The Psychologist, December 2010
The experimental psychologist's fallacy
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The experimental psychologist's fallacy
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The experimental psychologist's fallacy
Geoff Bunn introduces a special issue marking the 150th Anniversary of Gustav Fechner’s Elements of Psychophysics.
Bartlett speaks: What makes a good experimental psychologist?
Extracts from a recording of Frederic Charles Bartlett speaking made in 1959 by John C. Kenna, the Society’s first Honorary Archivist.
Choice, confusion and consciousness
Philip Barnard with some experimental highlights from the influential Applied Psychology Research Unit.
Loss of innocence in the Torres Straits
Graham Richards looks at nine methodological lessons of a highly successful failure.
Women in early 20th-century experimental psychology
Elizabeth Valentine profiles three women at the forefront of the development of the discipline.
The misdirected quest
Peter Lamont on how early psychologists turned to the grand wizards in an effort to transform illusions into a reality.
Fechner's Elemente – an establishment of its own
Daniel N. Robinson on the 150th anniversary of a text that many consider to be the first in experimental psychology.
Founding fathers
David K. Robinson on an important meeting of minds at Leipzig University.
Looking ahead: The future of experimental psychology
Alan Costall engages in some presentist futurology.
Drawing on a long and esteemed tradition
Nathalie L. Chernoff on career opportunities in the history of psychology.
‘Science is international’
Ian Florance talks to Adrian Owen about the ‘brain drain’ and more.
Media
Sinéad Rhodes on ADHD in the news
One on one... with Christopher Green
Professor of Psychology at York University, Canada, and blogger on the history of psychology
Book reviews, December 2010
diary drawings of mental illness; forensic psychology; ‘Aspergirls’ and more (including web only reviews).
Society, December 2010
President’s column; new Community Psychology Section, and a call to support the formation of a Disaster, Crisis and Trauma Section; improving work–life balance; preserving our history; and psychology at the Science Museum
Forum, December 2010
Including William James; Gustav Fechner; occupational debate; gender and more
News, December 2010
spending review; Alzheimer’s; magic and autism; graduate employment; tasty morsels from the Research Digest; and Sinéad Rhodes on ADHD in the news