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Green (York University, Toronto, Canada)<\/h2>\n<p>For the past decade, members of my lab have been bringing the new methods of Digital Humanities to bear on the study of psychology\u2019s past. This talk will survey that work and bring out some larger issues in the process. Although scholarly historical writing has focused mainly on \u201cmicro-histories\u201d for the past several decades, we immediately found that the digital approach enabled us to explore larger questions without the loss of \u201cfine texture\u201d that is often associated with the \u201cgrand histories\u201d of the past. We began modestly, with simple word clouds of historically influential texts, such as B. F. Skinner\u2019s <i>The Behavior of Organisms<\/i> (1938).\u00a0 We soon moved on to larger, more sophisticated projects, such as rendering in the form of social networks multi-decade runs of the articles in major journals, like the <i>American Journal of Psychology and Psychological Review<\/i>.<\/p><p>These networks allowed us to see the whole \u201cintellectual landscape\u201d of the discipline at a glance: articles that used similar technical vocabularies naturally clustered together into subdisciplines. Later, we produced an on-line game by means of which we crowd-sourced tens of thousands of assessments of which individuals from psychology\u2019s past have had the greatest impact on the field. We then separated the results by demographic factors such as gender, age, and geographic location to find interesting differences in the assessments of impact. We have also digitally collected the most prolific authors of psychological articles in the half-century prior to World War II, and re-discovered a surprising number of once-important writers whose contributions have been nearly lost in the historical narratives of recent decades. We found here that digital and conventional history work best together \u2013 digital visualizations often raise questions that are not visible in the data in its original form. But such questions cannot be answered without engaging in new rounds of conventional archival research. Their strengths complement each other. Most recently, we have turned our attention to the \u201creplication crisis\u201d in psychology, examining how far back into the past the questionable research practices that are thought to have caused the \u201ccrisis\u201d stretch. It appears that psychologists\u2019 problematic practices extend back several decades.<\/p><p><\/p><p>The event is part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/dhh.uni.lu\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Digital History &#038; Hermeneutics<\/a> lecture series.<\/p><\/div><\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lecture by Christopher D. 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