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Naming Honors Research Guide

Resources providing biographical information and sources for further research into Emory-affiliated figures

Resources

"Robert Yerkes Was Influential in Comparative Psychology," verywellmind.com, (Cherry, 2020)
"Robert Mearns Yerkes (1876-1956): A Biographical Memoir," National Academy of Sciences (1965, Hilgard)
Roberts Mearns Yerkes, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University
The papers contain correspondence, reports, minutes of meetings, research notes, writings, photographs, diaries, and other materials documenting the professional career and personal life of Robert Mearns Yerkes.
Report of the Committee to Study and to Report on the Best Practical Means of Cutting Off the Defective Germ-Plasm in the American Population: The Scope of the Committee’s Work,” (1914)
Yerkes worked with this committee, which would come to promote segregation, institutionalization, and sterilization of "defectives" in the population

Resources

The Romance of American Psychology: Political Culture in the Age of Experts
Includes descriptions of Yerkes' role in developing military intelligence tests that were inherently discriminatory
Yerkes, Robert Mearns (1876-1956) comparative psychologist, American National Biography (Reed, 2000)
Intelligence and Morale in the Army of Democracy: The Genesis of Military Psychology During the First World War,” Military Psychology, Vol. 6, No. 4 (1994), Keene
Monkey Farm: A History of the Yerkes Laboratories of Primate Biology, Orange Park, Florida, 1930-1965 (Dewsbury, 2005)
“The Robert Mearns Yerkes Papers," The Yale University Library Gazette (April 1985, Stark)

Item in Digital Collections at Yale University

Portrait of Robert M. Yerkes