Exploring psychology’s colorful past, with Dr. Cathy Faye, PhD

Speaking of Psychology

Kim Mills

Health & Fitness, Life Sciences, Science, Mental Health

4.3 • 781 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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The simulated shock generator for Stanley Milgram’s famed studies on obedience, artifacts from the Stanford Prison Experiment, and a curious machine called a psychograph that promised to read your personality by measuring the bumps on your head--all of these items are on display at the Cummings Center for the History of Psychology at the University of Akron in Akron, Ohio. The center’s mission is to preserve and interpret psychology’s historical record. Director Cathy Faye, PhD, talks about the center’s collection and how she and her staff work to preserve psychology’s past as well as document its present. Links Cathy Faye, PhD Cummings Center for the History of Psychology Music Expressions of the Mind by ShadyDave via freesound.org Sponsor APA Virtual 2020 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:26.6	While most of us are just trying to make it through 2020, historians and archivists are already thinking about what this era will look like in the rearview mirror.
0:36.6	Historians of psychology are no exception.
0:39.3	At the coming center for the history of psychology in Akron, Ohio,
0:43.3	researchers curate a trove of materials that document more than a century of the discipline's history,
0:49.3	including photos, films, the personal papers of hundreds of eminent psychologists, and even artifacts
0:55.7	from some of the famous experiments you probably learned about if you took Psych 101.
1:01.5	Right now, they're also thinking about how to preserve a record of our current times for future
1:05.5	generations. Part of the Cummings Center is the National Museum of Psychology. Perhaps it never occurred to you that there even is such a place.
1:14.0	And although it is closed to the public right now because of the COVID pandemic,
1:17.6	its work continues and some of its exhibits are online.
1:20.9	Welcome to Speaking of Psychology,
1:22.3	the flagship podcast of the American Psychological Association
1:25.9	that explores the connections between
1:27.8	psychological science and everyday life. I'm Kim Mills. Our guest today is Dr. Kathy Fay,
1:36.3	a historian of psychology and director of the Cummings Center. She's here to tell us more about
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