"Mere guesswork": Clarifying the role of intelligence, mentality, and psychometric testing in the diagnosis of "mental defectives" for sterilization in Alberta from 1929 to 1972 [0.03%]
“无非猜测”: 智力、心态与心理测验在阿尔伯塔省1929至1972年间对“精神缺陷者”绝育诊断中的作用及其澄清
Elliott M Reichardt,Henderikus J Stam,Kim Tan-MacNeill
Elliott M Reichardt
From 1929 until 1972, the Alberta Eugenics Board (the Board) recommended that 4,739 individuals be sterilized. The original 1928 act that legalized eugenic sterilization stipulated that the surgery itself required the consent of the individ...
Stephan Bonfield
Stephan Bonfield
In the last issue of this journal, Ben Harris authored a research note on Margaret Floy Washburn and her cats (see record 2023-67784-001). What was not included with that piece was an image Washburn's bookplate, which shows an image of a ca...
Archival oddities: Rosalie Rayner's application to take graduate classes [0.03%]
档案趣谈：罗莎莉·雷纳申请修读研究生课程
Ben Harris
Ben Harris
In the history of psychology, Rosalie Rayner is known as a research assistant to behaviorist John B. Watson in the study of a baby named Albert, coauthor of articles describing that research, and coauthor of Psychological Care of Infant and...
Reconstruction of Wilhelm Wundt's last residence in Saxony and the search for subsequent use as a research institute, fellowship house, or museum of psychotechnics [0.03%]
重建萨克森州威廉詹姆斯故居及其用作研究所、学者公寓或心理测验博物馆的规划项目
Andreas Jüttemann
Andreas Jüttemann
The German physiologist Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920) is now recognized worldwide as the founding figure of academic psychology. He founded the first Institute for Experimental Psychology in Leipzig in 1879 and gained recognition during his lif...
Marjorie Lorch
Marjorie Lorch
Innovations in Language, Emotion, and Empathy Research is a digital exhibit which celebrates the forgotten contributions to psychology by Prof. Vincent V. Herr, S. J. (1901-1970) and his colleagues in the mid-20th century. It draws on the s...
Lothar Spillmann
Lothar Spillmann
Michael was a historian by choice and calling, well-known for his Brief History of Psychology, which appeared in six editions. He also edited with Gregory Kimble a seven-volume series of Portraits of Pioneers in Psychology, an essential res...
"Why should other people be the judge": The codification of assessment criteria for gender-affirming care, 1970s-1990s [0.03%]
“为何让他人来评判”：性别确认治疗评估标准的制定（1970年代至1990年代）
Elliot Marrow
Elliot Marrow
In order to access gender-affirming care, transgender individuals were historically required by international guidelines to undergo mental health provider assessment (Coleman et al., 2012). This requirement for universal mental health provi...
The long origins of the visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learning style typology, 1921-2001 [0.03%]
视觉、听觉和动觉学习风格分类法的长期起源（1921—2001）
Thomas Fallace
Thomas Fallace
This study traces the long early history of the visual, auditory, and kinesthetic (VAK) learning style typology. The VAK distinction and vocabulary originated with the psychology of mental imagery and word recall in the 1910s. It was furthe...
The origins and development of Leopold Blaustein's descriptive psychology: An essay in the heritage of the Lvov-Warsaw School [0.03%]
鲁文-华沙学派的遗产之一：洛德·布劳斯坦的描述心理学的起源与发展
Witold Płotka
Witold Płotka
This article critically analyzes the concept of descriptive psychology, which was used by Blaustein as part of his struggles with the Brentanian heritage which shaped the Lvov-Warsaw School. It is argued that because of his studies under th...
From middle-class American women to French managers: The transatlantic trajectory of assertiveness training, c. 1950s-1980s [0.03%]
从美国中产阶级女性到法国管理者：二十世纪五十年代至八十年代左右的assertiveness训练的跨大西洋传播历程
Lucie Gerber
Lucie Gerber
This article explores the contribution of behavior therapy to the extension of psychotherapeutic notions and techniques into everyday life, focusing on the transatlantic trajectory of assertiveness training. It traces the history of this be...