Walter Miles and His 1920 Grand Tour of European Physiology and Psychology Laboratories

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Walter R. Miles (1885?1978) was an American experimental psychologist very much interested in laboratory apparatus and procedures, and their applications to human behavior. Early in his career, Miles received an appointment as a research scientist at the Carnegie Nutrition Laboratory in Boston, Massachusetts. When Miles arrived at the Carnegie Nutrition Laboratory in 1914, work was well underway on the physiological effects of various nutrients on the human body. Miles began studies on the effects of alcohol on physiological and psychological functioning.