Tom Hatherley Pear

Tom Hatherley Pear (* 1886, † 1972) was an American psychologist. He was a professor of psychology at the University of Manchester.

It dealt, inter alia, the importance of dreams and saw them as consequences of repressed desires. His successor at the University of Manchester was John Cohen.

Tom Hatherley Pear had with his wife Catherine a son, Brian Hatherley Pear, who fell in the Second World War.

Writings

• Grafton Elliot Smith: Shell Shock and Its Lessons. , 1917.
• Remembering and Forgetting. In 1922.
• Number - Forms. In: Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society. Vol 66 1923, p 1-14.
• Skill in Works and play. 1924th German: Skill in sport and industry. Translated by Margot Benary - Isbert.
• A New Type of Number form. In: Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society. Vol 67, p 131-140.
• The Art of Study. New York, London, 1931.
• The Maturing Mind. In 1938.
• Psychological Factors of Peace and War.
• English Social Differences. London 1955.
• Personality, Appearance and Speech. London 1957.
• The Moulding of Modern Man. A Psychologist 's View of Information, Persuation and Mental Coercion Today. London 1961.