Leta Stetter

Leta Stetter Hollingworth Leta Stetter Hollingworth was a prominent figure in the study of the psychology of women and the field of educational psychology. Born to Johnnie and Margaret Stetter on May 25th, 1886, little baby Stetter was ever so loved by her mother Margaret. Her mother wrote in a baby book about the daily experiences the infant had through the point of view of baby Stetter. She wondered where her father, Johnnie, was because he had not come to visit her in the first eight days after being born. Johnnie Stetter had always wanted a boy, but he never got to have one. His wife Margaret passed away after giving birth to their third daughter, and he left little baby Stetter to be raised by her grandparents (Silverman, 1992). From …show more content…
The request for research ultimately reached Harry Hollingworth who, with the money from the grant, was able to hire Leta to direct the study. Leta’s study resulted in finding no deleterious side effects of caffeine which greatly please the Coca-Cola company, and so Harry was paid a sizeable enough stipend to be able to pay for Leta to go to a graduate program. Not only did Leta receive enough money to go to graduate school, but she also gained an incredible amount of research experience to begin applying her training to bigger world issues (Silverman, …show more content…
She found that there are significantly more mentally handicapped male children and adults than there are female, but twice as many women were committed to the hospital than the men. She continued her research on variability by studying neonates and found that there was no significant difference in the variability of in infants, and where a variability did happen to exist, the greater variability actually favored the females (Silverman,