Bizarre and Infamous Join Scholarship in an Archive of Psychology

The NYTimes Is Covering the Archives of the History of American Psychology. Visitors can see the uniforms and billy clubs used in the Stanford Prison Experiment, in which students ended up acting the role of guards all too realistically; watch a home movie of Freud batting fruit out of a tree with his cane; or have the bumps on their heads measured to calculate their personalities and career prospects with a 1933 psychograph.
Forty years after its founding at the University of Akron as a national repository for scholars, the archives – psychology’s attic – have amassed not only the papers of more than 740 psychologists, but also a dazzling array of their instruments, ephemera, photographs and films. Although it is a beacon to historians from around the world and the source of hundreds of scholarly articles and books, the archives remains virtually unknown to the public at large.

September 28, 2005 by Uncategorized 1

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  1. Brian G. says:
    September 29, 2005 at 8:50 am

    AHAP
    Check out the website for yourself. I worked at the University of Akron Libraries for 10 years, and did not know about it until my 10th year. It is starting to get some real recognition since David Baker has been running it. They are looking to develop the new space, so that more of the artifacts can be displayed.

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