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Danziger, K. (1997). Naming the Mind. New York: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 1: Naming the Mind.

Farr, R.M. (1996). The Roots of Modern Social Psychology. New York: Blackwell. Chapter 1: Modern Social Psychology: A Characteristically American Phenomenon.

Farr, R.M. (1996). The Roots of Modern Social Psychology. New York: Blackwell. Chapter 2: The Emergence in Germany of Psychology as a Natural and Social Science and Chapter 4: George Herbert Mead: Philosopher and Social Psychologist.

Danziger, K. (1985). The Origins of the Psychological Experiment as a Social Institution. American Psychologist, 40, 133-140. Web Link

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George's Page: Brock University's Mead Project

Danziger, K. (1992). The project of an experimental social psychology: historical perspectives. Science in Context, 5, 309-328.

Re-read
Farr, R.M. (1996). The Roots of Modern Social Psychology. New York: Blackwell. Chapter 4: George Herbert Mead: Philosopher and Social Psychologist.
and
Mead, G.H. (1909). Social Psychology as a Counterpoint to Physiological Psychology. Psychological Bulletin, 6, 401-408.

New Readings:
Appendix 1 from Farr - pick up from Elizabeth's office
Cook, G.A. (1977). G.H. Mead's Social Behaviorism. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 18, 307-316. - pick up from Gina's office
Timeline from Gina

Allport, F.H. (1919). Behavior and experiment in social psychology. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 14, 297-306.

Goddard, H.H. (1917). Mental tests and the immigrant. Journal of Delinquency, 2, 243-277.

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Danziger, K. (1997). Naming the Mind. New York: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 6: Behavior and Learning.

Graumann, C.F. (1986). The individualization of the social and the desocialization of the individual: Floyd H. Allport's contribution to social psychology. In C.F. Graumann & S. Moscovici (eds.), Changing Conceptions of Crowd Mind and Behavior, pp. 97-116. New York: Springer-Verlag.

 

Ash, M. (1985). Gestalt Psychology: Origins in Germany and Reception in the United States. In Buxton, C.E. (ed.), Points of View in the Modern History of Psychology, pp. 295-344. New York: Academic Press.

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Farr, R.M. (1996). The Roots of Modern Social Psychology. New York: Blackwell. Chapter 3: The Psychology of the Masses and of Culture.

Student Presentation: Apfelbaum, E. & McGuire, W. (1985). Models of suggestive influence and the disqualification of the social crowd. In C.F. Graumann & S. Moscovici (eds.), Changing Conceptions of Crowd Mind and Behavior. New York: Springer-Verlag.

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Ash, M. (1985). Gestalt Psychology: Origins in Germany and Reception in the United States. In Buxton, C.E. (ed.), Points of View in the Modern History of Psychology, pp. 295-344. New York: Academic Press. (including the section on the reception of Gestalt theory in the U.S.)

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Additional Sources:

Murray, D.J. (1995). Gestalt Psychology and the Cognitive Revolution. New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf.

Heider, F. (1983). The Life of a Psychologist. Lawrence, Kansas: The University Press of Kansas. (The library owns Lois Barclay Murphy's copy).

Danziger, K. (1997). Naming the Mind. New York: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 8: section on attitudes.

Sherif, M. (1937). An experimental approach to the study of attitudes. Sociometry, 1, 90-98.

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Marrow, A.J. (1969). The practical theorist: the life and work of Kurt Lewin. New York: Basic Books. Chapters 3,4 &5.

Student Presentation: Zeigarnik, B. (1927/1967). On finished and unfinished tasks. In W.D. Ellis, (Ed.), A source book of Gestalt psychology. New York: Humanities.

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Patnoe, S. (1988). A Narrative History of Experimental Social Psychology: The Lewinian Tradition. New York: Springer-Verlag.

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Student Presentation: Miller, G. (1956). The magical number seven plus or minus two. Psychological Review, 63, 81-97.

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Student Presentation: Chomsky, N. (1959). A Review of B. F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior. Language, 35, 26-58.

Additional Source

Bruner, J. (1983). In Search of Mind. New York: Harper and Row.

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Student Presentations: Neisser, U. (1991). A case of misplaced nostalgia. American Psychologist, 46, 34-36.

Neisser, U. (1963). The multiplicity of thought. British Journal of Psychology, 54, 1-14

Gergen, K. (1973). Social psychology as history. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 8, 507-527.

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Student Presentation: Festinger, L. & Carlsmith, J.M. (1959). Cognitive Consequences of Forced Compliance. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 58, 203-210.

Additional Sources

Patnoe, S. (1988). A Narrative History of Experimental Social Psychology: The Lewinian Tradition. New York: Springer-Verlag.

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Moscovici, S. (1998). Social Consciousness and its History. Culture and Psychology, 4, 411-429.

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Moscovici, S. & Markova, I. (1998) Presenting social representations: A conversation. Culture and Psychology, 4, 371-410.

Farr, R.M. (1987). Social representations: a French tradition of research. Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior, 17, 343-369.