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Open research questions in Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology

29 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 2,056 Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

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  • Describing the actions of APA as “one of the greatest ethical breaches in the history of psychology,” the article discusses APA’s offenses, what has been done about them to date, and what remains to be done.

    The American Psychological Association and the Hoffman Report · 2015 · DOI

  • Whereas most earlier research was limited to the study of individual adolescents carrying out their developmental tasks (Erikson 1968), an increasing proportion of research now places the biological, cognitive, and emotional development of adolescents in a broader social context.

    The Sociology of Adolescence · 1989 · DOI

  • The extent to which a systematic theoretical approach adequate to account for the higher mental processes has recently developed has not been explored or documented. What is lacking is a theoretical explanation of how either can be done: and this theory it is the burden of psychology, rather than philosophy, to provide.

    The History of Psychology and its Retrieval from Historiography II: Some Lessons for the Methodology of Scientific Research · 1974 · DOI

  • Temptations and Risks of the Scientific Adviser 449 Nor have we brought into this work any graces of rhetoric, any verbal ornateness, but have aimed simply at treating knotty questions about which little is known in such a style and in such terms as are needed to make what is said clearly intelligible.

    II Temptations and risks of the scientific adviser · 1972 · DOI

  • Further he might reasonably an- swer that even if religion has its origin in emotive associations not yet fully explored or understood, yet an intellectual under- standing of it is necessary for its continued existence. Little is known, however, of the psychological proc- esses at work here.

    II Honest to Goldman: an Assessment · 1968 · DOI

  • His attitude to the teachings of Paracelsus and their criticism by the con- temporary Erastus while in Base1 and Heidelberg is not well established.

    Felix platter and psychiatry · 1965 · DOI

  • We are likely to learn more of the analyst's true attitude from his views on subjects on which there is as yet no standardized body of opinion (e. So long as proof is lacking that analysis does effect radical alterations in the unconscious as distinct from the preconscious, we must be guided primarily by the practical results of our therapeutic efforts, by alterations in the patient's attitude and behavior.

    ‘After the Analysis…’ · 1938 · DOI

  • First, we would suggest that to be suc- cessful future research must be integrated I mean that re- by some central body. search in the different fields must be so controlled that all the findings in all the spheres, either individual or occupational, are in the same terms.

    RESEARCH IN GUIDANCE: A Theoretical Basis · 1934 · DOI

  • esthetic acceptance and valuation of impressions of nature could not remain limited to a mere form of animism, however refined. This narcissistic attraction, which was lacking in the other sex, possessed, if not greater strength, at least more general accept­ ance than it does today.

    The Delay of the Machine Age · 1933 · DOI

  • [yThis practical difficulty in the study of the mental attitude of a class different from our own only adds to a still more formidable difficulty which is not limited to the investigation of one class by another, but extends to the knowledge it is possible to attain of the motives which underlie the social conduct of our own class, our own associates, nay more, even of ourselves.

    Sociology and Psychology · 1916 · DOI

  • According to The Cambridge Companion to Modern Jewish Philosophy, it is an open question "whether there is and has been such a thing as modern Jewish philosophy," and, if so, "what it is.

    Hadassah and the Gender of Modern Jewish Thought: The Affective, Embodied Messianism of Jessie Sampter, Irma Lindheim, and Nima Adlerblum · 2020 · DOI

  • Although we do not establish or even suggest a monocausal link between their ideas and the current state of Argentinian psychology, we do claim that their impact should be explored.

    Psychology <i>qua</i> psychoanalysis in Argentina: Some historical origins of a philosophical problem (1942–1964) · 2020 · DOI

  • Anxiety and panic are sparsely discussed in methodological appendices and handbooks about qualitative research, and the embodiment of mental health in the field has received even less attention.

    Scared to Death: Reflections on Panic and Anxiety in the Field · 2017 · DOI

  • When Bob was invited to join the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Virginia, he was offered the opportunity for further research on dreams and sleep, and the Sleep and Dream Research Laboratory of the University of Virginia Medical Center was establised with Bob as director.

    Robert L. Van De Castle: 1927-2014 · 2014

  • Tucker's own graduate school investigations were prompted by an early encounter with Cattell's discovery that “complex issues in psychology could be studied with quantitative techniques” (ix).

    The Cattell Controversy: Race, Science, and Ideology · 2010 · DOI

  • The historical portrait of Frank Parsons in terms of his early years and family life has endured considerable speculation based on limited information.

    Frank Findings: Frank Parsons and the Parson Family · 2009 · DOI

  • Overseeing a bad economy plagued by spiraling inflation and high unemployment, coupled with the Iranian hostage crisis and a poorly defined relationship with the Soviets, Carter's domestic and foreign policies were in shambles by the end of his tenure in the White House.

    "The Program for Better Jobs and Income": Welfare Reform, Liberalism, and the Failed Presidency of Jimmy Carter · 2006

  • There is insufficient evidence to conclude that Lashley's work was driven predominantly by racial and genetic determinist positions and that he was something other than the scientist he represented himself as being.

    Constructing representations of Karl Spencer Lashley · 2002 · DOI

  • The history of social psychology, as a critical examination of the past leading to a better understanding of the present, still remains to be written.

    History, Origin Myth and Ideology: ‘Discovery of Social Psychology · 1974 · DOI

  • The appearance of visual imagery or certain kinds of symboliza- tion are in themselves insufficient evidence for primitive modes of thinking.

    Psychoanalysis and Scientific Creativity: With Special Reference to Regression in the Service of the Ego · 1969 · DOI

  • Actually Chambers specifically mentions Malthus in his Vestiges, but that particular insight which Darwin had, that the Malthusian process can account for evolution, is lacking in Chambers.

    The influence of phrenology on American psychology · 1966 · DOI

  • This approach is not limited to the Prague group, but has found an echo among students of language in other countries, including the United States.

    Symposium on Karl Bühler's Contributions to Psychology · 1966 · DOI

  • In this balanced evaluation of Hoover Administration and its efforts to deal with domestic problems of Great Depression, Harris Gaylord Warren cuts through myths that surround a crucial and insufficiently understood period of American political history.

    Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression. · 1959 · DOI

  • This little known book is the first 'freudian' book with all the precious simplicity of style, lucidity of presentation and tantalizing hiding of ideas, as if the reader were as passionate a detective as the writer.

    Freud’s Earliest Theories and the School of Helmholtz · 1944 · DOI

  • With the project now successfully launched it remains to be seen how the American col- legiate world can avail itself of the opportunity that this human material offers it.

    Rebounds from the Target · 1935 · DOI

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