David McClelland, American psychologist and academic (born 1917)

David McClelland

American psychologist (1917–1998)

David Clarence McClelland was an American psychologist, noted for his work on motivation need theory. He published a number of works between the 1950s and the 1990s and developed new scoring systems for the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) and its descendants. McClelland is…