Advances in the History of Psychology

New Books in STS Interview with Michael Pettit on The Science of Deception

New Books in Science, Technology, and Society, part of the New Books Network, has released an audio interview with historian Michael Pettit (left) on his recent book The Science of Deception: Psychology and Commerce in America. (For previous AHP posts...

Published Wed, Feb 19 2014 4:17 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Podcasts, Interview, Michael Pettit, New Books Network, Commerce, Deception, New Books in STS

History of Psychology at EPA, Mar. 13-16th Boston

The Eastern Psychological Association‘s Annual meeting will take place in Boston March 13-16th. Yesterday we highlighted the PsyBorg’s Digital History symposium at the conference (for details on that session see here). Today we bring you the...

Published Wed, Feb 12 2014 3:04 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, gender, EPA, Conferences, Alexandra Rutherford, Boston

Taking this Show on the Road: PsyBorgs at EPA, Mar. 13-16, Boston

This is part of a special series of posts on the digital history of psychology from members of the PsyBorgs Lab at York University, in Toronto, Canada. The full series of posts can be found here. The PsyBorgs, or at least a subset of us, are taking our...

Published Tue, Feb 11 2014 2:50 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, EPA, Conferences, digital history, psyborgs, Boston, Inside the Digital History of Psych

2453 Days Later… AHP’s 1,000th Post!

Well, it’s finally here: our 1,000th post! 6 years, 8 months, 17 days, countless words, and well over 200,000 unique visitors* since that first AHP post way back in May 2007 and we’re still going strong. Here’s to many more exciting...

Published Mon, Feb 10 2014 2:31 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General

Milgram’s Obedience to Authority Experiment on Mysteries at the Museum

Stanley Milgram’s infamous obedience to authority experiments have made their way to the Travel Channel. The study appears - in highly dramatized form – in the February 6th episode of Mysteries at the Museum. Helping describe the study is...

Published Fri, Feb 07 2014 11:28 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Video, Center for the History of Psychology, Cathy Faye, obedience to authority, Milgram, Travel Channel

Digitizing African American patient records

A project is underway to digitize the records of the Central State Hospital in Virginia. Led by King Davis, director of the Institute for Urban Policy Research & Analysis at the University of Texas at Austin, the project includes some 800,000 documents...

Published Thu, Feb 06 2014 3:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Resources, asylum, psychiatry, race, digital history, digitization

New HOP Journal: European Yearbook of the History of Psychology

A new peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the history of psychology is coming our way in 2014! The journal will be edited by Mauro Antonelli, professor of psychology at the Università degli Studi di Milano – Bicocca in Italy. The announcement making...

Published Wed, Feb 05 2014 10:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: News, Journals, Mauro Antonelli, European Yearbook of the History of Psychology

New Book: Jamie Cohen-Cole’s The Open Mind: Cold War Politics and the Sciences of Human Nature

Historian Jamie Cohen-Cole‘s new book, The Open Mind: Cold War Politics and the Sciences of Human Nature, is now available. The volume explores how the human sciences crafted a particular vision of autonomous, rational, and creative selfhood in...

Published Wed, Feb 05 2014 2:52 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Books, Cold War, human nature, Jamie Cohen-Cole, scientific technology, ideology, conservatism, New Left, centrist politics

APA Monitor Time Capsule: Asylum Tourism

The February 2014 issue of the American Psychological Association’s Monitor on Psychology is now online. Included in this month’s Time Capsule section is a piece by Jennifer Bazar and Jeremy Burman on what in retrospect may seem an odd practice...

Published Tue, Feb 04 2014 3:01 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, APA Monitor, Jennifer Bazar, Jeremy Burman, asylums, tourism

Special Issue: Behaviorism at 100: The Legacies of Watson’s Behaviorist Manifesto

The Mexican Journal of Behavior Analysis (Revista mexicana de análisis de la conducta) has published a special issue celebrating the centennial of John B. Watson’s behaviorist manifesto. The full issue is freely available in both Spanish and English...

Published Mon, Feb 03 2014 3:03 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, Behaviorism, John Watson, behaviorist manifesto, Mexican Journal of Behavior Analysis

Kindle Single: Ariel Sabar’s The Outsider: The Life and Times of Roger Barker

Journalist and author Ariel Sabar has extended his May 2013 Harper’s Magazine article, “Our Town: How Roger Barker made Oskaloosa, Kansas, His Laboratory” (see AHP post here), into a 25,000 word biography of the now little known psychologist. The...

Published Fri, Jan 31 2014 3:28 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Books, Roger Barker, Harper's Magazine, Ariel Sabar, Kindle, Kansas

Explore the Atlas of HM’s Brain at the Brain Observatory

The Brain Observatory at the University of California San Diego, directed by Jacopo Annese, has made available as part of its Digital Brain Library an atlas of H.M.’s brain. H.M., now known to be Henry Molaison, is one of the best known case studies...

Published Thu, Jan 30 2014 11:22 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Resources, Links, brain, H.M., digital, atlas, Henry Molaison

New Issue History of the Human Sciences: Wilfred Trotter’s Herd Instinct, Hyperactivity, & More

The February 2014 issue of History of the Human Sciences is now online. Included in this issue are articles exploring British neurosurgeon and psychologist Wilfred Trotter’s work on herd instinct, as well the construction of responsibility in inattention...

Published Tue, Jan 28 2014 3:25 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Journals, responsibility, herd instinct, hyperactivity, inattention, Wilfred Trotter

The Atlantic: Diagnosing Mental Illness in Ancient Greece and Rome

The Atlantic has posted an interview with historian William V. Harris, of Columbia University, on mental illness in the Ancient world. Harris is also the author of the edited volume, Mental Disorders in the Classical World. In the Atlantic interview Harris...

Published Mon, Jan 27 2014 3:06 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Links, Interview, the Atlantic, mental illness, William V. Harris, Ancient Greek, Ancient Roman

New Books in STS Interview with Gabriel Finkelstein on Emil du Bois-Reymond

New Books in Science, Technology, and Society, part of the New Books Network, has released an audio interview with historian Gabriel Finkelstein on his recent book Emil du Bois-Reymond: Neuroscience, Self, and Society in Nineteenth-Century Germany. As...

Published Fri, Jan 17 2014 3:03 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: neuroscience, Interview, Germany, Gabriel Finkelstein, Emil du Bois-Reymond, self, New Books in STS