“The Giant’s Shoulders” (TGS) is a new blog carnival in which scientists select a classic paper from their field and write a short piece about its contribution and influence. (For those who have never heard the phrase, a “blog carnival” is a collection of links to web items on a particular topic that has no one home, but is hosted at a variety of different blogs in turn.) TGS is the brainchild of someone who goes by the moniker “skullsinthestars” and will be posted on a monthly basis for the foreseeable future.
The first issue of TSG is being hosted by A Blog Around the Clock, a blog run by “Coturnix,” the Online Community Manager at Public Library of Science. (I oughta get myself one of the cool web-monikers! Whaddya think? “Professor Psychoradix”? No, too ostentatious. How about “HistoChristo”? Or “HistoChristo29″?)
Getting back to the point… The first issue of TGS ...
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Post Date: 2008-03-04 05:56:05
So, I found this hilarious — to my nerdy brain, anyway — anagram engine on the internet. (Tip o’ the hat to my old grad school buddy, Doug Cohen for pointing it out to me.) It could, of course, be used for all kinds of things, but I started playing with the names of famous psychologists from the past. See if you can figure these out:
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Laterally Halving Lens
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Post Date: 2008-03-06 21:04:36
On Dr. Patrick McCarthy’s Brief Outline of the History of I/O Psychology, it says:
The term ‘industrial psychology’ first appeared in a 1904 article of [William Lowe] Bryan’s APA [presidential] address. Ironically, it appeared in print only as a typographical error. Bryan was quoting a sentence he had written five years earlier in which he spoke of the need for more research in individual psychology. Instead, Bryan wrote industrial psychology and did not catch his mist...
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Post Date: 2008-03-06 16:54:15
Two books of historical and psychological interest made it onto the list of “most expensive books” sold by the Advanced Book Exchange in 2007. Both were written by Bill Wilson: Alcoholics Anonymous…
A 1939 first edition first printing of this legendary book – only 4,650 copies were printed of the first printing. Although it wasn’t the first self help book, this book is the most collectible and set the standard for fighting addictions
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Post Date: 2008-03-08 21:01:16
According to the “Today in the History of Psychology” website, the first U.S. eugenic sterilization law was enacted by the Indiana legislature on March 9, 1907. “The law provided for sterilization of ‘confirmed criminals, idiots, imbeciles, and rapists.’” Indiana was not the first US state to attempt a compulsory sterilization law. A bill was introduced in the Michigan legislature in 1897 but failed to pass. Pennsylvania legislators passed a sterilization...
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