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Newborn Imitation: The Stakes of a Controversy

Just released as part of the series Elements in Histories of Emotions and the Senses is a piece that may interest AHP readers: “Newborn Imitation: The Stakes of a Controversy.” Written by Ruth Leys, the piece is free to access from now until...

Published Wed, Jul 08 2020 11:58 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Forthcoming in HHS: Revisiting John Forrester and the Case

A number of articles destined for a forthcoming special issue of History of the Human Sciences – dedicated to John Forrester’s work on thinking in cases – are now available online. Full details below (including, full disclosure, a piece from myself...

Published Mon, Jul 06 2020 2:59 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Joint Cheiron and ESHHS Virtual Mini-Meeting, July 9-11, 2020

AHP readers may be interested in attending a virtual mini-meeting of Cheiron (the International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences) and ESHHS (European Society for the History of the Human Sciences), taking place in lieu of a planned...

Published Mon, Jul 06 2020 11:39 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Seeking double personality: Nakamura Kokyo’s work in abnormal psychology in early 20th?century Japan

AHP readers will be interested in a forthcoming piece in Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences now available online: “Seeking double personality: Nakamura Kokyo’s work in abnormal psychology in early 20th?century Japan,”...

Published Mon, Jun 29 2020 8:52 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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April 2020 HHS: Critique of Psychometrics, Review Symposium on Leys’s The Ascent of Affect, and More

The April 2020 issue of History of the Human Sciences is now online. Full details below. “The fashionable scientific fraud: Collingwood’s critique of psychometrics,” Joel Michell. Abstract: In his review of Charles Spearman’s The Nature of...

Published Fri, Jun 19 2020 10:22 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Unsung Psychology Pioneers: A Content Analysis of Who Makes History (and Who Doesn’t)

A new piece in the summer 2020 issue of the American Journal of Psychology may interest AHP readers: “Unsung Psychology Pioneers: A Content Analysis of Who Makes History (and Who Doesn’t),” by Leslie D. Cramblet Alvarez, Jonah L. Leach...

Published Mon, Jun 15 2020 4:52 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Madness in the City of Magnificent Intentions: A History of Race and Mental Illness in the Nation’s Capital

AHP readers will be interested in a recent book on the history of Washington, DC’s Saint Elizabeths Hospital: Madness in the City of Magnificent Intentions: A History of Race and Mental Illness in the Nation’s Capital by Martin Summers. The...

Published Fri, Jun 12 2020 11:30 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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CfS FHHS Dissertation Prize – submit by 1 July 2020

The Forum for the History of the Human Science is accepting applications for its dissertation prize. We warmly invite submissions on any topic or method related to the human sciences, broadly construed. Dissertations defended in the previous three years...

Published Fri, Jun 12 2020 10:36 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Beyond intersubjectivity in olfactory psychophysics

A set of two articles in the most recent issue of Social Studies of Science may interest AHP readers: “Beyond intersubjectivity in olfactory psychophysics I: Troubles with the Subject,” by Morana Ala?. Abstract: This article provides an experience...

Published Thu, Jun 11 2020 5:58 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Chinese philosophy has long known that mental health is communal

AHP readers may be interested in a recent piece in Psyche: “Chinese philosophy has long known that mental health is communal.” Alexus McLeod writes …an emphasis on the individual can lead us to neglect communal approaches to treatment...

Published Wed, Jun 10 2020 8:03 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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“Most Unusual” Beauty Contests: Nordic Photographic Competitions and the Construction of a Public for German Race Science, 1926–1935

AHP readers will be interested in a recent piece in the latest issue of Isis: ““Most Unusual” Beauty Contests: Nordic Photographic Competitions and the Construction of a Public for German Race Science, 1926–1935,” by Andrew D. Evans. Abstract...

Published Wed, Jun 10 2020 5:31 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Special Issue: Measurement, Self-tracking and the History of Science

A special issue of History of Science dedicated to “Measurement, Self-tracking and the History of Science” will be of interest to AHP readers. Full details below. “Measurement, self-tracking and the history of science: An introduction...

Published Tue, Jun 09 2020 7:49 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Folded Files, Unfolding Narratives: Psycho-Pedagogical Observation in the Belgian Juvenile Reformatories, 1912–1945

AHP readers may be interested in a recent piece in History of Education: “Folded Files, Unfolding Narratives: Psycho-Pedagogical Observation in the Belgian Juvenile Reformatories, 1912–1945,” by Sarah Van Ruyskensvelde & Laura Nys. Abstract...

Published Tue, Jun 09 2020 7:25 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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The potency of the butterfly: The reception of Richard B. Goldschmidt’s animal experiments in German sexology around 1920

AHP readers will be interested in a forthcoming piece in History of the Human Sciences: “The potency of the butterfly: The reception of Richard B. Goldschmidt’s animal experiments in German sexology around 1920,” by Ina Linge. Abstract: This...

Published Tue, Jun 09 2020 7:04 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Revista de Historia de la Psicología: Histories of Psychology in Ecuador, Columbia, Argentina, and Chile

The June 2020 issues of Revista de Historia de la Psicología is now online. Full details below. “José Luis Pinillos, Profesor de Relaciones Humanas [José Luis Pinillos, Professor of Human Relations],” by Helio Carpintero. (Article written...

Published Mon, Jun 08 2020 6:35 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Newborn Imitation: The Stakes of a Controversy

Forthcoming in HHS: Revisiting John Forrester and the Case

Joint Cheiron and ESHHS Virtual Mini-Meeting, July 9-11, 2020

Seeking double personality: Nakamura Kokyo’s work in abnormal psychology in early 20th?century Japan

April 2020 HHS: Critique of Psychometrics, Review Symposium on Leys’s The Ascent of Affect, and More

Unsung Psychology Pioneers: A Content Analysis of Who Makes History (and Who Doesn’t)

Madness in the City of Magnificent Intentions: A History of Race and Mental Illness in the Nation’s Capital

CfS FHHS Dissertation Prize – submit by 1 July 2020

Beyond intersubjectivity in olfactory psychophysics

Chinese philosophy has long known that mental health is communal

“Most Unusual” Beauty Contests: Nordic Photographic Competitions and the Construction of a Public for German Race Science, 1926–1935

Special Issue: Measurement, Self-tracking and the History of Science

Folded Files, Unfolding Narratives: Psycho-Pedagogical Observation in the Belgian Juvenile Reformatories, 1912–1945

The potency of the butterfly: The reception of Richard B. Goldschmidt’s animal experiments in German sexology around 1920

Revista de Historia de la Psicología: Histories of Psychology in Ecuador, Columbia, Argentina, and Chile