The Long and Winding Road: 125 years of the American Psychological Association
The road to APA’s 125th year was not a straightforward march of like-minded professionals towards a common goal.
History
Latest Stories
Barry Schwartz: The Idea that Shaped My Career
The “finding” from outside psychology that most influenced me—indeed it essentially shaped my entire career—was not so much a “finding” as an argument.
A Conversation with Malcolm Gladwell: Revisiting Brown v. Board
Was the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board based too much on the psychological harm that segregation caused and not enough on the structural inequality that continues to this day?
Older Stories
All the (Pseudo)Science That’s Fit to Print
“Behind the ears, and directly above the Mastoid Process, is located a brain organ by the name of Vitativeness.”
Psychologists Go to War
The work of a key group of psychologists initiated the largest program of psychological testing attempted to that date, but also provided powerful impetus for two movements: the call for immigration quotas and the sterilization of the feebleminded.
Martin Luther King Jr.’s Call for Social Science in the Civil Rights Movement
In September 1967, Martin Luther King, Jr. took the podium at the American Psychological Association’s Annual Convention in Washington D.C. to deliver a speech challenging social scientists to actively work to end racism.