Douglas L. "Doug" Medin (born June 13, 1944)[3] is the Louis W. Menk Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
[2] Medin joined Rockefeller University in 1968 as a postdoctoral fellow, where he became an assistant professor the following year.
[2][4] He joined the faculty of the University of Michigan in 1989,[2] and remained there for three years until joining the faculty of Northwestern University in 1992, because it "held better professional opportunities for his wife, Linda Powers," according to a profile of Medin in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
With Gregory Murphy, Medin was also responsible for a seminal paper outlining the need for psychological models of concepts to incorporate their role in theories and understanding.
[7] Concepts are more than simple ways to classify the world, as proposed by exemplar and prototype models at the time.