Howard H. Kendler

Howard Harvard Kendler (June 9, 1919 — February 17, 2011) was an American psychologist who conducted research on latent and discrimination learning. He also published influential analyses of the theoretical and methodological foundations of modern psychology. He worked at Walter Reed General Hospital as a Clinical Psychologist. He then joined the faculty of the University of Colorado Boulder as an assistant professor after the University successfully persuaded the Army to discharge him. They had two sons: Kenneth and Joel. Howard and Tracy Kendler named their second son Kenneth after Kenneth Spence, the Ph.D. supervisor whom they had both shared. Howard Kendler died on February 17, 2011, in Santa Barbara, California.