The psychologist best known for being the first female president of the American Psychological Association and for being denied a doctoral degree from Harvard because of her gender is __________.

Mary Whiton Calkins was the first female president of the American Psychological Association. Harvard refused to grant her a doctoral degree because she was a woman, despite her completing the requirements for a Ph.D. Therefore, the answer is Mary Whiton Calkins.

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