Percival Mallon Symonds (April 18, 1893 – August 6, 1960) was an American educational psychologist.
[3] In 1924, he began teaching at the Teachers College, Columbia University, where he remained a faculty member until his retirement in 1958.
[1] He served as the first chairman of the American Association of Applied Psychologists' Education Section and, from 1947 to 1948, as president of the American Psychological Association's Division of Educational Psychology.
[1][4] Symonds researched the relationship between personality traits in teachers and their teaching abilities.
[5][6] His work, which included twenty-one books and over two hundred articles, emphasized the importance of dynamic psychology.