About Boris Teplov
Lived 1896 – 1965 (aged 68). Boris Teplov was a Russian psychologist.
Boris Mikhailovich Teplov (; , in Tula, Russia – 28 September 1965, in Moscow) was a Soviet psychologist who studied problems of inborn individual differences and talents (e.g. musical talents, warlord talents etc.) and a founder of a Soviet psychological school of Differential psychology. His well-known opponent was Aleksey Leontyev who believed that people's talents are not inborn but rather determined by education and other external influence. Boris Teplov was editor-in-chief of the principal Russian journal on psychology Voprosy Psikhologii.
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Who was Boris Teplov?
Russian psychologist (1896-1965)
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Boris Teplov was born on 8 October 1896 in Tula.
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Boris Teplov died on 28 September 1965 in Moscow.
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Boris Teplov was a psychologist.
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Boris Teplov was Russian.
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