Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 2 — John Shaqi
Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 2
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Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 2
Psychology, Experimental
Whenever the results seemed fit for
publication, the papers have been published under the names of the
students who had the responsibility for the conduct of the experiments.
Until three years ago the publication was scattered; most of the
papers, however, appeared in the Psychological Review. The Harvard
Psychological Studies, beginning in 1903, are to gather the bulk of our
material, although not a few of the researches of recent years have
been published in other places.
The laboratory has always sought to avoid one-sidedness, and this the
more as it was my special aim to adjust the selection of topics to the
personal equations of the students, many of whom came with the special
interests of the physician, the zoölogist, the artist, the pedagogue,
and so on. My own special interests may have emphasized those problems
which refer to the motor functions and their relations to attention,
apperception, space-sense, time-sense, feeling, etc. At the same time
I have tried to develop the psychological-æsthetic work, which has
become more and more a special branch of our laboratory, and there has
been no year in which I have not insisted on some investigations in the
fields of association, memory, and educational psychology. On the other
hand, in a happy supplementation of interests, Dr. Holt has emphasized
the physiological psychology of the senses, and Dr. Yerkes has quickly
developed a most efficient experimental department of animal psychology.
As the work thus became more manifold, the old quarters in Dane Hall
appeared less and less sufficient. And yet this laboratory development
has been merely parallel to the growth of general philosophical studies
in the whole University. The demand for a new hall, exclusively devoted
to philosophy, was thus suggested from many sides. The idea of linking
it with the name of Ralph Waldo Emerson has been for years a cherished
plan of Professor Palmer.
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