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Working papers (manuscripts and correspondence) of individual issues of the American Journal of Psychology. Includes Karl Dallenbach - Edwin G. Boring correspondence.

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Largely correspondence presenting a picture of the professional status and interests of psychologist Edward Titchener, containing much information on fellow psychologists and psychology departments at other universities, as well as the struggle of psychology to establish itself as an academic discipline. There is also correspondence concerning the publication of THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY and a bound typescript of Titchener's A BEGINNER'S PSYCHOLOGY (1915).

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Typed transcription of an oral history interviews of Edwin G. Boring, July 5-9, 1961, conducted by John Chynoweth Burnham and supported by the Foundations' Fund for Research in Psychiatry. Concerns Boring's childhood and early life, his path to the study of psychology, his time teaching at Harvard (1922-1957, emeritus 1958-1968), and his research. Includes his reminiscences of Edward Bradford Titchener.

Scope and content Correspondence, test forms and materials, research and testing notes, drafts of scientific writings, and printed and mimeographed matter pertaining to the studies and publications of Dr. Murray and fellow psychologists on color blindness and various aspects of color vision. Dr. Murray's color studies for the Office of Naval Research, color perception tests and apparatus, the aesthetics of color, intelligence and other mental tests, and the activities of the Inter-Society Color Council, the...

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Professional papers include correspondence with Karl M. Dallenbach, Edwin G. Boring, and other participants from the Inter-Society Color Council.

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Correspondence among Harry P. Weld, Edwin G. Boring, and Herbert S. Langfeld and their publisher, John Wiley and Sons, about their psychology textbook INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY.

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Gibson's experimentation and research papers include drafts, notes, and correspondence in many areas of perceptual psychology including aviation, perspective, and physiological optics. Documentation for published material. Correspondence concerning Gibson's writing career.

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Documents his research in psychology, particularly in attention, sensation, and memory, and his other professional activities.