In the early twentieth century, a small group of psychologists built a profession upon the new
social technology of intelligence testing. They imagined the human mind as quantifiable …

This article suggests a possible approach to analyzing the global history of intelligence
testing in light of some recent work in the history of science and science studies. In …

Hothersall and Lovett's History of Psychology is a lively survey of the evolution of the field
from 1850 to the present. Built around the lives of fascinating thinkers who proposed bold …

It appears to be a simple enough task: to review a book with the title, History of Psychology.
The book is a textbook for the huge psychology student audience in North America, a setting …

An Intellectual History of Psychology, already a classic in its field, is now available in a
concise new third edition. It presents psychological ideas as part of a greater web of thinking …

This intellectual history narrates the institutionalization of the humanistic current in American
psychology and places the thinking of five of its founders (Gordon Allport, Abraham Maslow …

Presents an historical sketch on the emergence of the notion of psychology as an
autonomous professional discipline, attributed to the century-old drive towards the …

In the new edition of this original and penetrating book, John D. Greenwood provides an in-
depth analysis of the subtle conceptual continuities and discontinuities that inform the history …

Abstract points out that the teaching of psychology's history has been marked by the" great
man,"" great ideas" approach, whereas sophisticated historiographic analyses have moved …

Lewis M. Terman, the man who popularized the concept of IQ, developed the best-known
test of intelligence, known as the Stanford-Binet Revision, and who tirelessly publicized the …