Exploring psychologys colorful past, with Dr. Cathy Faye, PhD

Published: Dec. 2, 2020, 11:30 a.m.

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The simulated shock generator for Stanley Milgram\\u2019s 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\\u2019s mission is to preserve and interpret psychology\\u2019s historical record. Director Cathy Faye, PhD, talks about the center\\u2019s collection and how she and her staff work to preserve psychology\\u2019s past as well as document its present.

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Cathy Faye, PhD
Cummings Center for the History of Psychology
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Expressions of the Mind by ShadyDave via freesound.org

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APA Virtual 2020

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