Publications

Books:

i. Practicing Feminisms, Reconstructing Psychology: Notes on a Liminal Science. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (1994).

ii. The Rise of Experimentation in American Psychology, Ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, (1988).

Articles & Chapters:

  1. Technological simulacrum: Psychologists’ invention a Bogus Pipeline to the Soul, History and Technology (2017)
  2. Review of Robert Brain, The Pulse of Modernism: Physiological Aesthetics in Fine-de-Siècle EuropeJournal of Modern History (2017)
  3. Description in the psychological sciencesRepresentations (2016)
  4. The challenges for us psychologized modernsEngaging Science, Technology, and Society (2016)
  5. Pluralism in qualitative inquiry. Review of Five ways of doing qualitative researchTheory & Psychology (2016)
  6. Franz Samelson and a conundrumJournal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (2015)
  7. Epistemological dizziness in the psychological laboratory: Lively Subjects, anxious experimenters and experimental relations, 1950-1970, Isis (2015)
  8. Acting otherwise: Resistance, agency and subjectivities in Milgram’s studies of obedience, Theory & Psychology (2015)
  9. Socialization. Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology (2014)
  10. Reflexivity. Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology (2014)
  11. Livelihoods of theory: The case of Goffman’s early theory of the self, Theory & Psychology (2014)
  12. Waiting in the wings. ReviewTheory & Psychology (2013)
  13. Importance of history to social psychology. Handbook of the History of Social Psychology (2012)
  14. The Evolving Vocabulary of the Social Sciences: The Case of “Socialization”, History of Psychology (2011)
  15. The Location of our Debates: Finding, Fixing and Enacting Reality, Theory and Psychology (2011)
  16. Review of Beyond the Box: B.F. Skinner’s Technology of Behavior from Laboratory to Life, Isis (2010)
  17. Scientific Selves: Discerning the subject and the experimenter in experimental psychology in the United States, 1900-1935. In M. Ash and T. Stern (Eds.), Psychology’s Territories: Historical and contemporary perspectives from different disciplines, 129-148. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (2007)
  18. A social history of psychology and from séance to science. Review article ISIS (2006). 
  19. Moving gender, positivism and feminist possibilities. Feminism & Psychology (2005)
  20.  Reflexivity and the Psychologist, History of Human Sciences (2005)
  21. Sperm and liberal feminism: A scientific fantasy, International Journal of Critical Psychology (2004)
  22. Men crazy: Making theories of masculinity. Theoretical Psychology: Critical Contributions (2003)
  23. Implicit cognition and the social unconscious. Theory & Psychology (2002)
  24. Feminist research methods: Bringing culture to science. Advances in Feminist Research Methods (2001)
  25. Gifts bestowed, gifts withheld: Assessing psychological theory with a Kochian attitude. American Psychologist (2001).
  26. The dynamics of uncertainty. History and Theory (2001)
  27. Just one more “other” in psychology? Theory and Psychology (2000)
  28. Social psychology a century ago,  American Psychologist (2000)
  29. Imaginings of Parenthood: Artificial Insemination, Experts, Gender Relations, and Paternity, Believed-In Imaginings: The Narrative Construction of Reality (1998)
  30.  The return of phantom subjects? Textual constructions: Subjectivities and Disciplinary Practices (1998)
  31. The science behind feminist research methodsJournal of Social Issues (1998)
  32. Educating the emotions: Academic psychology, textbooks, and the psychology industry, 1890-1940. The History of Emotional Experience (1997)
  33. White Experimenters, White Blood, and Other White Conditions: Locating the Psychologist’s Race, Off White Readings on Race, Power, and Society (1997)
  34. Principles of selves: The rhetoric of introductory textbooks in American psychology. Historical Dimensions of Psychological Discourse (1996)
  35. Stirring trouble and making theory. Bringing Cultural Diversity to Feminist Psychology (1995)
  36. Self regard and other regard: Reflexive practices in psychology, 1890-1940. Science in Context (1992)
  37. There is more to our history of giving: The place of introductory textbooks in American psychology,  American Psychologist (1992)
  38. A restive legacy: The history of feminist work in experimental and cognitive psychology. Psychology of Women Quarterly (1991)
  39. Quandary of the quacks: Struggle for expert knowledge in American psychology. The Estate of Social Knowledge: Critical Essays on the History of the Human Sciences (1991)
  40. The one or the other: Textual analysis of masculine power and feminist empowerment. Theory & Psychology (1991).
  41. Toward the unimagined: Feminism and epistemology in psychology. Making a Difference: Psychology and the Construction of Gender (1990)
  42. Contextual Discipline: The unmaking and remaking of sociality. Contextualism and Understanding in Human Psychology (1986)
  43. Organizing knowledge and behavior at Yale’s Institute of Human Relations,  Isis (1986)
  44. Psychology and nuclear war: A legacy of expert adviceAmerican Psychologist (1985)
  45. The Measurement of masculinity and femininity: The reading of categorical realities, Journal of Personality (1985)
  46. Not quite new worlds: The ideal family in the utopias of psychologists, 1920-1930. In the Shadow of the Past: Psychology Portrays the Sexes (1984)
  47. Assessing psychology’s moral heritage through our neglected utopiasAmerican Psychologist (1982)