Notes and Further Reading

General Reading

Baker, D. B. (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of the History of Psychology: Global Perspectives. New York: Oxford, 2012.

Fancher, R. E. & Rutherford, A. Pioneers of Psychology, 4th Edition. New York: Norton, 2012.

Ferngren, G. B., The History of Science and Religion in the Western Tradition. New York: Garland, 2000.

Freedheim, D. K. (Ed.), Handbook of Psychology. Volume 1: History of Psychology (2nd ed). New York: Wiley, 2013.

Grob, G. N., The Mad Among Us: A History of the Care of America’s Mentally Ill. New York: Free Press, 1994.

Mazlish, B., The Uncertain Sciences. New York: Transaction, 2007.

Mitchell, S. A., & Black, M. J., Freud and Beyond: A History of Modern Psychoanalytic Thought. New York: Basic Books, 1996.

Porter, R., The Greatest Benefit to Mankind. New York: Norton, 1997.

Rao, K. R., Paranjpe, A. C., Dalal, A. K. (Eds.), Handbook of Indian Psychology. New Delhi: Foundation, 2008.

Shorter, E., A History of Psychiatry. New York: Wiley, 1997.

Smith, R., Norton History of the Human Sciences. New York: Norton, 1997.

Smith, R., Between Mind and Nature: A History of Psychology. London: Reaktion Books, 2013.

c. 10,000 BCE, Shamanism

Kakar, S., Shamans, Mystics and Doctors: A Psychological Inquiry into India and its Healing Traditions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.

Ellenberger, H. F., The Discovery of the Unconscious. New York: Basic Books, 1970.

c. 6500 BCE, Trephination

Gross, C. G., A Hole in the Head: More Tales in the History of Neuroscience. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009.

c. 5000 BCE, Palmistry

Albanese, C., A Republic of Mind and Spirit: A Cultural History of American Metaphysical Religion. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007.

c. 700 BCE, Astropsychology

North, J., Cosmos: An Illustrated History of Astronomy and Cosmology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.

528 BCE, Buddha’s Four Noble Truths

Mishra, P., An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World. New York: Picador, 2005.

c. 500 BCE, Confucian Psychology

Bond, M. H., Oxford Handbook of Chinese Psychology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.

c. 350 BCE, Aristotle’s De anima

Robinson, D., An Intellectual History of Psychology. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995.

c. 350 BCE, Asclepius and the Art of Healing

Porter, T., The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity. New York: Norton, 1999.

c. 200 BCE, Bhagavad Gita

Doniger, W., The Hindus: An Alternative History. New York: Penguin, 2010.

c. 160 CE, Humoral Theory

Porter, T., The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity. New York: Norton, 1999.

c. 900 CE, Sustenance for Body and Soul

Fakhry, M., Islamic Philosophy: A Beginner’s Guide. London: Oneworld Publications, 2009.

1025, Canon of Medicine

Nasr, S. H., & Leaman, O. (Eds.), History of Islamic Philosophy. New York: Routledge, 2001.

1357, Bedlam

Porter, R., A Social History of Madness: The World through the Eyes of the Insane. New York: Plume, 1989.

1489, Da Vinci on Neuroscience

Capra, F., The Science of Leonardo: Inside the Mind of the Great Genius of the Renaissance. New York: Anchor, 2008.

1506, Psychology as a Term

Vidal, F., The Sciences of the Soul: The Early Modern Origins of Psychology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.

1517, The Protestant Self

Taylor, C., Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992.

1538, De Anima et Vita

Noreňa, C. G., Jean Louis Vives. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1970.

1580, Montaigne’s Essays

Bakewell, S., How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer. New York: Other Press, 2010.

1621, The Anatomy of Melancholy

Radden, J. (Ed.), The Nature of Melancholy: From Aristotle to Kristeva. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

1637, Mind–Body Dualism

Smith, R., The Norton History of the Human Sciences. New York: Norton, 1997.

1651, Leviathan

Bagby, L. M., Hobbes’s Leviathan: Reader’s Guide, New York: Continuum, 2007.

1664, Cerebri Anatome

Richards, G., Mental Machinery: Origins and Consequences of Psychological Ideas from 1600–1850. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1992.

1690, Tabula Rasa

Smith, R., The Norton History of the Human Sciences. New York: Norton, 1997.

1719, The Familiar and the Novel

Watt, I., The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1957.

1747, L’homme machine

Wellman, K., La Mettrie: Medicine, Philosophy, and Enlightenment. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1992.

1759, The Theory of Moral Sentiments

McLean, I., Adam Smith, Radical and Egalitarian: An Interpretation for the 21st Century. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press, 2004.

1762, Rousseau’s Natural Child

Porter, R., The Enlightenment. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001.

1766, Mesmerism

Lamont, P., Extraordinary Beliefs: A Historical Approach to a Psychological Problem. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013.

1775, Physiognomy

Collins, A. F., “The Enduring Appeal of Physiognomy: Physical Appearance as a Sign of Temperament, Character, and Intelligence.” History of Psychology, 2, 251–276, 1999.

1781, Kant: Is Psychology a Science?

Goodwin, C. J., A History of Modern Psychology (4th ed.). New York: Wiley, 2011.

1788, Moral Treatment

Scull, A., Most Solitary of Afflictions: Madness and Society in Britain, 1700–1900. New Haven, CT: Yale, 2005.

1801, Victor, the Wild Boy of Aveyron

Benzaquen, A. S., Encounters with Wild Children: Temptation and Disappointment in the Study of Human Nature. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006.

1811, Bell-Magendie Law

Young, R. M., Mind, Brain, and Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century: Cerebral Localization and Its Biological Context from Gall to Ferrier. New York: Oxford, 1990.

1832, Phrenology Comes to America

Stern, M., Heads & Headlines: The Phrenological Fowlers. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1971.

1834, Just-Noticeable Difference

Heidelberger, M., Nature from Within: Gustav Theodor Fechner and his Psychophysical Worldview. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004.

1835, Moral Insanity (Psychopathy)

Shorter, E., A History of Psychiatry: From the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac. New York: Wiley, 1998.

1838, Munchausen Syndrome

Carson, R. C., Butcher, J., & Mineka, S., Abnormal Psychology and Modern Life (11th ed.). Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 2000.

1840, Kindergarten

Brosterman, N., Inventing Kindergarten. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997.

1843, Can Machines Think?

Woolley, B., The Bride of Science: Romance, Reason, and Byron’s Daughter. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1999.

1848, The Curious Case of Phineas Gage

Macmillan, M., An Odd Kind of Fame: Stories of Phineas Gage. Cambridge, MA: Bradford Books, 2002.

1851, Circular Insanity

Jamison, K. R., Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament. New York: Free Press, 1993.

1859, Mind-Cure

Taylor, E., Shadow Culture: Psychology and Spirituality in America. Washington, DC: Counterpoint, 1999.

1859, On the Origin of Species

Browne, J., Darwin’s Origin of Species: A Biography. London: Atlantic Books, 2006.

1861, Localization of Brain Function

Young, R. M., Mind, Brain, and Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century: Cerebral Localization and Its Biological Context from Gall to Ferrier. New York: Oxford, 1990.

1866, Down Syndrome

Wright, D., Downs: The History of a Disability. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

1867, Prosopagnosia

Sacks, O., The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales. New York: Touchstone, 1985.

1867, Sensory Physiology

Cahan, D., Hermann von Helmholtz and the Foundations of Nineteenth-Century Science. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1993.

1871, Synesthesia

Cytowic, R. E., The Man Who Tasted Shapes. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003.

1872, Phantom Limb Pain

Ramachandran, V. S. & Blakeslee, S., Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind. New York: William Morrow, 1998.

1874, Nature versus Nurture

Segal, N. L., Born Together-Reared Apart: The Landmark Minnesota Twin Study. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012.

1874, Experimental Psychology

Goodwin, C. J., A History of Modern Psychology (4th ed.). New York: Wiley, 2011.

1877, Baby Biographies

Darwin, C. R., 1877, “A Biographical Sketch of an Infant.” Mind, 2, 285–294.

Lamiell, J. T., William Stern (1871–1938): A Brief Introduction to His Life and Works. Lengerich/Berlin: Pabst Science Publishers, 2010.

1879, Mental Chronometry

Schmidgen H., “Physics, ballistics, and psychology: A history of the chronoscope in/as context, 1845–1890.” History of Psychology, 8, 46–78, 2005.

1880, Anna O.

Kimball, M. M. (2000). “From Anna O. to Bertha Pappenheim: Transforming private pain into public action.” History of Psychology, 3, 20–43.

1885, Tourette Syndrome

Sacks, O., An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales. New York: Picador, 1995.

1885, Multiple Personality Disorder

Hacking, I., Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995.

1886, Hysteria

Scull, A., Hysteria: The Disturbing History. New York: Oxford, 2012.

1886, Experimental Hypnosis

Gauld, A., A History of Hypnotism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992.

1886, Psychopathia Sexualis

Bullough, V. L., Science in the Bedroom: A History of Sex Research. New York: Basic Books, 1995.

1890, The Principles of Psychology

Menand, L., The Metaphysical Club. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2002.

Richardson, R. D., William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism. New York: Mariner, 2007.

1890, Psychological Tests

Sokal, M. M. (Ed.), Psychological Testing and American Society, 1890–1930. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1987.

1892, American Psychological Association

Capshew, J., Psychologists on the March: Science, Practice, and Professional Identity in America, 1929–1969. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

1896, Functional Psychology

Dalton, T. C., Becoming John Dewey: Dilemmas of a Philosopher and a Naturalist. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002.

1897, Oedipus Complex

Gay, P., Freud: A Life for Our Time. New York: Norton, 2006.

1898, Torres Straits Expedition

Herle, A. & Rouse, S., Cambridge and the Torres Strait. London: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

1898, The Puzzle Box

Joncich, G., The Sane Positivist: A Biography of Edward L. Thorndike. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1968.

1899, Pelmanism

Thomson, M., Psychological Subjects: Identity, Culture, and Health in Twentieth-Century Britain. New York: Oxford, 2006.

1899, Psychoanalysis

Fine, R., The History of Psychoanalysis. New Expanded Edition. Northvale: Jason Aronson, 1979.

1900, The Interpretation of Dreams

Freud, S., & Brill, A. A., The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud. New York: Modern Library, 1995. This volume contains The Interpretation of Dreams, and no one is better to read on the topic than Freud himself.

1902, Psychology of Testimony

Loftus, E. R., Eyewitness Testimony. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996.

1903, Psychotechnics

Pickren, W. E., & Rutherford, A., A History of Modern Psychology in Context. New York: Wiley, 2010.

1903, Classical Conditioning

Todes, D., Pavlov’s Physiology Factory: Experiment, Interpretation, Laboratory Enterprise. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 2001.

1904, Adolescence

Harter, S., The Construction of the Self. New York: Guilford, 2012.

1904, Culture-Bound Syndromes

Kleinman, A., Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1981.

1905, Psychosexual Development

Freud, S., Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, trans. James Strachey. New York: Basic Books, 1905/1962.

1905, Binet-Simon Test of Mental Levels

Wolf, T. H., Alfred Binet. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973.

1906, Emmanuel Movement

Caplan, E., Mind Games: American Culture and the Birth of Psychotherapy. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1998.

1907, Birth Order

Isaacson, C. E., The Birth Order Effect: How to Better Understand Yourself and Others. Fairfield, OH: Adams Media Corporation, 2002.

1907, Inferiority Complex

Hoffman, E., The Drive for Self: Alfred Adler and the Founding of Individual Psychology. New York: Addison-Wesley, 1994.

1907, Casa dei Bambini

Kramer, R., Maria Montessori. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976.

1908, Yerkes-Dodson Law

Maisel, E., Performance Anxiety. New York: Back Stage Books, 2005.

1908, The Schizophrenias

Green, M. F., Schizophrenia Revealed: From Neurons to Social Interactions. New York: Norton, 2003.

1909, Apes and Language

Savage-Rumbaugh, S., & Lewin, R., Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind. New York: Wiley, 1996.

1911, Psychology of Music

Levitin, D. J., This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession. New York: Plume/Penguin, 2007.

1912, Gestalt Psychology

Ash, M. G., Gestalt Psychology in German Culture, 1890–1967: Holism and the Quest for Objectivity. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

1912, Experimental Neurosis

Liddell, H. S., Emotional Hazards in Animals and Man. Springfield, IL: Charles Thomas, 1956.

1912, Eugenics and Intelligence

Zenderland, L., Measuring Minds: Henry Herbert Goddard and the Origins of American Intelligence Testing. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

1913, Jungian Psychology

Jung, C. G. (Translation: S. Shamdasani, M. Kyburz, & J. Peck), The Red Book. New York: Norton, 2009.

1913, The Lie Detector

Bunn, G., The Truth Machine: A Social History of the Lie Detector. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins, 2012.

1913, Behaviorism

O’Donnell, J. M., The Origins of Behaviorism: American Psychology, 1870–1920. New York: New York University Press, 1985

1914, Variability Hypothesis

Haraway, D., Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science. New York: Routledge, 1989.

Shields, S. A., “The variability hypothesis: The history of a biological model of sex differences in intelligence,” Signs, 7, 769–797, 1982.

1915, Shell Shock

Shepard, B., War of Nerves. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000.

1915, Modern Psychology in India

Sinha, D., Psychology in a Third World Country: The Indian Experience. Delhi: Sage, 1986.

1918, American Classification of Mental Disorders (DSM)

Grob, G. N., The Mad Among Us. New York: Free Press, 1994.

1921, Army Intelligence Tests and Racism

Sokal, M. M. (Ed.), Psychological Testing and American Society, 1890–1930. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1987.

1921, Projective Tests (Rorschach Inkblots)

Butcher, J. N., “Personality assessment from the nineteenth to the early twenty-first century: past achievements and contemporary challenges.” The Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, Vol 6, 1–20, 2010.

1921, Neurotransmission

Carter, R., Mapping the Mind. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2010.

1922, Feminine Psychology

Horney, K., Feminine Psychology. New York: Norton, 1993.

1923, Capgras Syndrome

Ramachandran, V. S. & Blakeslee, S., Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind. New York: William Morrow, 1998.

1924, Cheaper by the Dozen

Lancaster, J., Making Time: Lillian Moller Gilbreth—A Life Beyond “Cheaper by the Dozen.” Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2004.

1924, Brain Imaging

Dumit, J., Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004.

Schoonover, C., Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain from Antiquity to the 21st Century. New York: Abrams, 2010.

1925, Somatotypes

Sheldon, W., Atlas of Men: A Guide for Somatotyping the Adult Image of All Ages. New York: Macmillan, 1970.

1926, Genetic Epistemology

Mooney, C. G., Theories of Childhood: An Introduction to Dewey, Montessori, Erikson, Piaget & Vygotsky. St. Paul, MN: Redleaf, 2000.

1927, Growth Studies

Parke, R. D., Funder, D. C., & Block, J., Studying Lives Through Time. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 1993.

1927, Hawthorne Effect

Gillespie, R., Manufacturing Knowledge: A History of the Hawthorne Experiments. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

1927, Zeigarnik Effect

Ash, M. G., Gestalt Psychology in German Culture, 1890–1967: Holism and the Quest for Objectivity. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

1928, Cultural Relativism

Lutkehaus, N., Margaret Mead: The Making of an American Icon. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008.

1929, Rattus norvegicus var. albinus (Neobehaviorism)

Mills, J. A., Control: A History of Behavioral Psychology. New York: NYU Press, 1998.

Smith, L. D., Behaviorism and Logical Positivism: A Reassessment of the Alliance. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1986.

1930, Operant Chamber (Skinner Box)

Rutherford, A., Beyond the Box: B. F. Skinner’s Technology of Behavior from Laboratory to Life, 1950s–1970s. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009.

1931, Supertasters

Stuckey, B., Taste: Surprising Stories and Science about Why Food Tastes Good. New York: Atria Books, 2013.

1932, Remembering and Forgetting

Bartlett, F. C., Remembering: A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1932.

1933, Marienthal Study

Rutherford, A., Unger, R., & Cherry, F., “Reclaiming SPSSI’s sociological past: Marie Jahoda and the immersion tradition in social psychology.” Journal of Social Issues, 67(1), 42–58, 2011.

1934, Archetypes

Shamdasani, S., Jung and the Making of Modern Psychology: The Dream of a Science. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

1934, Zone of Proximal Development

Mooney, C. G., Theories of Childhood: An Introduction to Dewey, Montessori, Erikson, Piaget & Vygotsky. St. Paul, MN: Redleaf, 2000.

1935, Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)

Robinson, F., Love’s Story Told: A Biography of Henry Murray. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992.

1935, Psychosurgery

Pressman, J. D., Last Resort: Psychosurgery and the Limits of Medicine. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

1935, Psychological Lifespace

Lamiell, J. T., William Stern (1871–1938): A Brief Introduction to His Life and Works. Lengerich/Berlin: Pabst Science Publishers, 2010.

1936, Defense Mechanisms

Freud, A., The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense. New York: International Universities Press, 1936/1979.

1936, [B = f(P, E)] = The Lifespace

Marrow, A. J., The Practical Theorist: The Life and Work of Kurt Lewin. New York: BDR Learning, 1984.

1937, Sensory Deprivation

Zubek, J. (Ed.), Sensory Deprivation: Fifteen Years of Research. New York: Appleton Century Crofts, 1969.

1937, Turing Machine

Leavitt, D., The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer. New York: Norton, 2006.

1938, The Ames Room

Gregory, R. L., Eye and Brain: The Psychology of Seeing. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997.

1938, Electroshock Therapy

Valenstein, E., Great and Desperate Cures: The Rise and Decline of Psychosurgery and Other Radical Treatments for Mental Illness. New York: Basic Books, 1986.

1939, Psychosomatic Medicine

Shorter, E., From Paralysis to Fatigue: A History of Psychosomatic Illness in the Modern Era. New York: Free Press, 1991.

1939, The Organism (Mind and Body)

Harrington, A., Re-enchanted Science: Holism in German Culture from Wilhelm II to Hitler. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999.

1939, Wechsler-Bellevue Intelligence Scale

Fancher, R., The Intelligence Men: Makers of the I.Q. Controversy. New York: Norton, 1987.

1939, Frustration and Aggression

Drake, S. C., & Cayton, H. R., Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1945/1993.

Joseph, P. E., Waiting ‘Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2006.

1940, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)

Buchanan, R. D., “The Development of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory.” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 30, 148–161, 1994.

1941, Psychical Discharges (Cortical Stimulation)

Penfield, W., The Mystery of the Mind: A Critical Study of Consciousness and the Human Brain. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1975.

1942, Behavior Genetics

Dewsbury, D. A., “John Paul Scott: The Study of Genetics, Development and Social Behavior.” In W. E. Pickren, D. A. Dewsbury, & M. Wertheimer (Eds.), Portraits of Pioneers in Developmental Psychology (pp. 229–248). New York: Psychology Press, 2012.

1943, Cybernetics

Gardner, H., The Mind’s New Science: A History of the Cognitive Revolution. New York: Basic Books, 1987.

1943, The Doll Studies

Markowitz, G., & Rosner, D., Children, Race, and Power: Kenneth and Mamie Clark’s Northside Center. New York: Routledge, 2000.

1943, Hierarchy of Needs

Maslow, A. H., Motivation and Personality (2nd ed.). New York: Harper & Row, 1954/1970.

1943, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

Kiersey, D., Please Understand Me II: Temperament, Character, Intelligence. New York: Prometheus, 1998.

1943, Autism

Grandin, T., The Way I See It, Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition: A Personal Look at Autism and Asperger’s. Arlington, TX: Future Horizons, 2011.

1944, Personality and the Behavior Disorders

Nicholson, I. A. M., Inventing Personality: Gordon Allport and the Science of Selfhood. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

1944, Sex Roles

Broverman, I. K., Vogel, S. R., Broverman, D. M., Clarkson, F. E., & Rosenkrantz, P. S., “Sex role stereotypes: A current appraisal,” The Journal of Social Issues, 28, 59–78, 1972.

Unger, R. K., Resisting Gender: Twenty-five Years of Feminist Psychology. London: Sage, 1998.

1945, Failure to Thrive

Spitz, R. A., “Hospitalism: A follow-up report on investigation described in volume I, 1945.” The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 2, 113–117, 1946.

1946, Logotherapy

Frankl, V., Man’s Search for Meaning. New York: Washington Square, 1962.

1947, Client-Centered Therapy

Rogers, C., On Becoming a Person: A Therapist’s View of Psychotherapy. London: Constable, 1961.

1948, Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Sugrue, T. J., The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996.

1948, Neuroplasticity

Ramachandran, V. S., The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Quest for What Makes Us Human. New York: Norton, 2012.

1948–1953, The Kinsey Reports

Hegarty, P., Gentlemen’s Disagreement: Alfred Kinsey, Lewis Terman, and the Sexual Politics of Smart Men. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013.

1949, Big Five Personality Factors

Harris, J.R., No Two Alike: Human Nature and Human Individuality. New York: Norton, 2007.

1949, The Hero with a Thousand Faces

Campbell, J., & Moyers, B., The Power of Myth. New York: Anchor, 1991.

1950, Stress

Becker, D., One Nation Under Stress: The Trouble with Stress as an Idea. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Cooper, C. L., & Dewe, P. J., Stress: A Brief History. New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2004.

1950, Antianxiety Medications

Tone, A., The Age of Anxiety: A History of America’s Turbulent Affair with Tranquilizers. New York: Basic Books, 2008.

1950, Identity Crisis

Erikson, E., Childhood and Society. New York: Norton, 1950/1993.

1950, The Authoritarian Personality

Jay, M., The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research 1923–1950. London: Heinemann, 1973.

1950, Family Therapy

Weinstein, D., The Pathological Family: Postwar America and the Rise of Family Therapy. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013.

1950, Brainwashing

Taylor, K. E., Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

1951, Gestalt Therapy

Stevens, B., Don’t Push the River: It Flows by Itself. Gouldsboro, ME: Gestalt Journal Press, 1970/2005.

1951, Conformity and Independence

Greenwood, J. D., The Disappearance of the Social in American Social Psychology. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

1952, King Solomon’s Ring

Vicedo, M., The Nature and Nurture of Love: From Imprinting to Attachment in Cold War America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013.

1952, Antipsychotic Medications

Healy, D., The Creation of Psychopharmacology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004.

1952, Lives in Progress

White, R. W., Lives in Progress: A Study of the Natural Growth in Personality. New York: Holt, Rinehart, & Winston, 1952, 1966, 1975.

1953, The Case of H. M.

Hilts, P. J., Memory’s Ghost: The Nature of Memory and the Strange Tale of Mr. M. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.

1953, Cocktail Party Effect

Boden, M., Mind as Machine: A History of Cognitive Science. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.

1953, REM Sleep

Hobson, A., Dreaming: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

1954, Pleasure and Pain Centers

Olds, J., “Pleasure center in the brain.” Scientific American, 195: 105–16, 1956.

1954, Contact Hypothesis

Allport, G., The Nature of Prejudice. New York: Basic Books, 1954/1979.

1954, Robbers Cave (Intergroup Conflict)

Deutsch, M., The Resolution of Conflict: Constructive and Destructive Processes. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1977.

1954, Teaching Machine

Benjamin, L. T., “A history of teaching machines.” American Psychologist, 43, 703–712, 1988.

1955, Cognitive Therapy

Beck, A. T., Rush, A. J., Shaw, B. F., Emery, G., Cognitive Therapy of Depression. New York: Guilford Press, 1979.

Ellis, A., A Guide to Rational Living. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1961.

1955, Placebo Effect

Harrington, A., The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine. New York: Norton, 2008.

1956, Short-Term Memory

Crowther-Heyck, H., “George A. Miller, language, and the computer metaphor of mind.” History of Psychology, 2, 37–64, 1999.

1956, Double Bind Theory

Bateson, G., Jackson, D. D., Haley, J. & Weakland, J., “Towards a theory of schizophrenia.” Behavioral Science, 1, 251–264, 1956.

1956, Logic Theorist

Crowther-Heyck, H., Herbert A. Simon: The Bounds of Reason in Modern America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.

1957, Antidepressant Medications

Healy, D., The Anti-Depressant Era. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.

1957, Cognitive Dissonance

Tavris, C., & Aronson, E., Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts. New York: Mariner Books, 2008.

1957, The Age of Psychology

Havemann, E., The Age of Psychology. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1957.

May, E. T., Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era. New York: Basic Books, 1988.

1957, Subliminal Perception

Gregory, R. L., Eye and Brain: The Psychology of Seeing. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997.

1957, Homosexuality Is Not an Illness

Minton, H. L., Departing from Deviance: A History of Homosexual Rights and Emancipatory Science in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.

1958, Fundamental Attribution Error

Heider, F., The Psychology of Interpersonal Relations. New York: Wiley, 1958.

1958, (Surrogate) Mother Love

Vicedo, M., The Nature and Nurture of Love: From Imprinting to Attachment in Cold War America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013.

1958, Moral Development

Snarey, J., “Lawrence Kohlberg: Moral Biography, Moral Psychology, and Moral Pedagogy.” In W. E. Pickren, D. A. Dewsbury, & M. Wertheimer (Eds.), Portraits of Pioneers in Developmental Psychology. New York: Psychology Press, 2012.

1958, Choosing the Right Stuff

Santy, P., Choosing the Right Stuff: The Psychological Selection of Astronauts and Cosmonauts. New York: Praeger, 1994.

1958, Systematic Desensitization

Liebgold, H., Freedom from Fear: Overcoming Anxiety, Phobias, and Panic. New York: Citadel, 2004.

1959, Type A Personality

Friedman, M., Treating Type A Behavior—And Your Heart. New York: Fawcett, 1985.

1959, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

Friedman, M., Treating Type A Behavior—And Your Heart. New York: Fawcett, 1985.

1960, Burnout

Maslach, C., Burnout: The Cost of Caring. Cambridge, MA: Malor Books, 2003.

1960, The Visual Cliff

Gibson, E. J., & Walk, R. D., “The Visual Cliff.” Scientific American, 202, 64–71 (April 1960).

1960, Center for Cognitive Studies

Gardner, H., The Mind’s New Science: A History of the Cognitive Revolution. New York: Basic Books, 1987.

1961, Enriched Environments

Doige, N., The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science. New York: Penguin, 2007.

1961, Token Economy

Rutherford, A., Beyond the Box: B. F. Skinner’s Technology of Behavior from Laboratory to Life, 1950s–1970s. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009.

1961, Biofeedback

Robbins, J., A Symphony in the Brain: The Evolution of the New Brain Wave Biofeedback. New York: Grove Press, 2008.

1961, Bobo Doll (Observational Learning)

Bandura, A., Self-Efficacy: The Exercise of Control. New York: W. H. Freeman, 1997.

1961, Humanistic Psychology

Grogan, J., Encountering America: Humanistic Psychology, Sixties Culture, and the Shaping of the Modern Self. New York: Harper, 2012.

1962, Split-Brain Studies

Rose, N., & Abi-Rached, J. M., Neuro: The New Brain Sciences and the Management of the Mind. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013.

1963, The Feminine Mystique

Friedan, B., The Feminine Mystique. New York: Norton, 1963.

Coontz, S., A Strange Stirring: “The Feminine Mystique” and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s. New York: Basic Books, 2011.

1963, Gender Identity

Butler, J., Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York: Routledge, 1990.

Fausto-Sterling, A., Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality. New York: Basic Books, 2000.

Stolorow, R., Sex and Gender: On the Development of Masculinity and Femininity. New York: Science House, 1968.

1963, Obedience

Blass, T., The Man Who Shocked the World: The Life and Legacy of Stanley Milgram. New York: Basic Books, 2004.

1964, Bystander Effect

Manning, R., Levine, M. & Collins, A., “The Kitty Genovese murder and the social psychology of helping: The parable of the 38 witnesses.” American Psychologist, 62, 555–562, 2007.

1965, Head Start

Zigler, E., & Muenchow, S., Head Start: The Inside Story of America’s Most Successful Educational Experiment. New York: Basic Books, 1994.

1965, Language Acquisition Device

Chomsky, N., Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1965.

1966, Human Sexual Response

Masters, William H. & Johnson, Virginia E., Human Sexual Response. Boston: Little Brown, 1966.

1967, Psychology and Social Justice

King Jr., M. L. (1968). “The role of the behavioral scientist in the Civil Rights Movement.” American Psychologist, 23, 180–186.

1968, Transpersonal Psychology

Maslow, A. H., The Farther Reaches of Human Nature. New York: Viking, 1971.

1969, Attachment Theory

Bowlby, J., Attachment and Loss, New York: Basic Books, 1969.

Vicedo, M., The Nature and Nurture of Love: From Imprinting to Attachment in Cold War America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013.

1969, The Strange Situation

Ainsworth, M. D. S. (1970). “Attachment, exploration, and separation: Illustrated by the behavior of one-year-olds in a strange situation.” Child Development, 41, 49–67.

1969, Five Stages of Grief

Kübler-Ross, E., On Death and Dying. New York: Routledge, 1969.

1969, Fear of Success

Horner, M. S., “Toward an understanding of achievement-related conflicts in women.” Journal of Social Issues, 28(2), 157–175, 1972.

1970, Black Psychology

Guthrie, R. V., Even the Rat Was White (2nd ed.). Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1998.

1970, The BITCH Test

Williams, R. L., History of the Association of Black Psychologists. Bloomington, IN: Author-House, 2008.

1970, Discovery of the Unconscious

Ellenberger, H., The Discovery of the Unconscious: The History and Evolution of Dynamic Psychiatry. New York: Basic Books, 1970.

1971, Stanford Prison Experiment

Zimbardo, P., The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil. New York: Random House, 2008.

1971, Universal Expression of Emotions

Ekman, P., Emotions Revealed (2nd ed.): Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life. New York: Holt, 2007.

1971, Beyond Freedom and Dignity

Bjork, D. W., B. F. Skinner: A Life. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 1997.

Skinner, B. F., Beyond Freedom and Dignity. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971.

1972, Levels-of-Processing Model of Memory

Danziger, K., Marking the Mind: A History of Memory. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

1972, Women and Madness

Chesler, Phyllis, Women and Madness. New York: Doubleday, 1972.

1972, “On Being Sane in Insane Places”

Rosenhan, D. L., “On being sane in insane places.” Science, vol. 179, 379–399, 1972.

1973, Resilience

Werner, E. E. & Smith, R. S., Overcoming the Odds: High Risk Children from Birth to Adulthood. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1992.

1974, Judgment under Uncertainty

Kahneman, D., Thinking Fast and Slow. New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2013.

1974, Measuring Androgyny

Bem, S., “The measurement of psychological androgyny.” Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 42, 155–162, 1974.

Bem, S. L., An Unconventional Family. New Haven, CT: Yale, 2001.

1975, Psychoneuroimmunology

Sternberg, E. S., The Balance Within: The Science Connecting Health and Emotions. New York: Freeman, 2001.

1975, Learned Helplessness

Seligman, M. E. P., Helplessness: On Depression, Development, and Death. New York: Freeman, 1992.

1975, Sikolohiyang Pilipino

Enriquez, V., “Developing a Filipino Psychology.” In U. Kim & J. W. Berry (Eds.), Indigenous Psychologies (pp. 152–169). Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1993.

1977, Biopsychosocial Model of Health

Engel, G. L., “The need for a new medical model: A challenge for biomedicine.” Science, 196:129–136, 1977.

1977, Stages of Adult Cognition

Vaillant, G. E., Aging Well: Surprising Guideposts to a Happier Life from the Landmark Harvard Study of Adult Development. Boston: Little, Brown, 2003.

1978, Seasons of Life

Levinson, D. J., Seasons of a Man’s Life. New York: Ballantine Books, 1986.

1978, The Golden Cage

Bruch, H., The Golden Cage: The Enigma of Anorexia Nervosa. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1978/2001.

1978, Theory of Mind

Tomasello, M., The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1999.

1979, Ecological Systems Theory

Rogoff, B., The Cultural Nature of Human Development. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

1979, Social Identity Theory

Tajfel, Henri, Differentiation between Social Groups: Studies in the Social Psychology of Intergroup Relations. London and New York: Academic Press, 1978.

1979, Hardiness

Maddi, S. R., Hardiness: Turning Stressful Circumstances into Resilient Growth. New York: Springer, 2013.

1980, Nurturant-Task Model of Leadership

Budhwar, P. S., & Varma, A., Doing Business in India. New York: Routledge, 2010.

1980, DSM-III

Frances, A., Saving Normal: An Insider’s Revolt against Out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnoses, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life. New York: William Morrow, 2013.

1980, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Young, A., The Harmony of Illusions: Inventing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997.

1981, Stages of Faith

Fowler, J. F., Stages of Faith: The Psychology of Human Development and the Quest for Meaning. New York: HarperCollins, 1981.

1982, In a Different Voice

Gilligan, C., In a Different Voice: A Psychological Theory of Women’s Development. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982.

Robb, C., This Changes Everything: The Relational Revolution in Psychology. New York: Picador, 2006.

1983, Multiple Intelligences

Gardner, H., Multiple Intelligences: New Horizons in Theory and Practice. New York: Basic Books, 2006.

1984, The Flynn Effect

Flynn, J. R., What Is Intelligence?: Beyond the Flynn Effect. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

1986, Touch Therapy

Field, T., Touch. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001.

1986, Triangular Theory of Love

Sternberg, Robert J., The Triangle of Love: Intimacy, Passion, Commitment. New York: Basic Books, 1988.

1989, Liberation Psychology

Martín-Baró, I., Writings for a Liberation Psychology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996.

1990, Animal-Assisted Therapy (AAT)

Becker, M., The Healing Power of Pets: Harnessing the Amazing Ability of Pets to Make and Keep People Happy and Healthy. New York: Hyperion, 2002.

1990, Flow

Csikszentmihalyi, M., Flow. New York: Harper and Row, 1990.

1992, Mirror Neurons

Iacoboni, M., Mirroring People: The New Science of How We Connect with Others. New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2008.

1992, Social Ontogenesis

Nsamenang, A.B., Human Development in Cultural Context: A Third World Perspective. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1992.

1993, Mind–Body Medicine

Moyers, B., Healing and the Mind. New York: Doubleday, 1995.

1994, Misinformation Effect

Loftus, E. & Ketcham, K. The Myth of Repressed Memory. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994.

1995, Looping Effects of Human Kinds

Hacking, I., “The Looping Effects of Human Kinds.” In D. Sperber, D. Premack, and A. Premack (Eds.), Causal Cognition: An Interdisciplinary Approach (pp. 351–383). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Hacking, I., Historical Ontology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002.

1995, Stereotype Threat

Steele, C. M., & Aronson, J., “Stereotype threat and the intellectual test performance of African Americans.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 69, 797–811, 1995.

1996, Autonomous-Relational Self

Kaitçibasi, Ç., “The autonomous-relational self: A new synthesis.” European Psychologist, 1, 180–186, 1996.

1996, The Emotional Brain

Ledoux, J. E. The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.

2000, Tend and Befriend

Taylor, S. E. The Tending Instinct: How Nurturing Is Essential to Who We Are and How We Live. New York: Times Books, 2002.

2000, Positive Psychology

Snyder, C. R. & Lopez, S. J. (Eds.) Handbook of Positive Psychology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

2004, Emerging Adulthood

Arnett, Jeffrey J. Emerging Adulthood: The Winding Road from the Late Teens Through the Twenties. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

2008, Sexual Fluidity

Diamond, L., Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women’s Love and Desire. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008.

2013, The BRAIN Initiative

See http://www.nih.gov/science/brain/.

Rose, N., & Abi-Rached, J. M., Neuro: The New Brain Sciences and the Management of the Mind. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013.