On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:57:16 -0700, Christopher Green wrote: >Nice, Michael. (I think that Beth Loftus did here eyewitness work at >Washington. She only moved to Irvine recently (after Washington treated her >exceptionally poorly).
Beth did do her eyewitness research at UofW after spending a few years in New York at the New School for Social Research. Details are available in an autobiographical chapter by her which is available here: https://webfiles.uci.edu/eloftus/Loftus_Autobiography07.pdf As well as Geoff Loftus' remembrance which is here: https://webfiles.uci.edu/eloftus/LoftusGeoffOnBethInGarry07b.pdf?uniq=-mia2io What is odd is that Beth says she came to NYC for the New School and that Geoff went to Columbia. However, Geoff says he did a post doc at NYU. Geoff is remembered at NYU for doing work with George Sperling before getting a position at UofW which, at first, did not want to hire Beth. It was after Beth was offered a position at Harvard that UofW made an offer to her. Anyway, the inconsistency in memories is interesting given who is involved. >I've been working on a history of psychology timeline that you might find >amusing. I'm concentrating in 1840-1920, and I only have about a hundred events >thus far, but it is coming along: >http://www.yorku.ca/christo/timelines/Psychology-timeline.htm I see that NYU is not listed even though your source (Garvey 1929) claims that it was Robert MacDougall who established it in 1901. However, Hilgard in his "Psychology in America" lists Charles H. Judd as establishing a lab in 1900. Whether or not a "psychological lab" was established/created/whatever, it is clear that NYU has a title of "Professor of Experimental Psychology" and Judd was hired for this position in either 1899 or 1900. But there must have been significant problems because a news item in the journal "Science" notes that three professors from NYU's School of Pedagogy (today, this is the school of education) resigned because of "long continued dissatisfaction" with their situation; see: Resignations from the School of Pedagogy, New York University Science , New Series, Vol. 13, No. 329 (Apr. 19, 1901), p. 626 Published by: American Association for the Advancement of Science Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1627897 A news item in a later issue of Science announces the following: |The School of Pedagogy, of the New York University, has been reorganized. |The Chancellor of University, Dr. H. M. McCracken, will act for the present |as dean. Dr. J. P. Gordy, professor of education in the Ohio State University, |has been called to the chair of the history of education and Dr. Robert |MacDougall, of Harvard University, to the chair of experimental psychology. |A number of professors of the University have been added to the faculty |of the School of Pedagogy, including Professors J. J. Stevenson (natural |history), D. W. Her:ing (physics), Morris Loeb (chemistry) and C. L. Bristol |(biology). (p960) University and Educational News Science , New Series, Vol. 13, No. 337 (Jun. 14, 1901), pp. 959-960 Published by: American Association for the Advancement of Science Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1627818 It was also noted in the American Journal of Psychology; see: Notes and News The American Journal of Psychology , Vol. 10, No. 1 (Oct., 1898), pp. 165-166 Published by: University of Illinois Press Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1412707 By the way, in the late 1990s I assisted in gathering together the Ph.D.s recognized by NYU's psychology department as "belonging" to them. The earliest was 1893 (on St. Augustine's Psychology) followed by 1898 (on experimental studies of memory and association). At the time, however, we couldn't identify who their dissertation supervisors were. -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=17254 or send a blank email to leave-17254-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
