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PSYC 422 History of Psychology in Context (Prof Johnson): Autobiographical / Biographical Sources

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A History of Psychology in Autobiography

The print version of these books are held in OSF on the Lower Level (Call # BF 105 .H57) as well as online. For the online version, click on the Volume number link below. Here are the autobiographies listed within each volume of this 9-volume set:

Vol. 1

  • James Mark Baldwin
  • Mary Whiton Calkins
  • Edouard Claparede
  • Raymond Dodge
  • Pierre Janet
  • Joseph Jastrow
  • F. Kiesow
  • William McDougall
  • Carl Emil Seashore
  • C. Spearman
  • William Stern
  • Carl Stumpg
  • Howard C. Warren
  • Theodor Ziehen
  • H. Zwaardemaker

Vol. 2

  • Benjamin Bourdon
  • James Drever
  • Knight Dunlap
  • Guilio Cesare Ferrari
  • Shepherd Ivory Franz
  • Karl Groos
  • Gerardus Heymans
  • Harald Hoffding
  • Charles H. Judd
  • C. Lloyd Morgan
  • Walter B. Pillsbury
  • Lewis M. Terman
  • Margaret Floy Washburn
  • Robert S. Woodworth
  • Robert Mearns Yerkes

Vol. 3

  • James Rowland Angell
  • Frederic Charles Bartlett
  • Madison Bentley
  • Harvey A. Carr
  • Sante De Sactis
  • Joseph Frobes
  • O. Klemm
  • Karl Marbe
  • Charles Samuel Myers
  • E.W. Scripture
  • Edward Lee Thorndike
  • John Broadus Watson
  • Wilhelm Wirth

Vol. 4

  • Walter Van Dyke Bingham
  • Edwin Garrigues Boring
  • Cyril Burt
  • Richard M. Elliott
  • Agostino Gemelli
  • Arnold Gesell
  • Clark L. Hull
  • Walter S. Hunter
  • David Katz
  • Albert Michotte
  • Jean Piaget
  • Henri Pieron
  • Godfrey Thomson
  • L.L. Thurstone
  • Edward Chace Tolman

Vol. 5

  • Gordon W. Allport
  • Leonard Carmichael
  • Karl M. Dallenbach
  • John F. Dashiell
  • James J. Gibson
  • Kurt Goldstein
  • J.P. Guilford
  • Harry Helson
  • Walter R. Miles
  • Gardner Murphy
  • Henry A. Murray
  • Sidney L. Pressey
  • Carl Rogers
  • B.F. Skinner
  • Morris S. Viteles

Vol. 6

  • Floyd H. Allport
  • Frank A. Beach
  • Raymond B. Cattell
  • Clarence H. Graham
  • Ernest Ropiequet Hilgard
  • Otto Klineberg
  • Jerzy Konorski
  • David Krech
  • A.R. Luria
  • Margaret Mead
  • O. Hobart Mowrer
  • Theodore M. Newcomb
  • S.S. Stevens

Vol. 7

  • Anne Anastasi
  • Donald E. Broadbent
  • Jerome S. Bruner
  • Hans Jurgen Eysenck
  • Frank A. Geldard
  • Eleanor J. Gibson
  • D.O. Hebb
  • Quinn McNemar
  • Charles E. Osgood
  • Robert R. Sears
  • Herbert A. Simon

Vol. 8

  • Roger G. Barker
  • Roger Brown
  • Lee J. Cronback
  • William K. Estes
  • Fritz Heider
  • Leo M. Hurvich and Dorothea Jameson
  • Barbel Inhelder
  • R. Duncan Luce
  • Eleanor E. Maccoby
  • Paul E. Meehl
  • George A. Miller
  • Carl Pfaffmann
  • Stanley Schachter

Vol. 9

  • Elliot Aronson
  • Albert Bandura
  • Gordon H. Bower
  • Jerome Kagan
  • Daniel Kahneman
  • Elizabeth F. Loftus
  • Walter Mischel
  • Ulric Neisser
  • Richard F. Thompson

Models of Achievement: Reflections of Eminent Women in Psychology

This resource is located on reserve at the OSF Library Circulation Desk: (Call # BF109.A1 M6 1983). Here are the autobiographies listed within each volume of this 3-volume set:.  

Vol. 1:

  • Katharine M. Banham
  • Myrtle B. McGraw
  • Ruth W. Howard
  • Alice I. Bryan
  • Lois Barclay Murphy
  • Margaret Ives
  • Mildren B. Mitchell
  • Eugenia Hanfmann
  • Molly R. Harrower
  • Thelma G. Alper
  • Mary D. Salter Ainsworth
  • Mary Henle
  • Margaret Hubbard Jones
  • Mary J. Wright
  • Mamie Phipps Clark
  • Carolyn Wood Sherif

Vol. 2:

  • Lois Hayden Meek Stolz
  • Leona E. Tyler
  • Anne Anastasi
  • Marie Skodak Crissey
  • Erika Fromm
  • Lillian E. Troll
  • Olga E. de Cillis Engelhardt
  • Patricia Cain Smith
  • Jane Loevinger
  • Frances K. Graham
  • Janet Taylor Spence
  • Dorothy Hansen Eichorn
  • Carolyn Robertson Payton
  • Martha T. Mednick
  • Martha E. Bernal
  • Florence L. Denmark
  • Bonnie R. Strickland

Vol. 3:

  • Frances Mitchell Culbertson
  • Patricia M. Bricklin
  • Frances Degen Horowitz
  • Norine G. Johnson
  • Sandra Wood Scarr
  • Dorothy W. Cantor
  • Diane J. Willis
  • Elaine Hatfield
  • Phyllis A. Katz
  • Linda M Bartoshuk
  • Patricia Keith-Spiegel
  • Kay Deaux
  • Judith E.N. Albino
  • Margaret W. Matlin
  • Pamela Trotman Reid
  • Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
  • Diane F. Halpern
  • Janet Shibley Hyde
  • Lillian Comas-Diaz

Biographical and Autobiographical Resources online

Other Biographical & Autobiographical Resources

The following resources may help you find biographical information.  Several of these resources are available on Reserve in the O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library on the St. Paul campus:

Portraits of Pioneers in Psychology

This resource is located on reserve at the OSF Circulation desk (Call # BF 109 .A1 P67 1991).  Here are the biographies listed within each volume of this 6-volume set:

Vol. 1:

  • Francis Galton
  • William James
  • Ivan Petrovich Pavlov
  • Sigmund Freud
  • Mary Whiton Calkins
  • Joseph Jastrow
  • E.B. Titchener
  • Ethel Puffer
  • Harvey Carr
  • Edward L. Thorndike
  • C.G. Jung
  • John B. Watson
  • Max Wertheimer
  • Clark L. Hull
  • Edward Chace Tolman
  • Leta Stetter Hollingsworth
  • WolgangKohler
  • Walter S. Hunter
  • Edna Heidbreder
  • Karl Spencer Lashley
  • Harry Stack Sullivan
  • Robert Choate Tryon

Vol. 2:

  • Gustav Theodor Fechner
  • Dorothea Dix
  • Ivan Mikhailovich Sechenov
  • John Dewey
  • Lightner Witmer
  • William Stern
  • Robert M. Yerkes
  • Lillian Gilbreth
  • Harry Hollingworth
  • Edwin Ray Guthrie
  • Carl Murchison
  • Edgar A. Doll
  • Joseph Banks Rhine
  • William Emet Blatz
  • Barbara Stoddard Burks
  • Donald Olding Hebb
  • James J. Gibson
  • Clarence Graham
  • Paul Harkai Schiller
  • Silvan S. Tomkins
  • Stanley Milgram

Vol. 3:

  • Laurens Perseus Hickok
  • Charles Darwin
  • Wilhelm Wundt
  • Hermann Ebbinghaus
  • Alfred Binet
  • L.L. Thurstone
  • Kurt Lewin
  • Floyd Henry Allport
  • Jean Piaget
  • Karl Duncker
  • Milton Erickson
  • Zing-Yang Kuo
  • Myrtle McGraw
  • Henry W. Nissen
  • Carl Rogers
  • Burrhus Frederick Skinner
  • Kenneth W. Spence
  • David Krech
  • Benton J. Underwood
  • Leon Festinger

Vol. 4:

  • Thomas Upham
  • Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz
  • George Croom Robertson
  • Carl Stumpf
  • Georg Elias Muller
  • Charles E. Spearman
  • Hugo Munsterberg
  • Lewis Terman
  • Sir Frederic Charles Bartlett
  • Karen Horney
  • Francis Cecil Sumner
  • Fritz Heider
  • T.C. Schneirla
  • Starke Rosecrans Hathaway
  • Evelyn Hooker
  • Frank A. Beach
  • Carl Iver Hovland
  • Stuart W. Cook
  • Roger W. sperry
  • Hans Eysenck
  • Sigmund Koch

Vol. 5:

  • Gottfried Wilhelm Liebniz
  • G. Stanley Hall
  • Harry Kirke Wolfe
  • James Rowland Angell
  • Margaret Floy Washburn
  • William McDougall
  • June Etta Downey
  • Kurt Goldstein
  • Walter Van Dyke Bingham
  • Albert Michotte
  • Wolfgang Metzger
  • Nancy Bayley
  • Egon Brunswik
  • Leona Tyler
  • Solomon Asch
  • Anne Anastasi
  • Harry Frederick Harlow
  • Frederick M. Lord
  • Mary Ainsworth
  • Floyd Ratliff

Vol. 6:

  • Edmund Clark Sanford
  • James McKeen Cattell
  • Charles henry Turner
  • Robert S. Woodworth
  • Karl M. Dallenbach
  • Frieda Fromm-Reichmann
  • Marion Almira Bills
  • Calvin Perry Stone
  • Donald G. Paterson
  • Coleman Roberts Griffith
  • Henry a. Murray
  • Mary Cover Jones
  • Davod Sjalpw
  • Magda B. Arnold
  • Nikolaas Tinbergen
  • Abraham H. Maslow
  • Kenneth B. Clark

Archival Collections

The following links can help you find archival collections related to the history of psychology: