Events in Canada and the United States
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1773 - The first US public mental hospital
1822 - Phrenological doctrines available in America
1835 - The first Canadian facility for the care of people with mental illness opened
1839 - Organizing meeting of the American Statistical Association
1840 - Psychology, or A View of the Human Soul; including Anthropology published
1842 - Book Psychology: Elements of a New System of Mental Philosophy published
1844 - American Psychiatric Association founded
1875 - First US demonstration laboratory of psychology equipment
1878 - G Stanley Hall received first PhD degree in psychology in the United States
1883 - First issue of Science
1883 - The first formal psychology research laboratory in the United States
1884 - J Dewey published The New Psychology
1884 - Technology increased psychological output
1884 - W James published What Is an Emotion?
1886 - J M Cattell published The Time Taken up by Cerebral Operations
1886 - The first doctorate in psychology
1888 - First professor of psychology in the United States
1889 - The first laboratory of psychology in Canada
1890 - J M Baldwin founded first Canadian psychological laboratory
1890 - J M Cattell published Mental Tests and Measurements
1890 - W James published Principles of Psychology
1891 - J M Cattell moves to Columbia University
1892 - American Psychological Association founded
1892 - E Titchener introduces structuralism in America
1892 - Prohibition against granting PhD to women
1892 - W James writes The Stream of Consciousness
1892 - World’s Colombian Exposition in Chicago featured psychology pavilion
1894 - Cattell and Baldwin found Psychological Review
1894 - J Dewey published The Ego as Cause
1894 - Margaret Floy Washburn the first woman to receive a PhD in psychology
1895 - J M Baldwin published Types of Reaction
1895 - Mary Whiton Calkins receives a doctoral degree in psychology
1895 - The Psychological Index published
1896 - "The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology" published
1896 - First psychological clinic in the United States
1897 - N Tripllet published The Dynamogenic Factors in Pacemaking and Competition
1898 - Baldwin, Cattel & Jastrow publish Physical and Mental Tests
1898 - E L Thorndike published Animal Intelligence
1898 - E Titchener published The Postulates of a Structural Psychology
1898 - First experiment in sport psychology
1899 - Helen B Thompson received a doctoral degree in psychology
1899 - The Psychology of a Paramecium published
1899 - W Caldwell published The postulates of a structural psychology
1904 - First female president of the American Psychological Association
1904 - K Pearson publishes a study on the inheritance of human mental characteristics
1904 - Spearman published his first paper on general intelligence
1908 - First application of psychology to law
1908 -Term "clinical psychology" coined
1909 - First psychological clinic attached to a juvenile court
1909 - Freud's lectures at Clark University, US
1909 - G Stanley Hall, W James and S Freud
1910 - Attitude test for streetcar drivers
1911 - Edward Thorndike publishes Animal Intelligence
1911 - First meeting New York Psychoanalytic Society
1911 - First mental hospital in Alberta, Canada
1911 - Journal of Animal Behavior established
1911 - Psychoanalytical Association of New York founded
1912 - W. McDougall writes first title with psychology as the study of behaviour
1914 - First mental hospital in Saskatchewan, Canada
1914 - H Münsterberg uses the term "Psychotechnics"
1916 - Division of Applied Psychology established
1916 - First book with the word "motivation" in its title
1916 - The Journal of Experimental Psychology established
1917 - Journal of Applied Psychology established
1917 - Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test published
1924 - First steps in bringing gestalt psychology to the US
1926 - Goodenough's Draw-A-Man Test published
1927 - Edward Titchener died
1927 - First "Hawthorne effect" experiment
1927 - First edition of the Journal General of Psychology
1927 - K Koffka emigrated to America
1928 - American Foundation for Mental Hygiene founded
1928 - First form of the American Psychological Association publication manual
1928 - First general text featuring the word motivation in the main title
1929 - I Pavlov addressed the 9th International Congress of Psychology
1929 - Society of Experimental Psychologists (SEP) founded
1929 - W B Cannon introduced the modern concept of homeostasis
1929 - Yale' s Institute of Human Relations established
1930 - B F Skinner published his first experimental paper
1931 - First woman scientist elected to the US National Academy of Sciences
1933 - Max Wertheimer and Kurt Lewin emigrated to America
1934 - First electrical tracing from the human brain
1934 - Alfred Adler emigrated to America
1934 - American Institute of Public Opinion established
1934 - First meeting of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
1935 - B F Skinner distinguished Pavlovian conditioning and operant conditioning
1935 - E Brunswik invited to the University of California, Berkeley
1935 - First report of the "Stroop effect"
1935 - TAT Test of Thematic Apperception developed
1935 - US Army Air Corps Physiological Research Unit authorized
1935 - W Kohler and K Goldstein emigrated to America
1936 - First prefrontal lobotomies performed in the United States
1936 - The Society for the Psychological Study Social of Issues is founded
1938 - American Association on Mental Deficiency incorporated
1938 - First psychology course at Dalhousie University
1939 - Canadian Psychological Association founded
1939 - J Dollard, N Miller and collaborators present the frustration - aggression hypothesis
1940 - First annual meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association
1941 - First Institute of Psychology in Ottawa, Canada
1941 - National Council of Women Psychologists (NCWP) founded
1942 - Carl Rogers developed therapy centered on the patient
1942 - Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory - MMPI published
1944 - American Psychological Association established precursor to the Committee on International Relations in Psychology
1944 - L Kanner published article "Early Childhood Autism"
1944 - US Public Health Service established
1945 - first US state law for certification or licensure of psychologists
1945 - Journal of Clinical Psychology founded
1945 - K Lewin organized Research Center for Group Dynamics
1946 - Department of Psychology founded at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada
1946 - The NCWP changed its name to the International Council of Women Psychologists
1947 - First recommendations for certification of Canadian psychologists
1947 - R Barker and H Wright established Field Station dedicated to ecological psychology
1947 - The Ontario Psychological Association founded
1948 - Canadian Board of Examiners in Professional Psychology founded
1948 - E C Tolman published paper "Cognitive Maps in Rats and Man"
1948 - Maritime Psychological Association founded
1949 - Boulder Conference - origins of the "scientist-practitioner" model
1949 - The US National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) founded
1949 - Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children first published
1950 - Anna Freud spoke at Clark University, Massachusetts, USA
1950 - G Homans publishes The Human Group
1950 - National Science Foundation (NSF) created in the United States
1950 - R Bales introduces Interactional Process Analysis
1950 - T Newcomb published Social Psychology
1950 - The Porteus Maze Test published
1950 - Theodor W Adorno et al published The Authoritarian Personality
1951 - Interamerican Society of Psychology (SIP) founded
1951 - S Asch's chapter "Effects of Group Pressure Upon the Modification and Distortion of Judgments" published
1952 - E Brunswick publishes The Conceptual Framework of Psychology
1952 - S Asch published Social Psychology
1953 - American Psychological Association (APA) publishes first Code of Ethics of Psychologists
1953 - First Interamerican Congress of Psychology
1953 - S Langer's book Feeling and Form, a landmark in aesthetic psychology, published
1953 - Volume 1 of E Jones's The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud published
1954 - 2nd Interamerican Congress of Psychology
1954 - A Anastasi's Psychological Testing published
1954 - A Maslow develops hierarchical theory of human personality
1954 - B F Skinner demonstrates a machine designed to teach arithmetic, using an instructional program
1954 - Gordon Allport publishes The nature of prejudice
1954 - Leon Festinger postulates the theory of social comparison process
1954 - Rudolf Arnheim's Art and Visual Perception was published
1954 - Thorazine approved for prescription use in the US
1955 - 3rd Interamerican Congress of Psychology
1955 - G Kelly Psychology of Personal Constructs published
1955 - L J Cronbach & P Meehl's "Construct Validity in Psychological Tests" published
1955 - R Crutchfield publishes the article Conformity and Character
1956 - "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information" published
1956 - 4th Interamerican Congress of Psychology
1956 - Corporation of Psychologists of the Province of Quebec established
1956 - L Biswanger publishes Three Forms of Frustrated Existence: Extravagance, Idiosyncrasy and Affectation
1956 - S Asch publishes his studies about conformity
1957 - 5th Interamerican Congress of Psychology
1957 - Antidepressant effects of monamine oxidase (MAO) inhibitors recognized
1957 - S S Stevens's article "On the Psychophysical Law" published in Psychological Review The article was the first thorough exposition of the power law of psychophysics
1957 - Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior (SEAB) founded
1957 - The Human Factors Society was established
1958 - D Broadbent publishes Perception and Communication
1958 - F Feigl publishes The 'Mental' and the 'Physical'
1958 - First exposition of the information-processing approach in psychology
1958 - First issue, Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
1958 - First social hour for international visitors at the APA Convention
1959 - 7th Interamerican Congress of Psychology
1959 - J J C Smart publishes the article Sensations and Brain Process
1959 - J P Guilford's article The Three Faces of Intellect published
1959 - Organizing meeting of the Psychonomic Society
1959 - The Archives of General Psychiatry first published
1960 - G Sperling publishes his famous article about the sensorial memory
1960 - Thomas Szasz's article "The Myth of Mental Illness" was published in the American Psychologist
1961 - Carl Rogers publishes On Becoming a Person
1961 - H Toch publishes Legal and Criminal Psychology, the first psycho-legal textbook
1961 - M Argyle and J Dean's article Eye-Contact, Distance, and Affiliation published
1962 - 7th Interamerican Congress of Psychology
1962 - M Murphy and R Price founded the Esalen Institute at Big Sur, in California
1962 - Saskatchewan (Canada) Psychological Association incorporated
1963 - S Milgram's article "Behavioral Study of Obedience" published
1963 - The 8th Interamerican Congress of Psychology took place in Sao Paulo, Brazil
1963 - Valium (diazepam, Hoffman-LaRoche) approved for use by the US Food and Drug Administration
1964 - 9th Interamerican Congress of Psychology
1965 - A conference held in Swampscott Massachusetts establishes the field of community psychology
1965 - First use of the term behavior modification in the title of a book
1965 - Journal for the History of Behavioural Sciences founded
1965 - Robert Zajonc analyses the process of social facilitation
1966 - 10th Interamerican Congress of Psychology
1966 - First master's program in humanistic psychology at the Sonoma State College, California
1966 - Mark R Rosenzweig's article "Environmental Complexity, Cerebral Change, and Behavior" published
1966 - S Sternberg's article "High Speed Scanning in Human Memory" published
1966 - The first US federal legislation to protect animal research subjects is enacted
1967 - 11th Interamerican Congress of Psychology
1967 - Haldol approved for use by the US Food and Drug Administration
1967 - M Seligman and S Maier's article "Failure to Escape Traumatic Shock" published
1967 - R May publishes Psychology and the Human Dilemma
1968 - G Hardin's article "The Tragedy of the Commons" published in Science
1968 - J G Darley and B Latané's article "Bystander Intervention in Emergencies: Diffusion of Responsibility" published
1968 - New York Times Magazine reported a link between criminality and an extra Y sex chromosome in men
1968 - Roger Sperry's article "Hemisphere Deconnection and Unity in Conscious Awareness" published
1969 - 12th Interamerican Congress of Psychology
1970 - Article "Origins and Evolutions of the Term Psychology" was published
1971 - 13th Interamerican Congress of Psychology
1971 - First meeting Society for Neuroscience
1971 - Interdisciplinary Center of Research in Mathematical and Experimental Psychology established
1971 - Jean Piaget Society incorporated in Pennsylvania, USA
1971 - R Shepard and J Metzler publish the article Mental Rotation of Three-Dimensional Objects
1973 - 14th Interamerican Congress of Psychology
1974 - 15th Interamerican Congress of Psychology
1974 - First Annual Convention of the American Psychology Law Society
1974 - First issue of the Journal of Black Psychology
1975 - Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Psychology established at the Alberta University, Canada
1976 - 16th Interamerican Congress of Psychology
1978 - New York University Head Trauma Program established at New York University
1978 - Society of Behavioral Medicine founded in Chicago USA
1979 - First meeting of the Cognitive Science Society held in La Jolla, California
1980 - Behavioral and Social Sciences added as award category for the National Medal of Science Act
1983 - Association for Pre & Perinatal Psychology and Health founded in Canada
1983 - First Congress of the Association for Pre & Perinatal Psychology and Health
1985 - FIrst national convention of the Asian American Psychological Association
1986 - R Wyer, Jr and T Srull publised the article "Human Cognition in its Social Context"
1989 - Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Sciences founded
1989 - I Altman published the article Centripetal and Centrifugal Trends in Tsychology
1991 - Inaugural American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology
1991 - Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues recognized as a non-governmental organization (NGO) atf the United Nations
1992 - Approximately 8,000 people are working as psychologists in Canada
1993 - R Sperry published article "The Impact and Promise of the Cognitive Revolution
1995 - 25th Interamerican Congress of Psychology
1996 -Demographics - Canada
1997 - 26th Interamerican Congress of Psychology
1997 - Division 52 (Internatonal) of the American Psychological Association founded
1998 - The International Psychology Division (52) of the American Psychological Association established
1999 - 27th Interamerican Congress of Psychology
1999 - First international recipient of the Internaitonal Humanitarian Award, American Psychological Association
2000 - Universitas Psychologia: Pan American Journal of Psychology was founded.
2003 - 29th Interamerican Congress of Psychology
2005 - 30th Interamerican Congress of Psychology
2007 - 31st Interamerican Congress of Psychology
2009 - 32nd Interamerican Congress of Psychology
2011 - 33rd Interamerican Congress of Psychology
2012 - 4th SIP Regional congress
2012 - APA Professional Delegation to Cuba
2012 - First issue of International Perspectives in Psychology: Research, Practice, Consultation