As humanity developed, the snake in the Garden evolved into Satan in the Old Testament, and both symbolize the opposition needed to distinguish conscious from unconscious. Each toddler repeats this contrary “no” stage in its development, and that opposition is a vital factor in the growth and ...
WWII helped bring dramatic changes to clinical psychology, not just in America but internationally as well. Graduate education in psychology began adding psychotherapy to the science and research focus based on the 1947 scientist-practitioner model, known today as the Boulder Model, for Ph.D. progra...
Incubatorsbecame the standard of carefor preterm infants after WWII, saving the lives of many fragile infants, but sometimes playing a role in causingtragic, lifelong morbidities. Around this time, medical professionals took over the care of premies completely. While the practice...
In America, there has always been an interest in the application of psychology to everyday life. Mental testing is an important example. Modern intelligence tests were developed by the French psychologist Alfred Binet (1857–1911). His goal was to develop a test that would identify schoolchildren...
(e.g., typically via linear models, such asttests or other variants of ANOVA-type models). As noted, cross-sectional approaches control for period effects but confound cohort and age effects with one another and this confounding cannot be resolved statistically through any means. To be clear,...
WhileJews have long beensubjecttosuch forms of discrimination throughout the diaspora, it was hopedthat it waned since WWII, unfortunatelythis is no longer the case, andJewsare once again being victimizedbyhighlevels of blatantantisemitism inmuch of the world.AntisemitismResearchAlthough antisemitism...
However, Mira y Lopez, working with pilots before WWII, observed individual differences in space perception; when the visibility was low, vision was limited (due to high density fog). Further work led Mira to create Miokinetic Psychodiagnosis (Mira, 1958) (partially under the influence of ...