{"title":"Society for the History of Psychology news & notes.","authors":"Shayna Fox Lee","doi":"10.1037/hop0000195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/hop0000195","url":null,"abstract":"This article reviews the news and notes for the Society for the History of Psychology. The editor adds this will be their last issue writing for the News & Notes section. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":51852,"journal":{"name":"History of Psychology","volume":"24 2 1","pages":"190-191"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46770965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What the history of emotions can offer to psychologists, economists, and computer scientists (among others).","authors":"Susan J Matt","doi":"10.1037/hop0000161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/hop0000161","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Historians of the emotions explore how feelings-and the way they are categorized and conceptualized-have changed over time and across culture. This essay examines some key assumptions about emotion as an historical artifact. It also explores the promise of interdisciplinary research on the emotions. Finally, it looks at particular disciplines, including economics, computer science, and some subfields in psychology, which would be enriched by an historical perspective. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":51852,"journal":{"name":"History of Psychology","volume":"24 2","pages":"121-125"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39056569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Psychological construction of episodes called emotions.","authors":"James A Russell","doi":"10.1037/hop0000169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/hop0000169","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>People witness or experience episodes they explain as due to an emotion. Like ordinary folk, many academic theorists try to understand these obviously important episodes in the same way using the terms emotion, fear, anger, joy, grief, and so on. Yet, each term refers to a heterogeneous cluster of events with unclear boundaries and no single cause-rather than to a prepackaged pancultural bundle of common components (subjective experience, behavior, expression, thought, physiological change). Psychological construction is an alternative approach that treats the concepts of emotion, fear, and so on as the folk concepts they are. It invites emotion researchers in the sciences and humanities to work together to characterize different folk theories of emotion and their influence, but also, in a separate project, to hone more precise scientific concepts embedded in separate accounts of each component of emotional episodes, cognizant of both human diversity and what humans have in common. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":51852,"journal":{"name":"History of Psychology","volume":"24 2","pages":"116-120"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39055621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Emotions in the history of emotions.","authors":"Katie Barclay","doi":"10.1037/hop0000162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/hop0000162","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This brief note explores how emotions have been conceptualized by scholars in the \"history of emotions,\" particularly attending to approaches that explore emotion as a network of relations between bodies, material culture, ideas, language and environment. Here, practice-based, performance-based, new materialist, and posthumanist ideas offer an opportunity to refigure what we consider important to the production of emotion. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":51852,"journal":{"name":"History of Psychology","volume":"24 2","pages":"112-115"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39055620","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
History of PsychologyPub Date : 2021-05-01Epub Date: 2021-01-21DOI: 10.1037/hop0000182
Javier Moscoso
{"title":"Emotional experiences.","authors":"Javier Moscoso","doi":"10.1037/hop0000182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/hop0000182","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article pleads for a history of emotional experiences that allows for the understanding of complex emotional phenomena in the past that are not easily accommodated within the history of emotions framework. Following the avenues opened by the anthropology of experience, the article considers different ways in which the history of emotional experiences should allow transhistorical and cross-cultural comparisons. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":51852,"journal":{"name":"History of Psychology","volume":"24 2","pages":"136-141"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38843462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Psychology: Early print uses of the term by Pier Nicola Castellani (1525) and Gerhard Synellius (1525).","authors":"Diederik F Janssen, Thomas K Hubbard","doi":"10.1037/hop0000187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/hop0000187","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We identify the putatively earliest extant print source of the neoclassical term psychologia, long presumed to have been a 1575 work, as two 1525 works, one by Pier Nicola Castellani and another by Gerhard Synellius. We provide a history of pertinent etymology and introduce the new sources. The full paragraph containing two uses of the term by Castellani is included in translation. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":51852,"journal":{"name":"History of Psychology","volume":"24 2","pages":"182-187"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39056572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction to the special section on the history of emotions.","authors":"Susan Lanzoni","doi":"10.1037/hop0000189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/hop0000189","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this series of stimulating reflective essays, prominent scholars of emotion and its history address the challenges and rewards of interdisciplinarity, recent work in the field, and the many conceptions of \"emotion\"-a polyvocality that presents limitations as well as opportunities. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":51852,"journal":{"name":"History of Psychology","volume":"24 2","pages":"101-106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39055616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The trouble with affect.","authors":"Ruth Leys","doi":"10.1037/hop0000168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/hop0000168","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The trouble with affect is the trouble that arises when the emotions are theorized in anti-intentionist terms as discrete, universal affects that depend on evolved \"affect programs\" in the brain, affect programs that when triggered discharge in an involuntary fashion with characteristic physiological and behavioral manifestations, including especially signature facial expressions. It has been clear for some time that the evidence for this theory is inadequate and that the implications of the position are troubling. The paper briefly explores these issues. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":51852,"journal":{"name":"History of Psychology","volume":"24 2","pages":"126-129"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39056570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
History of PsychologyPub Date : 2021-05-01Epub Date: 2020-10-22DOI: 10.1037/hop0000176
Russell A Powell, Rodney M Schmaltz
{"title":"Did Little Albert actually acquire a conditioned fear of furry animals? What the film evidence tells us.","authors":"Russell A Powell, Rodney M Schmaltz","doi":"10.1037/hop0000176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/hop0000176","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Watson and Rayner's (1920) attempt to condition a fear of furry animals and objects in an 11-month-old infant is one of the most widely cited studies in psychology. Known as the Little Albert study, it is typically presented as evidence for the role of classical conditioning in fear development. Some critics, however, have noted deficiencies in the study that suggest that little or no fear conditioning actually occurred. These criticisms were primarily based on the published reports of the study. In this article, we present a detailed analysis of Watson's (1923) film record of the study to determine the extent to which it provides evidence of conditioning. Our findings concur with the view that Watson and Rayner's conditioning procedure was largely ineffective, and that the relatively weak signs of distress that Albert does display in the film can be readily accounted for by such factors as sensitization and maturational influences. We suggest that the tendency for viewers to perceive the film as a valid demonstration of fear conditioning is likely the result of expectancy effects as well as, in some cases, an ongoing mistrust of behaviorism as dehumanizing and manipulative. Our analysis also revealed certain anomalies in the film which indicate that Watson engaged in some \"literary license\" when editing it, most likely with a view toward using the film mainly as a promotional device to attract financial support for his research program. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":51852,"journal":{"name":"History of Psychology","volume":"24 2","pages":"164-181"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38518302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A useful and reliable guide to Wundt's entire work.","authors":"S. Araujo","doi":"10.1037/hop0000186","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/hop0000186","url":null,"abstract":"Reviews the book, 'Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920): Introduction, Quotations, Reception, Commentaries, Attempts at Reconstruction' by Jochen Fahrenberg (2020). Dr. Jochen Fahrenberg-Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Freiburg in Germany-has done great service to Wundt. In his new book, he offers for the first time an overview of Wundt's entire work, including the three main areas of neurophysiology, psychology, and philosophy. The book is divided in six chapters. The first one displays the author's objectives and explains his approach to Wundt's work. In the second, Fahrenberg offers a short but very useful biography, including Wundt's curriculum vitae, his teaching and research activities, his political and religious attitudes, and a chronological Table with biographical data. The third chapter is the central part of Fahrenberg's project, comprising about two-thirds of the whole book. The fourth chapter deals with the reception of Wundt's work, being the most detailed study of its kind so far. In the fifth chapter, instead of presenting Wundt's ideas in isolation, Fahrenberg tries to reconstruct them in systematic terms, focusing on Wundt's principles and his theory of apperception. In the few pages of the last chapter, Fahrenberg addresses Wundt's current relevance. The merits of Fahrenberg's book are difficult to overlook. It is the first of its kind to be published in English and will certainly help many readers to orient themselves in the thick forest of Wundt's writings; it is a useful and reliable guide to Wundt's entire work, a pleasant invitation to his complex ideas. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":51852,"journal":{"name":"History of Psychology","volume":"24 2 1","pages":"188-189"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43696651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}