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The “Magic Decade” revisited: Clark psychology in the twenties and thirties
Author(s) -
Koelsch William A.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
journal of the history of the behavioral sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.216
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1520-6696
pISSN - 0022-5061
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6696(199004)26:2<151::aid-jhbs2300260206>3.0.co;2-u
Subject(s) - magic (telescope) , scope (computer science) , period (music) , psychology , psychoanalysis , media studies , social science , political science , sociology , economic history , art history , history , art , aesthetics , physics , quantum mechanics , computer science , programming language
Clark psychology in the post‐Hallian era has attracted little attention from scholars. The only general account, Carl Murchison's “Recollections of a Magic Decade at Clark” (1959), is both partisan and limited in scope. This paper examines the “second cycle” of the Clark department in a period of unusual productivity in research, publication, and graduate training from the mid‐twenties to the mid‐thirties, as well as the internal tensions and constraints that led the department to self‐destruct in 1936 and lose its scholarly leadership and professional visibility until the post‐World War II era.