Josephine Ball was an American comparative psychologist, endocrinologist, and clinical psychologist best known as an early pioneer in the study of reproductive behavior and neuroendocrinology.
13 Facts About Josephine Ball
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Josephine Ball later worked as a clinical psychologist in the New York State health system and at the Veteran's Administration Hospital in Perry Point, Maryland.
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Josephine Ball then worked as an assistant in psychology for Karl Lashley at the University of Minnesota from 1923 to 1926.
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From January to June 1924, Ball accompanied Robert Yerkes and Harold C Bingham on the University of California-sponsored trip to Cuba to visit Rosalia Abreu's primate colony.
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In 1927, Josephine Ball moved to the University of California, Berkeley where she worked as a teaching fellow in psychology and as a research assistant in the lab of anatomist, embryologist, and endocrinologist Herbert McLean Evans.
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Josephine Ball later joined the Department of Embryology at the institute, where she was primarily associated with Hartman an expert in ovarian physiology and embryology, and later with his successor George Corner, co-discover of the hormone progesterone.
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Josephine Ball documented a case of imitative learning in the monkey.
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Josephine Ball left Baltimore in 1941 and held a series of short-term positions.
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In 1948, Josephine Ball worked as a clinical psychologist for the New York State health system.
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In 1955, Josephine Ball returned to Maryland as a research psychologist associated with the now controversial lobotomy research project at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Perry Point, Maryland.
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Josephine Ball remained in this position until her retirement in 1967.
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Josephine Ball became elected as an associate member of the American Psychological Association in 1930 and became a full member in 1937.
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Josephine Ball became a fellow of the Gerontological Society in 1957.