The capture of the invisible. For a (pre)history of psychology in eighteenth-century France

Gustav Jahoda. A History of Social Psych

Gustav Jahoda. A History of Social Psychology: From the Eighteenth-Century Enlightenment to the Second World War. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 242 pp. $95.00 (cloth). ISBN 978-0-521-86828-0. $34.99 (paper). ISBN 978-0-521-68786-7

✍ Henry L. Minton 📂 Article 📅 2008 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 114 KB

In historical treatments of social psychology, 1908 is typically cited as the year in which the discipline originated. This is because of the publication of the textbooks by psychologist William McDougall and sociologist Edward Alsworth Ross, the first to be exclusively devoted to social psychology.

Investigating the Anomalous States of Kn

Investigating the Anomalous States of Knowledge hypothesis in a real-life problem situation: A study of history and psychology undergraduates seeking information for a course essay

✍ Charles Cole; John Leide; Jamshid Beheshti; Andrew Large; Martin Brooks 📂 Article 📅 2005 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 111 KB 👁 2 views

## Abstract The authors present a study of the real‐life information needs of 59 McGill University undergraduates researching essay topics for either a history or psychology course, interviewed just after they had selected their essay topic. The interview's purpose was to transform the undergraduat

Gardner Lindzey and William M. Runyan (E

Gardner Lindzey and William M. Runyan (Eds.). A History of Psychology in Autobiography, vol. IX. Washington, DC: The American Psychological Association, 2007. 354 pp. $89.95 ($59.95 for Members and Affiliates of APA) (cloth). ISBN 978-1-59147-796-9

✍ Alfred H. Fuchs 📂 Article 📅 2008 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 114 KB

In historical treatments of social psychology, 1908 is typically cited as the year in which the discipline originated. This is because of the publication of the textbooks by psychologist William McDougall and sociologist Edward Alsworth Ross, the first to be exclusively devoted to social psychology.

Sacha Bem, Hans Rappard, Willem van Hoor

Sacha Bem, Hans Rappard, Willem van Hoorn, Eds. Studies in the history of psychology and the social sciences. Proceedings of the First European Meeting of CHEIRON: International Society for the History of the Behavioral and Social Sciences Held at Amsterdam (F.U.), September 15-17, 1982. Leiden: Psychologisch Instituut van de Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, 1983. viii + 279 pp. (Reviewed by Richard A. Littman)

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Jerome Kagan. The Three Cultures: Natura

Jerome Kagan. The Three Cultures: Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and the Humanities in the 21st Century. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 324 pp. $21.99 (paperback). ISBN-13: 978-0521732307. Nancy J. Nersessian. Creating Scientific Concepts. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008. 272 pp. $32.00 (hardcover). ISBN-13: 978-0262141055. Ute Schönpflug (Ed.). Cultural Transmission: Psychological, Developmental, Social, and Methodological Aspects. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 510 pp. $36.99 (paperback). ISBN-13: 978-0521706575. Edward Shorter. Before Prozac: The Troubled History of Mood Disorders in Psychiatry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. 320 pp. $29.95 (hardcover). ISBN-13: 978-0195368741. Gabriel Tarde. Sur le sommeil ou plutôt sur les rêves: Et autres textes inédits [On sleep, or rather on dreams: And other unpublished texts] (Jacqueline Carroy and Louise Salmon, Eds.). Lausanne, France: BHMS, 2009. viii, 227 pp. $25.00. (paperback). ISBN-13: 978-2-9700536-8-2

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Sparked by his rereading of C. P. Snow's (1959) The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, Kagan's new book surveys the current status of the "two cultures" Snow described-the arts and humanities, on the one hand, and the natural sciences, on the otheras well as a third, the social sciences, wh