When Congress created the National Medal of Science in 1959 to be awarded by the president of the United States, psychology was not among the eligible sciences. A concerted lobbying effort in the late 1970s changed that situation, adding social and behavioral sciences to the listing of eligible disciplines. This article describes how the award…

Few psychological studies, if any, can claim a legacy as imposing as the obedience studies of Stanley Milgram. Their impact was of notable consequence in the separate spheres of research ethics, research design, and theory in psychology, and they changed the ways that psychologists conceptualize and conduct their research. The authors discuss the…

No individual in the early history of American psychology is more identified with the promotion of applied psychology than Hugo Munsterberg, whose books and articles on applied topics such as industrial psychology, forensic psychology, psychotherapy, and educational psychology made him one of the most visible psychologists of his day. But there is…

The biographical material in book form, and especially that which exists in journals, is widely dispersed and difficult to locate systematically. Approximately 100 sources of biographical and autobiographical material on women who have contributed significantly to psychology are listed. (Author/BEF)

With the rapid expansion of scientific information at the end of the 19th century, disciplines sought ways to keep their members abreast of the relevant research. Those pressures were felt in the science of psychology in the United States, where psychologists developed a bibliographic aid, The Psychological Index, in 1895 only a little more than a…

The article details the progress of ideas and research in the life of psychologist and educator, Leta Hollingworth (1886-1939). Hollingworth investigated questions of woman's place in the world of achievement, the testing of intelligence, mental retardation, and eventually, education of the gifted. (Author/DB)