February 2011 - Advances in the History of Psychology

Interview: Psychology’s Feminist Voices

AHP has the pleasure of presenting an interview with Alexandra Rutherford (right) on the ongoing online archive project Psychology’s Feminist Voices. Directed by Rutherford, Psychology’s Feminist Voices documents the contributions of female...

Published Mon, Feb 28 2011 9:03 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Links, archive, Interview, Alexandra Rutherford, feminism, Feminist Voices, feminist

Physics in the Galtonian sciences of heredity

A forthcoming article in Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, now available online through advance access, tackles the influence of physics on Galtonian science. The piece, authored by Gregory Radick (left), investigates...

Published Mon, Feb 28 2011 8:41 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Journals, physics, Francis Galton, Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Bio, Gregory Radick, heredity

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Published Sun, Feb 27 2011 10:08 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General

Mind Changers: Tajfel’s Minimal Groups

The BBC Radio 4 programme Mind Changers has just released an audio podcast, Henri Tajfel’s Minimal Groups. Tajfel’s (right) 1970s research with minimal groups aimed to uncover the minimal conditions necessary for prejudice to develop. For...

Published Sun, Feb 27 2011 8:57 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Links, Podcasts, bbc radio 4, mind changers, minimal groups, Henri Tajfel

Titchener & Scientific Objectivity in Isis

The latest issue of Isis, the official journal of the History of Science Society, features an article on the importance of scientific objectivity in Edward Bradford Titchener’s experimental psychology. The piece, authored by Christopher Green, extends...

Published Fri, Feb 25 2011 7:59 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Journals, Titchener, Christopher Green, Peter Galison, Lorraine Daston, objectivity, Scientific objectivity

Bibliography: History of Social Psychology

This post is written by Cathy Faye, Assistant Director, Archives of the History of Psychology, Center for the History of Psychology and is part of a special series of bibliographies on topics in the history of psychology. In the following list of resources...

Published Thu, Feb 24 2011 9:40 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Resources, bibliography, Cathy Faye, social psychology

Bibliography: History of Women in Psychology

This post is written by Kelli Vaughn, York University and is part of a special series of bibliographies on topics in the history of psychology. In 2005, I wrote an article that included the phrase “we must teach the teachers;” no where is this more true...

Published Mon, Feb 21 2011 9:25 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Resources, bibliography, women in psychology, Kelli Vaughn

Mind Changers: Marshmallow Study Podcast

The BBC Radio 4 programme Mind Changers has just released an audio podcast, Walter Mischel’s Marshmallow Study. Mischel (left), currently Niven Professor of Humane Letters in Psychology at Columbia University, began his now famous “marshmallow...

Published Sun, Feb 20 2011 1:06 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Links, Podcasts, marshmallow, bbc radio 4, mind changers, Mischel

Bibliography: History of Functionalism

This post is written by Christopher Green, York University and is part of a special series of bibliographies on topics in the history of psychology. For the past few years I have been working on the American school of psychology that was known as Functionalism...

Published Thu, Feb 17 2011 7:40 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Resources, bibliography, functionalism

Bibliography: Historiography of Psychology

This post is written by Michael Pettit, York University and is part of a special series of bibliographies on topics in the history of psychology. Making (and reading) these kinds of lists is fun but always tricky. The problem is not so much what to include...

Published Wed, Feb 16 2011 11:42 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Resources, Michael Pettit, historiography, bibliography

New Guest Series: HoP Bibliographies

Over the next several weeks, AHP will be featuring guest posts on selected bibliographies on a number of topics within the history of psychology. These bibliographies, first published several years ago on the website of the now defunct History and Theory...

Published Tue, Feb 15 2011 8:52 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Other, bibliography, guest post

CFP for funded neuroskeptic workshop in Berlin

The Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science is hosting a “neuro-reality check” workshop to be held in Berlin in December. Their purpose is to scrutinize “the ‘neuro-turn’ in the humanities and natural sciences.”...

Published Fri, Feb 11 2011 8:06 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Conferences, brain, Funding & Awards, Max Planck Institute

CFP for funded neurohistory workshop in Munich

The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society is sponsoring a workshop on neurohistory to be held in Munich in June. Broadly speaking, they are calling for papers to engage the following theme: “How can neuroscience help us understand the...

Published Wed, Feb 09 2011 10:51 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Conferences, brain, historiography, Funding & Awards

Brief History of PsycINFO

Linda Beebe, the senior director of PsycINFO (the psychology search engine), has written a brief history describing the evolution of the world’s premiere resource for psychological literature. It provides a fascinating look at a part of the discipline...

Published Fri, Feb 04 2011 8:43 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Resources, tests and measures

Hooker & Refuting Homosexuality as Perversion

The February 2011 issue of the APA Monitor on Psychology is now online. The Time Capsule section of this issue features an article by Katharine Milar on psychologist Evelyn Hooker’s work refuting homosexuality as a mental illness. “The Myth...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2011 6:27 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Journals, Links, APA Monitor, homosexuality, Evelyn Hooker, Kathy Milar