Catharine Cox
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Catharine Morris Cox Miles (1890-1984) was an American psychologist known for her work on intelligence and genius.
Catharine Cox earned a Ph.D. from Stanford University and later married Walter R. Miles.
She was a professor of clinical psychology at the Yale medical School and affiliated with Yale's Institute of Human Relations. Earlier she worked at Stanford with Stanford-Binet creator Lewis Terman in issues related to IQ. She is also known for her IQ estimates of three hundred prominent figures who lived prior to IQ testing.
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- Cox CM. Early Mental Traits of Three Hundred Geniuses. (Genetic Studies of Genius Series) 1926: Stanford University Press, ISBN 0-8047-0010-9.
- Miles CC. The Rôle of Individual Psychological Difference in Social Psychology. Social Forces 15 (1937): 469-472.
- Walter R. and Catharine Cox Miles Papers via Archives of the History of American Psychology
