Advances in the History of Psychology

Wellesley Lab, World’s Fair, & Introspect. Videos

Occasional AHP contributor, and York University History and Theory of Psychology doctoral candidate Jennifer Bazar, has just released three short videos on the history of psychology on YouTube. The videos, each approximately 5 minutes long, explore the...

Published Tue, Jan 29 2013 7:14 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Video, Resources, teaching history of psychology, Jennifer Bazar, laboratory, introspection, Chicago World's Fair, Wellesley College

Obedience to Authority Conference, August 2013

Fifty years after the results of Stanley Milgram’s (above) obedience to authority experiments first appeared in print, a conference on his controversial work is scheduled to take place. The 2013 Obedience to Authority Conference will take place...

Published Sun, Jan 27 2013 9:09 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Events, Conferences, obedience to authority, Milgram, Ian Nicholson, Gina Perry, call for papers, Thomas Blass

Speechless! The Mystery Revealed

An article in the January issue of the Journal of the History of the Neurosciences may be of interest to some AHP readers. In “Mysterious ‘Monsieur Leborgne’: The Mystery of the Famous Patient in the History of Neuropsychology is Explained...

Published Sun, Jan 27 2013 11:38 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Journals, neuroscience, "Monsieur Leborgne", JHN, Broca

David Boder’s Interviews w/ Holocaust Survivors

In the mid-1940s, in the aftermath of World War II, psychologist David Boder (left) undertook a series of interviews with survivors of the Holocaust, a project that ultimately resulted in over 90 hours of audio recordings. Boder himself published exerts...

Published Fri, Jan 25 2013 10:40 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Resources, Links, archive, Interview, oral history, World War Two, David Boder, Holocaust

Shell Shock in New Zealand

An article in the just released February issue of Social History of Medicine may be of interest to some AHP readers. In “The Construction of Shell Shock in New Zealand, 1919–1939: A Reassessment” Gwen Parsons explores different accounts...

Published Thu, Jan 17 2013 9:15 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, shell shock, World War One, New Zealand

Jan. 22: BPS History of Psych Disciplines Talk!

A further event in the continuing British Psychological Society’s History of Psychology Centre, in conjunction with UCL’s Centre for the History of the Psychological Disciplines, History of the Psychological Disciplines Seminar Series will...

Published Thu, Jan 17 2013 6:46 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Wundt, Events, UCL, BPS, Saulo de Freitas Araujo, History of Psychological Disciplines

New JHBS: Ribot, German psych, & More!

The Winter 2013 issue of the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences is now online. Included in this issue are articles on French psychologist Théodule Ribot’s (right) founding of the Revue Philosophique de la France et de l’Étranger and...

Published Wed, Jan 16 2013 2:24 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, JHBS, France, Germany, Andreas Sommer, Ribot, Serge Nicholas, ethnography, Bayesian Statistics

New Book: Shaky Foundations

University of Toronto historian of science Mark Solovey has just released a new book, Shaky Foundations: The Politics-Patronage-Social Science Nexus in Cold War America. This book examines the history of the social sciences in America during the Cold...

Published Fri, Jan 11 2013 4:43 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, News, Books, Links, Cold War, social science, Mark Solovey, Patronage, Patron

“Operation Delirium” in the New Yorker

AHP readers may be interested in a recent piece in the New Yorker titled “Operation Delirium.” The article explores experiments with psycho-chemicals within the United States military during the Cold War. This included the administration of...

Published Thu, Jan 10 2013 12:31 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, News, Resources, Links, LSD, Cold War, Interview, Ketchum, psycho-chemicals, New Yorker, nerve gas

New Book on History of British Educational Psych!

The British Psychological Society‘s History of Psychology Centre has begun a monograph series, and its first publication is now available: British Educational Psychology: The First Hundred Years. The volume is edited by Christopher Arnold and Julia...

Published Wed, Jan 09 2013 3:33 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, education, Books, BPS, History of Psychology Centre, britain, Cyril Burt

History of Popular Psychology, Now at the CHP

Are you a fan of popular psychology? What about the history of popular psychology? If so, you’ll want to check out a recent post on the Center for the History of Psychology (CHP) blog (the image above is taken from that post). The post discusses...

Published Tue, Jan 08 2013 12:56 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Resources, Links, Interview, Center for the History of Psychology, popular psychology, Ludy Benjamin Jr., magazines, audio

Go Ask A.L.I.C.E. – A Look Back at A. I.

Go Ask A.L.I.C.E. Panel Discussion @ Harvard from Harvard University, History/CHSI on Vimeo. On November 29th, 2012 the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments (CHSI) at Harvard University held panel discussion to coincide with its museum exhibit...

Published Mon, Jan 07 2013 9:46 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Video, Events, Harvard, Alan Turing, CHSI, artificial intelligence, Turing Test

APA Monitor: McConnell’s Worm Runner’s Digest

The first 2013 issue of the American Psychological Association’s Monitor on Psychology is now online. This month’s Time Capsule section features a piece by Larry Stern on psychologist James McConnell’s efforts to poke fun at the discipline...

Published Wed, Jan 02 2013 12:42 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Journals, APA Monitor, memory, James McConnell, satire, worms

CfP: Spanish Society for the History of Psychology

The Spanish Society for the History of Psychology has issued a call for papers for its 2013 meeting. The conference will take place May 10th to 12th in Valencia, Spain. Submissions are due February 15, 2013. Full details follow below. Announcement and...

Published Fri, Dec 21 2012 9:33 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Conferences, SEHP

Special Issue: History of Psychosocial Stress

Interested in the history of stress? If so, you will want to check out a just released special issue on the topic. The December 2012 issue of History of the Human Sciences is guest edited by Rhodri Hayward and dedicated to the subject of “Inventing...

Published Wed, Dec 19 2012 11:32 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, history of the human sciences, World War Two, rats, somatic disorders, mental hygiene, hans selye, stress, psychosocial