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I am a high school senior. I need to find information on the growth of psychology in new jersey for a research paper.
-- rachel skolky (rachee45@hotmail.com), August 23, 2001
Interestingly, there were no original members of the American Psychological Association from Princeton. The major psychologist there at the time was James McCosh, a philosopher (though he may have retired before 1892 when the APA was founded). McCosh's student, James Mark Baldwin, was a prominent original member of the APA. He was at Toronto in 1892, but soon returned to Princeton (in 1894, I think), staying there until he moved on to Johns Hopkins U. (in 1903).
-- Christopher Green (christo@yorku.ca), September 05, 2001.
Hi Rachel, if I were you I'd look up the New Jersey Psychological Association on the web and see if they have a history of their association. But then I think psychology has been in New Jersey probably longer than the current state association. I vaguely recall that New Jersey has a particulary rich history in psychology. Of course your thesis statement will focus in on what you mean when you think of psychology. Psychology has grown in many different ways. Are you primarily interested in the treatment of mental illness or are you more interested in the science of psychology as it is carried out in universities, sensation and perception for instance? Are you prepared to write a comprehensive research paper of maybe several hundred pages? or maybe you are looking for a narrow focus, the history of psychology in New Jersey public schools for instance. I'm sure there might be a book on the history of special education in New Jersey. If you are near a college, you could ask a reference librarian in the college library to help you look up master's theses or doctorial dissertations which might turn up titles that look promising to you. Good luck on your paper, David
-- david clark (doclark@yorku.ca), August 30, 2001.