Carolina Bori
Brazilian psychologist
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Bori was born in São Paulo. She graduated in Pedagogy from the University of São Paulo (USP) in 1947. She also specialized in Educational Psychology from USP in 1948. She completed her master's degree in 1952 at the New School for Social Research (NSSR), New York, United States. She received a doctorate in psychology from USP in 1954, supervised by Annita de Castilho and Marcondes Cabral, with the thesis Experiments on Interruption of Tasks and the Theory of Motivation by Kurt Lewin.
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Legacy
Agência Bori: a platform created in 2020 to promote Brazilian scientific research to the press. Its name is a tribute to the first woman to preside over the Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Science (SBPC).
Carolina Bori Platform: the official system for the revalidation of foreign university degrees in Brazil is named in honor of Carolina Bori.

