John Frederick Dashiell (April 30, 1888^[1] – May 3, 1975) was an American psychologist and a past president of theAmerican Psychological Association.

Dashiell was born in 1888 inSouthport, Indiana. Early in his career, Dashiell taught atWaynesburg College,Princeton University,University of Minnesota andOberlin College.^[2]

Dashiell became a department head at theUniversity of North Carolina. He was an APA president in 1938. In his presidential address that year, he called for psychology to reconnect with philosophy for its methodology and logic.^[3] He was president of theSociety for the Teaching of Psychology in 1953–1954.^[4]

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