Paul Brandon
Tue, 30 Mar 1999 13:09:21 -0500
Has anyone challenged the more basic accusation that there was in fact no such family? At 7:52 AM -0600 3/30/99, Dave Johnson wrote: >On 27 Mar 99, at 23:29, Linda M. Woolf wrote: > >> >> Goddard also retouched the photographs >> to make the Kallikaks appear mentally retarded for his book The >> Kallikak Family. > >The notion that Goddard *intentionally* retouched the photos to make the >Kallikaks appear more "feeble-minded" has not gone unchallenged. See >the following for some responses to this controversy: > > Fancher, R. E. (1987). Henry Goddard and The Kallikak Family >photographs: "Conscious skulduggery" or "Whig history"? American >Psychologist, 42 585-590. > > Kral, M. J. (1988). More on Goddard and the Kallikak family >photographs. American Psychologist, 43, 745-746. > > Glenn, S. S., & Ellis, J. (1988). Do the Kallikaks look "menacing" >or "retarded?" >American Psychologist, 43, 742-743. * PAUL K. BRANDON [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Psychology Department 507-389-6217 * * "The University formerly known as Mankato State" * * http://www.mankato.msus.edu/dept/psych/welcome.html *