Atlas
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Six of psychology's most cited studies, and the historians and psychologists who later re-examined what they actually showed -- ending with the 2015 project that measured how much of the field's published literature...
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Eight of this atlas's eighteen branches carried real prose but no link to a single psychologist, theory or study. This trail follows the wave that repaired four of them: Constructivism, its own founders, and the...
10 stops
From a hospital ward to a rat cage to a brain diagram everyone has seen: this trail follows famous psychology findings whose own methods, replications or later scrutiny forced the field to say less than it first...
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Structuralism, functionalism, behaviorism and psychoanalysis were only the beginning. This trail follows six later schools, and the psychologists who founded them, from Alfred Adler's 1912 break with Freud to Abraham...
10 stops
From a single misremembered stop sign to a field-wide reckoning: this trail follows memory research, personality theory and the replication crisis through the psychologists and studies that taught psychology to question...
8 stops
Psychology grew through its disagreements as much as its discoveries. This trail follows two of them: the earliest rivalry between structuralism and functionalism over what the young science should even study, and the...
8 stops
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