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Past Presidents of SHP
 
1966-1967

1967-1968

1968-1969

Robert I. Watson

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

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

Gardner Murphy

APA President, 1944

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

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.

1969-1970

1970-1971

1971-1972

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. 

David Bakan

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.

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. 

1972-1973

1974

1975

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.

Josef M. Brozek

Brozek, J. (1973). 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. 

Nicholas Pastore

Pastore, N. (1974). Reevaluation of Boring on Kantian influence, nineteenth centuyr nativisim, 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. 

1976

1977

1978

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.

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. 

Michael Wertheimer

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.

1979

1980

1981

John A. Popplestone

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

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 study. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.

Ernest R. Hilgard

APA President, 1949

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

1982

1983

1984

Barbara C. Ross

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

Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr.

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

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

David E. Leary

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

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

1985

1986

1987

Daniel N. Robinson

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

Robinson, D. N. (1981). An intellectual history of psychology (Rev. Ed.). New York, NY: Macmillan.

Thomas C. Cadwallader

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 Univ of Wisconsin. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 101, 231-236.

Rand B. Evans

Watson. R. I. & Evans, R. B. (1991). The great psychologists: An intellectual history (5th Ed.). New York, NY: Harper Collins.

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

1988

1989

1990

Wolfgang G. Bringmann

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

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.

Marion White McPherson

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

1991

1992

1993

Elizabeth Scarborough

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

Joseph D. Matarazzo

APA President, 1989

Neil R. Bartlett

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, NY: Wiley. 

1994

1995

1996

Jill G. Morawski

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

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

Henry L. Minton

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

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

Laurel Furumoto

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

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

1997

1998

1999

Raymond E. Fancher

Fancher, R. E. (1996). Pioneers of psychology (3rd Ed.). New York, NY: Norton.

Fancher, R. E. (1985). The intelligence men: Makers of the IQ controversy. New York, NY: Norton.

Donald Dewsbury

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). Unifiation through division: Histories of divisions of the American Psychological Association. Washington, DC: APA. 

Alfred H. Fuchs

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

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

2000

2001

2002

Wayne Viney

Viney, A. W., & King, D. B. (1998). A history of psychology: Ideas and context (2nd Ed.). Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.

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

Thomas H. Leahey

Leahey, T. 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.

Katharine S. Milar

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.

2003

2004

2005

Hendrika Vande Kemp

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.

James L. Pate

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.

Nicole Barenbaum

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. 

2006

2007

2008

Benjamin Harris

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).

C. James Goodwin

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

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

Deborah F. Johnson

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

2009

2010

2011

Christopher D. Green

Green, C. D. & Benjamin, L. T. Jr. (Eds.) (2009). Psychology gets in 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. 

Wade Pickren

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

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

David Baker

Baker, D. B. (Ed.) (2003). Thick description and fine texture: Archival research in the history of psychology. Akron, OH: The University of Akron Press. 

Baker, D. B. (2002). Historical understanding and teaching in professional psychology. History of Psychology, 5, 219-223.

2012

2013

2014

Andrew Winston

Cherry, F., Unger, R., & Winston, A. (2012). Gender, ethnicity, and career trajectories: A comment on Woodward (2010). History of Psychology, 15, 181-187.

Winston, A. S. (2011). Value neutrality and SPSSI: The quest for policy, purity, and legitimacy. Journal of Social Issues, 67, 59-72. 

Alexandra Rutherford

Fancher, R., & Rurtherford, A. (2012). Pioneers of psychology (4th Ed.). New York, NY: Norton.

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

Rutherford, A., & Pettit, M. (2015). Feminism and/in/as psychology: The public sciences of sex and gender. History of psychology, 18(3), 223.

Debra Sue Pate

Pate, D. S. (2007). Rose Embly McCoy: A twentieth century pioneer. The Feminist Psychologist, 34(4), 17. 

Pate, D. S. (2007). Grace Brewster Murray Hopper: A woman who dared and did. In E. Gavin, A. Clamaer, & M. Siderits (Eds.), Women of vision: Their psychology, circumstances, and success. New York, NY: Springer Publishing.

2015

2016

2017

Henderikus Stam

Stam, H. J.  (2006).  Introduction: Reclaiming the social in Social Psychology.  Theory & Psychology, 16, 587-595.

Stam, H. J.  (2006).  On the uses of theory.  The General Psychologist, 41(2), 30-32.


James T. Lamiell

Lamiell, J. T. (2013). On psychology’s struggle for existence: Some reflections on Wundt’s 1913 essay a century on. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 33(4), 205-215.


Lamiell, J. T. (1987). Critical assessments of contemporary psychology. The psychology of personality: An epistemological inquiry. New York, NY, US: Columbia University Press.


Edward K. Morris

Morris, E. K. (2013). The legacy of John B. Watson's behaviorist manifesto for applied behavior analysis. Mexican Journal of Behavior Analysis, 36, 155-179.


Morris, E. K. (2003). 1950s applications and extensions of Skinner’s operant psychology. The Edward K. Morris 9 PRO: CLAS Comprehensive Vitae Run Date: 2/1/2018 Behavior Analyst, 26, 281-295.


2018

   
   
John D. Greenwood

Current Past President


   
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