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The Psychopath: Separating fact from fiction. Quality information and resources. Learn all about the psychopath here.

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What is forensic psychology? Get the expert answer here.

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Learn about the psychological autopsy, an investigative methodology employed to collect all available information on the deceased as part of a mental state assessment.

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Insightful article about the insanity defence by Dr. Meron Wondemaghen.

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Excellent article on false confessions By Shari Berkowitz, Steven Frenda, Elizabeth Loftus and Kimberly Fenn

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Nadine Lambert was born. A renowned researcher within educational settings, Lambert was the founder of the University of California, Berkeley's doctoral program in school psychology and served a...

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John Dewey was born, an eminent philosopher, psychologist and champion of progressive educational and social reform, Dewey is widely considered as one of the 20th Century's greatest thinkers. A ...

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Lois Stolz was born. A pioneer in the field of childhood education and development, Stolz served as the first president of the National Association of Nursery Education in 1929 and as the first ...

https://www.all-about-forensic-psychology.com/forensic-psychology-blog.html#Lois-Stolz-Today-in-the-History-of-Psychology-19th-October-1891

Roger N. Shepard, Professor of psychology at Stanford University was awarded the National Medal of Science by President Clinton in a ceremony at the White House: 'For his theoretical and experim...

https://www.all-about-forensic-psychology.com/forensic-psychology-blog.html#Roger-N-Shepard-Today-in-the-History-of-Psychology-18th-October-1995

Robert Sessions Woodworth was born. A prominent academic psychologist in the first half of the twentieth century, Woodworth studied psychology under William James at Harvard University and earne...

https://www.all-about-forensic-psychology.com/forensic-psychology-blog.html#Robert-Sessions-Woodworth-Today-in-the-History-of-Psychology-17th-October-1869

Martin Theodore Orne was born. Emeritus professor of psychiatry and psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, Orne was renowned for his pioneering work concerning the nature of hypnosis, mem...

https://www.all-about-forensic-psychology.com/forensic-psychology-blog.html#Martin-Theodore-Orne-Today-in-the-History-of-Psychology-16th-October-1927

Stanley Milgram's infamous article 'Behavioral Study of Obedience' was published in the 'Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology.' The first report from a series of the most notorious and cont...

https://www.all-about-forensic-psychology.com/forensic-psychology-blog.html#Stanley-Milgram-Today-in-the-History-of-Psychology-15th-October-1963

Joseph Plateau was born. An important contributor in the field of psychophysics, Plateau's research examined the perceptual processes underlying color vision and movement. Plateau is widely c...

https://www.all-about-forensic-psychology.com/forensic-psychology-blog.html#Joseph-Plateau-Today-in-the-History-of-Psychology-14th-October-1801

Albert Michotte was born. An eminent experimental psychologist and influential writer within the field of Gestalt psychology, Michotte is best known for his work on the perception of causality. ...

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Robert Rosenthal's classic book 'Experimenter Effects in Behavioral Research' was published. The book grew out of a reanalysis of the statistical data within Rosenthal's own doctoral dissertatio...

https://www.all-about-forensic-psychology.com/forensic-psychology-blog.html#Experimenter-Effects-in-Behavioral-Research-Today-in-the-History-of-Psychology-12th-October-1966

Sigmund Freud began his journey to the Salpêtrière in Paris to study under the pioneering neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot. Such was Charcot's influence on Freud he wrote 'I sometimes come out ...

https://www.all-about-forensic-psychology.com/forensic-psychology-blog.html#Sigmund-Freud-Today-in-the-History-of-Psychology-11th-October-1885

Eminent psychologist Clark Leonard Hull made the first of many date recorded notes in what collectively became known as his 'idea books,' where he wrote down potential research questions, observ...

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Joseph Zubin was born. A world renowned pioneer in the field of experimental psychopathology, Zubin founded the Biometrics Research Unit for the New York State Department of Mental Hygiene in 19...

https://www.all-about-forensic-psychology.com/forensic-psychology-blog.html#Joseph-Zubin-Today-in-the-History-of-Psychology-9th-October-1900

The first volume of Ernest Jones's 'The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud' was published. Subtitled 'The Formative Years and the Great Discoveries, 1856-1900,' part 1 of this classic three volume b...

https://www.all-about-forensic-psychology.com/forensic-psychology-blog.html#The-Life-and-Work-of-Sigmund-Freud-Today-in-the-History-of-Psychology-8th-October-1953

Ronald David Laing was born. A world renowned psychiatrist and radical thinker whose ideas profoundly challenged the prevailing view concerning the causes and treatment of mental illness. Amo...

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William Thierry Preyer wrote the preface to the first edition of his groundbreaking book "Die Seele des Kindes" (The Mind of the Child;) a landmark publication in the history of child psychology...

https://www.all-about-forensic-psychology.com/forensic-psychology-blog.html#William-Preyer-Today-in-the-History-of-Psychology-6th-October-1881

Denis Diderot was born. A philosopher, essayist and committed empiricist, Diderot is renowned for being the chief editor of the 'L'Encyclopédie,' a seminal work of the Enlightenment, the aim of...

https://www.all-about-forensic-psychology.com/forensic-psychology-blog.html#Denis-Diderot-Today-in-the-History-of-Psychology-5th-October-1713

Edmund Clark Sanford's 'Course in Experimental Psychology' was published. Widely considered to be the first laboratory training manual in American psychology, the course was based on a series of...

https://www.all-about-forensic-psychology.com/forensic-psychology-blog.html#Edmund-Clark-Sanford-Today-in-the-History-of-Psychology-4th-October-1894

Volume 2 of William James's classic book 'Principles of Psychology' was published containing twelve more chapters on: Sensation, Imagination, The Perception of 'Things,' The Perception of Space,...

https://www.all-about-forensic-psychology.com/forensic-psychology-blog.html#William-James-Today-in-the-History-of-Psychology-3rd-October-1890

Richard Lester Solomon was born. A renowned teacher, researcher and academic mentor, Solomon spent over a decade at Harvard before being appointed the first James M. Skinner, University Professo...

https://www.all-about-forensic-psychology.com/forensic-psychology-blog.html#Richard-Lester-Solomon-Today-in-the-History-of-Psychology-2nd-October-1918

In a defining moment in the history of psychology, Wilhelm Wundt's tenure at the University of Leipzig began. Wundt recalled in a memoir published in 1909 titled 'Das Institut für experiment...

https://www.all-about-forensic-psychology.com/forensic-psychology-blog.html#Wilhelm-Wundt-Today-in-the-History-of-Psychology-1st-October-1875

'Elementary Psychology and Education' by Joseph Baldwin was published. Promoted as a text-book for high schools, reading circles and a manual for teachers, this was a landmark publication in the...

https://www.all-about-forensic-psychology.com/forensic-psychology-blog.html#Joseph-Baldwin-Today-in-the-History-of-Psychology-30th-September-1887

Naomi Norsworthy was born. A pioneer in the field of childhood mental testing and mental deficiency, Norsworthy was the first woman to graduate with a Ph.D in psychology at Columbia University. ...

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Nancy Bayley was born. A pioneering figure in the field of developmental psychology, Bayley is best known for the longitudinal Growth Study she conducted during her time at the University of Cal...

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Albert Ellis was born. A hugely influential psychotherapist, Ellis is renowned for developing rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT); a specific cognitive behavioral approach rooted in Stoic p...

https://www.all-about-forensic-psychology.com/forensic-psychology-blog.html#Albert-Ellis-Today-in-the-History-of-Psychology-27th-September-1913

Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was born. A Nobel prize winning physiologist and scientist, Pavlov's groundbreaking work on conditioned reflexes derived from his observations of the reflex regulation of t...

https://www.all-about-forensic-psychology.com/forensic-psychology-blog.html#Ivan-Pavlov-Today-in-the-History-of-Psychology-26th-September-1849

Edmund Burke Delabarre was born. An eminent psychologist, researcher and academic, Delabarre is best known for his early work on visual phenomena, sensation and the law of contrast which famousl...

https://www.all-about-forensic-psychology.com/forensic-psychology-blog.html#Edmund-Burke-Delabarre-Today-in-the-History-of-Psychology-25th-September-1863

Albert Bandura's landmark book "Social Learning Theory" was published in which the Stanford University psychologist sets out how new patterns of behavior can be acquired through direct experienc...

https://www.all-about-forensic-psychology.com/forensic-psychology-blog.html#Albert-Bandura-Today-in-the-History-of-Psychology-24th-September-1971

Norma Estelle Cutts was born. A pioneer in the provision of school psychological services in the United States, her landmark publication in 1943 "How to Use Psychological Service in the Schools,...

https://www.all-about-forensic-psychology.com/forensic-psychology-blog.html#Norma-Estelle-Cutts-Today-in-the-History-of-Psychology-23rd-September-1892

Robert Thorndike was born. A brilliant psychometrician, Thorndike is best known for his collaborative work with Irving Lorge and Elizabeth Hagen in developing measures of mental and scholastic a...

https://www.all-about-forensic-psychology.com/forensic-psychology-blog.html#Robert-Thorndike-Today-in-the-History-of-Psychology-22nd-September-1910

Albert Beckham was born. A profoundly influential figure in the field of school psychology, Beckham pioneered the introduction of psychological services within public schools and established the...

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B. F. Skinner was featured on the front cover of Time magazine and is the subject of three cover stories on behavior, titled "Skinner's Utopia: Panacea, or Path to Hell?" "Twin Oaks: On to Walde...

https://www.all-about-forensic-psychology.com/forensic-psychology-blog.html#B-F-Skinner-Today-in-the-History-of-Psychology-20th-September-1971

Human Factors, the flagship journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society was first published. In his introductory essay entitled "A Home of Our Own," editor in chief Stanley Lippert noted...

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Wilhelm Wundt presented a landmark paper on the personal difference between visual and auditory observation at the Natural Science Conference at Speyer, Germany. Writing about Wundt's discipline...

https://www.all-about-forensic-psychology.com/forensic-psychology-blog.html#Wilhelm-Wundt-Today-in-the-History-of-Psychology-18th-September-1861

Oskar Pfungst began his famous investigation into the case of "Clever Hans," a horse that could seemingly solve mathematical problems (multiplication and division) by tapping out answers with hi...

https://www.all-about-forensic-psychology.com/forensic-psychology-blog.html#Oskar-Pfungst-and-the-case-of-Clever-Hans-Today-in-the-History-of-Psychology-17th-September-1904

Karen Horney was born. An eminent psychoanalytic theorist and pioneer within the field of the psychology of women, Horney wrote widely on the androcentric (male centered) nature of orthodox Freu...

https://www.all-about-forensic-psychology.com/forensic-psychology-blog.html#Karen-Horney-Today-in-the-History-of-Psychology-16th-September-1885

Matataro Matsumoto was born. A profoundly influential figure in the history of Japanese psychology, Matsumoto earned his doctoral degree under the supervision of Edward W. Scripture at Yale Univ...

https://www.all-about-forensic-psychology.com/forensic-psychology-blog.html#Matataro-Matsumoto-Today-in-the-History-of-Psychology-15th-September-1865

Solomon Asch was born. A Gestalt psychologist whose classics studies on impressions of personality and social influence were profoundly influential within the field of social psychology. For exa...

https://www.all-about-forensic-psychology.com/forensic-psychology-blog.html#Solomon-Asch-Today-in-the-History-of-Psychology-14th-September-1907

William James's classic text 'Principles of Psychology' (Volume 1) was published. A tribute to James printed shortly after his death in 1910 stated that Principles of Psychology 'is a scientific...

https://www.all-about-forensic-psychology.com/forensic-psychology-blog.html#William-James-Today-in-the-History-of-Psychology-13th-September-1890

Ulric Neisser's classic book 'Cognitive Psychology' was published. This groundbreaking text located a range of research topics, such as perception, attention, pattern recognition, information pr...

https://www.all-about-forensic-psychology.com/forensic-psychology-blog.html#Ulric-Neisser-Today-in-the-History-of-Psychology-12th-September-1967

Alice Bryan was born. Renowned for her unceasing efforts in tackling the marginalization of women in psychology, Bryan founded the National Council of Women Psychologists in 1940 and coauthored ...

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One of the most iconic photographs in the history of psychology was taken. Among those in the photo were Sigmund Freud, Edward Bradford Titchener, Adolf Meyer, Joseph Jastrow, James McKeen Catte...

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Kurt Lewin was born. A profoundly influential figure within the field of social psychology, Lewin was instrumental in demonstrating that experiments on groups could be conducted under precisely ...

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