Portraits of pioneers in psychology.
By: edited by Gregory A. Kimble, Michael Wertheimer.
Contributors: Kimble, Gregory A.; Wertheimer, Michael.; American Psychological Association.
Publisher: American Psychological Association; L. Erlbaum Associates
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Washington, DC; Hillsdale, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 363
ISBN-13: 9780805826197; 9780805826203
Subjects: Psychologists -- Biography; Psychology -- History
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Laurens Perseus Hickok : philosopher, theologian, and psychologist / John K. Bare; title: Charles Darwin : father of evolutionary psychology / R. Bruce Masterton; title: Leipzig, Wilhelm Wundt, and psychology's gilded age / Arthur L. Blumenthal; title: Hermann Ebbinghaus : on the road to progress or down the garden path? / C. Alan Boneau; title: Alfred Binet, general psychologist / Raymond E. Fancher; title: L.L. Thurstone's vision of psychology as a quantitative rational science / Lyle V. Jones; title: Kurt Lewin : his psychology and a daughter's recollections / Miriam A. Lewin; title: Floyd Henry Allport : founder of social psychology as a behavioral science / Daniel Katz, Blair T. Johnson, and Diana R. Nichols; title: The legacy of Jean Piaget / Edward Ziglar and Elizabeth Gilman; title: Karl Duncker : productive problems with beautiful solutions / D. Brett King, Michaella Cox, and Michael Wertheimer; title: Milton Erickson : scientist, hypnotist, healer / Harold Schiffman; title: Zing-Yang Kuo : radical scientific philosopher and innovative experimentalist / Gilbert Gottlieb; title: Myrtle McGraw : pioneer in neurobehavioral development / Thomas C. Dalton and Victor W. Bergenn; title: Henry W. Nissen : quiet comparative psychologist / Donald A. Dewsbury; title: Carl Rogers and the culture of psychotherapy / Martin Lakin; title: Burrhus Frederick Skinner : the contingencies of a life / Daniel W. Bjork; title: Kenneth W. Spence : theorist with an empiricist conscience / Gregory A. Kimble; title: David Krech : scientist and social activist / Nancy K. Innis; title: Benton J. Underwood : a tribute of memories / Joel S. Freund; title: Leon Festinger : beyond the obvious / Jack W. Brehm.