May 25, James McKeen Cattell: Today in the History of Psychology (25th May 1860)
1 DAY AGO - James McKeen Cattell was born. A dominant figure in the founding days of modern psychology, Expand
1 DAY AGO - James McKeen Cattell was born. A dominant figure in the founding days of modern psychology, Cattell studied under Wilhelm Wundt at the University of Leipzig before returning to the United States to take up the post of lecturer in psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and Bryn Mawr College.
Cattell was instrumental in disseminating research within scientific psychology, most notably through his editorship of Psychological Review, which he founded with James Mark Baldwin in 1894; a landmark journal which continues to this day to make important theoretical contributions to many areas of psychology under the stewardship of the American Psychological Association.
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May 22, Coleman Roberts Griffith: Today in the History of Psychology (22nd May 1893)
4 DAYS AGO - Coleman Roberts Griffith was born. A pioneer in the field of sports psychology, Griffith's Expand
4 DAYS AGO - Coleman Roberts Griffith was born. A pioneer in the field of sports psychology, Griffith's established the first athletics research laboratory in the United States at the University of Illinois in 1925. A prolific researcher and writer, Griffith's published two groundbreaking books on sports psychology, 'The Psychology of Coaching,' in 1926 and 'The Psychology of Athletes,' in 1928.
Coleman Roberts Griffith is also widely believed to be the first psychologist to be employed by a leading sports team when in 1938 Chicago Cubs owner Philip K. Wrigley hired him to bring his expertise to bear on the performance of his famous baseball team.
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May 20, John Stuart Mill: Today in the History of Psychology (20th May 1806)
6 DAYS AGO - John Stuart Mill was born. A revolutionary thinker, Mill's ideas had a profound influence on the Expand
6 DAYS AGO - John Stuart Mill was born. A revolutionary thinker, Mill's ideas had a profound influence on the history and development of psychology. A notable example being Mill's empirically driven system of inductive logic, which was adopted and applied by Wilhelm Wundt, a founding figure of modern psychology.
Mill also created a lasting legacy within psychology through his notion of mental chemistry, namely his suggestion that a complex idea is greater than the sum of its parts and constitutes more than just a collection of simple ideas added together. This doctrine of association became a key tenet of Gestalt psychology.
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5/18/2017 - Dr Karl on why the night sky is so bright, how mobile phone networks find you and the difference Expand
5/18/2017 - Dr Karl on why the night sky is so bright, how mobile phone networks find you and the difference between cats and dogs. Collapse
May 15, Carl Wernicke: Today in the History of Psychology (15th May 1848)
5/15/2017 - Carl Wernicke was born. A prodigious talent in the field of neurology, Wernicke published his Expand
5/15/2017 - Carl Wernicke was born. A prodigious talent in the field of neurology, Wernicke published his groundbreaking book 'The Aphasia Symptom Complex' in 1874 at the age of just 26. His revolutionary work on localized brain damage was so influential that the region of the brain associated with neurological connections to language acquisition is known as 'Wernicke's area.'
One of the most outstanding neuroscientists of his time, Wernicke's life was tragically cut short at the age of 56 following a biking accident in June 1905.
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May 13, Edwin Shneidman: Today in the History of Psychology (13th May 1918)
5/13/2017 - Edwin Shneidman was born. A pioneering psychologist and renowned authority on the study of Expand
5/13/2017 - Edwin Shneidman was born. A pioneering psychologist and renowned authority on the study of suicide, in 1958 Shneidman co-founded the Los Angeles Suicide Prevention Center which became a model around the world for suicide prevention services, training and research.
Shneidman coined the phrase 'psychological autopsy' and helped develop the concept as a method of assisting medical examiners/coroners in cases where cause of death was ambiguous.
In 1987 Shneidman received the American Psychological Association (APA) Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Institutional Practice.
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Dr Karl answers your science questions
5/11/2017 - Dr Karl answers your science questions including whether you can you eat 14 year old marmalade and Expand
5/11/2017 - Dr Karl answers your science questions including whether you can you eat 14 year old marmalade and if it's possible to drive an F1 car upside down on the roof of a road tunnel. Collapse
May 9, William Marston: Today in the History of Psychology (9th May 1893)
5/9/2017 - William Moulton Marston was born. Marston was a student of the Legendary Hugo Münsterberg at Expand
5/9/2017 - William Moulton Marston was born. Marston was a student of the Legendary Hugo Münsterberg at Harvard University where he conducted research on the physiological symptoms of deception, leading him to develop the first systolic blood pressure deception ('lie detector') test.
Marston is also famous for creating, writing and producing the Wonder Woman comic strip under the pseudonym Charles Moulton, making him without doubt the coolest psychologist of the 20th Century.
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May 7, Gustave Le Bon: Today in the History of Psychology (7th May 1841)
5/7/2017 - Gustave Le Bon was born. A brilliant savant and polymath, Le Bon made telling contributions within Expand
5/7/2017 - Gustave Le Bon was born. A brilliant savant and polymath, Le Bon made telling contributions within a number of fields including ethnology, sociology, history and experimental science.
Le Bon was also a pioneering figure within social psychology as a result of his hugely influential book, La Psychologie des Foules; which was translated into English in 1896 under the title 'The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind.'
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May 24, Lillian Gilbreth: Today in the History of Psychology (24th May 1878)
2 DAYS AGO - Lillian Moller Gilbreth was born. A pioneer in the field of industrial and organizational Expand
2 DAYS AGO - Lillian Moller Gilbreth was born. A pioneer in the field of industrial and organizational psychology, Gilbreth introduced the concept of the time and motion study as a business efficiency and productivity technique.
During her remarkable career, Gilbreth became the first female member of the Society of Industrial Engineers and the first woman to receive the Hoover Medal for distinguished public service by an engineer. Gilbreth's legacy was also acknowledged in 1984 when the United States Postal Service issued a stamp in Gilbreth's honor as part of their Great Americans series.
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May 21, Hans Berger: Today in the History of Psychology (21st May 1873)
5 DAYS AGO - Hans Berger was born. A Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry, Berger began investigating Expand
5 DAYS AGO - Hans Berger was born. A Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry, Berger began investigating electrical activity of the brain after his original area of research interest - locating the physiological basis of psychic phenomena - proved fruitless.
On July 6th 1924 Berger made history by recording brain activity via electrical impulses on the scalp during a neurosurgical procedure performed by the neurosurgeon Nikolai Guleke. In 1929 Berger published his landmark paper 'Über das Elektrenkephalogramm des Menschen' in which he introduced the term 'electroencephalogram' and the concept of Alpha and Beta brain wave states.
Thanks to the pioneering work of Hans Berger, the electroencephalogram (EEG) revolutionized the diagnosis and management of various medical conditions including epilepsy and encephalitis. It has also proved to be an invaluable research tool within psychology, particularly within the field of neuropsychology.
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May 19, Alfred Adler: Today in the History of Psychology (19th May 1929)
7 DAYS AGO - The Brooklyn Daily Eagle newspaper in New York announces 'Discovered Inferiority Complex' in a Expand
7 DAYS AGO - The Brooklyn Daily Eagle newspaper in New York announces 'Discovered Inferiority Complex' in a headline story about Alfred Adler. This wonderful editorial notes:
'Towering above the whole brood of petty psychologists, mediocre psychologists and even great psychologists, is Dr. Alfred Adler of Vienna...Dr. Adler is the discoverer of the complicated manifestations of the inferiority complex and an international authority on the devious modes of human behavior.'
See following link to learn all about the life and work of psychology legend Alfred Adler.
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May 17, Helen Peak: Today in the History of Psychology (17th May 1900)
5/17/2017 - Helen Peak was born. A highly respected scholar and pioneering researcher, Peak was among the Expand
5/17/2017 - Helen Peak was born. A highly respected scholar and pioneering researcher, Peak was among the first group of psychologists to undertake precise laboratory measurements during social behavior experiments.
Helen Peak was also renowned for helping to bring together social psychology and individual psychology through her innovative work on attitude structure and attitude change.
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May 14, William Stephenson: Today in the History of Psychology (14th May 1902)
5/14/2017 - William Stephenson was born. Trained in both physics and psychology, Stephenson was Expand
5/14/2017 - William Stephenson was born. Trained in both physics and psychology, Stephenson was internationally recognized for his pioneering work in psychometrics and factor analysis.
As a psychologist, Stephenson was best known for developing the 'Q technique,' a methodological approach designed to elicit and measure subjectivity within a scientific framework.
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May 12, Henry H. Donaldson: Today in the History of Psychology (12th May 1857)
5/12/2017 - Henry H. Donaldson was born. An eminent neurologist and pioneering scientist, Donaldson bred a Expand
5/12/2017 - Henry H. Donaldson was born. An eminent neurologist and pioneering scientist, Donaldson bred a reliable strain of albino rat in order to study the development of the nervous system. As a result, the Wistar rat (named after the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia where Donaldson worked) became the first standardized laboratory animal.
Donaldson's landmark work ushered in the widespread use of the Wistar rat within various fields of scientific inquiry, including many notable psychology studies.
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May 10, Leona E. Tyler: Today in the History of Psychology (10th May 1906)
5/10/2017 - Leona E. Tyler was born. A highly respected psychology teacher, researcher and writer, Tyler was Expand
5/10/2017 - Leona E. Tyler was born. A highly respected psychology teacher, researcher and writer, Tyler was renowned for her work on individual differences; most notably through her influential book 'The Psychology of Human Differences,' first published in 1947.
In 1973 Tyler served as president of the American Psychological Association and among the many honors she received during a long and distinguished career, Tyler was awarded the prestigious Gold Medal for Life Contribution by a Psychologist in the Public Interest by the American Psychological Foundation in 1990.
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May 9, Forensic Psychology Book of The Month
5/9/2017 - A showcase of the very best forensic psychology books.
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5/7/2017 - Put on some safety goggles as Naked Scientists Chris Smith and Kat Arney ignite your bunsen Expand
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May 23, A Treatise on Melancholy: Today in the History of Psychology (23rd May 1586)
3 DAYS AGO - Elizabethan physician Timothie Bright, wrote, signed and dated the dedication page to Peter Expand
3 DAYS AGO - Elizabethan physician Timothie Bright, wrote, signed and dated the dedication page to Peter Osborne in his book 'A Treatise on Melancholy.' Subtitled 'containing the causes thereof, and reasons of the strange effects it worketh in our minds and bodies...,' Treatise on Melancholy was the first book written in English to address the concept of mental illness.
There is a compelling evidence to suggest that William Shakespeare drew upon Dr. Timothy Bright's A Treatise on Melancholy in his writing, particularly Hamlet. In an article on the subject published in 1926, Mary Isabelle O'Sullivan notes 'Thus, in the light of Bright's Treatise we get the outlines of a Hamlet of Elizabethan psychology. This Hamlet is not a puppet of dramatic circumstance, pulled now by Kyd's strings, and now by Shakespeare's, but a character unified by the qualities of the melancholy man, as Bright presents them.'
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6 DAYS AGO - Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team tackle questions sent in by you. Such as - why do Expand
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May 18, Morons, imbeciles, and idiots: Today in the History of Psychology (18th May 1910)
5/18/2017 - During the annual meeting of the American Association for the Study of the Feeble-Minded in Expand
5/18/2017 - During the annual meeting of the American Association for the Study of the Feeble-Minded in Illinois, psychologist Henry H. Goddard proposed adopting the terms moron, imbecile, and idiot as three distinct classes of mental defect.
Now pejorative terms no longer employed in a psychological context, moron, imbecile, and idiot were standard definitions within the field of 'mental retardation' for many years.
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May 16, William Bevan: Today in the History of Psychology (16th May 1922)
5/16/2017 - William Bevan was born. An influential cognitive psychologist, Bevan is best known for founding Expand
5/16/2017 - William Bevan was born. An influential cognitive psychologist, Bevan is best known for founding the Duke University Talent Identification Program (TIP). Established to identify and inspire intellectually gifted children, over 2 million students have benefited from the TIP program since its launch in 1980.
Bevan served as president of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 1982 and received the APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest in 1989.
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5/14/2017 - Georgia Mills with the latest science breakthroughs, including lava in space, how getting a good Expand
5/14/2017 - Georgia Mills with the latest science breakthroughs, including lava in space, how getting a good nights sleep can help with pain and do cats really like milk? Collapse
May 11, John B. Calhoun: Today in the History of Psychology (11th May 1917)
5/11/2017 - John B. Calhoun was born. An eminent behavioral sciences researcher at the National Institute of Expand
5/11/2017 - John B. Calhoun was born. An eminent behavioral sciences researcher at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Calhoun conducting pioneering work into social crowding and aggression through observing the behavioral effects of overpopulation within rat colonies.
Calhoun coined the phrase "behavioral sink" to highlight the increasingly aberrant and antisocial behaviors resulting from overcrowding; which he along with other social scientists and public commentators believed served as a clear warning to humankind in respect of human crowding in urban areas and world overpopulation.
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Dr Karl and Dr Rhod discuss the science of fake news, and how planets are formed.
5/10/2017 - Dr Karl and Dr Rhod discuss the science of fake news, and how planets are formed.
May 8, Leon Festinger: Today in the History of Psychology (8th May 1919)
5/8/2017 - Leon Festinger was born. Renowned for his unique and innovative laboratory methods of studying Expand
5/8/2017 - Leon Festinger was born. Renowned for his unique and innovative laboratory methods of studying social situations, Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance has had an enduring impact on the development of experimental social psychology.
Among his many professional accolades, Festinger received the American Psychological Association (APA) Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award in 1959 and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1972.
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