Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 18:34:50 +0200 (MET DST) From: Csaba PLEH <pleh(a)edpsy.u-szeged.hu> Subject: Aki arra jar:A brief history of British psychology (fwd) Volume 356, Number 9236 30 September 2000 A brief history of British psychology An introductory exhibition at the Science Museum, London, UK, showing until 2001. Part of preparations for the main British Psychological Society exhibition to open in 2001. P sychology in Britain is the first exhibition of psychology to be staged by the Science Museum. It is a prelude to a larger in-depth exhibition on the history of British psychology due to open in 2001 and celebrating the centenary of the British Psychological Society (BPS), the sponsors of the exhibition who have funded a research fellowship for 3 years at the museum. British psychology has a distinct origin, different from the behaviourist traditions of psychology in the USA and the European Gestalt movement. In Victorian Britain there was considerable interest in phrenology and anthropometry. Anthropometrists' concern with accurate measurement and statistical data led to the development of various devices, for example, the goniometer or anthropometric rule for measuring skull size, and the development of many of the statistical techniques, such as correlation, still used in psychology today. One of the four cases in the exhibition focuses on the early origins of psychology in Britain, and highlights the work of Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911) whose research was derived from the anthropometric tradition. Full text: http://www.thelancet.com/journal/vol356/iss9236/full/llan.356.9236.dissecti… PDF: http://pdf.thelancet.com/pdfdownload?uid=llan.356.9236.dissecting_room.1364… To subscribe/unsubscribe/select DIGEST go to: http://www.egroups.com/group/evolutionary-psychology Cognition, Evolution, and Behavior by Sara J. Shettleworth http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/019511048X/humannaturecom/ Evolutionary Psychology Archive: 7000+ Items http://www.egroups.com/messages/evolutionary-psychology