Exciting Developments in Akron, Ohio
I finally had an opportunity to get down to see the new building where the Center for the History of Psychology has opened in Akron, Ohio! The Center is the expansion of the Archives of the History of Psychology which was held until this past August in the basement of one of the University of Akron‘s buildings.
The new location is a beautiful old brick building that dates to 1915. Thus far the Center occupies the basement and first floor of the building with plans to continue to expand to the three additional upper floors in the upcoming years. A museum featuring some of the highlights from the collection is open to the public on the first floor. The displays include apparatus from various areas within psychology, as well as artifacts and photographs from some of the most famous experiments in psychology’s history: the Bandura Bobo doll, Milgram’s “shock box”, the IQ zoo, the Clarks’ doll experiment, the Stanford prison experiment, Skinner’s air crib, and more. I was also particularly pleased to see the inclusion of asylum history with a letter from Thomas Story Kirkbride, maps, drawings, and a magneto-electric machine. Read the rest of this entry »