Advances in the History of Psychology

BPS: Origins Project Preview

The British Psychological Society‘s History of Psychology Centre has launched a new project. The Centre is developing an online timeline, Origins: The Evolution and Impact of Psychological Science. Although the timeline itself will not officially...

Published Tue, Mar 20 2012 9:12 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Resources, Links, BPS, History of Psychology Centre, Origins Project

A Harlow Love Song

For your Friday viewing (and listening) pleasure, we bring you a love song on Harry Harlow’s famous maternal separation and social isolation experiments. In Harlow’s experiments, rhesus monkeys were forced to choose between a terrycloth surrogate...

Published Fri, Mar 16 2012 11:35 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Video, Harlow, APS Observer, monkeys

New Issue: Memory & History in Psychology

The fall 2011 issue of the journal Memory and History in Psychology (Memória e História em Psicologia) is now available online. Although much of the issue’s content is in Portuguese, an English language article by Wade Pickren may be of interest...

Published Thu, Mar 08 2012 8:22 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Journals, New York City, Wade Pickren

CFP: Psychical Research in Hist. Med. & Sciences

University College London’s Centre for the History of Psychological Disciplines has issued a call-for-papers for a conference on Psychical Research in the History of Medicine and the Sciences. The two-day conference will be held September 14 and...

Published Wed, Mar 07 2012 12:44 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Conferences, psychical research, UCL, Centre for the History of Psychological Disciplines, Sonu Shamdasani

Most psychology students have heard the story of “Little Albert,” the infant conditioned by behaviorism-founder John B. Watson and his research assistant (later wife) Rosalie Rayner to fear objects (such as rabbits) that had originally evoked...

Published Fri, Mar 02 2012 9:49 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, ethics, Watson, Behaviorism, conditioning

APA Monitor: The American Asylum System

The March 2012 issue of the American Psychological Association‘s Monitor on Psychology has just gone online. In this month’s Time Capsule section, Ellen Holtzman describes the private asylum system that developed in the United States in the...

Published Thu, Mar 01 2012 1:38 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, asylum, APA Monitor, William James, Boris Sidis

The Intellectual Response to the Kinsey Report

The February 2012 issue of History of the Human Sciences includes an article that may be of interest to AHP‘s readers. In “‘A most interesting chapter in the history of science’: Intellectual responses to Alfred Kinsey’s Sexual Behavior in...

Published Mon, Feb 27 2012 9:02 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Journals, history of the human sciences, sexual behavior, Kinsey

More Talks! BPS Hist. of Psych. Seminar Series

As previously discussed on AHP (here, here, and here) the British Psychological Society’s History of Psychology Centre, in conjunction with UCL’s Centre for the History of the Psychological Disciplines, has organized a seminar series. Two...

Published Mon, Feb 27 2012 7:23 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Wundt, Events, BPS, Elizabeth Valentine, History of Psychology Centre, Egbert Klautke, britain, psychical

New History of Psychology Podcasts!

Christopher Green (left), producer of the podcast series This Week in the History of Psychology (or TWITHOP) and AHP faculty consultant, is back at work producing podcasts on the history of psychology. Green has just released an episode of what is to...

Published Sun, Feb 26 2012 12:32 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, asylum, Podcasts, Christopher Green, Little Albert, Vincent Hevern, Humanistic, Hank Stam, mental testing, Robert Kugelman

New Biography of Howard Knox

A recently released biography of early twentieth century physician Howard Knox may be of interest to AHP’s readers. Published by Columbia University Press, Howard Andrew Knox: Pioneer of Intelligence Testing at Ellis Island, is authored by John...

Published Tue, Feb 14 2012 9:11 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Books, biography, intelligence test, Ellis Island, Howard Knox, John Richardson

Happy 125th, American Journal of Psychology!

This year marks the 125th anniversary of the American Journal of Psychology, the first North American journal of the new scientific psychology. Founded by psychologist G. Stanley Hall in 1887, the American Journal of Psychology continues to publish to...

Published Mon, Feb 13 2012 9:14 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, Events, American Journal of Psychology, G. Stanley Hall

Dramatizations of Freud’s Dora & the Wolf Man

BBC Radio 4 has produced dramatizations of two of Freud’s most famous cases: Dora and the Wolf Man. Only the audio of the former is currently available online. The Wolf Man dramatization will air this Saturday, and should be available online afterwards...

Published Mon, Feb 13 2012 8:34 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General

Karl Marbe’s Study of Basso the Chimpanzee

The Winter 2011 issue of the American Journal of Psychology includes a new translation of German psychologist Karl Marbe‘s work with the chimpanzee Basso (above). Marbe (right) began to work with Basso after the chimpanzee attracted great attention...

Published Sun, Feb 12 2012 9:03 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Journals, arithmetic, Basso, Karl Marbe, chimpanzee, Clever Hans, counting

On the History of Memes

An article by AHP founding editor Jeremy Burman on the history of memes was recently published in the journal Perspectives on Science. Burman’s “The misunderstanding of memes” is currently the journal’s most download article and...

Published Sun, Feb 12 2012 10:11 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, evolution, Journals, popularization, memes, public understanding of science

New Journal: History of the Present

The recently released second issue of a new journal, History of the Present: A Journal of Critical History, contains a number of articles relevant to the history of psychology. In particular, three articles deal with the history of psychoanalysis. Of...

Published Wed, Feb 08 2012 10:00 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, Freud, brain, psychoanalysis, Jung, addition, neuropsychoanalysis