Carolina Bori


'''Carolina Martuscelli Bori was a Brazilian psychologist, specialized in experimental psychology. She was instrumental in establishing psychology undergraduate courses in Brazilian universities, as well as regularizing standards for the profession in the country. Bori was president of the Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Science from 1986 to 1989.

Graduation

Bori was born in São Paulo. She graduated in Pedagogy from the University of São Paulo in 1947. She also specialized in Educational Psychology from USP in 1948. She completed her master's degree in 1952 at the New School For Social Research, New York, United States.  She received a doctorate in psychology from USP in 1954, supervised by Annita de Castilho and Marcondes Cabral, with the thesis Experiments on Interruption of Tasks and the Theory of Motivation by Kurt Lewin.

Works

Periodical articles