Browsing Psychology (Functional Area: History and Theory) by Issue Date
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The Impact of Income Inequality of Psychosocial Well-Being
(2014-07-09)In this thesis, I investigated the impact of income inequality on psychosocial well-being. I argued that income inequality is an important problem for psychology, because it is a powerful social determinant of wide range ... -
The Journal of Comparative Psychology (JCP): A Network Analysis of the Status of Comparative Psychology
(2014-07-09)Abstract Comparative psychology‟s relationship to various other sub-disciplines and scientific “movements” has been discussed by many scholars throughout its history. The majority of these analyses took the form of frequency ... -
A Problem of Cosmic Proportions: Floyd Henry Allport and the Concept of Collectivity in American Social Psychology
(2014-07-09)Floyd Henry Allport (1890-1978) is widely regarded as a significant figure in the establishment of experimental social psychology in the United States in the early twentieth century. His famous 1924 textbook and his early ... -
Defying the Laws of Nature?: Menstruation and Female Intellect in Historical Perspective
(2015-01-26)In 19th and early 20th century America menstruation began to be constructed as a barrier to women wishing to access higher education. Male physicians warned of the supposed dangers studying would impose upon female ... -
When Psychologists Were Naturalists: Questionnaires and Collecting Practices in Early American Psychology, 1880 - 1932
(2015-08-28)This dissertation reshapes our understanding of the earliest years of American psychology by documenting the discipline’s methodological plurality from its very inception. In tracing the use of questionnaires over the first ... -
Schopenhauer's Psychological Worldview: History, Philosophy and Relevance
(2015-08-28)The complete philosophical works of Arthur Schopenhauer are explored through a comprehensive psychological reading that intends to highlight the holistic theories of human nature that amount to a pessimistic and metaphysical ... -
Networking Western Psychology's Elite: A Digital Analysis of "A History of Psychology in Autobiography"
(2015-08-28)This thesis analyzes digital social networks for the institutional affiliations of the one hundred and twenty authors in the A History of Psychology in Autobiography (AHPA) book series. The introductory section contextualizes ... -
Magda Arnold and the Human Person: A Mid-Century Case Study on the Relationship Between Psychology and Religion
(2015-12-16)The life of Magda Arnold (1903-2002)—best known for her pioneering appraisal theory of emotion—spanned the 20th century, and she witnessed the rise and fall of many of the major “schools” of psychology. Arnold had an unusual ... -
"The Era of Skepticism" Disciplinary Controversy and Crisis as Detour to the Big Five
(2016-09-20)The current disciplinary histories of the Five-Factor Model (FFM) of personality, or the Big Five, suggest that the ultimately temporary paucity of research on the model (and the delay in consensus toward it) is due in ... -
Constructive History: From the Standard Theory of Stages to Piaget's New Theory
(2016-11-25)This project demonstrates how Historians of Psychology can contribute to the future of Psychology from within the Department of Psychology (rather than from departments of History, the History and Philosophy of Science, ... -
Psychoanalysis as an Interdisciplinary Science: From 19th Century Neuropsychology to Modern Neuropsychoanalysis
(2017-07-27)This dissertation explores interdisciplinarity from three perspectives. It emphasizes the intellectual foundations of Sigmund Freuds Project for a Scientific Psychology (1895) and Alexander Bains Mind and Body (1872). It ... -
From Psychologism to Psychologization: Beyond the Boundaries of the Discipline and Practice of Psychology
(2017-07-27)This thesis provides a descriptive account of three waves of critiques of psychologism and psychologization that appeared throughout the 20th century from philosophers and sociologists. I examine these arguments chronologically ... -
The Past Lives of Betty Eisner: Examining the Spiritual Psyche of Early Psychedelic Therapy through the Story of a Outsider, a Pioneer, and a Villain
(2018-05-28)In this thesis, I argue that early LSD research was imbued with a sense of mysticism that was constructed to be commensurable with concurrent scientific epistemology. I demonstrate how mysticism entered psychedelic research ... -
The Mind of the New Socialist Student in the Chinese Revolutionary Imagination, 1949-1958
(2018-11-21)Between 1949 and 1958, the nascent Peoples Republic of China witnessed a radical shift of knowledge about the human mind that transformed pedagogy. Against the Cold War and the changing Sino-Soviet relation, Chinese ... -
Prolegomenon for a Body-Oriented Research Method in Psychology
(2019-03-05)Mainstream psychology adheres to a reductionist perspective on the body which is founded on a biomedical framework. In this view, the bodys functioning is investigated as merely physiological correlates of mental processes. ... -
Wilhelm Dilthey's Conceptualization of Mental Life: The Unity of Consciousness
(2019-07-02)Abstract This study is an examination of Wilhelm Diltheys conceptualization of mental life. An introduction recounting Diltheys intellectual background is provided, including a detailed literature review of texts that ...