| Code | BPS/GB/112 |
| Name | Broadbent; Donald Eric (1926-1993); Professor; CBE FRS |
| Title | Professor |
| Forenames | Donald Eric |
| Surname | Broadbent |
| Dates | 1926-1993 |
| Epithet | CBE FRS |
| Parallel Name | Donald Broadbent |
| Gender | Male |
| Nationality | British |
| DatesAndPlaces | Born Birmingham, May 1926 died Oxford 10 April 1993. |
| Address | Oxford |
| Relationships | The youngest of three children of Herbert Arthur Broadbent (b.c 1890) accountant & his wife Hannah Elizabeth Williams (1893 to 1965).
Married Margaret Elizabeth (Peg: b 1924), daughter of Frederick Holden Wright in June 1949. They had two daughters, one of whom died in a traffic accident in 1979.
After his first marriage ended in divorce Broadbent married Margaret Gregory (b.1929) in 1972. |
| Activity | Educated Winchester School, joined the Royal Air Force in 1944 and went up to Pembroke College Cambridge (1947?) graduating with a first class degree in moral science 1949.
Broadbent remained in Cambridge after his marriage in 1949, having secured a post with the MRC's Applied Psychology Unit (APU) in Cambridge of which Bartlett was Director, studying the effects of noise on performance for the Royal Navy..Broadbent remained at the APU for the next twenty five years.in 1958
In 1958 Broadbent was appointed director of the APU at 32 years of age and remained as director until 1974. Broadbent was helped by two assistant directors of the APU, R.Conrad and E.B.Poulton. After his first marriage ended in divorce Broadbent married Margaret Gregory (b.1929) in 1972 she was a graduate assistant in the department. Broadbent appeared regularly on television and radio and sat on numerous national committees. Broadbent resigned from the APU (after giving 3 years notice in 1971), in 1974 he moved to the Oxford department of experimental psychology as a member of external MRC staff.Broadbent accepted a fellowship at Wolfson College (he had been a fellow of Pembroke College, from 1965 to 1974), chaired the faculty board and sat on many committees. Broadbent was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1968, and a foreign associate of the US National Academy of Science in 1971. He was appointed CBE in 1974. He received nine honorary doctorates. Broadbent was President of the Experimental Psychology Society in 1973 and 1974.
Sources:
Moray, N. (1995). Donald E. Broadbent: 1926-1993. American Journal of Psychology, 108, 117-121.
Parasuraman, Raja. 1996. Profiles in Psychology: Donald Broadbent. C S L Notes 20. Retrieved September 8, 2008.
Berry, Dianne C. (ed.). 1995. Special Issue: Donald Broadbent and Applied Cognitive Psychology. Applied Cognitive Psychology 9(7): S1-S215.
Berry, Dianne. 2002. Donald Broadbent. The Psychologist (15)(8) (August 2002): 402-405. Retrieved October 20, 2008.
Craik, Fergus I. M. 2000. Broadbent, Donald E. Encyclopaedia of Psychology 1: 476-477.
Craik, Fergus I. M., and Alan Baddeley. 1995. Donald E. Broadbent (1926-1993). American Psychologist 50(4): 302-303.
Weiskrantz, L. (1994). ‘Donald Eric Broadbent’. Biographical Memoirs of the Royal Society, 40.
Note: A lecture in Broadbent's honour is given at the annual conference of the British Psychological Society.
Compiled by Mike Maskill, BPS Archivist for the History of Psychology Centre. |
| OtherInfo | A lecture in Broadbent's honour is given at the annual conference of the British Psychological Society.
Broadbent's notion of limited-capacity information channels and perceptual filters. |
| PublishedWorks | Selected works
Broadbent, Donald E. 1952. Listening to one of two synchronous messages. Journal of Experimental Psychology 44: 51-55.
Broadbent, Donald E. 1958. Perception and Communication. Elsevier Science Ltd. ISBN 0080090907.
Broadbent, Donald E. 1961. Behavior. Basic Books. ISBN 0465005993.
Broadbent, Donald E. 1962. Attention and the perception of speech Scientific American 206: 143-51.
Broadbent, Donald E. 1973. In Defense of Empirical Psychology. Methuen young books. ISBN 041676780X.
Broadbent, Donald E. 1993. The Simulation of Human Intelligence (Wolfson College Lectures). Blackwell. ISBN 0631185879.
Broadbent, Donald E., and James T. Reason (eds.). 1990. Human Factors in Hazardous Situations. Oxford University Press. ISBN 019852191X.
Pribram, Karl H., and Donald E. Broadbent (eds.). 1970. Biology of Memory. Academic Press, 1970. ISBN 0125643500. |
| Source | Moray, N. (1995). Donald E. Broadbent: 1926-1993. American Journal of Psychology, 108, 117-121.
Parasuraman, Raja. 1996. Profiles in Psychology: Donald Broadbent. C S L Notes 20. Retrieved September 8, 2008.
Berry, Dianne C. (ed.). 1995. Special Issue: Donald Broadbent and Applied Cognitive Psychology. Applied Cognitive Psychology 9(7): S1-S215.
Berry, Dianne. 2002. Donald Broadbent. The Psychologist (15)(8) (August 2002): 402-405. Retrieved October 20, 2008.
Craik, Fergus I. M. 2000. Broadbent, Donald E. Encyclopaedia of Psychology 1: 476-477.
Craik, Fergus I. M., and Alan Baddeley. 1995. Donald E. Broadbent (1926-1993). American Psychologist 50(4): 302-303.
Weiskrantz, L. (1994). ‘Donald Eric Broadbent’. Biographical Memoirs of the Royal Society, 40. |
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National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 |
| RefNo | Title | Dates |
| PHO/001/06/11/02 | Broadbent, Donald - Photograph | 1988-1989 |
| AUD/002/OHP 23 | Wedderburn, A (Zander) - Recording | 5 July 2007 |
| BPS/002/2/05/05/02 | BPS Division of Occupational Psychology DOP Chairman's (Professor Sylvia Shimmin) papers 1910-2001 | 1910-2001 |
| AUD/002/OHP 64 | Weiskrantz, Lawrence - Recording | 13 October 2010 |
| BPS/001/4/02/05/09 | BPS Scientific Affairs Board and Psychologists on Research Councils 1985-1991 | 1985-1991 |
| AUD/002/OHP 96 | Shallice, Tim - Recording | 14 February 2013 |
| PHO/001/04/08/15 | SSRC Psych Committee 1975 - Photograph | 1975 |
| PHO/001/04/09/01 | Cranfield Graduation Ceremony 1991 - Photograph | 1991 |
| PHO/001/06/11 | BPS Centenary Slides | 2001 |
| PHO/001/02/56 | Broadbent, Donald - Photographs | 1988-1989 |
| AUD/002/OHP 12 | Conrad , R - Recording | 20 October 2005 |
| AUD/002/OHP 39 | Warr, Peter - Recording | 16 September 2008 |
| BPS/001/6/01/02/02/01 | BPS Annual Conference - Submissions 1991 | 1991 |
| BPS/002/2/05/05/02/02 | 50 Years of Occupational Psychology in Britain | 1910-2001 |
| BPS/002/2/05/05/02/01 | BPS Division of Occupational Psychology - Early Years 1970-1975 | 1910-2001 |
| BROAD/001 | Donald Broadbent (1926-1993) papers | 1976-1983 |
| AUD/002/OHP 02 | Gale, Anthony - Recording | 5 February 2005 |
| AUD/002/OHP 49 | Black, Tony - Recording | 5 August 2009 |
| APU/001/34 | Experimental Psychology | 1946-1995 |
| BPS/001/10/02/02 | BPS Working Party on Education Degrees 1967-1977 | 1967-1977 |
| BPS | British Psychological Society records | 1891-2003 |
| AUD/002/OHP 115 | Sloboda, John - Recording | 19 January 1997 |
| BPS/001/6/01/03/02/02 | BPS London Conference - Submissions 1991 | 1991 |
| AUD/002/OHP 43 | Goswami, Usha - Recording | 14 November 2008 |