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It Is the Best of Times, It Is (Not Quite) the Worst of Times
It was 1988 and I was starting my third year at Berkeley. One of my senior colleagues stopped by my office and dropped off a brochure describing the newly formed American Psychological Society saying: “You
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Observer Forum
Tulving Ends Controversy The following is a letter from Convention Keynote Speaker Endel Tulving to Immediate Past President Roddy Roediger. Endel Tulving, Keynote Speaker at the APS 16th Annual Convention, sips water during his presentation.
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Invited Symposium: All Labs Great and Small
“Understanding the growth and development of the psychological laboratory offers insights into the practice and perception of psychological science,” said David B. Baker. The American psychology laboratory has changed in many ways from its modest
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Meet Me at the Fair
An original postcard of the Ferris wheel, then only a decade old, at the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis. On May 14, 1804, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, and the other members of their
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A Glimpse of Psychology’s Greatest Experiments
OPENING SKINNER’S BOX: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century By Lauren Slater W. W. Norton 2004 In the Roaring Twenties, in the midst of what Canadian humorist Stephen Leacock called an “outbreak of psychology
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What Happened to Behaviorism
The year 2004 marks the centenary of B. F. Skinner’s birth. I doubt that most members of the American Psychological Society (and even a smaller proportion of all psychologists) will pay much attention. After all
