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Abbott, Albert H. (1900). Experimental psychology and the laboratory in Toronto. University of Toronto Monthly, 1, 85-98, 106-112. [A defense of the viability of experimental psychology against its 19th-century opponents, followed by description of the expanded Toronto laboratory, first established by J.M. Baldwin in 1891.]

Allport, Floyd H. & Allport, Gordon W. (1921). Personality traits: Their classificiation and measurement. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 16, 6-40.

Allport, Gordon W. (1927). Concepts of trait and personality. Psychological Bulletin, 24, 284-293.

Allport, Gordon W. (1937). The functional autonomy of motives. American Journal of Psychology, 50, 141-156.

Allport, Gordon W. (1940). The psychologist's frame of reference. Psychological Bulletin, 37, 1-28. [Allport's APA Presidential Address.]

American Psychological Association. (1894). Proceedings of the Preliminary Meeting (1892), the First Annual Meeting (1892), and the Second Annual Meeting (1893).

American Psychological Association. (1947). Recommended graduate training program in clinical psychology. American Psychologist, 2, 539-558. [The report that proposed the so-called "Boulder Model".]

Angell, James Rowland. (1907). The province of functional psychology. Psychological Review, 14, 61-91. [Basic statement of "Chicago functionalism" at the start of the 20th century.]

Aristotle. (ca. 350 BC). De anima (J. A. Smith, Trans.). Originally published in Ross, W. D. (Ed.) (1930). The works of Aristotle (vol. 3). Oxford: Clarendon Press. ["The Philosopher's" main psychological work. Book I is mainly criticism of what had gone before. Book II focuses on perception. Book III is mainly about the intellect.]

Aristotle. (ca. 350 BC). On memory and reminiscence (J. I. Beare, Trans.).
Originally published in Ross, W. D. (Ed.) (1930). The works of Aristotle (vol. 3). Oxford: Clarendon Press. [A short work, part of the Parva Naturalia, that follows from De anima.]

Babbage, Charles. [See Menabrea, L.F. (1842); Lovelace, A.A., (1843)]

Baldwin, James Mark (1892). The psychological laboratory in the University of Toronto. Science, 19 (no. 475), 143-144. [The first published description of the first experimental psychology laboratory in the British Empire.]

Baldwin, James Mark. (1895). Types of reaction. Psychological Review, 2, 259-273. [Baldwin's reply to Titichener, 1895a.]

Baldwin, James Mark. (1896). The 'type-theory' of reaction. Mind, 5, 81-90. [Baldwin's reply to Titchener, 1895b]

Baldwin, James Mark. (1901). Dictionary of philosophy and psychology. Originally published in New York and London by MacMillan. [under construction, A-O only]

Baldwin, James Mark. (1913). History of psychology: A sketch and an interpretation. London: Watts. [One of the most influential pre-Boring history of psychology textbooks.]

Baldwin, James Mark. (1930). Autobiography of James Mark Baldwin. In C. Murchison (Ed.), History of psychology in autobiography (Vol. 1, pp. 1-30). Worcester, MA: Clark University Press. [The great developmentalist's own summary of his life's work.]

Baldwin, James Mark, Cattell, James McKeen, & Jastrow, Joseph. (1898). Physical and mental tests. Psychological Review, 5, 172-179. [An account of an early attempt at what we would now call intelligence testing.]

Bandura, Albert, Ross, Dorothea, & Ross, Sheila A. (1961). Transmisssion of aggressions through imitation of aggressive models. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 63, 575-582. [One of the classic "Bobo Doll" studies of the imitation by children of aggressive behavior.]

Bateson, G. [See N. Miller et al. (1941).]

Berkeley, George. (1732). An essay towards a new theory of vision (4th ed.). (First edition published 1709) [From the purest of the British empiricists.]

Binet, Alfred. (1916). New methods for the diagnosis of the intellectual level of subnormals. In E. S. Kite (Trans.), The development of intelligence in children. Vineland, NJ: Publications of the Training School at Vineland. (Originally published 1905 in L'Année Psychologique, 12, 191-244.) [Description of Binet's approach in intelligence testing, and of the original version of the most influential of all intelligence tests.]

  • Introduction to Binet (1905/1916) by Henry L. Minton.
  • Commentary on Binet (1905/1916) and Terman (1916) by Henry L. Minton

Boring, Edwin G. (1929). The psychology of controversy. Psychological Review, 36, 97-121. [Boring's 1928 APA Presidential Address about past controversy in psychology.]

Boring, Edwin G. (1951). The woman problem. American Psychologist, 6, 679-682.

Bowen, Francis. (1860). Remarks on the latest form of the development theory. Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, n.s., VIII, pp. 98-107, communicated March 27, April 10 and May 1, 1860. Reprinted in G. Daniels (Ed.) (1968). Darwinism comes to America. Waltham, MA: Blaisdell, pp. 66-74.

Breland, Keller & Breland, Marian. (1961). The misbehavior of organisms. American Psychologist, 16, 681-684. [Classic critique of the assumptions underlying radical behaviorism.]

Brett, George S. (1922). Psychology in the university. Univeristy of Toronto Monthly, , 298-300.

Brett, George S. (1929). Introduction to psychology. Toronto: Macmillan of Canada. [A short textbook by the famed historian of psychology.]

Broca, Paul (1861a). Perte de la parole, ramollissement chronique et destruction partielle du lobe antérieur gauche du cerveau Bulletin de la Société Anthropologique, 2, 235-238. [The initial report of Broca's famous patient, "Tan," and the localization of speech in the left frontal lobe.]

Broca, Paul (1861b). Remarques sur le siége de la faculté du langage articulé, suivies d'une observation d'aphémie (perte de la parole) Bulletin de la Société Anatomique, 6, 330-357. [The complete report on the state of "Tan's" brain, and Broca's argument for the fcaulty of spoken language being localized in the left frontal lobe.]

Bruner, Jerome S. & Goodman, Cecile C. (1947). Value and need as organizing factors in perception. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 42, 33-44. [Famous "New Look" study in which impoverished children over-estimate the sizes of coins.]

Bruner, Jerome S. & Postman, Leo. (1949). On the perception of incongruity: A paradigm. Journal of Personality, 18, 206-223. [Famous "New Look" study in which black hearts on playing cards were seen as being red.]

Buchner, Edward Franklin. (1903). A quarter century of psychology in America: 1878-1903. American Journal of Psychology, 14, 666-680.

Caldwell, W. (1898). Professor Titchener's view of the self. Psychological Review, 5, 401-408. [The comment the ostensibly provoked Titchener to distinguish between structuralism and functionalism.]

Caldwell, W. (1899). The postulates of a structural psychology. Psychological Review, 6, 187-191. [Reply to Titchener 1898.]

Calkins, Mary Whiton. (1892). Experimental Psychology at Wellesley College. American Journal of Psychology, 5, 464-271.

Calkins, Mary Whiton. (1896a). Association: An essay analytic and experimental. Psychological Review Monographs Supplement, 1 (2). [The origin of the paired associates learning procedure by the first woman President of the APA.]

Calkins, Mary Whiton. (1896b). Community of ideas of men and women. Psychological Review, 3, 426-430. [Reply to Jastrow (1896).]

Calkins, Mary Whiton. (1906). A reconciliation between structural and functional psychology. Psychological Review, 8, 61-81. [Calkins' APA Presidential Address.]

Calkins, Mary Whiton (1908a). Psychology as science of self. I: Is the self body Or has it body?. Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods, 5, 12-20.

Calkins, Mary Whiton (1908b). Psychology as science of self. II: The nature of the self. Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods, 5, 64-68.

Calkins, Mary Whiton (1908c). Psychology as science of self. III: The Description of Consciousness. Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods, 5, 113-122.

Calkins, Mary Whiton. (1915). The self in scientific psychology. American Journal of Psychology, 26, 495-524.

Calkins, Mary Whiton. (1930). Autobiography of Mary Whiton Calkins. In C. Murchison (Ed.), History of psychology in autobiography (Vol. 1, pp. 31-62). Worcester, MA: Clark University Press. [The first woman APA President's own summary of her life's work.]

Carlsmith, James M. [See Festinger & Carlsmith (1959).]

Cattell, James McKeen. (1886a). The time taken up by cerebral operations, Parts 1 & 2. Mind, 11, 220-242.

Cattell, James McKeen. (1886b). The time taken up by cerebral operations, Part 3. Mind, 11, 377-392.

Cattell, James McKeen. (1887). The time taken up by cerebral operations, Part 4. Mind, 11, 524-538.

Cattell, James McKeen. (1888). The psychological laboratory at Leipsic. Mind, 13, 37-51. [English-language report on the activities at Wundt's lab during the 1880s by one who was there.]

Cattell, James McKeen. (1890). Mental tests and measurements. Mind, 15, 373-381. [An account of one of the first attempts at what we would now call intelligence testing.]

Cattell, James McKeen. (1893/1947). Attention and reaction (R. S. Woodworth, Trans.). In James McKeen Cattell, Man of science (Vol. 1: Psychological Research, pp. 252-255, R. S. Woodworth, Trans.). Lancaster, PA: The Science Press, 1947. (Originally published as "Aufmerksamkeit und Reaction" in Philosophische Studien, 8. 403-406.[Calls into question L. Lange's sensorial/muscular reaction findings, setting up the foundations of functionalism -- see 1895-96 Titchener and Baldwin papers.]

Cattell, James McKeen. (1898). The psychological laboratory. Psychological Review, 5, 655-658. [A reply to Titchener, 1898.]

Cattell, James McKeen. (1928). Early psychological laboratories. Science, 67, 543- 548.

Cattell, James McKeen. (1943). The founding of the Association and of the Hopkins and Clark Laboratories. Psychological Review, 50, 61-64.

Cattell, James McKeen. [See also Baldwin, Cattell, & Jastrow (1898).]

Clark, Kenneth B. & Clark, Mamie K. (1939). The development of consciousness of self and the emergence of racial identification in negro preschool children. Journal of Social Psychology, S.P.S.S.I. Bulletin, 10, 591-599. [One of the first studies in the psychology of race, by two of the first major African-American psychologists.]

Clark, Kenneth B. & Clark, Mamie K. (1940). Skin color as a factor in racial identification of negro preschool children. Journal of Social Psychology, S.P.S.S.I. Bulletin, 11, 159-169. [One of the first studies in the psychology of race, by two of the first major African-American psychologists.]

Clark, Mamie K. [See K.B. Clark & M.K. Clark (1939, 1940).]

Creighton, J. E. (1902). The purposes of a philosophical association. Philosophical Review, 11, 219-237. [Inaugural Presidential Address of the American Philosophical Association.]

Cronbach, Lee J. (1957). The two disciplines of scientific psychology. American Psychologist, 12, 671-684. [Famous attempt to reconcile the aims experimental and correlational psychology.]

Cronbach, Lee J. & Meehl, Paul E. (1955). Construct validity in psychological tests. Psychological Bulletin, 52, 281-302. [The origin of the term "construct validity"]

Darwin, Charles. (1874). The descent of man. Part One: Descent or Origin of Man (ch. 1-7). (2nd ed.). Originally published in London by J. Murray. [Darwin's argument that humans descended from apes.]

Darwin, Charles. (1877). A biographical sketch of an infant. Mind, 2, 285-294. [Early evolutionary look at child development.]

De Varigny, M. Henry. (1894). Le laboratoire de psychologie expérimentale de l'Université de Madison. Revue Scientifique, vol. 1, tome 1, 624-629. [The single most detailed contemporary report of Jastrow's psychology exhibit at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.]

Dewey, John. (1884). The new psychology. Andover Review, 2, 278-289. [Possibly the first use of the phrase "new psychology."]

Dewey, John. (1894). The ego as cause. Philosophical Review, 3, 337-341.

Dewey, John. (1896) The reflex arc concept in psychology. Psychological Review, 3, 357-370. [The article that defined the modern concept of the reflex.]

Dodson, John D. [See Yerkes & Dodson (1908).]

Dunlap, Knight. (1912). The case against introspection. Psychological Review, 19, 404-413.

Ebbinghaus, Hermann. (1913). Memory: A contribution to experimental psychology (Henry A. Ruger & Clara E. Bussenius, Trans.). Originally published in New York by Teachers College, Columbia University. (Original German work Über das Gedächtnis published 1885). [The most important work on memory in the 19th century; originated the use of nonsense syllables.]

  • Introduction to Ebbinghaus (1885/1913) by Robert H. Wozniak.

Eysenck, Hans J. (1952). The effects of psychotherapy: An evaluation. Journal of Consulting Psychology, 16, 319-324. [Classic empirical critique of the effectiveness of psychotherapy.]

Fechner, Gustav Theodor (1860). Elements of psychophysics, Sections VII ("Measurement of sensation") and XVI ("The fundamental formula and the measurement formula") (Trans. by Herbert S. Langfeld, first appearing in B. Rand (Ed.) (1912), The classical psychologists). [The document in which originated "Fechner's Law".]

Fernberger, Samuel W. (1932). The American Psychological Association: A historical summary, 1892-1930. Psychological Bulletin, 29, 1-89.

Fernberger, Samuel W. (1943). The American Psychological Association 1892-1942. Psychological Review, 50, 33-60.

Festinger, Leon & Carlsmith, James M. (1959). Cognitive consequences of forced compliance. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 58, 203-210. [Famous empirical confirmation of Cognitive Dissonance theory, in which subjects reported liking boring tasks more if they were paid less.]

Fisher, Ronald A. (1925). Statistical methods for research workers. Originally published in London by Oliver and Boyd. [Contains the first textbook presentation of Analysis of Variance.]

Fiske, John. (1902). Herbert Spencer's service to religion. Essays Historical and Literary, New York, II, pp. 232-237. Reprinted in G. Daniels (Ed.) (1968). Darwinism comes to America. Waltham, MA: Blaisdell, pp. 106-110.

Franz, Shepherd Ivory. (1912). New phrenology. Science, N.S. 35 (No. 896), 321-328. [Important critique of the hypothesis of the localization of cerebral function.]

Freud, Sigmund. (1913). The interpretation of dreams (3rd ed.). (A. A. Brill, Trans.). Originally published in New York by Macmillan.(Original German work published 1900.) [The classic psychoanalytic work on dreams.]

Freud, Sigmund (1914). The psychopathology of everyday life. (A. A. Brill, Trans.). Originally published in London by T. Fisher Unwin. (Original German work published 1901.) [The classic psychoanalytic account of the underlying meaning of slips of the tongue, forgotten names, etc.]

Freud, Sigmund. (1910). The origin and development of psychoanalysis. American Journal of Psychology, 21, 181-218. [Freud's lectures at Clark University; the introduction of psychoanalysis to North America.]

Freud, Sigmund. (1917). The history of the psychoanalytic movement (A. A. Brill, Trans.). Originally published in New York by the Nervous and Mental Disease Pub. Co. (Original German work published 1914.) [Freud's own account of the development of the institutions of psychoanalysis, and of his splits with Adler and with Jung.]

Fullerton, Hugh S. (1921). Why Babe Ruth is greatest home-run hitter. Popular Science Monthly, 99 (4), 19-21, 110. [Popular article about Babe Ruth getting worked over in the Columbia University psychology laboratory.]

Galton, Francis. (1865). Hereditary talent and character. Macmillan's Magazine, 12, 157-166, 318-327.

  • Introduction to Galton's Hereditary genius (1869) by Robert H. Wozniak.

Galton, Francis. (1875). History of twins. Human Faculty and its Development (pp. 155-173). [The original psychological twins study.]

Galton, Francis. (1880). Statistics of mental imagery. Mind, 5, 301-318.

Garvey, C. R. (1929). List of American psychology laboratories. Psychological Bulletin, 26, 652-660.

Goddard, Henry Herbert. (1913). The Kallikak family: A study in the heredity of feeble-mindedness. [A major influence on the early 20th-century eugenics movement.]

Goodman, Cecile C. [See Bruner & Goodman (1947).]

Gordon, Kate. (1905). Wherein should the education of a woman differ from that of a man. School Review, 13, 789-794. [Contemporary critique of G.S. Hall's Adolescence

Gray, Asa. (1860). [Review of] The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. American Journal of Science and Arts (March). Reprinted in 1876 in Darwiniana: Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism. [A review by Harvard's professor of Natural history, and Darwin's greatest defender in North America.]

Griffith, Coleman R. (1921). Some neglected aspects of a history of psychology. Psychological Monographs, 30, 17-29. [A call for a history of experimental psychology from the recognized founder of sports psychology.]

Griffith, Coleman R. (1922). Contributions to the history of psychology -- 1916-1921. Psychological Bulletin, 19, 411-428. [A report on the state of the art in history of psychology up to the end of World War I.]

Guthrie, Edwin R. (1946). Psychological facts and psychological theory. Psychological Bulletin, 43, 1-20. [Guthrie's APA Presidential address.]

Hall, G. Stanley. (1879). Philosophy in the United States. Mind, 4, 89-105. [Hall's scathing critique of the state of American philosophy in the 1870s.]

Hall, G. Stanley. (1885). The new psychology. Andover Review, 3, 120-135, 239-248.

Hall, G. Stanley. (1904). Adolescent girls and their education. From Adolescence: Its psychology and its relations to physiology, anthropology, sociology, sex, crime, religion, and education (Vol. 2, Chapter 17).

Harlow, Harry F. (1958). The nature of love. American Psychologist, 13, 573-685. [Harlow's APA Presidential Address about his research on the the importance of contact comfort in monkey infants.]

Harlow, Harry F. (1962). Fundamental principles for preparing psychology journal articles. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 55, 893-896.

Hartmann, G. W. [See N. Miller et al. (1941).]

Harvey, O. J. [See M. Sherif et al. (1954/1961).]

Hebb, Donald O. (1955). Drives and the C.N.S. (conceptual nervous system). Psychological Review, 62, 243-254. [Important statement of the theory of the optimal level of function.]

Heider, Fritz. (1946). Attitudes and cognitive organization. Journal of Psychology, 21, 107-112. [Famous article on Balance Theory.]

Herbart, J. F. (1877). Possibility and necessity of applying mathematics in psychology (H. Haanel, Trans.). Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 11, 251-264.

Hill, A. B. & Watanabe, R. (1894). "Sensorial" and "muscular" reactions. American Journal of Psychology, 6, 242-246. [Supervised by E. B. Titchener, in support of L. Lange's findings.]

Hollingworth, Leta S. (1914a). Functional periodicity: An experimental study of the mental and motor abilities of women during menstruation.

Hollingworth, Leta S. (1914b). Variability as related to sex differences in achievement: A critique. American Journal of Sociology, 19, 510-530.

Hollingworth, Leta S. (1916). Social devices for impelling women to bear and rear children. American Journal of Sociology, 22, 19-29. [Argues that social control is more important that "maternal instinct" in leading women to motherhood.]

Hollingworth, Leta S. (1922). Differential action upon the sexes of forces which tend to segregate the feebleminded. Journal of Abnormal Psychology & Social Psychology, 17, 35-57.

Hood, William R. [See M. Sherif et al. (1954/1961).]

Howes, Ethel Puffer. (1922). Accepting the universe. Atlantic Monthly, 129, 444-453.

Hull, Clark L. (1934a). The concept of the habit-family hierarchy and maze learning: Part I. Psychological Review, 41, 33-54.

Hull, Clark L. (1934b). The concept of the habit-family hierarchy and maze learning: Part II. Psychological Review, 41, 134-152.

Hull, Clark L. (1935). The conflicting psychologies of learning -- A way out. Psychological Review, 42, 491-516.

Hume, James Gibson. (1892). Physiological psychology. Minutes of the Twenty-First Annual Convention of the Ontario Teachers' Association, pp. 86-106. [Review and idealist critique of the state of scientific psychology in the 1890s by a charter member of the APA.]

Hume, James Gibson. (1895). Psychology in the University of Toronto. Psychological Review, 2, 172. [Abstract of paper presented at the 1894 meeting of the American Psychological Association.]

Hume, James Gibson. (1897). The practical value of psychology to the teacher. Toronto: George N. Morang. [Originally delivered before the Ontario Teachers' Association, Toronto, 1897.]

Hume, James Gibson. (1898). Contributions of psychology to morality and religion. Psychological Review, 5, 162-163. [Abstract of paper presented at the 1897 meeting of the American Psychological Association.]

Hume, James Gibson. (1909). The proper affiliation of psychology: With philosophy or the natural sciences. Psychological Bulletin, 6, 65-67. [Abstract of paper presented at the 1908 meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology.]

Hume, James Gibson. (1909). The import of pragmatism for the hsitory of philosophy. Philosophical Review, 18, 176-177. [Abstract of paper presented at the 1908 meeting of the American Philosophical Association.]

Hume, James Gibson. (1910). The significance of suicide. Philosophical Review, 19, 179-180. [Abstract of paper presented at the 1901 meeting of the American Philosophical Association.]

Hume, James Gibson. (1916). Scientific truth and the scientific spirit. University of Toronto Monthly, 16, 443-445.

Hume, James Gibson. (1922). Evolution and personality. In Philosophical essays presented to John Watson (pp. 298-330). Kingston, ON: Queen's University. [The long-time Toronto philosopher's major intellectual work.]

James, William. (1879). Are we automata? Mind, 4, 1-22. [James' reply to T.H. Huxley's "On the hypothesis that animals are automata, and its history" (1874), available at: http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/CE1/AnAuto.html.]

James, William. (1884). What is an emotion? Mind, 9, 188-205. [The major statement of the James-Lange theory of emotion: "I see a bear, I run, I am afraid."]

James, William. (1887). Consciousness of lost limbs. Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research, 1, 249-258.

James, William. (1890). The principles of psychology. [Perhaps the most important English-language psychology text in history.]

James, William. (1892). The stream of consciousness. From Psychology (chapter XI). Cleveland & New York, World. [A somewhat shorter account of consciousness than that found in the full Principles.]

James, William. (1904a). Does consciousness exist? Journal of Philosophy, Psychology, and Scientific Methods, 1, 477-491. [A later Jamesian account of consciousness.]

  • Introduction to James (1904a, 1904b) by Eugene Taylor & Robert H. Wozniak.

James, William. (1904b). A world of pure experience. Journal of Philosophy, Psychology, and Scientific Methods, 1, 533-543, 561-570. [James, the radical empiricist.]

  • Introduction to James (1904a, 1904b) by Eugene Taylor & Robert H. Wozniak.

James, William (1904c). The Chicago school. Psychological Bulletin, 1, 1-5. [James gives functionlaism its nickname while reviewing Dewey et al.'s Studies in Logical Theory.]

James, William. (1907). The energies of men. Science, N.S. 25 (No. 635), 321-332. [James' Presidential Address to the American Philosophical Association.]

Janet, Pierre. (1930). Autobiography of Pierre Janet. In C. Murchison (Ed.), History of psychology in autobiography (Vol. 1, pp. 123-133). Worcester, MA: Clark University Press. [The great French psychiatrist's own summary of his life's work.]

Jastrow, Joseph.. (1891). A study in mental statistics. New Review, 5, 559-568.

Jastrow, Joseph. (1893). The section of psychology. in M.P. Hardy (Ed.), Official Catalogue -- World's Columbian Exposition (Part. vii, pp. 50-60).

Jastrow, Joseph. (1896). Community of ideas of men and women. Psychological Review, 3, 68-71. [Reply to Nevers (1895).]

Jastrow, Joseph. (1935). Has psychology failed? American Scholar, 4, 261-269. [The founder of the Wisconsin psychology department gives his final evaluations of behaviorism and psychoanalysis, and proposes a psychology based on evolutionary theory.]

Jastrow, Joseph. [See Baldwin, Cattell, & Jastrow (1898).]

Jones, Mary Cover. (1924). A laboratory study of fear: The case of Peter. Pedagogical Seminary, 31, 308-315.

Jung, Carl G. (1910). The association method. American Journal of Psychology, 31, 219-269. [Introduction of Jungian psychology to North America; Jung's most important empirical work.]

Jung, Carl G. (1921/1923). General description of the types. Chapter 10 of Psychological types (H.G. Bayes, Trans.). (Original work published 1921) [Key chapter of Jung's major treatise on personality.]

Koffka, Kurt. (1922). Perception: An introduction to the Gestalt-theorie. Psychological Bulletin, 19, 531-585. [The first English-language article on Gestalt psychology.]

Köhler, Wolfgang. (1959). Gestalt psychology today. American Psychologist, 14, 727-734. [Köhler's APA Presidential address.]

Konorski, J. & Miller, S. (1937). On two types of conditioned reflex. Journal of General Psychology, 16, 264-272. [Major critique of Skinner (1935).]

Krohn, William O. (1894). Facilities in experimental psychology in the colleges of the United States. In Report of the Commissioner of Education for the year 1890-'91 (Vol. 2, pp. 1139-1151).

Krstic, Kruno. (1964). Marko Marulic -- The author of the term "psychology". Acta Instituti Psychologici Universitatis Zagrabiensis, no. 36, pp. 7-13. [Rare study of the origin of the term "psychology".]

Ladd Franklin, Christine. (1904). Endowed professorships for women. Publications of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae, Series III, No. 9, pp. 53-61.

Ladd Franklin, Christine. (1908). Report of the committee on the endowment of fellowships. From "Proceedings" in the Publications of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae, Series III, No. 17, pp. 143-146.

Lange, Carl Georg. (1885). The mechanism of the emotions. Trans. by Benjamin Rand, first appeared in Rand, Benjamin (Ed.)(1912). The Classical Psychologists (pp. 672-684). [The "other" source of the James-Lange theory of emotion.]

Lashley, Karl S. (1923). The behavioristic interpretation of consciousness. Psychological Bulletin, 30, 237-272, 329-353.

Lashley, Karl S. (1930). Basic neural mechanisms in behavior. Psychological Review, 37, 1-24. [One of Lashley's most influential articles.]

Levy, D.M. [See N. Miller et al. (1941).]

Lovelace, A. Ada. (1843). Notes by the translator [to L.F. Menabrea's "Sketch of the analytical engine invented by Charles Babbage, Esq."]. Scientific Memoirs, 3, 666-731. [Lady Lovelace's extensive notes to the major account of Babbage's mechanical computer.]

 

Marbe, Karl. (1930). Autobiography of Karl Marbe. In C. Murchison (Ed.), History of Psychology in Autobiography (Vol. 1, pp. 181-213). Worcester, MA: Clark University Press. [The prominent Würzburg psychologist's account of his own life.]

Maslow, Abraham H. [See N. Miller et al. (1941).]

Maslow, Abraham H. (1943). A theory of human motivation. Psychological Review, 50, 370-396. [The first published description of the "hierarchy of needs."]

McCosh, James. (1874). Religious aspects of the doctrine of development. In P. Schaff & S. Prime (Eds.). History, essays, orations, and other documents of the sixth general conference of the Evangelical Alliance, held in New York, October 2-12, 1873, New York, pp. 269-271. Reprinted in G. Daniels (Ed.) (1968). Darwinism comes to America. Waltham, MA: Blaisdell, pp. 96-101.

McDougall, William. [see Watson & MacDougall (1929)].

MacCorquodale, Kenneth & Meehl, Paul E. (1948). On a distinction between hypothetical constructs and intervening variables. Psychological Review, 55, 95-107. [Classic attempt to clarify a major terminological problem in psychological methodology.]

Mead, George H. (1913). The social self. Journal of Philosophy, Psychology, and Scientific Methods, 10, 374- 380. [Major article by the "social behaviorist."]

Meehl, Paul E.. [See Cronbach & Meehl (1955); MacCorquodale & Meehl (1948).]

Menabrea, Luigi F. (1843). Sketch of the analytical engine invented by Charles Babbage, Esq. (A.A. Lovelace, Trans.). Scientific Memoirs, 3, 666-731. (Original work published 1842 in Bibliothèque Universelle de Genève, No. 82) [The major account of Babbage's mechanical computer.]

Miller, George A. (1956). The magical number seven, plus or minus two: Some limits on our capacity for processing information. Psychological Review, 63, 81-97. [A classic in memory research and one of the earliest contributions to the "cognitive revolution."]

Miller, N., Sears, R.R., Rosenzweig, S., Bateson, G., Levy, D.M., Hartmann, G.W., & Maslow, A.H. (1941). Symposium on the frustration-aggression hypothesis. Psychological Review, 48, 337-366.

Miller, S. [See Konorski & Miller (1937).]

Morgan, C. Lloyd (1896). On modification and variation. Science, NS 4, No. 99, 733-740. [Morgan's version of the "Baldwin effect," published the same year as Baldwin's paper.]

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[1] This name is spelled "McDougall" in every other one of his publications that I (CDG) can find, but it is spelled "MacDougall" in the published version of this work.