(1915-2016) Perceptual Organization, Cognition, and Learning Theory The Role of Narrative in Psychology and Law
“Any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.” – from The Process of Education...
(1863-1930) Paired - Associate Learning Paradigm in Memory Research First Woman President of the American Psychological Association
Mary Whiton Calkins was ready for an academic career before the patriarchal academic world of the late nineteenth century was ready for her. After earning...
Richard Herrnstein at the home of B. F. Skinner on July 30, 1981 (Image Source: Wikimedia Commons / Baum, William M. “Richard J. Herrnstein, a Memoir.” The Behavior Analyst, vol. 17, no. 2, Oct. 1994, pp. 203–06.)
(1842-1910) (1872-1907) at Harvard Estabished Harvard's Psychology Department
William James, philosopher and psychologist, was instrumental in establishing Harvard's psychology department, which at its inception was tied to the...
Photograph taken between Summer-Fall 1989, in Los Angeles, California, at the home of Timothy Leary (Image Credit: Philip H. Bailey, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons)
Eleanor Maccoby in 1997 at Stanford University, where she was the first woman to head the psychology department. (Image Credit: Linda Cicero/Stanford News Service)
(1917-2018) Research in Child Development and Family Dynamics FIrst Comprehensive Empirical Survey of Gender DIfferences
Although she spent the majority of her academic career as a faculty member in the Department of Psychology at Stanford University, Eleanor Maccoby’s...
(1933-1984) Obedience to Authority The Small World Experiment - "Six Degrees of Separation"
In 1954 Harvard’s Department of Social Relations took the unusual step of admitting a bright young student who had not taken a single psychology course....
