Samuel Jacob Beck | |
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Born | 1896 |
Died | 1980 |
Nationality | American |
Education | Columbia University |
Samuel Jacob Beck (1896–1980 [1]) was an American psychologist who worked on personality assessment and the Rorschach test. [2]
He graduated from Harvard in 1926 and then attended Columbia University, where received his M.A. in 1927 and Ph.D. in 1932. He received the Bruno Klopfer Award in 1965. [2]
He was the first person in America to write a research paper on the Rorschach test, with a publication in 1930, and was a foremost expert on the topic. In 1947 he assisted Douglas Kelley in the interpretation of Rorschach test results from Nazi leaders taken by Kelley during the Nuremberg War Trials. [3]