Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD., December, 1900.

Farrand, Livingstone

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“…Psychological Review published the complete AΨA memberships from the journal's inception in 1894 until only 1902. We decided to use the membership list from 1900 (Farrand, ) because it was closest in time to the first membership list for the WΦA, which was published in Philosophical Review (Hill, ) . We also used the inaugural membership list of AΦA, which was published in Philosophical Review a year later (Gardiner, ).…”

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Bridge Over Troubled Waters? The Most “Central” Members of Psychology and Philosophy Associations Ca. 1900

Green¹,

Heidari²,

Chiacchia³

et al. 2016

J. Hist. Behav. Sci.

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There are many different ways to assess the significance of historical figures. Often we look at the influence of their writings, or at the important offices they held with disciplinary institutions such as universities, journals, and scholarly societies. In this study, however, we took a novel approach: we took the complete memberships, ca. 1900, of four organizations-the American Psychological Association, the Western Philosophical Association, the American Philosophical Association, and the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology-and visualized them as a network. We then identified individuals who "bridged" between two or more of these groups and considered what might be termed their "centrality" to the psychological-philosophical community of their time. First, we examined these figures qualitatively, briefly describing their lives and careers. Then we approached the problem mathematically, considering several alternative technical realizations of "centrality" and then explaining our reasons for choosing eigenvector centrality as the best for our purposes. We found a great deal of overlap among the results of the qualitative and quantitative approaches, but also some telling differences. J. Mark Baldwin, Edward Buchner, Christine Ladd Franklin, and Frank Thilly consistently emerged as highly central figures. Some more marginal figures such as Max Meyer, and Frederick J. E. Woodbridge, Edward A. Pace, Edward H. Griffin played interesting roles as well.

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Bridge Over Troubled Waters? The Most “Central” Members of Psychology and Philosophy Associations Ca. 1900

Green¹,

Heidari²,

Chiacchia³

et al. 2016

J. Hist. Behav. Sci.

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“…At the first annual meeting in 1892, 18 of the 31 members attended; 12 papers were presented. By 1900, the membership of the APA had increased to 126, but only 30 people attended the meeting (Farrand, 1901). The membership continued to grow at a relatively constant rate until 1925, but then the size of the organization began to increase at an exponential rate (Bulatao, Fulcher, & Evans, 1992).…”

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“…At the 1900 meeting, 23 papers, one of which was Joseph Jastrow’s presidential address, were presented. Two were “read by title” (Farrand, 1901, p. 166). Of those 23 papers, 11 were relatively clearly psychological in subject matter, and 10 were relatively clearly philosophical in content.…”

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“…The philosophical papers concerned Kant’s doctrine of space, Nietzsche, the moral ideal, a proof of utilitarianism, and some of Aristotle’s writings. In a paper about the doctrine of twofold truth, F. C. French concluded that philosophy and theology are both “valid but irreconcilable systems” (Farrand, 1901, p. 173). These papers are not obviously psychological in subject matter.…”

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Psychological organizations in the United States.

Pate¹

2000

American Psychologist

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The organizations to which psychologists belonged at the turn of the 20th century were identified. The attributes of the meetings and the membership of those organizations were compared and discussed. In addition to the American Psychological Association, psychologists belonged to the American Philosophical Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science as well as to local and regional organizations. In addition, some psychologists belonged to the Society of Experimental Psychology, but membership in that organization was by invitation only. The topics presented at the meetings of the psychological and philosophical associations often were identical or very similar, and the clear disciplinary separation that is typical in 2000 was rare in 1900.

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“…The first genuine APA session devoted to the teaching of psychology occurred at the 1899 meeting, when a discussion was held on the question of how psychology should be taught (Farrand, 1900). Presentations were made by George S. Fullerton, Joseph Jastrow, H. Austin Aikins, and Charles H. Judd; a general discussion followed.…”

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The American Psychological Association and the teaching of psychology, 1892–1945.

Goodwin¹

Teaching Psychology in America: A History.

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What did the American Psychological Association (APA) contribute to the teaching of psychology in the years before the 1945 reorganization?" Simply put, the answer is "not much." Consider the following report from an APA Committee on the Academic Status of Psychology, which had been formed in 19 13 and made several recommendations at the 19 14 annual meeting. One was an explicit urging that "at each annual meeting of the Association some topic be chosen which bears on the teaching of psychology" (Ogden, 1915, p. 49). Although this proposal might appear eminently reasonable to a late-20th-century psychologist (especially to a member of Division 2) and encouraging for the historian hoping that the answer to the opening question would be "quite a bit," the sentence immediately after the earlier quoted recommendation showed that the APA was not ready then for a long-term commitment to teaching. It reads as follows: the "resolution was amended to provide [programming related to teaching] only for the next annual year" [italics added] (Ogden, 1915, p. 49).

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Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD., December, 1900.

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Bridge Over Troubled Waters? The Most “Central” Members of Psychology and Philosophy Associations Ca. 1900

Bridge Over Troubled Waters? The Most “Central” Members of Psychology and Philosophy Associations Ca. 1900

Psychological organizations in the United States.

The American Psychological Association and the teaching of psychology, 1892–1945.

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