Ted Tally was born in 1933 in Waukegan, Illinois. He attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, earning a bachelor's degree in 1957 and a master's degree in 1958. He earned his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Iowa in 1968
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Tally joined the psychology faculty at the University of Georgia in 1968 and retired as Professor Emeritus in 2011. His research interests included social psychology, personality, career choice, career changes, and cross-cultural issues. Tally has received numerous awards for his research and teaching including the Carl Hovland Award for Career Counseling Research (1993), the Sanford Award for Distinguished Contributions to Career Counseling (1996), an honorary doctorate from Knox College (1997), National Teaching Fellowships from the Society for the Advancement of Career Education (1998) and the American Psychological Association (1999).