Cheiron XXX Program

University of San Diego · June 18-21, 1998

Thursday, June 18
12:30 - 9:30 Registration       Mission Crossroads

2:15 - 4:15 Session I Institutions and Their Impact  Salomon Lecture Room, Maher Hall

Chair:  Deborah Coon University of New Hampshire   
Julie Kimmel Johns Hopkins University  The Philanthropist and the Investigator: John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Mary Van Kleeck, and the Contest over the "Scientific" Study of Industrial Relations in America, 1919-1924
Ian Lubek, Daryl Samotowka, Angela Febbraro, Amy Brown, Natasha Bauer, Brian Ross, Heather Thoms-Chesley and Sue Edmonds University of Guelph
and York University  "Pssst! Pass this on about Social Psychology!": A Cross-gender and Cross-generational Comparison of Mentoring
Jamie Cohen-Cole Princeton University  The Discipline of Community: Research Production and Social Interaction at Harvard's Center for Cognitive Studies
Mary Brown Parlee Massachusetts Institute
of Technology  From Brain and Behavior to the Behavior of the Brain: The MIT Pychology Department and the Sloan Foundation's Program in Neuroscience, 1969-1976

4:15 - 4:45 Refreshments       Rose Garden, Maher Hall

4:45 - 6:15 Session II Minds, Bodies, and Mental Illness  Salomon Lecture Room,

Maher Hall

Chair:  Hans Pols Harvard University   
Thomas Harakal Suffolk University  Psychiatric Diagnoses of Children in 19th-Century Massachusetts State Hospitals
Robert Rieber John Jay College of
Criminal Justice  Hypnosis, False Memory, and Multiple Personality: A Trinity of Affinity
Alan Collins Lancaster University, UK  The Continuing Search for Bodily Signs of Insanity

6:30 - 9:30  Reception     Mission Crossroads, First Floor Lounge

Friday, June 19

7:00 - 8:15 Breakfast        Main Dining Room, University Center

8:15 - 10:15 Session III Exploring Multiple Methodologies Salomon Lecture Room, Maher Hall

Chair:  Alison Turtle University of Sydney, Australia   
M. Eileen Magnello Wellcome Institute, London  The Non-Correlation of Biometrics and Eugenics: Rival Forms of Laboratory Work in Karl Pearson's Career at University College London
Colin Holden Miami University  Out of the Laboratory and into the Field: Animal Mind, Robert Yerkes, and the Defense of Alternative Methods in the Study of Animal Psychology
Geoffrey Blowers University of Hong Kong  Was Z. Y. Kuo (Guo Renyuan) a Radical Behaviorist?
Mark Eddy University of Oklahoma  Plus Ultra: The Role of Parapsychology in Gardner Murphy's Theories of Personality

10:15 - 10:30 Refreshments      Rose Garden, Maher Hall

10:30 - 12:00 Session IV Cheiron 30th Anniversary Symposium:

Assessing Historical Research  Salomon Lecture Room, Maher Hall

Chair:  Michael Sokal Worcester Polytechnic Institute   
Franz Samelson Kansas State University  Assessing Research in the History of Psychology
Henrika Kuklick University of Pennsylvania  Assessing Research in the History of Sociology and Anthropology
Andrew Scull University of California,
San Diego  Assessing Research in the History of Psychiatry

12:00 - 1:15 Lunch      Main Dining Room, University Center

1:15 - 2:45 Session V Anthropologists, Empires, and Indigenous Peoples

Salomon Lecture Room,Maher Hall

Chair:   David Leary University of Richmond   
David Lee Hoyt University of California,
Los Angeles  Indirect Rule in the British Empire as Analogue to Structural-Functionalism in Pre-WWI Britain
Andrew Zimmerman University of California,
San Diego  Natural Humans and Human Nature: Berlin Anthropology and the Humanities
Audra Wolfe University of Pennsylvania  The Human Diversity Genome Project and the Tradition of "Salvage Anthropology"

2:45 - 3:00  Refreshments       Rose Garden, Maher Hall

3:00 - 4:15 Poster Session       Maher Hall, Room 222

Thomas C. Dalton Cal Poly State University,
San Luis Obispo  John Dewey, Myrtle McGraw and the Ontogeny of Consciousness: Reconstructing an Unusual Collaboration in the 1930s
Dave Devonis Graceland College  Genius Loci: Psychologists' Homes
Susan Englander University of California,
Los Angeles  Creating a Social Science of Management: Lillian M. Gilbreth and the New Industrial Psychology
Robert Epstein and M. Michelle Bailey  San Diego State University  Babies in Boxes: A Survey of Children and Parents a Half-Century After Skinner's First "Aircrib"
Steven Gelb  University of San Diego  Late 19th Century Evolutionists' Use of Mental Retardation to Prove Human Origins
Ben Harris and John Zimny University of Wisconsin,
Parkside  Louis Wain’s Cats and Textbook Portrayals of Schizophrenic Art
W.F.G. Haselager Free University, Amsterdam  Is Cognitive Science Advancing Towards Early Behaviorism?
David D. Lee UCLA and University
of Groningen  A History of Methodological Standardization in Psychoanalysis and Behaviorism
Bryan Maier Wheaton Graduate School  Retelling the Story: Exploring the Portrayal of Theology and Religion in the Construction of Psychology’s Story
Nicolas Marchand University of Quebec  In the Name of Defence: The Role of the Defence Research Board of Canada in Promoting Psychological Expertise in the Postwar Era, 1947- 1965
Barbara Lee Stoffel
and Ben Harris University of Wisconsin,
Parkside  The Treatment of the Cyril Burt Scandal by Textbooks in Research Methods
Eugene Taylor, Theodore Lowe, and Mathew Kelley  Saybrook Institute  Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychology: Epistemological Implications for Historiography in the Behavioral and Social Sciences
Clarence Townsend Lane County Health and
Human Services, OR  Tracing Mach's Influences on the Social Sciences: Exploring Pathways Other than Logical Positivism and Behaviorism

4:15 - 8:30 Harbor Cruise, Old Town San Diego,
and Round Trip travel from USD campus

9:00 - 10:00 Session VI  Symposium on Teaching Mission Crossroads, 2nd Floor
The Mad, the Bad, and the Sad, Hollywood Style:  Teaching the History of Mental Illness Through Film

Chair:  James Capshew Indiana University   
Participants:  Benjamin Harris University of Wisconsin,
Parkside   
Michael Fleming Boston University   

Saturday, June 20

7:00 - 8:15 Breakfast      Main Dining Room,University Center

8:15 - 10:15 Session VII Exploring the "Social" and the "Self"
 Salomon Lecture Room, Maher Hall

Chair:  John Mills University of Saskatchewan   
Jeff Sklansky Oregon State University  Corporate Property and Social Psychology: The Ideological Origins of the Social Self
John D. Greenwood City University of New York  What Happened to the "Social" in Social Psychology?
Nicole B. Barenbaum University of the South  "Idiographic" and "Nomothetic": Gordon Allport's "Introduction" of Personality Psychology as Historical and Natural Science
David P. Haney University of Texas at Austin  C. Wright Mills' Uneasy Allies: Reader Reactions to the Manuscript Version of The Sociological Imagination


10:15 - 10:45 Refreshments       Rose Garden, Maher Hall

10:45 - 12:00 Keynote Address      Salomon Lecture Room, Maher Hall

Chair:  Leila Zenderland California State University,
Fullerton   
Theodore Porter University of California,
Los Angeles  The Grammar of Assent and The Grammar of Science: Positivism and Alienation in Karl Pearson’s Philosophy of Science

12:00 - 1:15 Lunch       Main Dining Room, University Center

1:15 - 2:45 Session VIII Symposium: Psychology in Russia  Salomon Lecture Room,

Maher Hall

Chair:  Michael Cole University of California,
San Diego   
Lina Fine Harvard University  Ivan Mikhailovich Sechenov: The Complexities of the Human Mind and the Physiology of the Human Brain in the Context of Social Changes in Russia
David K. Robinson Truman State University  History of Psychology in Russia, Then and Now
Comment:  Michael Cole   

2:45 - 3:15  Refreshments       Rose Garden, Maher Hall

3:15 - 4:45  Session IX  Science, Race, and War  Salomon Lecture Room, Maher Hall

Chair:    
Michael A. Mangan University of New Hampshire  Beyond the "Immigration Problem": Expanding the Social Context of Race Psychology to Include Black Migration
Peter J. Behrens Penn State Lehigh Valley  War, Sanity, and the Nazi Mind: Joseph Jastrow's Last Passion
Sam Parkovnick Dawson College  Gordon Allport and Civilian Morale, 1940-1942

5:00 - 6:00 Business Meeting     Salomon Lecture Room, Maher Hall

6:30 - 7:30  Reception        East Deck,

University Center

7:30 - 9:00 Banquet      Faculty Dining Room, University Center

Sunday, June 21

7:00 - 8:15 Breakfast        Main Dining Room,

University Center

8:15 - 10:15 Session X Conceptualizing Disciplines  Salomon Lecture Room, Maher Hall

Chair:  Elizabeth Scarborough Indiana University,
South Bend   
William A. Koelsch Clark University  G. Stanley Hall, Child Study, and the Teaching of Geography
Henry L. Minton University of Windsor  Claiming Subjective Voice: Thomas Painter (1905-1978) and the Path to Gay and Lesbian Studies
Marion Fourcade-Gourinchas Harvard University  The Internationalization of Economics and the National Economics Professions
Hans van Rappard Free University, Amsterdam  No Distant Problems: Studying the History of Psychology after the "Social Turn"

10:15 - 10:30 Refreshments       Rose Garden, Maher Hall

10:30 - 12:00 Session XI  Symposium
Common Ground: Toward a Rapprochement ofAnthropology and History

Salomon Lecture Room, Maher Hall

Chair:  Marlene Shore York University   
John S. Gilkeson Arizona State University West  A. L. Kroeber and "Style" in the Natural History of Civilizations
Clifford Wilcox The Bolles School,
Jacksonville  Robert Redfield and the Interwar Debate over Culture and Civilization
Willow Roberts Powers University of New Mexico  Fields for Thought: Anthropology and History

12:00 - 2:00 Lunch       Main Dining Room, University Center