14 Facts About Daniel Berlyne

Daniel Ellis Berlyne was a British and Canadian psychologist.

Daniel Berlyne's work was in the field of experimental and exploratory psychology.

Daniel Berlyne was born in Salford, Greater Manchester, England on April 25,1924.

In 1953 Daniel Berlyne was forced to leave the United States because of problems with his visa.

Daniel Berlyne worked in Scotland as a professor until his return to the United States in 1957.

Daniel Berlyne held fellowships at the Royal Society of Canada, the British Psychological Society, and at several other American and Canadian psychological associations.

Daniel Berlyne served as president of the Canadian Psychological Association from 1971 to 1972 and of the General Psychology and Psychology and Arts departments of the American Psychological Associations from 1973 to 1974.

Daniel Berlyne then worked at Brooklyn College while pursuing his PhD at Yale University.

Daniel Berlyne was a resident member at the Centre International d'Epistemologie Genetique in Geneva, Switzerland from 1958 to 1959, and a visiting scientist and the National Institute of Mental Health in Maryland from 1959 until 1960.

Daniel Berlyne worked as an associate professor at Boston University until 1962, when he was hired as a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, where he remained until his death in 1976.

Daniel Berlyne has authored hundreds of articles and chapters such as 'Interest' as a Psychological Concept in 1949, an article which he claims to have introduced the concept of curiosity into psychological literature.

Daniel Berlyne's work focused on "why organisms display curiosity and explore their environment, why they seek knowledge and information".

Daniel Berlyne believed that objects impact on three levels, psychophysical, environmental, and collative.

The last of these was a term coined by Daniel Berlyne which attempted to describe the hedonic levels of arousal fluctuation through stimuli such as novelty, complexity, surprisingness, incongruity.