At 08:03 AM 7/26/99 -0700, you wrote:
> The American Journal of Psychology was funded
>by a widow (I
>> >think it was a widow) who thought she was founding a journal of
>psychic research. Etc.
>> >This would be an interesting research topic.
In an article by Coon (1992) on how experimental psychologists dealt with
spiritualism at the turn of the century, she discusses how the use of the word
"psychological" sometimes refered to paranormal phenomena. At one point she
reports the following: "Dorothy Ross (1972) recounted how Hall (1944-1924)
actually took advantage of this sort of confusion when establishing his
American Journal of Psychology: Several of his benefactors believed they were
contributing to a journal of psychic phenomena, and he did not correct their
misimpression" (pg. 146).
Say, should we report that little trangression to the APA ethics board? :)
Coon D. J. (1992). Testing the limits of sense and science. American
Psychologist, 47, 143-151.
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