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Michael Argyle (11 August 1925, Nottingham – 6 September 2002) was one of the best known English Social Psychologists of the twentieth century. He spent most of his career at the University of Oxford, and worked on numerous topics. Throughout his career, he showed strong preferences for experimental methods in social psychology, having little time for alternative approaches such as discourse analysis. ==Life== Michael Argyle was born on 11 August 1925. He was educated at Nottingham High School for Boys. After completing with distinction an RAF science course at Cambridge University he trained as a navigator in Canada (1943-7). After the war he read part one in moral sciences at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and in 1950 graduated with first class honours in experimental psychology. Following two years of postgraduate study in Cambridge he became the first ever lecturer in social psychology at the University of Oxford. At the time, Oxford University was, along with the London School of Economics, one of only two universities in the United Kingdom to have a department of social psychology. Argyle lectured for many years at Oxford University as reader in social psychology. He became a fellow of the newly founded Wolfson College in 1966 and three years later a reader. He was one of the very early pioneers of social psychology in the UK and Europe and helped to initiate the British Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology as the first social psychology editor (1961-7). He chaired the social psychology section of the British Psychological Society twice (1964-7,1972-4). Distinguished psychologists and sociologists from all over the world visited the research group he set up at Oxford.He received honorary doctorates from the universities of Oxford (1979), Adelaide and Brussels (1982) and an honorary fellowship by the British Psychological Society(1992). In 1990 The International Society of the Study of Personal Relationships in 1990 gave him a distinguished career contribution award. After his retirement, he became Professor Emeritus at Oxford Brookes University. One of the co-founders of the journal British Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, Argyle regularly attended social psychology conferences, and had a great passion for Scottish country dancing. Argyle died on 6 September 2002, at the age of 77, of injuries suffered in a swimming accident, from which he never fully recovered. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Michael Argyle (psychologist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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