Angell, James (Rowland) (1869-1949)

US educator and psychologist. Angell established a new psychology department at the University of Californis in 1905. After serving as acting president of the University of California, he moved to New York to head the Carnegie Corporation in 1920 before becoming president of Yale in 1921. His works include the popular textbook Psychology (1904).

Angell was a proponent of the ‘Chicago School’ of psychology, known as functionalism, and he espoused a rationalism that was influenced by his former teacher, John Dewey. Upon retiring he served as an educational consultant to the National Broadcasting Corporation.