Born | Cornelis George Boeree January 15, 1952 |
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Died | January 5, 2021 (aged 68) Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, United States |
Spouse(s) | (m. 1972) |
Academic background | |
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Academic work | |
Discipline | Psychology |
Sub-discipline | Personality theory, history of psychology |
Institutions | Shippensburg University |
Notable ideas | Lingua Franca Nova |
Website | https://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/ |
Cornelis George Boeree (January 15, 1952 – January 5, 2021) was an American psychologist and professor emeritus at Shippensburg University, specializing in personality theory and the history of psychology.
He was the author of the first online psychology texts,[1] which he made available at no cost to students and other interested parties starting in 1997. They have been translated into German,[2] Spanish,[3] and Bulgarian.[4] Two of his textbooks have been published, one on personality theories [5] and one on the history of psychology.[6]
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Boeree was also the inventor of the auxiliary language Lingua Franca Nova, which first appeared in 1998 on the Internet. He was the coeditor of the Lingua Franca Nova dictionary. [7]
He was born in Badhoevedorp, near Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. He moved with his parents and brother to the United States in 1956 and grew up on Long Island, New York. He married Judy Kovarik in 1972 and had three daughters. He received his doctoral degree in 1980 from Oklahoma State University.[8] He died on January 5, 2021 at his home in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania.[9]
Shippensburg University
Professor Emeritus of Psychology
Ph.D. in Psychology (Personality) from Oklahoma State University, 1980
My name is George Boeree (pronounced boo-RAY). I am a professor in the Psychology Department at Shippensburg University, where I teach personality theories and the history of psychology (among other things). I specialize in the philosophical side of psychology, and have particular interests in phenomenology, existential psychology, Buddhism, and moral development.
I was born in 1952 in a small town called Badhoevedorp, near Amsterdam in the Netherlands. I came to the US in 1956 with my parents and brother, and grew up mostly on Long Island. I got my BA from Penn State, and my MS and PhD from Oklahoma State, all in Psychology. In 1972, I married Judy Kovarik, the girl next door back in Bay Shore, New York. We have three wonderful daughters: Jenny, Merry, and Katey. We live contentedly among the Amish in the rural splendor of the Cumberland Valley of Pennsylvania.
C. George Boeree
Department of Psychology
Shippensburg University
1222 Newburg Road
Shippensburg, Pennsylvania 17257
United States
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