Wikipedia lists 36 obsolete psychological categories. These include drapetomania, a supposed mental disorder that led enslaved African Americans to run away; hysteria, the host of motor, psychic and ...

"The history of the American science of animal emotions reveals the ability of animals to teach and scientists to learn." I recently learned about a book by Pennsylvania State University distinguished ...

On a recent trip to Japan, I invited Shoji Muramoto, a longtime leader in Japanese humanistic psychology, to offer his view on the past, present, and future of this branch of psychological thought.

History shapes people in profound ways. Those who grew up during wars, economic crashes, pandemics, or social upheavals often carry invisible marks that influence how they see the world. Psychologists ...

Simone de Beauvoir is best known for The Second Sex, but also published a four-part memoir that stands as a chronicle of post-war French intellectual culture. The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities ...