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Toward a Decolonial Psychology: Recentering and Reclaiming Global Marginalized Knowledges
American Psychologist special issue examines six decolonial themes reclaiming marginalized global knowledges in psychology.
Dismantling Racism in the Field of Psychology and Beyond
Special issue of APA's journal American Psychologist, Vol. 79, No. 4, May-June 2024. This special issue examines the ways in which the field of psychology has perpetuated racial hierarchy and harm toward communities of color.
Public Psychology: Cultivating Socially Engaged Science for the 21st Century
Special issue of APA's American Psychologist, Vol. 76, No. 8, November 2021. This special issue addresses a range of interconnected themes, including: (a) centering social problems, (b) engaging diverse publics in knowledge creation, (c) communicating and democratizing psychological knowledge, and (d) rethinking what constitutes psychology.
Fifty Years Since Stonewall: The Science and Politics of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity
Special issue of the APA journal American Psychologist, Vol. 74, No. 8, November 2019. The articles expand the existing narratives about the history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender psychology that are centered in the United States, focused primarily on sexual orientation.
APA Handbook of the Psychology of Women
As a formal field of study, the psychology of women has pushed the boundaries of traditional theory, produced breakthroughs in methodology, and built links to some of the most challenging problems of our time.
125 Years of the American Psychological Association
This special anniversary volume describes the first 125 years of the American Psychological Association.
B. F. Skinner and Technology’s Nation: Technocracy, Social Engineering, and the Good Life in 20th-Century America [PDF]
This article discusses the historical context of the socially engineered visions of the good life promoted by the Technocracy Movement and B. F. Skinner and explores American attitudes toward psychology, technology, and social engineering during the middle decades of the 20th century.
Feminism and/in/as Psychology
Special issue of the APA journal History of Psychology, Vol. 18, No. 3, August 2015, which demonstrates how attending to feminism as a historical phenomenon can recast a host of interpretive issues at the core of the historiography of the social sciences, namely, questions of interdisciplinarity, the public, and expertise.
Psychology’s engine for social change
SPSSI (APA’s Div. 9) celebrates 75 years of using psychology to push for social justice.
