Downsizing obesity: On Ancel Keys, the origins of BMI, and the neglect of excess weight as a health hazard in the United States from the 1950s to 1970s [0.03%]
瘦身应对肥胖问题:从20世纪50年代到70年代美国忽视体重过重的健康危害及其原因探究
Nicolas Rasmussen
Nicolas Rasmussen
In 1972 Body Mass Index, BMI was put forth by physiologist Ancel Keys in his analysis of Seven Countries Study heart disease epidemiological data as the best available measure of obesity. This work culminated more than 20 years of effort by...
Equanimity: The somatization of a moral sentiment from the eighteenth to late twentieth century [0.03%]
均衡:一种道德情感从18世纪到20世纪后期的躯体化
Francis Mckay
Francis Mckay
Over the past 40 years, mindfulness-based therapies (MBTs) have gained a reputation among the biomedical community for their ability to contribute to health, mental capital, and human flourishing. Recently, however, critical mindfulness sch...
Documenting the multisensory and ephemeral: Navajo Chantway singers and the troubles of a "science" of ceremonialism [0.03%]
多感官与易消逝的记录:纳瓦霍圣歌歌手和一种关于“仪式科学”的难题
Adam Fulton Johnson
Adam Fulton Johnson
Even as American ethnology in the late-nineteenth century continued to accumulate data about indigenous groups for comparative study, the surgeon-turned-ethnographer Washington Matthews found standardized documentary methods constricting, u...
Adam Crabtree
Adam Crabtree
In 1970 Henri Ellenberger called attention to the previously unrecognized importance of Franz Anton Mesmer's "animal magnetism" in the rise of psychodynamic psychology in the West. This article takes the next step of tracing the course of e...
Psychology's own mindfulness: Ellen Langer and the social politics of scientific interest in "active noticing" [0.03%]
朗格的心理学与“主动注意”的科学研究的社会政治性
Shayna Fox Lee
Shayna Fox Lee
Ellen Langer's mindfulness construct is presented as "indigenous" to disciplinary psychology. Langer's early work laid the foundations for the research program she would come to call the psychology of possibility. Studying inattentive behav...
The professionalization of psychologists as court personnel: Consequences of the first institutional commitment law for the "feebleminded" [0.03%]
作为法院人员的心理学家的专业化:第一部机构承诺法对"弱智"者的后果
Ingrid G Farreras
Ingrid G Farreras
The first law providing for the permanent, involuntary institutionalization of "feeble-minded" individuals was passed in Illinois in 1915. This bill represented the first eugenic commitment law in the United States. Focusing on the conseque...
Alexander Bain's Mind and Body (1872): An underappreciated contribution to early neuropsychology [0.03%]
亚历山大·贝恩的《心智与身体》(1872):被低估的早期神经心理学贡献
Kate Harper
Kate Harper
Alexander Bain (1818-1903) is well known for his two influential textbooks, The senses and the intellect (1855) and The emotions and the will (1859). In comparison, Bain's Mind and body: The theories of their relation (1872) has been of lim...
Reevaluating the initial impact of John Broadus Watson on American psychology: The necessity of comparative parameters [0.03%]
重新评估约翰·布劳迪斯·沃森对美国心理学最初影响的必要性:比较参数的重要性
Saulo de Freitas Araujo,Fernando Tavares Saraiva,Marcus Bentes de Carvalho Neto
Saulo de Freitas Araujo
In recent decades, various studies have challenged the traditional view that John Broadus Watson's Behaviorist Manifesto prompted a psychological revolution. However, methodological hindrances underlie all these attempts to evaluate the imp...
Stanley Finger
Stanley Finger
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain; 1835-1910), American humorist and writer, followed scientific and medical developments, and relished exposing questionable practices and ideas. In his youth, he pondered how phrenologists were assessing...