Daniel Starch

Daniel Starch

Daniel Starch (1883–1979) was an American psychologist and marketing researcher. He is considered to be have been one of the pioneers of marketing and consumer research in the early 20th century.

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Life

Starch received a BS in mathematics and psychology from the Morning Side College in Iowa. After that he moved for post graduation studies to the University of Iowa, where he completed his PhD in psychology in 1906. The advisor of his thesis was Charles E. Seashore. After that he shortly worked as a lecturer in Iowa and then went on to teach at Wellesley College in Massachusetts while pursuing further studies at Harvard University. In 1908 he became a professor at the University of Wisconsin where he stayed until 1919. From 1920 to 1926 he was a professor at Harvard University and in 1923 he founded the marketing research company Daniel Starch and Staff. Later he resigned from his position at Harvard to concentrate on his company and work in the private sector. In 1932 he worked as a consultant and director of a research department of the American Association of Advertising Agencies as well. Starch ran his own company for 50 years until retired in 1973 at the age of 90.[1][2]

Work

Starch authored several books in the fields of psychology, advertising and marketing research. Best known are Experiments in Educational Psychology (1911) und his pioneering work about advertising Advertising: Its Principles, Practice, and Technique: Its Principles, Practice, and Technique and its follow-up Principles of Advertising (1923). He researched and devised methods to assess the effectivity of advertising, among them what was later to become known as the Starch test or Starch regonition procedure. Also named after him is the Starch formula, which describes how you can determine the number of people recalling full page advertisement from the number of people recalling a half page advertisement. [1][3][4][5]

Works

  • Experiments in Educational Psychology (1911)
  • Advertising: Its Principles, Practice, and Technique: Its Principles, Practice, and Technique (1914)
  • Principles of Advertising (1923)
  • with Hazel Martha Stanton, Wilhelmine Koerth, Roger Barton: Controlling Human Behavior: A First Book in Psychology for College Students (1936)
  • with Hazel Martha Stanton, Wilhelmine Koerth: Psychology in Education (1941)
  • Measuring Advertising Readership and Results (McGraw-Hill, 1966)
  • Look Ahead to Life: How to be a Fine Person (Vantage Press, 1973)
  • Educational Measurements
  • How to Develop your Executive Ability (1943)

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Notes

  1. ^ a b Merle Curti, Merle E. Curti, Vernon Carstensen: Univ Of Wisconsin: A History V2: Volume Ii: 1903-1945. University of Wiscinsin Press 1949, ISBN 0299805727. pp. 334, 365 (online copy at Google Books)
  2. ^ Joan H. Cantor: Psychology at Iowa: centennial essays. Routledge 1991, ISBN 0805807616, p. 45 (online copy at Google Books)
  3. ^ Thorsten Szameitat: Praxiswissen Anzeigenverkauf: So gelingt die Kommunikation zwischen Verlag, Agentur und Kunde. Gabler Verlag 2010, ISBN 9783834920942, pp. 66-67 (online copy at Google Books)
  4. ^ Pauline Maclaran, Mark Tadajewski, Barbara Stern, Michael Saren: The SAGE Handbook of Marketing Theory. SAGE Publications 2009, ISBN 9781847875051, pp. 61,76,82 (online copy at Google Books)
  5. ^ Cathrine V. Jansson-Boyd:: Consumer Psychology. McGraw-Hill 2010, ISBN 9780335229284, p. 8 (online copy at Google Books)

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