Normal College (B.S., B.Pd., 1894; B.A., 1898)
Known for	IQ testing, Positive Psychology of Talent, eugenics
Scientific career
Fields	Psychology
Institutions	Stanford University Los Angeles Normal School
Doctoral students	Harry Harlow

Lewis Madison Terman (January 15, 1877 – December 21, 1956) was an American psychologist, academic, and proponent of eugenics. He was noted as a pioneer in educational psychology in the early 20th century at the Stanford School of Education. Terman is best known for his revision of the Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scales and for initiating the longitudinal study of children with high IQs called the Genetic Studies of Genius.^[1] As a prominent eugenicist, he was a member of the Human Betterment Foundation, the American Eugenics Society, and the Eugenics Research Association.^[2] He also served as president of the American Psychological Association. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Terman as the 72nd most cited psychologist of the 20th century, in a tie with G. Stanley Hall.^[3]