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Center for the History of Psychology
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The Center for the History of Psychology at The University of Akron is home to a vast collection of materials documenting the history of psychology and related human sciences. The Center houses the Archives of the History of American Psychology as well as a museum of psychology, and provides a variety of educational programs related to both library and information science and the history of the human sciences. The collections are comprised of the personal papers of more than 700 psychologists, over 1500 instruments and apparatus, 12,000 three-dimensional and paper-and-pencil tests, 5,000 moving image items, 4,000 audio recordings, 20,000 photographs and still images, 30,000 grey literature documents, and more than 50,000 monographs.
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LATEST ARTICLES ( 196 )
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The Instruments of Psychological Science
– contributed by Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr.The collections of the Cummings Center for the History of Psychology are rich with treasures that tell the history of... Read more
Posted on 03 May 2024 HEALTH, HISTORY, PSYCHOLOGY -
Months of Metadata: A Student Assistant Perspective
contributed by Wesley Martin, CCHP student assistant.-The R. Allen and Beatrix T. Gardner papers included thousands of photographs taken during their research... Read more
Posted on 01 December 2023 HEALTH, HISTORY, PSYCHOLOGY -
Chimpanzee Collaboration: The Gardners and Jane Goodall
contributed by Emily Gainer, Assistant Processing Archivist/Special Collections Librarian.Through thorough record-keeping, the R. Allen and Beatrix T. Read more
Posted on 10 November 2023 HEALTH, HISTORY, PSYCHOLOGY -
An Inside Look at Processing a Collection: The R. Allen and Beatrix T. Gardner...
-contributed by Emily Gainer, Assistant Processing Archivist/Special Collections Librarian.In 2022, the Archives of the History of American Psychology received... Read more
Posted on 19 October 2023 HEALTH, HISTORY, PSYCHOLOGY -
Reflecting on My Semester in the Archives
contributed by Museums Archives Certificate Program student Katie GableThe first film in the Night at the Museum trilogy came out in 2006 and my family... Read more
Posted on 16 October 2023 HEALTH, HISTORY, PSYCHOLOGY -
“America is Suffering from an Outbreak of Psychology”
Written by Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr. “America is Suffering from an Outbreak of Psychology.” Those words were written in 1924 by Stephen Leacock, Canada’s Mark Twain. Read more
Posted on 19 July 2023 HEALTH, HISTORY, PSYCHOLOGY -
The Story of Two Refugee Camps in Photographs Following the Indian Partition
– contributed by Museums Archives Certificate Program student Katie GableIn 1950, married pair of American psychologists Gardner and Lois B. Murphy went to... Read more
Posted on 08 May 2023 HEALTH, HISTORY, PSYCHOLOGY -
Voices of Sexology: Grace Verne Silver, Marriage, and the “Modern Youth”
– contributed by Tony Pankuch.Next week, the Cummings Center will launch its newest exhibit, Sexology: Science Sensationalism, which explores the 50-year run... Read more
Posted on 28 April 2023 HEALTH, HISTORY, PSYCHOLOGY -
“Why Don’t More People Label the Backs of Photos?” and Other Thoughts Working...
– contributed by Museums Archives Certiftcate Program student Katie Gable I am in my final semester of undergrad and every so often I reminisce fondly on my... Read more
Posted on 05 April 2023 HEALTH, HISTORY, PSYCHOLOGY -
The More You Know…
– Contributed by Rhonda Rinehart Back in December we posted about a future Cummings Center building assessment being funded through an NEH grant. Read more
Posted on 01 February 2023 HEALTH, HISTORY, PSYCHOLOGY -
An Archival Scavenger Hunt
contributed by CCHP student assistant Wesley Martin with an introduction by CCHP reference archivist Lizette R. BartonINTRODUCTIONI’m excited to have Wesley... Read more
Posted on 20 January 2023 HEALTH, HISTORY, PSYCHOLOGY -
Cummings Center Receives NEH Preservation Grant
—Contributed by Rhonda Rinehart “The [Psychology] Archives are a valuable resource to the University of Akron campus community, the State of Ohio, the psycholog... Read more
Posted on 05 December 2022 HEALTH, HISTORY, PSYCHOLOGY -
Mary Brown Parlee: “Raging Hormonal Influences,” Editorial Gatekeeping, and the...
—contributed by Lizette Royer BartonToday is my birthday and I am celebrating with a blog about Mary Brown Parlee (1943-2018). I was born November 19, 1980 and... Read more
Posted on 19 November 2021 HEALTH, HISTORY, PSYCHOLOGY -
Psychology, Ouija, & Unconscious Thoughts
– contributed by Tony Pankuch.Our collections contain a range of unusual artifacts, but one that might surprise you is that we have our very own Ouija Board. Read more
Posted on 22 October 2021 HEALTH, HISTORY, PSYCHOLOGY -
A Scavenger Hunt Through the CCHP’s Archives: A First Week Adventure
contributed by CCHP student assistant Isabella Pieri with an introduction from reference archivist Lizette R. BartonINTRODUCTIONThe Archives has a lot of... Read more
Posted on 02 July 2021 HEALTH, HISTORY, PSYCHOLOGY -
“Experiences with the ‘Straight’ World”: The Queer Narratives of Sexology...
– contributed by Tony Pankuch.Browsing the contents of the Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr. Popular Psychology Magazine Collection, one is likely to come across some... Read more
Posted on 25 June 2021 HEALTH, HISTORY, PSYCHOLOGY -
“Nothing at All to Say” and Other Messages from the David P. Campbell Postcard...
– contributed by Samantha Hurst, Kent State University graduate student in the Master of Library and Information Science program.This spring semester, I was... Read more
Posted on 19 May 2021 HEALTH, HISTORY, PSYCHOLOGY -
Women’s History Month: “If It Isn’t Fun, What is It?”
– contributed by Lizette Royer Barton. For a screen reader compatible pdf of this post and documents contained within, click here.I asked my colleagues who thei... Read more
Posted on 26 March 2021 HEALTH, HISTORY, PSYCHOLOGY -
“Hostile Territory”: Miami Beach and the 1957 APA Convention
– contributed by Tony Pankuch. For a screen reader compatible pdf of this post and documents contained within, click here.As discussed in the CCHP’s recent... Read more
Posted on 12 February 2021 HEALTH, HISTORY, PSYCHOLOGY -
A Boring Mentorship Blog
~ contributed by Jodi Kearns.In the early 1950s, Lauren G. Wispé set out to study social and psychological factors associated with eminence in the field of... Read more
Posted on 19 January 2021 HEALTH, HISTORY, PSYCHOLOGY