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Kurt Lewin
Kurt Lewin , 1890-1947, American psychologist, b. Germany, Ph.D. Univ. of Berlin, 1914. He taught at the Univ. of Berlin before coming to the United States in 1932. He was professor (1935-44) of child psychology at the Univ. of Iowa and director (from 1944) of the research center for group dynamics ... Read more
consciousness
consciousness in psychology, a term commonly used to indicate a state of awareness of self and environment. In Freudian psychology, conscious behavior largely includes cognitive processes of the ego, such as thinking, perception, and planning, as well as some aspects of the superego, such as moral ... Read more
Edward Bradford Titchener
Edward Bradford Titchener , 1867-1927, American psychologist, b. Chichester, England, grad. Oxford, 1890. He studied in Leipzig (Ph.D. 1892) under Wundt (whose Principles of Physiological Psychology he translated), and in 1892 he became head of the new psychological laboratory at Cornell, where he... Read more
William Halse Rivers Rivers
William Halse Rivers Rivers 1864-1922, British anthropologist. He taught at Cambridge from 1893 until shortly before his death. Trained in medicine and psychology, he pioneered in the experimental study of mental functions among preliterate peoples, making his first field investigations in 1898 amo... Read more
psychology
psychology science or study of the thought processes and behavior of humans and other animals in their interaction with the environment. Psychologists study processes of sense perception , thinking, learning , cognition, emotions and motivations , personality , abnormal behavior, interactions b... Read more
George Trumbull Ladd
George Trumbull Ladd 1842-1921, American philosopher, b. Painesville, Ohio, grad. Western Reserve Univ., 1864, and Andover Theological Seminary, 1869. He taught at Yale from 1881 until his retirement in 1906. Influenced by Hermann Lotze, he worked primarily in experimental psychology and founded th... Read more
Granville Stanley Hall
Granville Stanley Hall 1844-1924, American psychologist and educator, b. Ashfield, Mass., grad. Williams, 1867. G. Stanley Hall taught at Antioch and Harvard, studied experimental psychology in Germany, and in 1882 organized at Johns Hopkins a psychological laboratory that rapidly took a leading po... Read more
Gustav Theodor Fechner
Gustav Theodor Fechner , 1801-87, German philosopher and physicist, founder of psychophysics, educated at Dresden and Leipzig. He became professor of physics at Leipzig in 1834 but was forced by ill health to leave in 1839. Thereafter he devoted himself largely to the study of the relationship betwe... Read more
James McCosh
James McCosh 1811-94, Scottish-American philosopher and educator, b. Ayrshire, Scotland, grad. Univ. of Edinburgh, 1833. He was called to the United States in 1868 to become president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton Univ.), and he retained the position until 1888. His successful career ... Read more
Edward Lee Thorndike
Edward Lee Thorndike , 1874-1949, American educator and psychologist, b. Williamsburg, Mass., grad. Wesleyan Univ., 1895, and Harvard, 1896, Ph.D. Columbia, 1898. Appointed instructor in genetic psychology at Teachers College, Columbia, in 1899, he served there until 1940 (as professor from 1904 and... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "investigative psychology"

learning disabilities
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body ...nature, at least for investigative purposes; we also often...described by modern psychology. In the seventeenth-century roots of that psychology we begin to find a learning...abstractly’, and psychology has refined this picture... Read more
Steffens, Lincoln
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...the University of Berlin, art history at Heidelberg, and psychology at Leipzig. He worked as a reporter and newspaper editor...M. Tarbell—as a leading practitioner of critical, investigative, adversarial journalism. Charging Steffens and the others... Read more
personality
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body ...general public in the 1900s and by mainstream academic psychology in the 1920s and 1930s, the meanings of the term sedimented...around two poles associated with two different types of investigative sites: personality as a collection of distinguishable...influential modern articulation in the psychoanalytic ... Read more

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Investigative Interviewing: Psychology and Practice.(INVESTIGATIONS)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Security Management; 3/1/2005; 136 words ; INVESTIGATIVE INTERVIEWING: PSYCHOLOGY AND PRACTICE Rebecca Milne and...a concise, practical guide to investigative interviewing based on psychological...underlying rationale for the investigative interviewing of any person, whether... Read more
Current perspectives in forensic psychology and criminal behavior, 2d ed.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2008; 162 words ; ...Current perspectives in forensic psychology and criminal behavior, 2d ed. Ed...presents 24 readings on forensic psychology and its involvement in police and investigative psychology, criminal behavior, victimology, law, and correctional psychology. Articles, most published after... Read more
Finding jobs with a psychology bachelor's degree; expert advice for launching your career.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 5/1/2009; 155 words ; 9781433804373 Finding jobs with a psychology bachelor's degree; expert advice for launching your...Assn. 2009 158 pages $29.95 Paperback BF76 Landrum (psychology, Boise State U.) presents baccalaureates in psychology this sensible guide to choosing and pursuing a career...fields as well as those in ... Read more
Psychology.(Books and Reports)
Newspaper article from: Legal Publisher; 10/1/2007; 122 words ; ...this month released the two-volume Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law, a reference set that encompasses the full...jury behavior). It includes scholarship from all of psychology's sub-disciplines as well as various domains of law...public policy. The A-Z entries examine a variety of psychology and law ... Read more
The Art of Investigative Interviewing: second edition.(INVESTIGATIONS)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Security Management; 3/1/2005; 153 words ; THE ART OF INVESTIGATIVE INTERVIEWING Second edition Charles L. Yeschke Butterworth-Heinemann The second edition of The Art of Investigative Interviewing outlines techniques that can be used...been added to this edition. Drawing elements from psychology, philosophy, and sociology, Charles Yeschke applies ... Read more
Cold case homicides; practical investigative techniques.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 2/1/2007; 146 words ; 084932209X Cold case homicides; practical investigative techniques. Walton, Richard H. CRC / Taylor & Francis...concepts while providing a strong practical basis for the investigative process. Combining techniques in forensics, psychology and criminal investigation, the guide defines the characteristics... Read more
The Cambridge handbook of acculturation psychology.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 2/1/2007; 183 words ; 0521614066 The Cambridge handbook of acculturation psychology. Ed. by David L. Sam and John W. Berry. Cambridge U. Pr...variety of societies of settlement, where much of the investigative work on acculturation has been taking place; and applications...scholars and graduate-level students in cross- cultural ... Read more
Criminal investigative failures: avoiding the pitfalls (Part two).
Magazine article from: The FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin; 10/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...cognitive biases and how they can contribute to criminal investigative failures. Part two presents probability errors and organizational...ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] PROBABILITY ERRORS Probability and Psychology Anyone who has spent a few hours watching people gamble will... Read more
Serial murder and the psychology of violent crimes.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: SciTech Book News; 3/1/2008; 195 words ; 9781588296856 Serial murder and the psychology of violent crimes. Ed. by Richard N. Kocsis. Humana Press...16 articles show how far we have come by addressing the psychology of violent crimes on an international scale, including...female serial murderers, and mass murderers, and those on investigative ... Read more
Criminal investigative failures: avoiding the pitfalls.
Magazine article from: The FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin; 9/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...OMITTED] Failures in the criminal investigative process can have serious consequences...Researchers in the fields of cognitive psychology, forensic statistics, intelligence...biases that can lead to criminal investigative failures and some strategies that...forget details irrelevant to their ... Read more