(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...
(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...
(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....
(1920-2012) Father of the Cognitive Revolution Cognitive Psychology, Psycholinguistics, and Cognitive Neuroscience
“My problem is that I have been persecuted by an integer.” So began perhaps the most famous paper in the history of experimental psychology. The Harvard...