| Level | Fonds |
| Ref No | BROAD/001 |
| Title | Donald Broadbent (1926-1993) papers |
| Date | 1976-1983 |
| Extent | 1-Records box |
| Description | Material contains typed correspondence and offprints concerning Donald Broadbent's feud with E.C.Poulton .
Includes correspondence [typed] between Donald Broadbent and the following:
Professor R.L.Gregory, Univ.of Bristol 1981 to 1983
Dr.Euan McPhail, Hon.Secretary Experimental Psychology Society, 1980 to 1982
Dr.Irwin Goldstein, Assoc.Ed, JAP, 1981
Dr.Jerry V.Tobias, Chairman International Commission on Biological Effects of Noise, 1981
Copy letter between E.C.Poulton and A.Cowey Oxford, 1981
Copy correspondence between Prof M.Hammerton, Newcastle Univ. and Carol H.Ammons Editor Perceptual and Motor Skills, USA, 1980
Carol H.Ammons Editor Perceptual and Motor Skills, USA, 1980
F.R.Henkins, Esq (Solicitor) Oxford 1980
Dr.A.Baddeley, Director APU,MRC 1980
Dr.Joan Box, MRC 1980
Dr.T.M.Sugden, Trinty Hall Cambridge 1980
Dr.P.B.Loder, Oxford 1976
Copy reprints and drafts are as follows:
Psychology of the Scientist: The Beliefs of E.C.Poulton by Donald E. Broadbent [nd]
Continuous noise interferes with work by masking auditory feedback and inner speech by E.C.Poulton, Applied Ergonomics June 1976
Arousing Environmental Stresses can improve Performance, Whatever People Say, Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine, November 1976
(Also included is a copy letter from Poulton to Applied Ergonomics, 1977)
Quantitive subjective assessments are always biased, sometimes completely misleading, E.C.Poulton Br.J.Psychol. (1977)
Continuous Intense Noise Masks Auditory Feedback and Inner Speech, E.C.Poulton, Psychological Bulletin, Vol.84, No.5 pp. 977 to 1001, 1977
A New look at the effects of noise on performance, Vol.69 pp.435-437 E.C.Poulton Br.J.Psychol. (1978)
A New look at the effects of noise on performance: A Rejoinder , Vol.85 pp.1068-1079 E.C.Poulton Br.J.Psychol. (1978)
2-copies of Psychology of the Scientist: XLI. Continuous noise can degrade performance when using badly designed equipment: a case history, E.C.Poulton (1980), Perceptual and Motor skills, 1980
Composite Model for Human Performance in Continuous Noise, E.C.Poulton, Psychological Review (1979).
Copyright Notice:
Subject to the condition of the original, copies may be supplied for private research use only on receipt of a signed undertaking to comply with current copyright legislation. Permission to make any published use of material from the collection must be sought in advance from the Head of the History of Psychology Centre and Archives and, where appropriate, from the copyright owner. Where possible, assistance will be given in identifying copyright owners, but responsibility for ensuring copyright clearance rests with the user of the material. |
| Format | Textual Material |
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Wellcome Ref: PSY/BRD
PSY/BRD/1 Broadbent's correspondence with various individuals 1976-1981
PSY/BRD/2 Perceptual and Motor Skills 1980
PSY/BRD/3 Letters to F. R. Jenkins, solicitor, Oxford 1980
PSY/BRD/4 Correspondence with Euan Macphail, Secretary, Experimental Psychology Society 1980-1982 [
PSY/BRD/5 Correspondence with Richard L. Gregory 1981-1983
PSY/BRD/6 Articles by E. C. Poulton 1976-1980
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| Language | English |
| Related Material | APU Material under APU/001 fonds |
| RelatedRecord | APU/001 |
| PHO/001/01/56 |
| PHO/001/05/11/02 |
| AccessConditions | Authorised Users. View by Appointment. PSY/BRD/ 2 , PSY/BRD/3 and PSY/BRD/4 contains personal data and have restricted access |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Location | 16: Wellcome Library |
| Term | Skills |
| AdminHistory | Broadbent, Donald Eric (1926 to 1993) born Birmingham, May 1926 died Oxford 20 April 1993. The youngest of three children of Herbert Arthur Broadbent (b.c 1890) accountant & his wife Hannah Elizabeth Williams (1893 to 1965). 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.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. Broadbent remained in Cambridge after his marriage, 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 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.
E.C.Poulton
Born Surrey 1918, died Cambridge 2000 married Dr Gillian Hunt 1949, one son three daughters.
Educated at Oxford and Rugby, he won an exhibition in Mathematics to Trinity Hall Cambridge in 1937, where he changed to medicine. He studied clinical medicine at Guy's hospital and on qualifying joined the Royal Army Medical Corps (1942 to 1946). He returned to Cambridge after the second world war to complete his degree after which he was appointed to the MRC APU in Cambridge. Poulton spent the rest of his working life at the APU, churning out 185 publications.In later years Poulton realised that previously neglected issues of methodology underlay many of the discrepancies between research results from different centres. |
| Copyright | Subject to the condition of the original, copies may be supplied for private research use only on receipt of a signed undertaking to comply with current copyright legislation. Permission to make any published use of material from the collection must be sought in advance from the Head of the History of Psychology Centre and Archives and, where appropriate, from the copyright owner. Where possible, assistance will be given in identifying copyright owners, but responsibility for ensuring copyright clearance rests with the user of the material |
| Rules | Description compiled in line with the following standard
ISAD (G) General International Standard Archival Description |
| ArchNote | Compiled by Mike Maskill BPS Archivist for the History of Psychology Centre. |