Important updates and breaking stories are linked .
Epigram:
In short, then, we might say that our work is the natural child of the deep, significant, metaphorical, provocative and questionable speculations of psycho-analysis and the precise, systematic, statistical, trivial and artificial methods of academic personology. Our hope is that we have inherited more of the virtues than the vices of our parents. (Henry Murray)This "HyperSyllabus" is intended not only to provide you with a variety of local course resources in an easily-accessible way, but also to acquaint you with the World Wide Web, a user-friendly subset of the Internet. It's not just for geeks anymore. This document also contains pointers to other Psychology resources on the Net. To get the most from the HyperSyllabus, you should setup and configure your own Netscape preferences.
You should open this HyperSyllabus at least once before each class, click on each unexplored link, and read the relevant materials. I welcome your reactions and suggestions, which may be communicated to me verbally, posted to the class discussion group, or sent as electronic mail to ddavis@haverford.edu. I also invite you to communicate directly with Jodi (Jodi Burrus), and to read her class notes as we go along.
Another HyperSyllabus, the parent to this one, is available from the same server.
Th March 16: Schafer's Stories, Murray's Earnst
Lab assignment: Netscape
Th March 23 Horner and the Motive to Avoid Success
Lab: Practicing, doing, then scoring the TAT
Tu March 28: Pollack & Gilligan (1982); Benton et al.; Pollack & Gilligan (1983).
Th March 30: Butcher, Paulsen, and The MMPI
Lab: The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (sort of) and its fans
Th April 6: Herrnstein & Murray, The Bell Curve
Lab: The Class of '79
Th April 13: Davis (1979), Langer & Abelson (1981)
Lab: The Final Project
Butcher, J.N. (1971). Objective personality assessment. New York: General Learning Press.
Herrnstein, R.J., & Murray, C. (1994). The bell curve: Intelligence and class structure in American life. New York: The Free Press. (Preface, Introduction, Chapter 1, Chapter 13).
Horner, M.S. (1970). Femininity and successful achievement: A basic inconsistency. In J. Bardwick, E. Douvan, M.S. Horner, & D. Gutmann (Eds.). Feminine personality and conflict. Belmont, CA: Brooks-Cole. A brief reflection.
Meehl, P. E. (1956). Wanted: A good cookbook. American Psychologist, 11, 263-272.
Schafer, R. (1958). How was this story told? Journal of Projective techniques, 22, 181-210. (Reprinted in R. Schafer. (1967). Projective techniques and psychoanalysis. New York: International Universities Press, pp. 114-169.) A fine discussion of one of Schafer's interpretations is linked.
