He also studied under Wilhelm Wundt at the University of Leipzig during the AY1886-1887, later taking his bachelor's degree in 1895.
He then commenced graduate work at Cornell University under the supervision of Edward B. Titchener, receiving his PhD in 1899.
[1] Teaching at Cornell, Bentley was elevated to assistant professor in 1902; chairman of the Psychology Department in 1910.
During the First World War, he conducted U.S. Army Air Corps research on the ear.
He wrote on the memory image,[6] analysis of complex sensations,[7] learning in paramecia,[8] mental disorders,[9] and anthropological psychology.
At the University Nebraska, Madison tapped into the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity.