Advances in the History of Psychology

Kitty Genovese Documentary: The Detached Americans (1964)

For your Friday viewing pleasure, we present The Detached Americans a 1964 TV documentary on the Kitty Genovese case (see previous AHP posts on Genovese here). In 1964 Genovese was murdered and it was widely reported that numerous witnesses to the murder...

Published Fri, Oct 11 2013 9:07 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Video, Kitty Genovese, diffusion of responsibility, bystander effect, documentary

Sick? Or Slow? A History of Early Intelligence Testing in Intelligence

In a recently released, open access article in Intelligence Serge Nicolas, Bernard Andrieu, Jean-Claude Croizet, Rasyid B. Sanitioso, and Jeremy Trevelyan Burman discuss the early history of intelligence testing as it developed in France. In “Sick...

Published Tue, Oct 08 2013 3:09 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, education, France, mental testing, Lewis Terman, Jeremy Burman, Alfred Binet, Serge Nicholas, intelligence testing, Désiré-Magloire Bourneville

Extra, Extra! Bonus Content from HoP on Teaching Diversity

This month the Society for the History of Psychology (Division 26 of the American Psychological Association) offers a special virtual issue of the journal History of Psychology. Entitled “Teaching Diversity: What can History Offer?” this free...

Published Mon, Oct 07 2013 4:37 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Journals, Resources, HoP, race, gender, SHP, Carney Landis, sexuality, disability, Kenneth B. Clark, curriculum, diversity, ethnicity

In Memoriam, John Popplestone (1928-2013)

We here at AHP are saddened by the news of the passing of John Popplestone on September 15, 2013. Popplestone, along with his wife Marion McPherson White, founded the Archives of the History of Psychology in Akron, Ohio in 1965. He served as its original...

Published Sat, Oct 05 2013 3:33 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: News, Center for the History of Psychology, Archives of the History of Psychology, John Popplestone

For Your Consideration: Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow

This summer I read Thomas Pynchon’s legendary, post-modern novel Gravity’s Rainbow. Published in 1973, the novel takes place during the latter part of WWII, beginning in London and eventually traversing the European (and occasionally other...

Published Fri, Oct 04 2013 6:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Opinion, Books, Book Reviews, fiction, Thomas Pynchon, WWII, Ivan Pavlov, Gravity's Rainbow, technology

New JHBS: Sensory Deprivation, USDA Research, and More

The autumn 2013 issue of the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences is now online. Included in this issue are three all new articles. The history of John Zubek’s (left) sensory deprivation research is explored in an article by Mical Raz...

Published Thu, Oct 03 2013 3:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, sociology, JHBS, social science, John Zubek, USDA, sensory deprivation, colonialism

APA Monitor: The Psychology of Hunger

The October 2013 issue of the American Psychological Association‘s Monitor on Psychology is now online. This month’s Time Capsule section features an article by David Baker and Natacha Keramidas on the Minnesota Starvation Experiment: “The...

Published Wed, Oct 02 2013 3:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, APA Monitor, World War Two, David Baker, starvation, Josef Brozek, Minnesota Starvation Experiment, hunger

The History of Psychology as Multispecies Network, Part 1

This is the first of a special series of posts on the digital history of psychology from members of the PsyBorgs Lab at York University, in Toronto, Canada. In our current moment, the network has become one of the most prominent metaphors for the social...

Published Tue, Oct 01 2013 3:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Jerome Kagan, digital history, Abraham Maslow, psyborgs, Roget Barker, Edward Kempf, Quinn McNemar, Bruno Latour, Jerome Bruner, organisms, Julian Jaynes, social network analysis, visualization

New AHP Series: Inside the Digital History of Psychology

Starting tomorrow, Advances in the History of Psychology will begin running a special series of posts related to work on the digital history of psychology. As you may be aware, the blog is based out the History and Theory of psychology program at York...

Published Mon, Sep 30 2013 8:50 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: News, digital history, psyborgs

Call for Nominations: History of Psychology Journal Editor

History of Psychology, a journal of the American Psychological Association, has issued a call for nominations for journal editor. David Dunning, PhD has been appointed chair of the search. The nomination deadline is January 11, 2014 and the candidates...

Published Mon, Sep 23 2013 9:41 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Other, News, History of Psychology, Jobs, editorship, call for nominations

Toronto Talk, Oct. 9th: Permanent Present Tense: The Unforgettable Life of the Amnesic Patient, HM

For anyone in the Toronto area, an upcoming talk at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) may be of interest. On October 9th, at 6pm, Dr. Suzanne Corkin will be speaking on her recent book, Permanent Present Tense: The Unforgettable Life of the Amnesic Patient...

Published Fri, Sep 20 2013 3:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Events, brain, memory, Royal Ontario Museum, H.M., Suzanne Corkin, amnesia

Rat Park, A Comic on (the History of) the Psychology of Addiction

A new comic by Stuart McMillen graphically illustrates the history of psychological research into the role of the social environment on drug use. In Rat Park, the second of two comics McMillen has created on illegal drugs, he describes the work of psychologist...

Published Thu, Sep 19 2013 2:22 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, drugs, Books, Links, comic, addiction, rat, Carl Hart, Bruce Alexander, drug use, rat park, environment, Stuart McMillen

Another Look at the History of the Unconscious: Sites of the Unconscious

Historian of the human sciences Andreas Mayer, a Research Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, has just published a new volume on the history of the unconscious. Mayer’s book, Sites of the Unconscious: Hypnosis and the...

Published Mon, Sep 16 2013 8:49 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Books, psychoanalysis, hypnosis, unconscious, Andreas Mayer

New Image Database Online: Weill-Cornell Medical Center Archives

Over the course of the summer months, the Weill-Cornell Medical Center Archives in New York have been uploading images from their collection into two new online databases: one for internal users and one that is open to the public. The public database...

Published Wed, Sep 11 2013 8:49 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Resources, asylum, Links, medicine, archives, Online Database

One More Summer Roadtrip: Wood County Lunatic House

This is a special post co-authored by Jennifer Bazar, Elissa Rodkey, and Jacy Young and published simultaneously at both the Advances in the History of Psychology (AHP) and FieldNotes blogs. Yes, we do listen to your suggestions! Earlier this summer,...

Published Tue, Sep 10 2013 10:55 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: asylum, psychiatry, insanity, madness, medicine, graveyard, Historical Tourism, Wood County