CHEIRON: The International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences
46th Annual Meeting
Hood College, Frederick, Maryland, June 19-22, 2014
Local Host: Ingrid Farrerras (Hood College)
Program Chair: Cathy Faye (University of Akron)
THURSDAY, JUNE 19
1:00 – 3:00
Paper Session: Social Psychology, Sociology, and Anthropology
Chair: Sam Parkovnick
Michael E. Staub (Baruch College), One Now or Two Later: Walter Mischel’s
Marshmallow Experiments and the Inheritance of Class
Thomas E. Heinzen (William Paterson University), The Social Psychology of Moral
Panics: The Salem Witch Hunts and the Little Rascals
Lawrence Nichols (West Virginia University), Merton as Social Psychologist:
Sentiments, Motivated Choices and Collective Perceptions
Gerald Sullivan (Collin College), Cybernetics ex Machina? Gregory Bateson, Margaret
Mead and the Macy Conferences on Cybernetics
3:00 – 3:15
BREAK
3:15 – 5:15
Paper Session: Mental Health
Chair: Benjamin Harris
Courtney Thompson (Yale University), “An Unfit Subject for the Gallows”: Phrenology,
Insanity, and Criminal Responsibility in America, 1830-1850
Heather Murray (University of Ottawa), “Person Has to be Pleasant and Courteous to
Others”: Patient Perceptions of the Public Sphere of the Mental Hospital in the United
States, 1920s-1940s
Jennifer L. Bazar (University of Toronto/Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care), “The
‘stigma’ of the criminal ‘etc’ association”: The First Generation of Patients of the
Criminal Insane Division, Penetanguishene, 1933-1960
Brianne M. Collins & Henderikus J. Stam (University of Calgary), Novel to Nullified:
The Changing Discourse of Psychosurgery in British Columbia, 1945-1960
5:30 – 7:00
Reception and Poster Session
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Posters:
Marina Massimi and Carmen Siliva Porto Brunialti (Universidade de São Paulo), The
Concept of Consumer: A Historical Perspective Rising From the Interface of Marketing
and Psychology
Phyllis A. Wentworth (Wentworth Institute of Technology), Personality, Imagination,
and Progressive Era Children’s Literature about Orphans
Anna Whaley and Edward K. Morris (University of Kansas), Was B. F. Skinner A
Sexist? An Analysis of Skinner’s Gender-Biased Language
Rémy Amouroux (Université de Lausanne), Chronicles of a Failure: Anzieu and the
Project of a Legal Status for the French Psychologists (1969)
David C. Devonis (Graceland University), The Historical Development of Improvisation
as a Concept in Modern Psychology
FRIDAY, JUNE 20
8:15 – 8:30
Welcome from Local Host, Ingrid Farreras
8:30 – 10:00 Paper Session: Public Roles, Representations, and Research in Psychology
Chair: Katalin Dzinas
Roderick D. Buchanan (University of Melbourne), Grasping at a Poisoned Chalice?
American Psychologist’s Pursuit of Prescription Privileges
Gina Perry (University of Melbourne), Psychology meets New Journalism
Cécile Stephanie Stehrenberger (University of Zurich), Earthquakes, "Racial Riots," and
"Human Behavior": A History of Social Science Disaster Research (1949-1979)
10:00 – 10:15 BREAK
10:15 – 12:15 CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Concurrent Paper Session 1: Psychology in International Context
Chair:
Csaba Pléh (Eszterházy College), Géza Révész and the Establishment of Experimental
Psychology in Hungary
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Rodrigo Lopes Miranda, Marina Massimi, and Annette Hoffmann (Universidade de São
Paulo), Miguel Rolando Covian and His Neurophysiological Laboratory at USP
Gabriel Vieira Cândido (Universidade do Oeste Paulista) and Marina Massimi
(Universidade de São Paulo), Science and Psychology in Brazil: A Scientific Biography
of Carolina Martuscelli Bori
Geoffrey Blowers and Chin Hei Wong (University of Hong Kong), “Explaining the
Inexplicable”: The Beginnings of Psychic Research in Republican China (1917-1919)
Concurrent Paper Session 2: Ways of Knowing in Psychology
Chair: Henderikus Stam
Laura Hyatt Edwards (East Carolina University), Intuitive Knowing in Karl Stern's "The
Flight from Woman": From Eighteenth Century Germany to American Psychology in
1965
Carolina de Resende Damas Cardoso and Marina Massimi (Universidade de São Paulo),
The Psyche Between Nature and Culture: The Pursuit of the Philosophical Foundations of
Psychology in Edith Stein and William Stern
Robert Kugelmann (University of Dallas), Psychology Without a Soul?
Natalia Loginova (Saint-Petersburg University), The Psychological Scientific School in
the Saint-Petersburg University
12:15 – 1:30 Lunch
1:30 – 3:30
Paper Session: Experimental Technologies and Developing Methodologies
Chair: Jennifer Bazar
Matthew Donahue and Jill Morawski (Wesleyan University), Technical “Junk” and the
Making of Experimental Technologies
Matthew J. Hoffarth (University of Pennsylvania), Amazing Race: Stanley D. Porteus,
Racial Hierarchies, and the Technology of the Maze
Jacy L. Young (York University), “The result is a mass of uncorroborated stuff”: William
James and Research on the Limits of Experience
Peter Sachs Collopy (University of Pennsylvania), From Visual Anthropology to Video
Therapy
Cheiron 2014, Preliminary Program
3:30 – 3:45 BREAK
3:45 – 4:45
Paper Session: Revisiting Class Texts and Works
Chair: Rodrigo Miranda
Shayna Fox Lee (York University), Networking Western Psychology’s elite: A digital
prosopography of A History of Psychology in Autobiography
Edward K. Morris (University of Kansas), Behaviorism at 100: The Varied Legacies of
Watson’s Behaviorist Manifesto: for Applied Behavior Analysis
5:30 – 6:30 OR 6:30 – 7:30: National Museum of Civil War Medicine Tours
SATURDAY, JUNE 21
8:30 – 10:30 Symposium:
The Evolution of Psychology Through an Analysis of Articles and Textbooks
Chair: Ingrid Farreras
Christopher D. Green (York University) and Ingo Feinerer (Vienna University of
Technology), The Intellectual Structures of Three Forgotten Jjournals: The Monist,
Philosophical Review, and Journal of Philosophy, Psychology, and Scientific Methods
Jeremy T. Burman (York University), Identifying Instances of Indigenization: A Digital
Method to Catalyze Comparative International Histories
W. Randolph Ford (University of Maryland University College) and Ingrid G. Farreras
(Hood College), The Evolution of a Discipline: How the Syntax of Introductory
Psychology Textbooks Have Changed Over the Last Century
Ingrid G. Farreras (Hood College) and W. Randolph Ford (University of Maryland
University College), The Evolution of a Discipline: How the Semantics of Introductory
Psychology Textbooks Have Changed Over the Last Century
Discussant: Vincent W. Hevern (Le Moyne College)
10:30– 10:45 BREAK
10:45 – 12:45 CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Concurrent Paper Session 1: Instincts, Evolution, and Comparative Psychology
Chair: Christopher D. Green
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Ben Bradley (Charles Sturt University), ‘Darwin’s Psychology’: Toward a
Historiography of Absence
John D. Greenwood (City University of New York), All the Way Up or All the Way
Down?
Anne C. Rose (Penn State University), Instinct Recovered: World War I and the Revival
of Affective Science in the United States
Sam Parknovnick (Dawson College), George Herbert Mead's Social Psychology
Concurrent Paper Session 2: Individual Psychologists: Biography, Theory, and
Approaches
Chair:
Elissa Rodkey (York University), No Mere baptism: Magda Arnold’s Model of Engagement
with Secular Psychology
Ian Nicholson (St. Thomas University), ‘What Makes these Nazis Tick’: Gustave Gilbert,
Stanley Milgram and ‘Celebrity’ in American Psychology
Rene Anne Smith (University of Maryland University College), Historical Narratives, a Case
Study: Maslow and the Blackfoot
Kenneth D. Feigenbaum (University of Maryland University College), Maslow’s Ideological
Political Paradox
12:45 – 2:00 LUNCH
2:00 – 3:15
Elizabeth Scarborough Lecture
Chair: Cathy Faye
Daniel N. Robinson (University of Oxford), The Idea of History—One More Time
3:15 – 3:30 BREAK
3:30 – 3:50
2014 Cheiron Book Prize Award
Chair: Tony Stavely
Fernando Vidal (Institucói Catalana de Recerca I Estudis Avançats), The Sciences of the
Soul: The Early Modern Origins of Psychology
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3:50 – 4:50
Workshop
Chair: E. James Lieberman
Robert Kramer (Chicago School of Professional Psychology) and E. James Lieberman
(George Washington University School of Medicine), Working with Documents:
Learning from the Freud-Rank Letters
4:50 – 5:00 BREAK
5:00 – 6:00
Business Meeting
6:30 – 7:30
Pre-Banquet Reception
7:30 – 9:30
Banquet
SUNDAY JUNE 22
8:30 – 10:00 Panel Discussion: H.O.P. online! A Panel Discussion of History of Psychology
Courses and Materials on the Internet
Chair: Harry Whitaker
Harry Whitaker (Northern Michigan University), A New Open-Access History of
Psychology Text: Brief Introduction of Contents and Features
Christopher Green (York University), The “Classics of Psychology” Archive – Past,
Present and ?Future?
Laura Edwards (Eastern Carolina University), Digital Humanities Assignments to Teach
Historiography
10:00 – 10:15 BREAK
10:15 – 11:45 History of Psychology Variety Hour
Chair: Cathy Faye
James H. Capshew (Indiana University), Towards a Genealogy of Denial: Psychological
Aspects of Anthropogenic Environmental Change
José María Gondra (University of the Basque Country), A Basque neuropsychiatrist in
the United States: Nicholas Achucarro, First Histopathologist of the Government
Hospital for the Insane in Washington, DC (1908-1910)
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Mark Czarnolewski (Independent Scholar), Memory Traces, Trails and Pathway
Intersections
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