Clairette Papin Armstrong

Clairette Papin Armstrong (April 15, 1886 – February 5, 1973) was an American psychologist and writer who studied juvenile delinquency and promoted eugenics through the 1930s and 1940s.

Early life and education Armstrong was born in Memphis, Tennessee, the daughter of Samuel Treat Armstrong and Alice Cobin Armstrong. Her father was an army surgeon and head of the Hillborn Farm Sanitarium in Katonah, New York. Her paternal grandfather David H. Armstrong was a United States senator from Missouri. Her younger brother Donald Armstrong was a brigadier general during World War II.

She played tennis in college and graduated from Barnard College in 1908. She earned a master's degree from Columbia University in 1909, and a Ph.D. in psychology from New York University in 1931. From 1924 to 1926, she was chief psychologist at Bellevue Hospital. She worked with the Children's Court from 1926 to 1933, and with the Domestic Relations Court from 1933 to 1946. Publications Armstrong's research was published in academic journals including The Journal of Educational Sociology, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, American Psychologist, The Psychological Clinic, Journal of Genetic Psychology, Journal of Heredity, and The Journal of General Psychology. In her later years she had at least one paper published in a white supremacist journal, Mankind Quarterly. "A Study of the Intelligence of Rural and Urban Children" (1931) "Sex differences in the mental functioning of school children" (1932) "The Gestalt of the Delinquent Child" (1933) "Some Notes on Imagery in Psychophysical Therapy" (1953)