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Chapter 1 – Key Readings
Combe, G. (1828). The Constitution of Man Considered in Relation to External Objects. Edinburgh: Maclachlan & Stewart.
Eling P., & Finger, S. (2020). Franz Joseph Gall’s non-cortical faculties and their organs. Journal of the History of the Behavioural Sciences, 56(1), 7-19. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.21994
Finger, S., & Eling, P. (2022). The quest for objectivity and measurements in phrenology’s “bumpy” history. History of Psychology, 25(3), 211‑244. https://doi.org/10.1037/hop0000213
Finger, S. (2019). Mark Twain’s life-long fascination with phrenology. Journal of the History of the Behavioural Sciences 55(2), 99-121. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.21960
Lilleleht, E. (2015). “Assuming the privilege” of bridging divides: Abigail Fowler-Chumos, practical phrenology, and America’s Gilded Age. History of Psychology, 18(4), 414–432. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0039476
Lilleleht, E. (2022). An organ of murder: Crime, violence, and phrenology in nineteenth-century America. Rutgers University Press.
Parker Jones, O., Alfaro-Almagro, F., & Jbabdi. S., (2018). An empirical, 21st century evaluation of phrenology. Cortex, 106, 26-35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2018.04.011
Poskett, J. (2019). Materials of the Mind: Phrenology, race, and the global history of science, 1815-1920. University of Chicago Press.
Sysling, F. (2021). Phrenology and the average person, 1840–1940. History of the Human Sciences, 34(2), 27-45. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695120984070
Van Wyhe, J. (2004). Phrenology and the origins of Victorian scientific naturalism. Aldershot: Ashgate.
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Chapter 2 – Key Readings
Barnes, J. (2021). Revisiting the ‘Darwin–Marx correspondence’: Multiple discovery and the rhetoric of priority. History of the Human Sciences, 35(2), 29-54. https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951211019226
Bradley, B. (2020). Darwin’s psychology. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198708216.001.0001
de Carvalho, V. O., & Coelho, N. E. (2024). Freudian naturalism and the assessment of psychoanalysis as a natural science: Psychic phenomenon as process. Theory & Psychology, 34(2), 170-190. https://doi.org/10.1177/09593543241229047
Goetz, A. T., & Shackelford, T. K. (2006). Modern application of evolutionary theory to psychology: Key concepts and clarifications. The American Journal of Psychology, 119(4), 567-584. https://doi.org/10.2307/20445364
Jarrett, S. (2020). Consciousness reduced: The role of the ‘idiot’ in early evolutionary psychology. History of the Human Sciences, 33(5), 110-137. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695120911557
Malone, J. C. (2021). Darwin, Darwinism, and psychology. Behavior and Philosophy 49(24), 1053-8348. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27204272
Pichel, B. (2016). From facial expressions to bodily gestures: Passions, photography and movement in French 19th-century sciences. History of the Human Sciences, 29(1), 27-48. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695115618592
Racine, T. P. (2021). The rhetorical use of B. F. Skinner in evolutionary psychology. Theory & Psychology, 32(1), 61-81. https://doi.org/10.1177/09593543211030342
Richards, R. J. (1987). Darwin and the emergence of evolutionary theories of mind and behavior. University of Chicago Press
Richardson, A. (2013). After Darwin: Animals, emotions, and the mind. Rodopi.
Wackers, G. (2025). Digital phenotyping of the mind: From biology to psychoinformatics. Theory & Psychology, 35(2), 141-162. https://doi.org/10.1177/09593543251322116
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Chapter 20 – Key Readings
Asprem, E. (2010), A nice arrangement of heterodoxies: William Mcdougall and the professionalization of psychical research. Journal of the History of the Behavioural Sciences, 46(2) 123-143. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.20422
Blum, D. (2014). Ghost hunters: William James and the search for scientific proof of life after death. Penguin Books.
Cypert, R., & Petro, M. S. (2024). A faith in science: Gardner Murphy and parapsychology. History of the Human Sciences, 38(1), 78-98. https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951241280534
Evrard, R., Pratte, E. A., & Cardeña, E. (2018). Pierre Janet and the enchanted boundary of psychical research. History of Psychology, 21(2), 100–125. https://doi.org/10.1037/hop0000086
Gyimesi, J. (2012). Sándor Ferenczi and the problem of telepathy. History of the Human Sciences, 25(2), 131-148. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695111434253
Gieryn, T. F. (1983). Boundary-work and the demarcation of science from non-science: Strains and interests in professional ideologies of scientists. American Sociological Review 48(6), 781-795. https://doi.org/10.2307/2095325
Hacking, I. (1988). Telepathy: Origins of randomization in experimental design. Isis, 79, 427–451. http://www.jstor.org/stable/234674
Kloosterman, I. (2012). Psychical research and parapsychology interpreted: suggestions from the international historiography of psychical research and parapsychology for investigating its history in the Netherlands. History of the Human Sciences, 25(2), 2-22. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695111421580
Lachapelle, S. (2005). Attempting science: the creation and early development of the Institut Métapsychique International in Paris, 1919-1931. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 41(1), 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.20061
Lamont, P. (2013). Spiritualism and a mid-Victorian crisis of evidence. Historical Journal, 56(3), 833–860. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X04004030
Mülberger, A., & Balltondre, M. (2012). Metapsychics in Spain: acknowledging or questioning the marvellous? History of the Human Sciences, 25(2), 108-130. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695112439374
Owen, A. (1989). The darkened room: Women, power and spiritualism in late nineteenth century England. Virago.
Parra, A. (2025), Spiritualism and Psychology in Argentina: The Inception of Parapsychology in the Scientific Mainstream (1948–1955). Journal of the History of the Behavioural Sciences, 61: e70035. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.70035
Sommer, A. (2012). Psychical research and the origins of American psychology: Hugo Münsterberg, William James and Eusapia Palladino. History of the Human Sciences, 25(2), 23–44. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695112439376
Wolffram, H. (2006), Parapsychology on the couch: The psychology of occult belief in Germany, c. 1870–1939. Journal of the History of the Behavioural Sciences, 42(3) 237-260. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.20171
Wooffitt, R., & Allistone, S. (2005). Towards a Discursive Parapsychology: Language and the Laboratory Study of Anomalous Communication. Theory & Psychology, 15(3), 325-355. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354305053218
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Chapter 19 – Key Readings
Bultman, S. (2020). Seeing inside the child: The Rorschach inkblot test as assessment technique in a girls’ reform school, 1938–1948. History of Psychology, 23(4), 312–332. https://doi.org/10.1037/hop0000167
Burman, E. (2017). Deconstructing developmental psychology (Third edition). Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
Gigerenzer, G. (1992). Discovery in cognitive psychology: New tools inspire new theories. Science in Context, 5(2), 329–350. doi:10.1017/S0269889700001216
Harris, B. (2011). Arnold Gesell’s progressive vision: Child hygiene, socialism and eugenics. History of Psychology, 14(3), 311–334. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0024797
Moro, C. (2016). To encounter, to build the world and to become a human being. Advocating for a material-cultural turn in developmental psychology. Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, 50(4), 586–602. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-016-9356-4
Ossmer, C. (2020). Normal development: The photographic dome and the children of the Yale Psycho-Clinic. Isis, 111(3), 515–541. https://doi.org/10.1086/711127
Ratcliff, M. J. (2024). Jean Piaget and the autonomous disciples, Alina Szeminska and Bärbel Inhelder: From the “critical method” to the appropriation of research culture. History of Psychology, 27(4), 317–332. https://doi.org/10.1037/hop0000261
Rietmann, F. E. (2023). Mother-blaming revisited: Gender, cinematography, and infant research in the heyday of psychoanalysis. History of the Human Sciences, 37(2), 87-116. https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951231187556
Rowold, K. (2024). Child psychology from Vienna to London: Charlotte Bühler, concepts of childhood, and parenting advice in interwar Britain. History of the Human Sciences, 38(1), 3-25. https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951241289028
Sims-Schouten, W. (2021). ‘A troublesome girl is pushed through’: Morality, biological determinism, resistance, resilience, and the Canadian child migration schemes, 1883–1939. History of the Human Sciences, 35(1), 87-110. https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951211036553
Skagius, P. (2019). Brains and psyches: Child psychological and psychiatric expertise in a Swedish newspaper, 1980–2008. History of the Human Sciences, 32(3), 76-99. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695118810284
van der Horst, F. C. P., van Rosmalen, L., & van der Veer, R. (2019). Research notes: John Bowlby’s critical evaluation of the work of René Spitz. History of Psychology, 22(2), 205–208. https://doi.org/10.1037/hop0000127b
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Chapter 18 – Key Readings
Alder, K. (2002). A social history of untruth: Lie detection and trust in twentieth-century America, Representations, 80(1), 1-33. https://doi.org/10.1525/rep.2002.80.1.1
Alder, K. (2007). The lie detectors: The history of an American obsession. New York: Free Press.
Balmer, A.S. & Sandland, R. (2012). Making monsters: The polygraph, the plethysmograph, and other practices for the performance of abnormal sexuality. Journal of Law and Society, 39(4), 593-615. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6478.2012.00601.x
Balmer, A.S. (2018). Lie detection and the law: Torture, technology and truth. Routledge.
Bunn, G. C. (2007). Spectacular science: The lie detector’s ambivalent powers. History of Psychology, 10(2), 156–178. https://doi.org/10.1037/1093-4510.10.2.156
Bunn, G. C. (2012). The truth machine: A social history of the lie detector. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Bunn, G. C. (2019). ‘Supposing that truth is a woman, what then?’: The lie detector, the love machine, and the logic of fantasy. History of the Human Sciences, 32(5), 135-163. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695119867022
Derksen, M. (2012). Control and resistance in the psychology of lying. Theory & Psychology, 22(2), 196-212. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354311427487
Foucault, M. (1980). Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972–1977 (C. Gordon, Ed.). New York: Pantheon.
Littlefield, M. M. (2011). The lying brain: Lie detection in science and science fiction. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Scott, P., & von Unger, H. (2021). Discourses on im/migrants, ethnic minorities, and infectious disease: Fifty years of tuberculosis reporting in the United Kingdom. History of the Human Sciences, 35(1), 189-215. https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951211015886
Sims-Schouten, W., Riley, S. C. E., & Willig, C. (2007). Critical realism in discourse analysis: A presentation of a systematic method of analysis using women’s talk of motherhood, childcare and female employment as an example. Theory & Psychology, 17(1), 101-124. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354307073153
Viner, R. (1996), Melanie Klein and Anna Freud: The discourse of the early dispute. Journal of the History of the Behavioural Sciences, 32(1), 4-15. https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1520-6696(199601)32:1<4::AID-JHBS1>3.0.CO;2-Y
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Chapter 17 – Key Readings
Boudewijnse, G.-J. A., Murray, D. J., & Bandomir, C. A. (2001). The fate of Herbart’s mathematical psychology. History of Psychology, 4(2), 107–132. https://doi.org/10.1037/1093-4510.4.2.107
Cowles, M. (2001). Statistics in Psychology: An historical perspective. Lawrence Erlbaum.
Crone, G., & Green, C. D. (2025). Tools of the data detective: A review of statistical methods to detect data and result anomalies in psychology. Theory & Psychology, 35(3), 359-380. https://doi.org/10.1177/09593543241311861
Danziger, K. (1990). Constructing the subject: Historical origins of psychological research. Cambridge University Press.
Friendly, M. and Denis, D. (2005), The early origins and development of the scatterplot. Journal of the History of the Behavioural Sciences, 41(2), 103-130. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.20078
Gigerenzer, G., Swijtink, Z., Porter, T., Daston, L., Beatty, J., & Krüger, L. (1989). The empire of chance: How probability changed science and everyday life. Cambridge University Press.
Lamiell, J. T. (2018). Re-centering psychology: From variables and statistics to persons and their stories. Theory & Psychology, 29(2), 282-284. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354318766714
Lovie, S., & Lovie, P. (2004). A privileged and exemplar resource: Traumatic avoidance learning and the early triumph of mathematical psychology. History of Psychology, 7(3), 248–264. https://doi.org/10.1037/1093-4510.7.3.248
Lusinchi, D. (2022). Kiær and the rebirth of the representative method: A case-study in controversy management at the International Statistical Institute (1895–1903). Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 58(2), 163–182. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.22145
Michell, J. (1997). Quantitative science and the definition of measurement in psychology. British Journal of Psychology, 88(3), 355–383. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-8295.1997.tb02641.x
Morozova, S. V. (2022). How statistics became a “forbidden trick” for Soviet psychologists. History of Psychology, 25(2), 121–142. https://doi.org/10.1037/hop0000204
Salsburg, D. (2013). The lady tasting tea: How statistics revolutionized science in the twentieth century. Henry Holt and Company.
Uygun Tunç, D., Tunç, M. N., & Lakens, D. (2023). The epistemic and pragmatic function of dichotomous claims based on statistical hypothesis tests. Theory & Psychology, 33(3), 403-423. https://doi.org/10.1177/09593543231160112
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Chapter 16 – Key Readings
Angel, K. (2012). Contested psychiatric ontology and feminist critique: ‘Female Sexual Dysfunction’ and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. History of the Human Sciences, 25(4), 3-24. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695112456949
Borbely, A.F. (2008). Metaphor and psychoanalysis. In R. W. Gibbs (Ed.), The Cambridge handbook of metaphor and thought (pp.412-424). Cambridge University Press.
Bueskens, P. (2014). Mothering and psychoanalysis: Clinical, Sociological and feminist perspectives. Demeter Press.
Copperman, J., & Chaney, S. (2024). The politics of recovery: Women’s mental health activism in the UK, 1986–2002, with a focus on Bristol Crisis Service for Women. History of the Human Sciences, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951241289061
Haaken, J. (2008). When White Buffalo Calf Woman meets Oedipus on the road: Lakota Psychology, feminist psychoanalysis, and male violence. Theory & Psychology, 18(2), 195-208. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354307087881
Harris, B. (2021). Eugenics, social reform, and psychology: The careers of Isabelle Kendig. History of Psychology, 24(4), 350–376. https://doi.org/10.1037/hop0000200
Hubbard K. (2017) Queer signs: The women of the British projective test movement. Journal of the History of Behavioural Sciences, 53(3), 265–285. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.21863
Johnston, E. & Johnson A. (2017) Balancing life and work by unbending gender: Early American women psychologists’ struggles and contributions. Journal of the History of the Behavioural Sciences, 53(3), 246–264. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.21862
Kontopodis, M., & Jackowska, M. (2019). De-centring the psychology curriculum: Diversity, social justice, and psychological knowledge. Theory & Psychology, 29(4), 506-520. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354319858419
Launer, J. (2014). Sex versus survival: the life and ideas of Sabina Spielrein. Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd.
Rowold, K. (2024). Child psychology from Vienna to London: Charlotte Bühler, concepts of childhood, and parenting advice in interwar Britain. History of the Human Sciences, 38(1), 3-25. https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951241289028
Rutherford, A. (2018). Feminism, psychology, and the gendering of neoliberal subjectivity: From critique to disruption. Theory & Psychology, 28(5), 619-644. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354318797194
Spielrein, S. (1912/1994). Destruction as the cause of coming into being. Journal of Analytical Psychology, 39(2), 155–186. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1465-5922.1994.00155.x Stone, A. (2011). Feminism, psychoanalysis, and maternal subjectivity. Taylor & Francis.
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Chapter 15 – Key Readings
Banicki, K. (2017). The character–personality distinction: An historical, conceptual, and functional investigation. Theory & Psychology, 27(1), 50-68. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354316684689
Bullard, A. (2005). The critical impact of Frantz Fanon and Henri Collomb: Race, gender, and personality testing of North and West Africans. Journal of the History of the Behavioural Sciences, 41(3), 225-248. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.20102
Cieciuch, J. (2012). The Big Five and Big Ten: Between Aristotelian and Galileian physics of personality. Theory & Psychology, 22(5), 689-696. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354311432904
Danziger, K. (1997). Naming the mind: How psychology found its language. Sage.
Dumont, F. (2010). A history of personality psychology: Theory, science, and research from Hellenism to the twenty-first century. Cambridge University Press.
Fierro, C. (2022). How did early North American clinical psychologists get their first personality test? Carl Gustav Jung, the Zurich School of Psychiatry, and the development of the “Word Association Test” (1898–1909). History of Psychology, 25(4), 295–321. https://doi.org/10.1037/hop0000218
Gibby, R. E., & Zickar, M. J. (2008). A history of the early days of personality testing in American industry: An obsession with adjustment. History of Psychology, 11(3), 164–184. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0013041
Hajek, K. M. (2021). Félida, doubled personality, and the ‘normal state’ in late 19th-century French psychology. History of the Human Sciences, 34(2), 66-89. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695120980648
Percival, T., & Bergstrom-Katz, S. (2025). The material force of categories. History of the Human Sciences, 38(2), 3-17. https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951251318223
Pilgrim, D. (2023). Verdicts on Hans Eysenck and the fluxing context of British psychology. History of the Human Sciences, 36(3-4), 83–104. https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951221143888
Susman, W. (1984). Culture as history: The transformation of American society in the twentieth century. Pantheon. Treviño, A. J. (2023). Talcott Parsons on building personality system theory via psychoanalysis. Journal of the History of the Behavioural Sciences, 59, 417–432. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.22257
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Chapter 14 – Key Readings
Ackers, P. (2006), The history of occupational psychology: A view from industrial relations. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 79(2), 213-216. https://doi.org/10.1348/096317906X100666
Baritz, L. (1960). The servants of power: A history of the use of social science in American industry. Wesleyan University Press.
Bryan, L.K. and Vinchur, A.J. (2025). Key thinkers in industrial and organisational psychology. London: Routledge.
Endrejat, P. C., & Burnes, B. (2022). Kurt Lewin’s ideas are alive! But why doesn’t anybody recognize them? Theory & Psychology, 32(6), 931-952. https://doi.org/10.1177/09593543221118652
Foucault, M. (1988). Technologies of the self: A seminar with Michel Foucault (L. H. Martin, H. Gutman, & P. H. Hutton, Eds.). University of Massachusetts Press.
Havoc, R. C., & Woody, W. D. (2025). The shrouded self: Racial passing as a tool of survival in early 20th century psychology. History of Psychology, 28(2), 170–178. https://doi.org/10.1037/hop0000277
Hodgetts, D., Sonn, C., Li, W., & Groot, S. (2020). What does Theory & Psychology have to offer community-orientated psychologists? Theory & Psychology, 30(6), 852-863. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354320947821
Hollway, W. (2016). Efficiency and welfare: Industrial psychology at Rowntree’s Cocoa Works. Theory & Psychology, 3(3), 303-322. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354393033002
Luks, T. (2020). Building the ‘House of Industry’: Factory Citizenship and Gendered Spaces at Cadbury’s and Rowntree’s. Labour History Review 85,(3), 233-252. https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/lhr.2020.10
Rose, N. S. (1999). Governing the soul: The shaping of the private self (2nd ed). Free Association Books.
Schmidt, M. A. (2017). Planes of phenomenological experience: The psychology of deafness as an early example of American Gestalt psychology, 1928–1940. History of Psychology, 20(4), 347–364. https://doi.org/10.1037/hop0000074
Vinchur, A. J. (2018). The early years of industrial and organizational psychology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Chapter 13 – Key Readings
Barham, P. (2004). Forgotten lunatics of the Great War. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press
Brunner, J. (1991), Psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and politics during the First World War. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 27(4), 352-365. https://doi.org/10.1002/1520-6696(199110)27:4<352::AID-JHBS2300270404>3.0.CO;2-9
Carden-Coyne, A. (2014). The politics of wounds: Military patients and medical power in the First World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Downing, T. (2016). Breakdown: The crisis of shell shock on the Somme, 1916. London: Little, Brown.
Jones, E. (2018). Trans-generational transmission of traumatic memory and moral injury. Military Behavioral Health, 6(2), 134–139. https://doi.org/10.1080/21635781.2018.1454362
Jones, E., & Wessely, S. (2005). Shell shock to PTSD: Military psychiatry from 1900 to the Gulf War. Psychology Press.
Leuenberger, C. (2003), Beyond invisible walls: The psychological legacy of Soviet trauma. Journal of the History of the Behavioural Sciences, 39(2), 183-184. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.10071
Mather, R., & Marsden, J. (2004). Trauma and temporality: On the origins of post-traumatic stress. Theory & Psychology, 14(2), 205-219. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354304042017
Shephard, B. (2001). A war of nerves: Soldiers and psychiatrists in the twentieth century. Harvard University Press.
Showalter, E. (1987). The female malady: Women, madness and English culture, 1830–1980. Virago.
Trembinski, D. (2011). Comparing premodern melancholy/mania and modern trauma: An argument in favor of historical experiences of trauma. History of Psychology, 14(1), 80–99. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0020430
Zait, J. (2024). “I’m not a person anymore”: The “survivor syndrome” and William G. Niederland’s perception of the human being. History of Psychology, 27(2), 121–138. https://doi.org/10.1037/hop0000250
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Chapter 12 – Key Readings
Bangham, J. (2015). What Is Race? UNESCO, mass communication and human genetics in the early 1950s. History of the Human Sciences, 28(5), 80-107. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695115600581
Beccalossi, C., Fisher, K., & Funke, J. (2023). Sexology and development. History of the Human Sciences, 36(5), 3-14. https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951231213970
Broberg, G., & Roll-Hansen, N. (2005). Eugenics and the welfare state: Sterilization policy in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland. Michigan State University Press.
Germann, P. (2021). Race in post-war science: The Swiss case in a global context. History of the Human Sciences, 35(1), 216-241. https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951211010385
Jarska, N., Lišková, K., & Wahl, M. (2024). Early state socialism and eugenics: Premarital medical certificates in Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and Poland in the aftermath of World War II. History of the Human Sciences, 38(1), 51-77. https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951241270931
Kelly, E., Manning, D. T., Boye, S., Rice, C., Owen, D., Stonefish, S., & Stonefish, M. (2021). Elements of a counter-exhibition: Excavating and countering a Canadian history and legacy of eugenics. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 57(1), 12–33. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.22081
Kevles, D. J. (1985). In the name of eugenics: Genetics and the uses of human heredity. Harvard University Press.
Lombardo, P. A. (2022). Three generations, no imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell. Johns Hopkins University Press.
Pilgrim, D. (2023). Verdicts on Hans Eysenck and the fluxing context of British psychology. History of the Human Sciences, 36(3-4), 83-104. https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951221143888
Sims-Schouten, W. (2021). ‘A troublesome girl is pushed through’: Morality, biological determinism, resistance, resilience, and the Canadian child migration schemes, 1883–1939. History of the Human Sciences, 35(1), 87-110. https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951211036553
Stern, A. M. (2016). Eugenic nation: Faults and frontiers of better breeding in modern America (Second edition). University of California Press.
Teicher, A. (2022). How family charts became Mendelian: The changing content of pedigrees and its impact on the consolidation of genetic theory. History of the Human Sciences, 37(3-4), 85-105. https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951221107558
Weizmann, F. (2010), From the ‘Village of a Thousand Souls’ to ‘Race Crossing in Jamaica’: Arnold Gesell, eugenics and child development. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 46(3), 263-275. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.20440
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Chapter 10 – Key Readings
Adams, M. (2020). The kingdom of dogs: Understanding Pavlov’s experiments as human–animal relationships. Theory & Psychology, 30(1), 121-141. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354319895597
Brantz, D. (2010). Beastly natures: Animals, humans, and the study of history. University of Virginia Press.
Gillaspy, J.A., Jr., Brinegar, J.L. & Bailey, R.E. (2014). Operant psychology makes a splash—in marine mammal training (1955–1965). Journal of the History of Behavioral Sciences., 50(3), 231-248. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.21664
Godfrey-Smith, P. (2016). Other minds: The octopus, the sea, and the deep origins of consciousness. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Haraway, D. (2008). When species meet. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Haraway, D. J. (2003). The companion species manifesto: Dogs, people, and significant otherness. Prickly Paradigm Press.
Kirk, R. G. W. (2014). In dogs we trust? Intersubjectivity, response-able relations, and the making of mine detector dogs. Journal of the History of the Behavioural Sciences, 50(1), 1-36. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.21642
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Benschop, R., & Draaisma, D. (2000). In pursuit of precision: The calibration of minds and machines in late nineteenth-century psychology. Annals of Science, 57(1), 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1080/000337900296281
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Evrard, R., Gumpper, S., Beauvais, B., & Alvarado C. S. (2021). “Never sacrifice anything to laboratory work”: The “physiological psychology” of Charles Richet (1875–1905). Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences. 57(2), 172–193. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.22086
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Michell, J. (2005). Measurement in psychology: A critical history of a methodological concept. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Michell, J. (2021). “The art of imposing measurement upon the mind”: Sir Francis Galton and the genesis of the psychometric paradigm. Theory & Psychology, 32(3), 375-400. https://doi.org/10.1177/09593543211017671
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Colombo, M. (2020). Who is the “other”? Epistemic violence and discursive practices. Theory & Psychology, 30(3), 399-404. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354320923758
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Kontopodis, M., & Jackowska, M. (2019). De-centring the psychology curriculum: Diversity, social justice, and psychological knowledge. Theory & Psychology, 29(4), 506-520. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354319858419
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Pouw, W. T. J. L., & Looren de Jong, H. (2015). Rethinking situated and embodied social psychology. Theory & Psychology, 25(4), 411-433. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354315585661
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Draaisma, D. (2000). Metaphors of memory: A history of ideas about the mind. Cambridge: Cambridge Uni9versity Press.
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Rutherford, A. (2017). “Making better use of U.S. women”: Psychology, sex roles, and womanpower in post-WWII America. Journal of the History of the Behavioural Sciences, 53(3), 228–245. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.21861
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Danziger, K. (1997). Naming the mind: How psychology found its language. Sage.
Fancher, R. E. (1998). Biography and psychodynamic theory: Some lessons from the life of Francis Galton. History of Psychology, 1(2), 99–115. https://doi.org/10.1037/1093-4510.1.2.99
Franz, D. J. (2021). “Are psychological attributes quantitative?” is not an empirical question: Conceptual confusions in the measurement debate. Theory & Psychology, 32(1), 131-150. https://doi.org/10.1177/09593543211045340
Michell, J. (2005). Measurement in psychology: Critical history of a methodological concept. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Michell, J. (2021). “The art of imposing measurement upon the mind”: Sir Francis Galton and the genesis of the psychometric paradigm. Theory & Psychology, 32(3), 375-400. https://doi.org/10.1177/09593543211017671
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Schregel, S. (2020). ‘The intelligent and the rest’: British Mensa and the contested status of high intelligence. History of the Human Sciences, 33(5), 12-36. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695120970029
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Boynton, D. M., & Smith, L. D. (2006). Bringing history to life: Simulating landmark experiments in psychology. History of Psychology, 9(2), 113–143. https://doi.org/10.1037/1093-4510.9.2.113
Broere, S. (2019). Picturing ethnopsychology: A colonial psychiatrist’s struggles to examine Javanese minds, 1910–1925. History of Psychology, 22(3), 266–286. https://doi.org/10.1037/hop0000094
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Di Castri, T. (2023). The settler colonial roots and neoliberal afterlife of Problem Behaviour Theory. Journal of the History of the Behavioural Sciences, 59(2), 107–128. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.22218
Drumm, P. (2018). Australian fantasy revisited. History of Psychology, 21(3), 295–296. https://doi.org/10.1037/hop0000099
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Pickren, G. W., Pickren, W. E. (2021). Signposts to decolonial futures in understanding and addressing our present crises. Journal of the History of the Behavioural Sciences, 57(4), 315–318. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.22147
Pols, H. (2007). Psychological knowledge in a colonial context: Theories on the nature of the “native mind” in the former Dutch East Indies. History of Psychology, 10(2), 111–131. https://doi.org/10.1037/1093-4510.10.2.111
Sturm, T., & Mülberger, A. (2012). Crisis discussions in psychology: New historical and philosophical perspectives. Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 43(2), 425–433. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2011.11.001
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Beaulieu, A. (2002). Images are not the (only) truth: Brain mapping, visual knowledge, and iconoclasm. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 27(1), 53–86. https://doi.org/10.1177/016224390202700103
Beaulieu, A. (2003). Brains, maps and the new territory of psychology. Theory & Psychology, 13(4), 561-568. https://doi.org/10.1177/09593543030134006
Choudhury, S., & Slaby, J. (2012). Critical neuroscience: A handbook of the social and cultural contexts of neuroscience. Wiley-Blackwell.
De Vos, J., & Pluth, E. Eds. (2016). Neuroscience and critique: Exploring the limits of the neurological turn. Taylor & Francis.
Fisher, H. (2003). Categories and embodied objects: The subjective self and the psychologist within natural psychology. Theory & Psychology, 13(2), 239-262. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354303013002004
Hayles, N. K., & Pulizzi, J. J. (2010). Narrating consciousness: Language, media and embodiment. History of the Human Sciences, 23(3), 131-148. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695110363646
Hennig, B. (2010). Science, conscience, consciousness. History of the Human Sciences, 23(3), 15-28. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695110363353
Kügler, P. (2012). The ever-shifting problem of consciousness. Theory & Psychology, 23(1), 46-59. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354312457112
Liu, J., & Huo, Y. (2020). Recent advances in research on the association between consciousness and unconsciousness in China. Theory & Psychology, 30(1), 99-120. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354319895807
Mills J (2019). The myth of the collective unconscious. Journal of the History of the Behavioural Sciences, 55(1) 40–53. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.21945
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Chakrabarty, N., Roberts, L., & Preston, J. (2014). Critical race theory in England. Routledge.
Delgado, R., Harris, A., & Stefancic, J. (2023). Critical Race Theory: An Introduction. (4th Edition). New York University Press.
Fielder, T. (2021). Psychoanalysis and anti-racism in mid-20th-century America: An alternative angle of vision. History of the Human Sciences, 35(3-4), 193-217. https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951211042784
Flack, C. E., Whipple, C. R., & Robinson, W. L. (2025). A social-contextual analysis of African American adolescents’ coping self-efficacy. School Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/spq0000709
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Jones, R. L. (2004). Black psychology (4th ed). Cobb & Henry Publishers.
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Nwoye, A. (2017). African psychology and the emergence of the Madiban tradition. Theory & Psychology, 28(1), 38-64. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354317742204
Oppong, S. (2022). Indigenous psychology in Africa: Centrality of culture, misunderstandings, and global positioning. Theory & Psychology, 32(6), 953-973. https://doi.org/10.1177/09593543221097334
Pettit, M. (2024). The racial economy of psychological care: Professionalism, social justice, and political action during american psychology’s communitarian moment. History of Psychology, 27(3), 203–226. https://doi.org/10.1037/hop0000259
Pettit, M. (2022). “Angela’s psych squad”: Black psychology against the American carceral state in the 1970s. Journal of the History of the Behavioural Sciences, 58, 365–382. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.22216
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Sawyer, T. F. (2000). Francis Cecil Sumner: His views and influence on African American higher education. History of Psychology, 3(2), 122–141. https://doi.org/10.1037/1093-4510.3.2.122
Wynter, R., Campbell, N., Chaney, S., & Marks, S. (2025). The persistence of history: Racism, anti-Blackness, and the causes of mental ill health, c.1800–2020. History of the Human Sciences, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951251331378
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Amouroux, R., Gerber, L., & Aronov, M. (2022). Putting psychotherapy in its place: The regionalization of behaviour therapy in France, Switzerland, and Belgium, 1960s–1990s. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 58(1), 5–23. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.22142
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Felder, A. J., & Robbins, B. D. (2011). A cultural-existential approach to therapy: Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of embodiment and its implications for practice. Theory & Psychology, 21(3), 355-376. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354310397570
Han, S. (2014). The illusion of autonomy: Locating humanism in existential-psychoanalytic social theory. History of the Human Sciences, 28(1), 66-83. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695114551655
Harrist, S., & Richardson, F. C. (2012). Levinas and hermeneutics on ethics and the Other. Theory & Psychology, 22(3), 342-358. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354310389647
Hîncu, A. (2022). Social science and Marxist humanism beyond collectivism in Socialist Romania. History of the Human Sciences, 35(2), 77-100. https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951211069491
Loewenthal, D. (2015). Critical psychotherapy, psychoanalysis and counselling: Implications for practice. Palgrave Macmillan.
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Marks, S. (2017). Psychotherapy in historical perspective. History of the Human Sciences, 30(2), 3-16. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695117703243
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Beccalossi, C. (2020). Types, norms, and normalisation: Hormone research and treatments in Italy, Argentina, and Brazil, c. 1900–50. History of the Human Sciences, 34(2), 113-137. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695120941193
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Hubbard, K. A., & Griffiths, D. A. (2019). Sexual offence, diagnosis, and activism: A British history of LGBTQIA+ psychology. American Psychologist, 74(8), 940-953. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000544
Jones, R. M. (2023). Defeating the ‘social danger’ of homosexuality while ‘forging the fatherland’: Sexual science and biotypology in Mexico’s national development, 1927–57. History of the Human Sciences, 36(5), 122-151. https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951231199581
Minton, H. L. (1997). Queer Theory: Historical Roots and Implications for Psychology. Theory & Psychology, 7(3), 337-353. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354397073003
Rivers, I., & Ward, R. (2012). Out of the ordinary: representations of LGBT lives. Cambridge Scholars Pub.
Russell, G. M., & Bohan, J. S. (2006). The case of internalized homophobia: Theory and/as practice. Theory & Psychology, 16(3), 343-366. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354306064283
Sutton, K. (2020). Kinsey and the psychoanalysts: Cross-disciplinary knowledge production in post-war US sex research. History of the Human Sciences, 34(1), 120-147. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695120911597
Taavetti, R. (2024). Low on the Kinsey scale: Homosexuality in Swedish and Finnish sex research, 1960s–1990s. History of the Human Sciences, 37(5), 21-44. https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951241245040
Vasilovsky, A. T. (2018). Aesthetic as genetic: The epistemological violence of gaydar research. Theory & Psychology, 28(3), 298-318. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354318764826
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Bookwala, J., & Newton, N. J. (2022). Reflections from pioneering women in psychology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Dhar, A. (2020). Psychology: A discipline in trouble and trouble in the discipline. Theory & Psychology, 31(2), 310-312. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354320945795
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Hubbard, K., & Hegarty, P. (2024). A feminist companion to conceptual and historical issues in psychology. Open University Press.
Kim, S., & Rutherford, A. (2015). From seduction to sexism: Feminists challenge the ethics of therapist–client sexual relations in 1970s America. History of Psychology, 18(3), 283–296. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0039524
Maass, V. S. (2023). Feminist psychology: History, practice, research, and the future. Praeger.
Meijer, M. (2022). Making therapy more transparent: On Kevin R. Smith’s therapeutic ethics. Theory & Psychology, 33(3), 424-432. https://doi.org/10.1177/09593543221131271
Rutherford, A. (2021). Psychology at the intersections of gender, feminism, history, and culture. Cambridge University Press.
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Spandler, H., & Carr, S. (2022). Lesbian and bisexual women’s experiences of aversion therapy in England. History of the Human Sciences, 35(3-4), 218-236. https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951211059422
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Becker, D., & Marecek, J. (2008). Positive psychology: History in the remaking? Theory & Psychology, 18(5), 591-604. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354308093397
Binkley, S. (2014). Happiness as enterprise: An essay on neoliberal life. State University of New York.
Cabanas, E. (2018). Positive Psychology and the legitimation of individualism. Theory & Psychology, 28(1), 3-19. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354317747988
Christopher, J. C., & Hickinbottom, S. (2008). Positive psychology, ethnocentrism, and the disguised ideology of individualism. Theory & Psychology, 18(5), 563-589. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354308093396
Davidson, I. J. (2025). Well-being at the cost of welfare: Learned helplessness and responsibility in positive psychology and American policy. History of the Human Sciences, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951251336898
De La Fabián, R., & Stecher, A. (2017). Positive psychology’s promise of happiness: A new form of human capital in contemporary neoliberal governmentality. Theory & Psychology, 27(5), 600-621. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354317718970
De La Fabián, R., & Stecher, A. (2018). Positive psychology and the enhancement of happiness: A reply to Binkley (2018). Theory & Psychology, 28(3), 411-417. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354318772098
Graiver, I. (2021). A historical perspective on mental health: Proposal for a dialogue between history and psychology. History of Psychology, 24(1), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1037/hop0000139
Jackson, M. (2012). The pursuit of happiness: The social and scientific origins of Hans Selye’s natural philosophy of life. History of the Human Sciences, 25(5), 13-29. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695112468526
Martínez-Guzmán, A., & Lara, A. (2019). Affective modulation in positive psychology’s regime of happiness. Theory & Psychology, 29(3), 336-357. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354319845138
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Sewaybricker, L. E., & Massola, G. M. (2022). Against well-being: A critique of positive psychology. History of the Human Sciences, 36(1), 131-148. https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951221114733
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Arrigo, J. M., Rockwood, L. P., O’Brien, J., Franz, D., DeBatto, D., & Kiriakou, J. (2022). A military/intelligence operational perspective on the American Psychological Association’s weaponization of psychology post-9/11. History of the Human Sciences, 35(5), 51-79. https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951221121711
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Chen, W., Ping, X., & Dong, D. (2023). Filling in the vacuous flesh: Embodiment, constitution, and interoception. Theory & Psychology, 33(4), 515-534. https://doi.org/10.1177/09593543231169967
Coulter, J. (2008). Twenty-five theses against cognitivism. Theory, Culture & Society, 25(2), 19–32. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276407086789
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Hampe, B. (2017). Metaphor: embodied cognition and discourse. Cambridge University Press.
Jackson, P. (2022). Theorising embodied interaction in coaching: A Merleau-Pontian perspective on embodied practice. Theory & Psychology, 33(1), 78-98. https://doi.org/10.1177/09593543221123970
Jones, E. (2012). ‘The gut war’: Functional somatic disorders in the UK during the Second World War. History of the Human Sciences, 25(5), 30-48. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695112466515
Kölbl, C. (2023). Klaus Holzkamp smiled: Soviet psychology in the Federal Republic of Germany in the Cold War era. History of Psychology, 26(4), 314–333. https://doi.org/10.1037/hop0000243
Ma, H. L., Dawson, M. R. W., Prinsen, R. S., & Hayward, D. A. (2022). Embodying cognitive ethology. Theory & Psychology, 33(1), 42-58. https://doi.org/10.1177/09593543221126165
Nietzel, B. (2016). Propaganda, psychological warfare and communication research in the USA and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. History of the Human Sciences, 29(4-5), 59-76. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695116667881
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Ahmed, S. (2014). The cultural politics of emotion (Second edition). Edinburgh University Press.
Dixon, T. (2003). From passions to emotions: The creation of a secular psychological category. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Dupouy, S. (2011), The naturalist and the nuances: Sentimentalism, moral values, and emotional expression in Darwin and the anatomists†. Journal of the History of the Behavioural Sciences, 47(4), 335-358. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.20515
Hutchinson, P. (2020). The “placebo” paradox and the emotion paradox: Challenges to psychological explanation. Theory & Psychology, 30(5), 617-637. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354320928139
Larrain, A., & Haye, A. (2020). The dialogical and political nature of emotions: A reading of Vygotsky’s The Psychology of Art. Theory & Psychology, 30(6), 800-812. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354320955235
Loaiza, J. R. (2025). Cultural variation of emotions and radical relativism. Theory & Psychology, 35(4), 444-465. https://doi.org/10.1177/09593543251332575
Malekzad, F., Jais, M., Hernandez, G., Kehr, H., & Quirin, M. (2022). Not self-aware? Psychological antecedents and consequences of alienating from one’s actual motives, emotions, and goals. Theory & Psychology, 33(4), 463-484. https://doi.org/10.1177/09593543221086598
Mesquita, B., Boiger, M., & De Leersnyder, J. (2017). Doing emotions: The role of culture in everyday emotions. European Review of Social Psychology, 28(1), 95–133. https://doi.org/10.1080/10463283.2017.1329107
Perrotta, D. (2025). Affective experience in neuroscience and phenomenology: An epistemological analysis of emotions and feelings. Theory & Psychology, 35(4), 466-487. https://doi.org/10.1177/09593543251336171
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Rose, A.C. (2012), Animal tales: Observations of the emotions in American experimental psychology, 1890–1940. Journal of the History of the Behavioural Sciences, 48(4), 301-317. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.21562
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Wetherell, M. (2012). Affect and Emotion: A new social science understanding. Sage.
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Chouliaraki, L., & Fairclough, N. (1999). Discourse in late modernity: Rethinking critical discourse analysis. Edinburgh University Press.
Coulter, J. (1979). The social construction of mind: Studies in ethnomethodology and linguistic philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan.
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Scott, P., & von Unger, H. (2021). Discourses on im/migrants, ethnic minorities, and infectious disease: Fifty years of tuberculosis reporting in the United Kingdom. History of the Human Sciences, 35(1), 189-215. https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951211015886
Shotter, J. (1996), Living in a Wittgensteinian world: Beyond theory to a poetics of practices. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 26(3), 293 311. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5914.1996.tb00292.x
Standish, P. (2022). Inner and outer, psychology and Wittgenstein’s painted curtain. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 56(1), 115 123, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9752.12656
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Wetherell, M., & Potter, J. (2015). Discourse and social psychology, postmodernism, and capitalist collusion: An argument for more complex historiographies of psychology. Theory & Psychology, 25(3), 388–395. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354314552009
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Alter, S. G. (2007), Race, language, and mental evolution in Darwin’s descent of man. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 43(3), 239-255. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.20238
Brown, G. R., & Laland, K. N. (2024). Sense and nonsense: evolutionary perspectives on human behaviour (Third edition). Oxford University Press.
Dunbar, R. I. M. (2007). Evolution and the social sciences. History of the Human Sciences, 20(2), 29-50. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695107076197
Dunbar, R. I. M., & Barrett, L. (2007). Oxford handbook of evolutionary psychology. Oxford University Press.
Fisher, K., & Funke, J. (2023). ‘All the progressive forms of life are built up on the attraction of sex’: Development and the social function of the sexual instinct in late 19th- and early 20th-century Western European sexology. History of the Human Sciences, 36(5), 42-67. https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951231208992
Jackson, J. P., Jr. (2023). Arthur Jensen, evolutionary biology, and racism. History of Psychology, 26(1), 1–28. https://doi.org/10.1037/hop0000221
Jarrett, S. (2020). Consciousness reduced: The role of the ‘idiot’ in early evolutionary psychology. History of the Human Sciences, 33(5), 110-137. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695120911557
Peters, B. M. (2013). Evolutionary psychology: Neglecting neurobiology in defining the mind. Theory & Psychology, 23(3), 305-322. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354313480269
Racine, T. P. (2021). The rhetorical use of B. F. Skinner in evolutionary psychology. Theory & Psychology, 32(1), 61-81. https://doi.org/10.1177/09593543211030342
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Roughgarden, J. (2013). Evolution’s rainbow: Diversity, gender, and sexuality in nature and people. University of California Press.
Ruck, N. (2016). Controversies on Evolutionism: On the construction of scientific boundaries in public and internal scientific controversies about evolutionary psychology and sociobiology. Theory & Psychology, 26(6), 691–705. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354316652968
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Comas-Díaz, L., & Torres Rivera, E. (2020). Liberation psychology: Theory, method, practice, and social justice. American Psychological Association.
Dutta, U. (2016). Prioritizing the local in an era of globalization: A proposal for decentering community psychology. American Journal of Community Psychology, 58(3-4), 329–338. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12047
Kagan, C., Burton, M., Duckett, P., Lawthom, R., & Siddiquee, A. (2020). Critical community psychology: Critical action and social change (Second edition). Routledge.
Kessi, S., Suffla, S., & Seedat, M. (2022). Decolonial enactments in community psychology. Springer.
Martín-Baró, I., Aron, A., & Corne, S. (1994). Writings for a liberation psychology. Harvard University Press.
Mills, J. A., & Harrison, T. (2007). John Rickman, Wilfred Ruprecht Bion, and the origins of the therapeutic community. History of Psychology, 10(1), 22–43. https://doi.org/10.1037/1093-4510.10.1.22
Nelson, G. B., & Prilleltensky, I. (2010). Community psychology: In pursuit of liberation and well-being (2nd ed). Palgrave Macmillan.
Parker, H. (2023). The regional survey movement and popular autoethnography in early 20th-century Britain. History of the Human Sciences, 36(3-4), 3-26. https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951231167038
Pettit, M. (2024). The racial economy of psychological care: Professionalism, social justice, and political action during American psychology’s communitarian moment. History of Psychology, 27(3), 203–226. https://doi.org/10.1037/hop0000259
Pols, H. (2001), Divergences in American psychiatry during the Depression: Somatic psychiatry, community mental hygiene, and social reconstruction. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 37(4), 369-388. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.1066
Rodkey, K. L., & Rodkey, E. N. (2020). Family, friends, and faith-communities: Intellectual community and the benefits of unofficial networks for marginalized scientists. History of Psychology, 23(4), 289–311. https://doi.org/10.1037/hop0000172
Sanscartier, S. (2023). Anatol Rapoport’s social responsibility: Science and antiwar activism; 1960–1970. History of Psychology, 26(1), 29–50. https://doi.org/10.1037/hop0000223
Sonn, C. C., Fox, R., Keast, S., & Rua, M. (2022). Fostering and sustaining transnational solidarities for transformative social change: Advancing community psychology research and action. American Journal of Community Psychology, 69(3-4), 269–282. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12602
Wang, J., & Huo, Y. (2023). The diffusion of Bruner’s psychological research in China and its impact. History of Psychology, 26(2), 164–182. https://doi.org/10.1037/hop0000232
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Brannigan, A. (2004). The use and misuse of the experimental method in social psychology. Routledge.
Brannigan, A., Nicholson, I., & Cherry, F. (2015). Introduction to the special issue: Unplugging the Milgram machine. Theory & Psychology, 25(5), 551-563. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354315604408
De Vos, J. (2010). From Milgram to Zimbardo: the double birth of postwar psychology/psychologization. History of the Human Sciences, 23(5), 156-175. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695110384774
Drury, S., Hutchens, S. A., Shuttlesworth, D. E., & White, C. L. (2012). Philip G. Zimbardo on his career and the Stanford Prison Experiment’s 40th anniversary. History of Psychology, 15(2), 161–170. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0025884
Gibson, S. (2013). Milgram’s obedience experiments: A rhetorical analysis. British Journal of Social Psychology, 52(2), 290–309. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-8309.2011.02070.x
Griggs, R. A., & Whitehead, G. I. (2015). Coverage of recent criticisms of Milgram’s obedience experiments in introductory social psychology textbooks. Theory & Psychology, 25(5), 564-580. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354315601231
Herrera, C. D. (1997). A historical interpretation of deceptive experiments in American psychology. History of the Human Sciences, 10(1), 23-36. https://doi.org/10.1177/095269519701000102
Hoffman, E., Myerberg, N. R., & Morawski, J. G. (2015). Acting otherwise: Resistance, agency, and subjectivities in Milgram’s studies of obedience. Theory & Psychology, 25(5), 670-689. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354315608705
Manning, R., Levine, M., & Collins, A. (2007). The Kitty Genovese murder and the social psychology of helping: The parable of the 38 witnesses. American Psychologist, 62(6), 555–562. https://doi.org/10.1037/0003-066X.62.6.555
Mastroianni, G. R. (2015). Obedience in perspective: Psychology and the Holocaust. Theory & Psychology, 25(5), 657-669. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354315608963
Perry, G. (2013). Behind the shock machine: The untold story of the notorious Milgram psychology experiments. The New Press.
Shotter, J. (2014). Agential realism, social constructionism, and our living relations to our surroundings: Sensing similarities rather than seeing patterns. Theory & Psychology, 24(3), 305-325. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354313514144
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Angel, K. (2012). Contested psychiatric ontology and feminist critique: ‘Female Sexual Dysfunction’ and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. History of the Human Sciences, 25(4), 3-24. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695112456949
Brinkmann, S. (2016). Toward a cultural psychology of mental disorder: The case of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Culture & Psychology, 22(1), 80–93. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354067X15621485
Frances, A. (2013). Saving normal: An insider’s revolt against out-of-control psychiatric diagnosis, DSM-5, big pharma, and the medicalization of ordinary life. HarperCollins.
Freeborn, A. (2025). Testing psychiatrists to diagnose schizophrenia: Crisis, consensus, and computers in post-war psychiatry. History of the Human Sciences, 38(2), 18-39. https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951241309504
Healy, D. (2014). Psychiatric ‘diseases’ in history. History of Psychiatry, 25(4), 450–458. https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X14543980
Kornaj, J. (2024). “It’s a fight – the whole personality of the patient to win”: The development of concepts of psychosis in the Jewish Hospital in Warsaw, 1898–1943. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 60(4), e22328. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.22328
Mayes, R. & Horwitz, A.V. (2005), DSM-III and the revolution in the classification of mental illness. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 41(3), 249-267. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.20103
Moncrieff, J. (2010). Psychiatric diagnosis as a political device. Social Theory and Health, 8(4), 370–382. https://doi.org/10.1057/sth.2009.11
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Noll, R. (2018). Feeling and smelling psychosis: American alienism, psychiatry, prodromes and the limits of ‘category work’. History of the Human Sciences, 31(2), 22-41. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695117750341
Pienkos, E. (2024). Understanding, schizophrenia, and the limits of phenomenology. Theory & Psychology, 34(4), 427-445. https://doi.org/10.1177/09593543241266618
Pilgrim, D. (2014). Historical resonances of the DSM-5 dispute: American exceptionalism or Eurocentrism? History of the Human Sciences, 27(2), 97-117. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695114527998
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Brinkmann, S. (2005). Human kinds and looping effects in psychology. Theory & Psychology, 15(6), 769–791. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354305059332
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Hacking, I. (1992). Multiple personality disorder and its hosts. History of the Human Sciences, 5(2), 3-31. https://doi.org/10.1177/095269519200500202
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Hacking, I. (2002). Mad travelers: Reflections on the reality of transient mental illnesses. Harvard University Press.
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Low, K. G. (1997). Mad, but not Crazy. Theory & Psychology, 7(2), 282-284. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354397072014
Rae, G. (2025). From reason to madness and back: Critiquing reason through the Derrida–Foucault debate. History of the Human Sciences, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951251337677
Sass, L. A. (1994). Civilized madness: schizophrenia, self-consciousness and the modern mind. History of the Human Sciences, 7(2), 83-120. https://doi.org/10.1177/095269519400700206
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Alparone, D., Pozzetti, R., & Rizzo, A. (2024). Sexuality in the digital world: Treatment of a case of dating app addiction. Theory & Psychology, 34(5), 630-645. https://doi.org/10.1177/09593543241268499
Bauman, Z. (2003). Liquid love: On the frailty of human bonds. Polity Press.
Belli, S., Harré, R. & íñiguez, L. (2010). What is love? Discourse about emotions in social sciences. Human Affairs, 20(3), 249-270. https://doi.org/10.2478/v10023-010-0026-8
Burge. (2018). The rough guide to love: Romance, history and sexualization in gendered relationship advice. Journal of Gender Studies, 27(6), 649–660. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2017.1287065
Chiang, H. H. (2010). Liberating sex, knowing desire: scientia sexualis and epistemic turning points in the history of sexuality. History of the Human Sciences, 23(5), 42-69. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695110378947
Domínguez, G. E., Pujol, J., Motzkau, J. F., & Popper, M. (2017). Suspended transitions and affective orderings: From troubled monogamy to liminal polyamory. Theory & Psychology, 27(2), 183-197. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354317700289
Fisher, K., & Funke, J. (2023). ‘All the progressive forms of life are built up on the attraction of sex’: Development and the social function of the sexual instinct in late 19th- and early 20th-century Western European sexology. History of the Human Sciences, 36(5), 42-67. https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951231208992
Garlen, J. C., & Sandlin, J. A. (2017). Happily (n)ever after: the cruel optimism of Disney’s romantic ideal. Feminist Media Studies, 17(6), 957–971. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2017.1338305
Guo, M., & Liu, Z. (2025). Hysteria in empathy: Understanding virtual companionship and emotional connection between humans and Al. Theory & Psychology, 35(2), 163-184. https://doi.org/10.1177/09593543251319738
Illouz, E. (1997). Consuming the romantic utopia: love and the cultural contradictions of capitalism. University of California Press.
Sequeira, R. (2022). The sciences of love: Intimate ‘democracy’ and the eugenic development of the Marathi couple in colonial India. History of the Human Sciences, 36(5), 68-93. https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951221134469
Sternberg, R. J., & Sternberg, K. (2024). A RELIC theory of love: The role of interpersonal, intrapersonal, and extrapersonal elements in love. Theory & Psychology, 34(5), 671-698. https://doi.org/10.1177/09593543241270922
Thorne, S. R., Hegarty, P., & Hepper, E. G. (2019). Equality in theory: From a heteronormative to an inclusive psychology of romantic love. Theory & Psychology, 29(2), 240-257. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354319826725
Wolkomir, M. (2018). Researching romantic love and multiple partner intimacies: Developing a qualitative research design and tools. SAGE Publications Ltd.