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Wade Pickren

Ryerson University, Canada

Pickren, W. E. & Rutherford, A. (2010). A history of modern psychology in context. New York: Wiley.

Pickren, W. E. (2009). Indigenization and the history of psychology. Psychological Studies, 54, 87-95.

Chris D. Green

York University, Canada

Green, C. D. & Benjamin Jr., L. T. (Eds.) (2009). Psychology gets into the game: A prehistory of sport psychology. Lincoln,NB: University of Nebraska Press.

Green, C. D. (2009). Darwinian theory, functionalism, and the first American psychological revolution. American Psychologist, 64.

2008

2007

2006

Deborah F. Johnson

University of Southern Maine

Johnson, Deborah F. (October, 2000). Cultivating the field of psychology: Psychological journals at the turn of the century and beyond. American Psychologist, 55(10), 1144-1147.

C. James Goodwin

University of Western Carolina

Goodwin, C. J. (2005). Reorganizing the experimentalists: The origins of the society of experimental psychoogistrs. History of Psychology, 9, 347-361.

Goodwin, C. J. (2004). A history of modern psychology (2nd ed.). New York: Wiley.

Benjamin Harris

University of New Hampshire

Harris, B. (1998). The perils of a public intellectual. Journal of Social Issues, 54, 79-118.

Harris, B. (1997). Repoliticizing the history of psychology. In D. Fox & I. Prilleltensky, (Eds.), Critical Psychology:  An Introductory Handbook (pp. 21-33).
2005

2004

2003

Nicole Barebaum

University of the South

Barenbaum, N. B. (2000). How social was personality? The Allports’ “connection” of social and personality psychology. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 36, 471-487.

Barenbaum, N. B. (1997). The case(s) of Gordon Allport. Journal of Personality, 65, 743-755.

James L. Pate

Georgia State University

Pate, J. L. (1993). The Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology. In J. L. Pate & M. Wertheimer (Eds.), No Small Part: A History of Regional Organizations in American Psychology. Washington, DC: APA.

Hendrika Vande Kemp

Monrovia CA

Vande Kemp, H. (1984). Psychology and theology in western thought, 1672-1965: A historical and annotated bibliography. In collaboration with H. N. Malony. Millwood, NY: Kraus International.

Vande Kemp, H. (1996). Historical perspective: Religion and clinical psychology in America. In E. Shafranske (Ed.), Religion and the clinical practice of psychology (pp. 71-112). Washington DC: APA.
2002

2001

2000

Katharine S. Milar

Earlham College

Milar, K.S. (2000). The first generation of women psychologists and the psychology of women. American Psychologist, 55, 616-619.

Milar, K.S. (1999). "A coarse and clumsy tool": Helen Thompson Woolley and the Cincinnati Vocation Bureau. History of Psychology, 2, 219-235.
Thomas H. Leahey

Virginia Commonwealth University

Leahey, A.H. (1997). A history of psychology: Main currents in psychological thought (4th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

Leahey, T. H. (1992). The mythical revolutions of American psychology. American Psychologist, 47, 308-318.
Wayne Viney

Colorado State University

Viney, A.W. & King, D.B. (1998). A History of Psychology:Ideas and Context (2nd Ed.). Boston: Allyn & Bacon.

Viney, A.W. (1989). The Cyclops and the twelve-eyed toad: William James and the unity-disunity problem in Psychology. American Psychologist, 44, 1261-1265.
1999

1998

1997

Alfred H. Fuchs

Bowdoin College

Fuchs, A.H. (1998). Psychology and the 'Babe'. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 34, 153-165.

Fuchs, A.H. (1998). Ebbinghaus's contributions to psychology after 1885. American Journal of Psychology, 110, 621-633.
Donald Dewsbury

University of Florida

Dewsbury, D.A. (1998). Robert Yerkes, sex research, and the problem of data simplification. History of Psychology, 1, 116-129.

Dewsbury, D.A. (Ed.) (1996). Unification through division: Histories of divisions of the American Psychological Association. Washington, DC: APA.
Raymond E. Fancher

York University, Canada

Fancher, R.E. (1996). Pioneers of Psychology (3rd ed.). New York: Norton.

Fancher, R.E. (1985). The Intelligence Men: Makers of the IQ Controversy. New York: Norton.
1996

1995

1994

Laurel Furumoto

Wellesley College

Furumoto, L. (1989). The new history of psychology. In I. Cohen (Ed.). The G. Stanley Hall Lecture Series (Vol. 9). Washington, D.C.: APA.

Scarborough, E., & Furumoto, L. (1987). Untold lives: The first generation of American women psychologists. New York: Columbia.
Henry L. Minton

University of Windsor

Collier, G., Minton, H.L., & Reynolds, G. (1991). Currents of thought in American social psychology. New York: Oxford.

Minton, H.L. (1988). Lewis M. Terman: Pioneer in psychological testing. New York: New York University Press.
Jill G. Morawski

Wesleyan University

Morawski, J.G. (1994). Practising feminisms, reconstructing psychology: Notes on a liminal science. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan.

Morawski, J.G. (Ed.) (1988). The rise of experimentation in American psychology. New Haven CT: Yale University Press.

1993

1992

1991

Neil R. Bartlett

University of Arizona

Bartlett, N.R., Spilka, B., & Wertheimer, M. (1988). Unplanned birth: Psychology at the University of Arizona. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 24, 57-63

Bartlett, N.R., et al. (1965). Vision and Visual Perception. New York: Wiley.
Joseph D. Matarazzo

Oregon Health Sciences University

APA President, 1989
Elizabeth Scarborough

Indiana University, South Bend

Scarborough, E., & Furumoto, L. (1987). Untold lives: The first generation of American women psychologists. New York: Columbia.
1990

1989

1988

Marion White McPherson

University of Akron

Co-Founder, Associate Director (1965-1990) of the Archives of the History of American Psychology, Akron, OH.
Wilse B. Webb

Webb, W.B. (1974). Progress in psychology: 1903-1907. American Psychologist, 29, 897-902.

Webb, W.B. (1998). Writing history and accident reports: A metaphorical analysis. Perceptual & Motor Skills, 86, 631-641.
Wolfgang G. Bringmann

University of South Alabama

Bringmann, W.G., Lück, H.E., Miller, R., & Early, C.E. (Eds.) (1997). A pictorial history of psychology. Chicago: Quintessence.
1987

1986

1985

Rand B. Evans

East Carolina University

Watson, R. I. & Evans, R.B. (1991). The great psychologists: An intellectual history (5th ed.). New York: HarperCollins.

Evans, R. B. & Koelsch, W. (1985). Psychoanalysis arrives in America: The 1909 psychology conference at Clark University. American Psychologist, 40, 942-948.
Thomas C. Cadwallader

Indiana State Univeristy

Cadwallader, T.C. (1975). Unique values of archival research. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 11, 27-33.

Cadwallader, T.C. (1987). Origins and accomplishments of Joseph Jastrow's 1888-founded chair of comparative psychology at the University of Wisconsin. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 101, 231-236.
Daniel N. Robinson

Georgetown Univerisity

Robinson, D.N. (1985). Philosophy of psychology. New York: Columbia University Press.

Robinson, D.N. (1981). An intellectual history of psychology (rev. ed.). New York: Macmillan.
1984

1983

1982

David E. Leary

University of Richmond

Leary, D.E. (Ed.) (1990). Metaphors in the history of psychology. Cambrdige, UK: Cambridge Univeristy Press.

Koch, S. & Leary, D.E. (Eds.) (1985). A century of psychology as a science. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr.

Texas A & M University

Benjamin, L.T. (1988). A history of teaching machines. American Psychologist, 43, 703-712.

Benjamin, L.T. (1986). Why don't they understand us? A history of psychology's public image. American Psychologist, 41, 941-946.
Barbara C. Ross

Long-time Editor of Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences.
1981

1980

1979

Ernest R. Hilgard

Stanford University

APA President, 1949

Hilgard, E.R. (1987). Psychology in America: A historical survey. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 
Virginia Staudt Sexton

Sexton, V.S. (1965). Clinical psychology: An historical survey. Genetic Psychology Monographs, 72, 401-434.

Misiak, H. & Staudt, V. (1954). Catholics in psychology: A historical survey. New York: McGraw-Hill.
John A. Popplestone

University of Akron

Co-Founder, Director (1965-1999) of the Archives of the History of American Psychology, Akron, OH.
1978

1977

1976

Michael Wertheimer

University of Colorado, Boulder

Wertheimer, M. & Wertheimer, M.L. (1996). Can the gap between psychology's two cultures be bridged? Psychological Inquiry, 6, 131-134.

Wertheimer, M. (1982). Gestalt theory, holistic psychologies, and Max Wertheimer. Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 190, 125-140.
David L. Krantz

Krantz, D.L., Hall, R., & Allen, D. (1969). William McDougall and the problem of purpose. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 5, 25-38.

Krantz, D.L. & Allen, D. (1967). The rise and fall of McDougall's instinct doctrine. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 3, 326-338.
John J. Sullivan

Larson, C.A. & Sullivan, J.J. (1965). Watson's relation to Titchener. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 1, 338-354.

Fluckiger, F.A. & Sullivan, J.J. (1965). Husserl's conception of a pure psychology. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 1, 262-277.
1975

1974

1972-1973

Nicholas Pastore

Pastore, N. (1974). Reevaluation of Boring on Kantian influence, nineteenth century nativism, Gestalt psychology and Helmholtz. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 10, 375-390.

Pastore, N. (1973). On plagiarism: Buffon, Condillac, Porterfield, Schopenhauer. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 9, 378-392.
Josef M. Brozek

Brozek, J. (1978). Summa psychologiae: A special review. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 14, 74-83.

Brozek, J. (1973). Soviet historiography of psychology: Sources of biographic and bibliographic information. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 9, 152-161.
Solomon Diamond

Diamond, S. (1974). Four hundred years of instinct controversy. Behavior Genetics, 4, 237-252.

Diamond, S. (1971). Gestation of the instinct concept. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 7, 323-336.
1971-1972

1970-1971

1969-1970

Mary Henle

Henle, M. (1987). Koffka's Principles after fifty years. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 23, 14-21.

Henle, M. (1978). One man against the Nazis: Wolfgang Köhler. American Psychologist, 33, 939-944.
David Bakan
York University, Canada

Bakan, D. (1966). The influence of phrenology on American psychology. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 2, 200-220.

Bakan, D. (1965). The mystery-mastery complex in contemporary psychology. American Psychologist, 20, 186-191.
Karl M. Dallenbach

Dallenbach, K.M. (1959). Twitmyer and the conditioned response. American Journal of Psychology, 72, 633-638.

Dallenbach, K.M. (1955). Phrenology versus psychoanalysis. American Journal of Psychology, 68, 511-525.
1968-1969

1967-1968

1966-1967

Robert B. MacLeod

Macleod, R.B. (1949). New psychologies of yesterday and today. Canadian Journal of Psychology, 3, 199-212.

Macleod, R.B. (1947). The phenomenological approach to social psychology. Psychological Review, 54, 193-210.
Gardner Murphy

APA President, 1944

Murphy, G. (1929/48/72). An historical introduction to modern psychology. New York, Harcourt.

Robert I. Watson

University of New Hampshire

Founder, Editor of Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences

Watson, R. I. (1963). The great psychologists: from Aristotle to Freud. Philadelphia: Lippincott. 



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