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VOLUME 29 , NUMBER 12 -December 1998
TIME CAPSULE
| 1642 | Sir Isaac Newton was born on Dec. 25, in the same year Galileo died. Newton?s work in vision and optics, as well as his deterministic philosophy of science, have strongly influenced psychology. |
| 1897 | APA made its first financial commitment to an activity other than its own administration: On Dec. 29, APA?s Committee on Physical and Mental Tests was given a budget of $100?a significant portion of the association?s assets of $66 |
| 1901 | In a Dec. 20 landmark address in the early history of industrial psychology, Walter Dill Scott spoke to a national convention of advertising executives in Chicago about the potential application of psychological principles to advertising. |
| 1916 | On Dec. 6, the New York Psychiatric Society appointed a committee on the activities of psychologists. The committee announced its disapproval of psychologists? judging "the mental condition of sick, defective or otherwise abnormal persons" and disapproval of "the application of psychology to responsible clinical work except?under the direct supervision of physicians." |
| 1943 | Allied bombing on Dec. 4 destroyed Wilhelm Wundt?s original Leipzig, Germany, psychology laboratory. |
| 1951 | On Dec. 14 in Seattle, psychologist Louis Gellermann was convicted of using sexual intercourse in an attempt to cure three of his female clients of their "guilt complexes." |
| 1990 | At a news conference, the APA released a report titled "Women and Depression: Risk Factors and Treatment Issues." The report?edited by Ellen McGrath, Gwendolyn Puryear Keita, Bonnie R. Strickland and Nancy Felipe Russo for the APA?s National Task Force on Women and Depression?gained widespread media attention. |
Source: APA Historical Database, created and maintained by Warren R. Street, Central Washington University, and published as "A Chronology of Noteworthy Events in American Psychology" (APA, 1994).
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