Edward Alexander Bott (April 11, 1887 – January 28, 1974) was a Canadian psychologist.
[2] In 1912, he joined the Faculty at the University of Toronto and took over the psychological laboratory which had been established by James Mark Baldwin in 1891.
In 1926, he established an independent Department of Psychology and remained its Head until he retired in 1960.
[5] In 1938, prior to the onset of the Second World War a group of psychologists came together to agree how they could assist in the process of personnel selection for the military.
[7] He was married to Helen McMurchie Bott who worked with him at the Institute of Child Study and was the father of noted network analyst and psychoanalyst Elizabeth Spillius.