Brian Foss

Brian Malzard Foss (25 October 1921 - 23 December 1997) was a British psychologist.

Background
He was brought up in the Channel Islands.

Education
He read Mathematics and Physics at Cambridge University and subsequently after World War II read Psychology at Oxford University

Career
Between 1948 and 1951 he lectured in psychology at Oxford before moving to lecture at Birkbeck College, University of London between 1951 to 1964.

In 1965 he was appointed as Professor of Educational Psychology, at the [[Institute of Education], London.

Interests
He had wide interests, publishing on aesthetics, animal behavior, imitation, perceptual illusions and thinking

Honours
In 1973 he was elected President of the British Psychological Society

Publications

 * B. M Foss (196). New Horizons in Psychology. London:Pelican.