Li Chen, whose name is Zhuoru, 1902 was born in Pingjiang County, Hunan Province on July 22nd. At the age of 5, my mother died of illness. With my father's hard support, I barely finished primary school. After graduation, forced to make a living, I went out to learn skills. At first, I didn't learn to engrave, but later I switched to a shoemaker. I left without saying goodbye, because I was angry with my host's laziness and went home. Zhang Zimou, a primary school teacher, sympathized with his experience and painstakingly won him a free room and board, and then continued to study in Peiyuan Primary School. He cherishes the hard-won learning opportunities, studies diligently and gets excellent grades. He won the first place in the unified examination of seven provincial missionary schools, and was admitted to Wuchang Bowen College Middle School for free on 19 18. After entering the school, he read a lot of original classics and books on philosophy and social sciences, and devoted himself to the just activities of pursuing truth. He has successively served as the president of the student union of Bowen College and the president of Hubei Alumni Association of students studying in Hubei Province in Hunan Province, and engaged in some revolutionary propaganda activities. 19 19 when the may 4th movement broke out, he organized classmates to petition and sleep on the street, but unfortunately his father died that night. He and the progressive students in Wuhan at that time also used newspapers to carry out propaganda work. He helped Hu Shi 'an set up the supplement of Dahan Newspaper published in Hankou to introduce the new trend of thought, and later served as a special correspondent of Hunan Newspaper in Changsha, publishing the translation of Introduction to Science continuously until he was forced to stop publishing.

From 65438 to 0924, Chen Li studied physics and chemistry at Shanghai Hujiang University. In addition to studying compulsory courses such as physics and chemistry, he also took many biology courses, such as general biology, genetics and bacteriology. Sometimes he has seven half-day laboratory experiments every week, which lays a solid foundation for his later scientific research work. 1928 After graduation, he returned to Wuchang Bowen College to teach and served as the academic director. In addition to general teaching, he also systematically introduced "evolution theory" to students in the evening, which caused great dissatisfaction with the British pastor in the school and warned him.

1930, Chen Li was admitted to Hubei province to study in Britain at public expense with the first place, and was recommended to study psychology under Professor C.E. Spearman, a famous psychologist in London University. Only 1 year passed the doctoral qualification examination and entered the experimental research stage. He studied the O factor, which was a subject that no one systematically studied at that time. I also stayed in Cambridge for a semester to study the "continuous working process" and was praised by Professor F.C. Bartlett. 1933 in may, Chen Li received her doctorate in scientific psychology from London university. 1933 in June, Chen Li came to the British Institute of Industrial Psychology. Just half a year, I wrote four research reports. Among them, 1 article was highly praised by the local factory director, and the institute published this paper. Hunter, a psychologist who works in a factory, thinks that another paper on optimizing working procedures is more important.

From 1933 to 65438+February, Chen Li transferred to the Institute of Psychology, Berlin University, Germany, and conducted a study on "individual tone differences" under the guidance of Gestalt psychologist W. Kohler. This research has never been successful, that is to say, it ended because the Nazis were rampant and Kohler himself fled to the United States. Chen Li also resolutely gave up the two-year postdoctoral public funding and decided to return to China to serve the motherland with what she had learned. (This research didn't continue until 1960. Chen Li gave a theoretical explanation from the viewpoint of feedback, and published the results in the Journal of Psychology as "The Mechanism of Autonomous Movement". )

After 1934, Chen Li returned to China as an industrial psychology researcher jointly hired by Tsinghua University and the Institute of Psychology of Academia Sinica. He taught, wrote books, built laboratories, and made investigations in various factories, which made the teaching and research of industrial psychology initially developed in China. Subsequently, due to the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, industrial psychology research was forced to stop.

From 65438 to 0939, at the invitation of President Zhu Kezhen, Chen Li became a professor of psychology in the Department of Education of Zhejiang University. At that time, the whole Zhejiang University was in exile, and Chen Li lost no time in investigating the educational situation in China. From 1940 to 1947, he published more than 20 papers on educational reform. At the same time, in order to develop and popularize psychological research more quickly, he gave lectures at the Graduate School of Sun Yat-sen University twice in 194 1 and 1942 to help carry out psychological tests. During this period, at the request of the Ministry of Education, I also wrote more than 20 monographs on psychology, covering factor analysis, test statistics, industrial psychology and schools of psychology, with a total word count of more than 6,543,800 words. After the collapse of the Kuomintang, most manuscripts were lost and books were not published.

Chen Li is a scientist with a sense of justice. He has always stressed that "science should serve the people". He published many articles calling for changing the backward face of science and technology in China.

After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), Chen Li had the superior social conditions for the first time to realize his research ideal. Starting from 1950, he instructed graduate students to measure more than 10000 children from kindergarten to middle school in Hangzhou, and selected more than 4,000 children aged 4 to 15 according to sampling classification, and made extensive measurement and research on their physical development (a total of 24 projects), which won the first place in the current situation of children's growth and development in the early days of the People's Republic of China. The research scale is the first time in China, and it is a pioneer in this field in China. At the same time, in order to meet the needs of industrial production, he continued to lead the research of industrial psychology, and personally went to the factory to combine research with production practice, which was welcomed by workers and factory leaders.

In the early 1960s, according to the scientific research plan of the National Psychological Society, he took the lead in conducting psychological research on the development law of cognitive process. 1965, he and others published three series of experimental research reports, such as "Research on the Development of Children's Various Abstract Abilities" in the Journal of Psychology. However, at that time, Yao's pseudonym Ge Mingren threw a headline in Guangming Daily: "Is this the scientific method and the right direction to study psychology?" The attack article incited the whole psychological circle to criticize Chen Li's psychological research work. Despite the enormous pressure from all sides, Li Chen is not afraid of power and sticks to the truth. He immediately published "Evaluation of Experimental Methods in Psychology" in Guangming Daily to refute it. This is the sensational "Chen Ge Debate" in psychology.

After the Cultural Revolution, the psychological research that was forced to stop was resumed. Although Chen Li was nearly 80 years old at this time, he was still full of excitement and joy, healthy and energetic, and devoted himself wholeheartedly to his career. Zhang Jie, a famous female writer, once faithfully described her lofty sentiments of reviving industrial psychology in her novel Heavy Wings. As the vice chairman of Chinese Psychological Society, Chen Li attaches great importance to the construction and improvement of psychological team. At the 1978 annual meeting of national psychology, he proposed to hold an advanced class for experimental psychology teachers in colleges and universities, and offered to hold the first advanced class in the psychology department of Hangzhou University. He also attached great importance to improving the international influence of China's psychology. 1980 in July, Chen Li, as the head of China's psychology delegation, led a delegation to attend the 22nd International Conference on Psychology held in Leipzig. During the congress, the Chinese Psychological Society joined the International Psychological Federation. Chen Li gave a report entitled "Psychology of Feng Te and China" at the meeting, which was warmly welcomed by international psychologists. Before and after the meeting, they also took time to visit the Federal Republic of Germany and Romania. After returning to China, Chen immediately set out to set up Foreign Psychology magazine to exchange information about Chinese and foreign psychological research. Chen Liren is the editor-in-chief, and almost every article has to be reviewed in person. Publications are in short supply and are deeply loved by psychologists. 1983 from April to may, Chen Li led a delegation to the United States and Britain to inspect industrial psychology under the sponsorship of UNESCO. After returning home, he wrote a 40-page investigation report, which was valued by the State Education Commission and UNESCO. Taking advantage of his reputation in the international psychology field, he constantly invited famous people from the international psychology field to visit China, which contributed to the promotion of international scientific exchanges.

Since 1990s, Chen Li has turned his attention to the application field of school psychology. In order to pay more attention to and promote the practical application of psychological research in China, he renamed Foreign Psychology as Applied Psychology. He wrote an article in the Journal of Applied Psychology, calling for strengthening school psychological training for psychology majors, and offering psychological counseling and study guidance in primary and secondary schools after graduation. Under the present conditions, we should start with special education in general education. To this end, he organized a special discussion among teachers of psychology department of Hangzhou University, and put forward a reform plan for the course.

He claimed to be "a popular science activist all his life, from the May 4th period to today", and the same is true. He is one of the founders of the Chinese Scientists Association, and has held many important positions in the popular science association and the popular science writers association for a long time, leading and participating in various popular science activities. He is now honorary chairman of Zhejiang Association for Science and Technology. 1956- 1988 vice president of Chinese psychological society. Since 1989, he has served as honorary president of China Human Efficacy Society. He also held some other social posts, from 65438 to 0984, and he was always a consultant of the Institute of Development of International Organizations. 1952 was appointed as the deputy director of the Central Senate Committee of the Jiu San Society. 1954 deputy director of Zhejiang provincial department of education. 1958 has been a member of CPPCC, 1978- 1983 has been the vice chairman of Zhejiang CPPCC. In academic research, Chen Li has a strong sense of democracy. In his view, exclusive respect for a theory or method is academic autocracy and an corrosive agent that dismembers and poisons the development of psychology. Recently, he proposed that Fisher factor analysis, which is popular in psychological research at present, should change its course and attach importance to the "falsification" of scientific methodology. He believes that only seeking differences can really promote scientific progress.

"Understanding is far away, not for flying high." He quoted Pan Tianshou's epigram to encourage himself and silently practiced his life promise.