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2022-06-21 08:01
Insightful article about the insanity defence by Dr. Meron Wondemaghen Read More
2022-01-13 17:02
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2021-04-17 06:08
Excellent article on false confessions By Shari Berkowitz, Steven Frenda, Elizabeth Loftus and Kimberly Fenn Read More
2019-02-28 17:53
Previously classified FBI dossier prepared by criminal profiling pioneer John Douglas Read More
2019-02-24 09:18
Profiling The Criminal Mind: A fascinating insight into the pioneering days of FBI profiling Read More
2018-12-04 23:00
Albert Bandura was born. A truly eminent psychologist, the world renowned Stanford University Professor's groundbreaking work includes his landmark article 'Transmission of Aggression Throu… Read More
2018-08-23 22:00
Issue 1 of The Journal of Neuropsychiatry, Neuropsychology, and Behavioral Neurology was published. In his introductory statement, editor-in-Chief Michael Taylor stated that 'neuropsychiatr… Read More
2018-07-02 05:19
Prison psychology relates to the application of psychology within a correctional setting Read More
2018-07-01 08:52
Not all psychopaths are criminals: Fascinating article by Scott O. Lilienfeld, Professor of Psychology, Emory University and Ashley Watts, Ph.D. Candidate, Emory University Read More
2018-01-31 11:15
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2018-01-05 23:00
Harry Harlow's classic article "The Nature of Love" was published in the journal American Psychologist. Originally presented the year before as his presidential address at the sixty-sixth A… Read More
2017-12-23 08:44
Fascinating Q & A with forensic psychologist Karen Franklin, PhD Read More
2017-12-20 13:30
What is forensic psychology? Get the expert answer here Read More
2017-12-18 12:17
The Psychopath: Separating fact from fiction. Quality information and resources. Learn all about the psychopath here Read More
2017-12-18 12:17
The top 7 myths about serial killers Read More
2017-12-16 13:13
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2017-12-11 18:09
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2017-08-02 22:00
The New York Times published a glowing review of the book Behaviorism by John B. Watson, which included the statement that it had transformed psychology by turning it 'from an inward mental… Read More
2017-06-15 22:00
Erik H. Erikson was born. A radical thinker and pioneering psychoanalyst whose influential ideas on human development extend well beyond the confines of psychoanalysis.
Erikson is best kn… Read More
2017-02-17 23:00
Sir Ronald Fisher was born. An eminent geneticist, Fisher made an unparalleled contribution to modern statistics, experimental design and scientific inference.
Fisher not only pioneered t… Read More
2017-02-16 23:00
Richard Atkinson, became president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); the first psychologist to hold the office since Edward Thorndike in 1934.
President e… Read More
2017-02-15 23:00
The first scientific meeting of the British Psychological Society took place. Papers presented at the meeting included 'The Evolution of Laughter,' by James Sully; 'Fechner's Paradoxical Ex… Read More
2017-02-14 23:00
Carl Jung was featured on the front cover of Time magazine and the subject of an article in the medicine section titled 'The Old Wise Man,' which noted that at the age of 79 Jung was still… Read More
2017-02-13 23:00
Jean-Martin Charcot presents 'On the Various Nervous States Determined by Hypnotization in Hysterics' to the French Academy of Sciences in Paris.
A highly respected and pioneering neurolo… Read More
2017-02-12 23:00
Charles Darwin was born. A revolutionary scientist and extraordinary thinker, Darwin's theory of evolution had a profound influence on our understanding of the natural world.
Darwin's ide… Read More
2017-02-11 23:00
Bernice Levin Neugarten was born. A renowned authority within the field of gerontology and adult human development, Neugarten was at the forefront in the fight against ageism and the promot… Read More
2017-02-10 23:00
Edward Thorndike's classic article 'A Proof of the Law of Effect' outlining the notion that a behavioral response is strengthened in the presence of a satisfying after-effect stimulus was p… Read More
2017-02-09 23:00
Elizabeth Koppitz was born. A pioneer in learning disabilities and special education, Koppitz wrote several influential books within the field of psychoeduational assessment of children; in… Read More
2017-02-08 23:00
Eric Schopler was born. A profoundly influential figure within the field of autism research, Schopler was instrumental in developing the Treatment and Education of Autistic and Related Comm… Read More
2017-02-07 23:00
Alfred Adler was born. A true legend within the discipline, Adler is rightly heralded as the first community psychologist. Decades ahead of its time and rooted in social welfare, social jus… Read More
2017-02-06 23:00
B. F. Skinner self-published his classic book 'Science and Human Behavior.' Originally printed as a teaching resource for his Natural Sciences course at Harvard; this hugely influential tex… Read More
2017-02-05 23:00
Franz Carl Müller-Lyer was born. Renowned for devising and giving his name to the Müller-Lyer illusion, a visual distortion also known as the arrowhead illusion which leads most p… Read More
2017-02-04 23:00
Morton Deutsch was born. Professor Emeritus at Teachers College Columbia University, Morton Deutsch is a world renowned scholar within the field of conflict resolution. In a hugely influent… Read More
2017-02-03 23:00
George Armitage Miller was born. Renowned for his pioneering work in the fields of cognitive psychology, psycholinguistics, and cognitive neuroscience, Miller's classic study 'The Magical N… Read More
2017-02-02 23:00
Henry Havelock Ellis was born. A pioneering writer within the field of human sexuality, Ellis is widely credited with introducing the terms autoeroticism and narcissism within a psychoanaly… Read More
2017-02-01 23:00
Granville Stanley Hall was born. A profoundly influential figure in the development of modern psychology, Hall earned the first Ph.D. degree in psychology to be awarded in the United States… Read More
2017-01-31 23:00
Neal E. Miller's article "Learning of Visceral and Glandular Responses," was published in the prestigious journal Science. A hugely influential publication within the emerging interdiscipli… Read More
2017-01-30 23:00
Joseph Jastrow was born. A true pioneer in the early days of modern psychology, Jastrow earned his Ph.D., from the first psychological laboratory established in the United States at Johns H… Read More
2017-01-29 23:00
Gordon Allport's classic book 'The Nature of Prejudice' was published. Based on years of exhaustive research this landmark text documented groundbreaking insights into the origins and natur… Read More
2017-01-28 23:00
Florence Denmark was born. A pioneering and internationally renowned teacher, author and speaker on the psychology of women, Florence Denmark has conducted groundbreaking research on a rang… Read More
2017-01-27 23:00
James Jerome Gibson was born. One of the most eminent figures in the history of perceptual psychology, Gibson is renowned for his ecologically driven metatheory which contends that informat… Read More
2017-01-26 23:00
Marie Jahoda was born. An eminent social psychologist, Jahoda conducted pioneering studies into racial prejudice, the authoritarian personality and the concept of positive mental health. Al… Read More
2017-01-25 23:00
Molly Harrower was born. A pioneering clinical psychologist, Harrower spent the early part of her career working alongside Kurt Koffka where she was immersed in the field of experimental Ge… Read More
2017-01-24 23:00
Hermann Ebbinghaus was born. A pioneer in the scientific study of memory, Ebbinghaus is best known was his landmark work 'Über das Gedächtnis' first published in 1885 and later tr… Read More
2017-01-23 23:00
Floyd Allport's groundbreaking book 'Social Psychology' was published. Drawing upon experimental methods and applied research to study group process, rather than sociological perspectives w… Read More
2017-01-22 23:00
Francis Bacon was born. An eminent polymath and celebrated thinker, Bacon pioneered and championed empirical and inductive methods of inquiry, the fundamental basis of all modern science; i… Read More
2017-01-21 23:00
The Pall Mall Gazette publishes the first recognized account of the term psychopath as we understand it today. Reporting on the acquittal of a Russian woman in a child murder case, the Gaze… Read More
2017-01-20 23:00
Daniel M'Naghten shot and killed Edmund Drummond the private secretary of British Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel; mistakenly thinking Drummond was Peel, his intended target.
In a landmark… Read More
2017-01-19 23:00
David Rosenhan's classic article "On Being Sane in Insane Places" was published in the journal Science. Introduced with the question "If sanity and insanity exist, how shall we know them?"… Read More
2017-01-18 23:00
Robert Glaser was born. A pioneer in the field of instructional psychology, Glaser founded the Learning Research and Development Center at the University of Pittsburgh in 1963 from where he… Read More
2017-01-17 23:00
At a ceremony at the White House, President Lyndon B. Johnson presented B. F. Skinner with The National Medal of Science, "For basic and imaginative contributions to the study of behavior w… Read More
2017-01-16 23:00
Franz Brentano was born. A celebrated thinker and influential writer on the philosophical foundations of psychology, Brentano is best known for introducing the concept of intentionality and… Read More
2017-01-15 23:00
Josef Breuer was born. An eminent physician and pioneer in the field of neurophysiology, Breuer is best known within psychology for being Sigmund Freud's mentor and for playing an integral… Read More
2017-01-14 23:00
Mathilde Hertz was born. An eminent biologist and sensory physiologist, Hertz was also a pioneer in the field of comparative psychology, whose work in this area helped establish the psychol… Read More
2017-01-13 23:00
David Ferrier was born. A pioneering neurologist who studied psychology under Wilhelm Wundt at the University of Heidelberg, Ferrier is renowned for his groundbreaking work on cerebral loca… Read More
2017-01-12 23:00
James Mark Baldwin was born. A pioneering developmental psychologist, Baldwin was one of the first writers in the field to recognize the importance of cognitive motor processes.
The autho… Read More
2017-01-11 23:00
William James was born. One of the most influential figures in the history of modern psychology, James is best known for his classic work 'The Principles of Psychology,' first published in… Read More
2017-01-10 23:00
Hanns Sachs was born. An important figure in the early days of psychoanalysis, Sachs was a member of Sigmund Freud's 'Secret Committee,' established shortly after Freud's acrimonious profes… Read More
2017-01-09 23:00
John Broadus Watson was born. Widely considered one of most eminent psychologists of the 20th century, Watson is renowned for his revolutionary work 'Psychology as the Behaviorist Views it… Read More
2017-01-08 23:00
Carl Rogers was born. One of the most eminent psychologists of the 20th century, Rogers was profoundly influential in the humanistic movement towards person centered theory and non-directiv… Read More
2017-01-07 23:00
John Clemans Flanagan was born. A pioneering behavioral scientist and profoundly influential figure within the field of aviation psychology, Flanagan developed a groundbreaking pilot select… Read More
2017-01-06 23:00
George Frederick Stout was born. Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of St. Andrews for over thirty years, Stout was an influential writer in the early days of modern psych… Read More
2017-01-04 23:00
A. A. Brill's English translation of Josef Breuer and Sigmund Freud's classic book 'Studies in Hysteria' was first published in the United States.
Originally published in German in 1895… Read More
2017-01-04 12:11
Harry Harlow's classic article "The Nature of Love" was published in the journal American Psychologist. Originally presented the year before as his presidential address at the sixty-sixth A… Read More
2017-01-03 23:00
Milton Rokeach's controversial book 'The Three Christs of Ypsilanti' was published. Based on a detailed two-year case study in which Rokeach introduced three men, all of whom believed that… Read More
2017-01-02 23:00
Fred Keller was born. A pioneering experimental psychologist and radical behaviorist who taught at Columbia University for 26 years, Keller is renowned for developing the Personalized Syste… Read More
2017-01-01 23:00
James McKeen Cattell's official title at The University of Pennsylvania was changed from Lecturer of Psycho-Physics to 'Professor of Psychology.' A landmark moment in the history of academi… Read More
2016-12-31 23:00
Christian Thomasius, a German Enlightenment philosopher and jurist published one of the earliest accounts of systematic personality assessment. Originally presented in the form of a letter… Read More
2016-12-30 23:00
Morton Prince's classic book 'The Dissociation of a Personality: A Biographical Study in Abnormal Psychology' was first published. In describing his groundbreaking work, Prince notes that:… Read More
2016-12-29 23:00
During the thirteenth annual meeting of the American Psychological Association (APA) held at the University of Pennsylvania, Professor Mary Whiton Calkins of Wellesley College was elected A… Read More
2016-12-28 23:00
Joseph H. Grosslight was born. An eminent behavioral scientist, Grosslight made significant contributions to a range of topics most notably within the field of teaching and learning. In 196… Read More
2016-12-27 23:00
The American Psychological Association (APA) held its first annual meeting at the University of Pennsylvania. In the published proceedings it was noted that eighteen of the Association's th… Read More
2016-12-26 23:00
George Elton Mayo was born. A pioneering figure in the field of Industrial Management and Human Relations - an influential research movement concerned with the study of organizational devel… Read More
2016-12-25 23:00
James Bugental was born. A pioneer in the field of Existential-Humanistic Therapy, Bugental was a leading theorist, practitioner, teacher and writer on the subject in a career spanning over… Read More
2016-12-24 23:00
Translated by Margaret Cook, Jean Piaget's landmark work from 1936 'Origins of Intelligence in Children' was first published in the United States. Ranked among the most important books in p… Read More
2016-12-23 23:00
Donald B. Lindsley was born. Professor of psychology, physiology and psychiatry at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and founder member of the world renowned Brain Research Insti… Read More
2016-12-22 23:00
Gail Wyatt was born. Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Dr. Wyatt was the first African-American woman… Read More
2016-12-21 23:00
Morton Prince was born. A pioneer in the field of abnormal psychology, Prince is best known for his classic text 'The Dissociation of a Personality: A Biographical Study in Abnormal Psychol… Read More
2016-12-20 23:00
George W. Albee was born. A pioneer in the field of clinical and community psychology, Albee is best known for his passionate advocacy of the view that social and environmental factors such… Read More
2016-12-19 23:00
Anne Anastasi was born. A hugely influential figure in the field of differential psychology, Anastasi is renowned for her pioneering research into the way traits are influenced by heredity… Read More
2016-12-18 23:00
Théodule Armand Ribot was born. A key figure in the history and development of psychology in France, in 1885 Ribot was placed in charge of the first course in experimental psychology… Read More
2016-12-17 23:00
Max Wertheimer presented a landmark lecture 'Úber Gestalttheorie' (On Gestalt Theory) to the Kant Society in Berlin, Germany. Considered a breakthrough account of Gestalt Theory, par… Read More
2016-12-16 23:00
Robert Resnick was born. A pioneer in the study and treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Resnick established one of the first ADHD clinics in the United States. Res… Read More
2016-12-15 23:00
G. Stanley Hall wrote to Sigmund Freud offering him 1,600 marks ($400) to speak at a conference convened to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the founding of Clark University. Freud decline… Read More
2016-12-14 23:00
William James's book 'Psychology: Briefer Course' was published. An abridgment to his classic work the 'Principles of Psychology' James notes in the preface that the chief aim of the book w… Read More
2016-12-13 23:00
Mortimer Mishkin was born. Chief of the Section on Cognitive Neuroscience in the Laboratory of Neuropsychology, U.S. National Institute of Mental Health, Mishkin is renowned for his groundb… Read More
2016-12-12 23:00
Oliva M. Espin was born. Professor Emerita in the Department of Women’s Studies at San Diego State University and the California School of Professional Psychology of Alliant Internati… Read More
2016-12-11 23:00
The Psychological Review was first published. Edited by James McKeen Cattell and James Mark Baldwin, among the wonderful articles to appear in volume 1 of this landmark journal were: 'Arith… Read More
2016-12-10 23:00
Karl Groos was born. A professor of philosophy at the University of Basel in Switzerland, Groos developed an evolutionary theory of play that was years ahead of its time. In a number of lan… Read More
2016-12-09 23:00
Géza Révész was born. A pioneer of European psychology, Révész founded the journal 'Acta Psychologica,' along with David Katz in 1935. A prolific research… Read More
2016-12-08 23:00
Ulric Neisser was born. A profoundly influential figure in the field of cognitive psychology, Neisser's classic book on the subject 'Cognitive Psychology' was instrumental in establishing c… Read More
2016-12-07 23:00
Francis Cecil Sumner was born. A truly inspirational figure, Sumner became the first African American to earn a PhD in psychology in the United States. A highly respected academic, Sumner w… Read More
2016-12-06 23:00
Florence Mateer was born. A pioneer in the field of experimental and clinical psychology, Mateer is best known for influential work on classical conditioning, intelligence testing and child… Read More
2016-12-05 23:00
Volume 1 of The Psychoanalytic Review was published. Edited by William A. White and Smith Ely Jelliffe it was the first English-language journal dedicated to psychoanalysis. The very first… Read More
2016-12-04 23:00
Albert Bandura was born. A truly eminent psychologist, the world renowned Stanford University Professor's seminal work includes his landmark article 'Transmission of Aggression Through Imit… Read More
2016-12-03 23:00
Anna Freud was born. The youngest of Sigmund Freud's six children and a renowned psychoanalyst in her own right, Anna Freud is widely considered one of the most influential founders of psyc… Read More
2016-12-02 23:00
Marian Breland Bailey was born. A renowned behaviorist, Bailey was one of B.F. Skinner's first graduate students at the University of Minnesota and one of the first applied animal psycholog… Read More
2016-12-01 23:00
Mary Ainsworth was born. A hugely influential developmental psychologist, Ainsworth is best known for her career-long research partnership with John Bowlby and her pioneering work on child… Read More
2016-11-30 23:00
Max Wertheimer, a founder of the Gestalt psychology movement, submitted his Ph.D., dissertation titled 'Experimental Investigations of Tatbestandsdiagnostik' (Diagnosis of the facts of a ca… Read More
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