Advances in the History of Psychology

New Editorship of History of the Human Sciences

History of the Human Sciences will be under new editorship as of January 2015. Full details on the journal, and its new editors, follow below. HISTORY OF THE HUMAN SCIENCES aims to expand our understanding of the human world through a broad interdisciplinary...

Published Mon, Oct 13 2014 2:16 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, News, Journals, history of the human sciences, Angus Nicholls, Rhodri Hayward, Felicity Callard

Special Issue CfP: History of the Behavioral Sciences

A call for papers has been issued for a special issue of Revista Argentina de Ciencias del Comportamiento (Argentinean Journal of Behavioral Sciences) dedicated to the history of the behavioral sciences. The issue is guest edited by Fernando José Ferrari...

Published Mon, Oct 06 2014 9:54 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Journals, cfp, Argentina, behavioral sciences

New HHS: Psych & Ethnology, Mental Tests in Russia, & More!

The October 2014 issue of History of the Human Sciences is now online. Among the articles included in this issue are ones exploring the relationship between psychology and ethnology, the role of mental tests in Russian child science, and the Psychological...

Published Tue, Sep 30 2014 10:43 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Journals, autism, Russia, Wolfgang Köhler, stress, South Africa, mental test, ethnology, child

Oct 6 Talk! BPS History of Psych Disciplines Seminar Series

The British Psychological Society’s History of Psychology Centre, in conjunction with UCL’s Centre for the History of the Psychological Disciplines, has announced the next talk as part of its autumn BPS History of Psychological Disciplines Seminar Series...

Published Mon, Sep 29 2014 10:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Events, BPS, History of Psychology Centre, History of Psychological Disciplines

The Last Amazon: Jill Lepore on Wonder Woman

The New Yorker recently published a piece by Harvard historian Jill Lepore on the roots of wonder woman. Created by psychologist William Marston in the 1940s wonder woman has become something of a feminist cultural icon. (See our previous posts on the...

Published Sun, Sep 28 2014 10:54 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Links, New Yorker, Wonder Woman, William Marston, Jill Lepore

New Talk! BPS History of Psychological Disciplines Seminar Series

The British Psychological Society’s History of Psychology Centre, in conjunction with UCL’s Centre for the History of the Psychological Disciplines, has announced the first of its autumn talks as part of the BPS History of Psychological Disciplines Seminar...

Published Wed, Sep 03 2014 4:16 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Events, BPS, History of Psychology Centre, Centre for the History of Psychological Disciplines, Allan Beveridge, RD Laing

CfP: Symposium de la Sociedad Española de Historia de la Psicología

The Sociedad Española de Historia de la Psicología (SEHP) has issued a call for papers for their XXVIII Symposium. To be held in Tenerife, Spain May 7th-9th 2015, the meeting marks the centennial of Gestalt psychologist Wolfgang Köhler‘s experiments...

Published Fri, Aug 29 2014 5:22 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Conferences, Wolfgang Köhler, Spain, cfp, Sociedad Española de Historia de la Psicología

Special Issue of HoP>/i>: “Mental Testing after 1905: Uses in Different Local Contexts”

The August 2014 issue of History of Psychology is now online. A special issue on “Mental Testing after 1905: Uses in Different Local Contexts” edited by Annette Mülberger (left), the issue includes articles on intelligence testing in the Soviet...

Published Thu, Aug 28 2014 5:28 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Journals, Brazil, History of Psychology, Annette Mülberger, Spain, intelligence testing, USSR

Congrats Center for the History of Psychology!

A big congratulations to the Center for the History of Psychology, which has secured a donation of $3.5 million. With the gift the Center will now be known as the Drs. Nicholas and Dorothy Cummings Center for the History of Psychology. The Cummings’s...

Published Wed, Aug 27 2014 3:13 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: News, Center for the History of Psychology, Cummings Center

Galton Papers Now Online!

UCL Special Collections and the Wellcome Trust have collaborated to make available online the papers of Francis Galton. This is part of a larger Wellcome Library endeavour Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics, which includes digitized papers from a...

Published Fri, Aug 01 2014 8:24 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: News, Resources, UCL, Wellcome Trust, Francis Galton

Latest on Little Albert: Not Neurologically Impaired After All?

Now available via History of Psychology‘s OnlineFirst option is the latest in the ongoing saga over the identity of John Watson and Rosalie Rayner’s Little Watson. Forthcoming in History of Psychology is an article from Nancy Digdon, Russell...

Published Tue, Jul 29 2014 12:31 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: News, Journals, Little Albert, History of Psychology, Ben Harris, John Watson, Rosalie Rayner

4th Annual BPS ‘Stories of Psychology’ Symposium

The British Psychological Society‘s History of Psychology Centre is hosting its fourth annual history of psychology symposium, “Stories of Psychology,” October 8, 2014. This year’s symposium is one of a number of BPS events marking the centenary...

Published Tue, Jul 15 2014 11:21 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Events, BPS, History of Psychology Centre, World War One, stories of psychology

July Talk! BPS History of Psychological Disciplines Seminar Series

The British Psychological Society’s History of Psychology Centre, in conjunction with UCL’s Centre for the History of the Psychological Disciplines, has announced another talk as part of the BPS History of Psychological Disciplines Seminar Series. On...

Published Wed, Jul 09 2014 9:11 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Events, BPS, History of Psychology Centre, History of Psychological Disciplines, religion, glossolalia, Vincent Barras

New Issue Round-Up! JHBS, HHS, Memorandum

We’re popping in quickly from our annual summer vacation (read: dissertation writing) with a round up of recent journal issues for your summer reading pleasure. Now online are new issues of the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences,...

Published Mon, Jul 07 2014 9:21 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, history of the human sciences, Memorandum: Memory and History in Psychology, Journal of the History of Biology

CfP: European Yearbook of the History of Psychology

A new peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the history of psychology has just issued a call for papers. As announced on the blog earlier this year, the European Yearbook of the History of Psychology (EYHP) is edited by Mauro Antonelli, University of Milano...

Published Tue, Jun 10 2014 12:00 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, Horst Gundlach, cfp, European Yearbook of the History of Psychology