Edwin Diller Starbuck

Edwin Diller Starbuck born Edwin Eli Starbuck (20 February 1866 – 18 November 1947) was an American educational psychologist who took a special interest in the teaching of morals and character in children independent of religious instruction.

[1] Starbuck was the son of Luzena Jessup and Samuel, Quaker farmers in Guilford Township, Hendricks County, Indiana.

He conducted surveys of religious belief and conversion using questionnaires along with G. Stanley Hall at Clark University and published several papers of his findings.

He later published the book Psychology of Religion (1899) and also contributed to the work of William James' Varieties of Religious Experience (1902).

[2] James contributed a preface to Starbuck's own book and cited him a number of times in Varieties.