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Photograph of a Sable Island horse

Item is a photograph of a Sable Island horse nibbling at the sparse vegetation. Sable Island horses ancestors arrived from Spain in the eighteenth century. Photograph taken by Peter Saraganian. Peter Saraganian was with psychology department. Wamboldt-Waterfield printed the photo.

Saraganian, Peter

Photograph of the construction of an A-frame building for research and dwelling on Sable Island

Item is a photograph of John Wright, graduate student Dean Renouf and Psychologist Dr. Henry James constructing an A-frame building for research and dwelling on Sable Island. Photographs taken by Peter Saraganian. Peter Saraganian was with psychology department. Wamboldt-Waterfield printed the photo.

Saraganian, Peter

Photograph of a meeting for a course in Community Psychology

Item is a photograph of students Elaine Chapman (back to the camera left), Elizabeth Baker (back to the camera right), at the back of the room Louise Cook a member of the CCAVAW communications-education committee, students Karen Higginbotham, Margot Sundquist and Dr. Ed Renner who assigned the students the project for work in their course, Community Psychology. The four students were studying rape and rape relief for a course they met twice a week in the psychology wing of the Life Sciences centre.

Wilkins, Gina

Photograph of lobsters in 'crowded' housing conditions for aggression experiments in the Psychology Department

Item is a photograph of lobsters in "crowded" housing conditions in the Psychology Department. Lobsters placed in close proximity to one another will fight and frequently damage each other. Research done in the Psychology Department has attempted to determine the conditions which cause this aggression and how to eliminate it. The lobster's antennae and stalked eyes all play a role in their aggressive bouts with other lobsters. The amount of aggression shown by lobsters as been shown to be influenced by their "housing" conditions and how "crowded" they are.

Photograph of the student cubicles in the undergraduate laboratories in the Psychology Department

Item is a photograph of an unidentified student in the cubicles in the undergraduate laboratories in the Psychology Department. The undergraduate laboratories in the Psychology building contain well-equipped individual cubicles which give students the opportunity to run their own experiments. Also see PC1_31-35-19 and PC1_31-35-20.

Photograph of the student cubicles in the undergraduate laboratories in the Psychology Department

Item is a photograph of an unidentified student in the cubicles in the undergraduate laboratories in the Psychology Department. The undergraduate laboratories in the Psychology building contain well-equipped individual cubicles which give students the opportunity to run their own experiments. Also see PC1_31-35-44.

Psychosomatic effects of bereavement

Item is a videocassette of a guest lecture by Dr. C.M. Parkes, which was given as part of the Friday at Four lecture series. This lecture series sponsored and organized by the Dalhousie Medical School and focused on a variety of subjects by lecturers invited to speak about specialized areas of medicine. The lectures were held each Friday by the School from the 1970s to the 1990s. This video was requested by Dr. Paterson from the Department of Family Medicine.

Notebooks of Bertha and Minna Liechti

  • MS-2-37, SF Box 15, Folder 3
  • File
  • 1866-1902
File consists of three notebooks (ca. 1887-1894) of lecture notes on geography, advanced German, literature, and psychology. It also includes Mima Liechti's notebook (1866-1869) recording visits made and/or received and lists of members and adherents of Signature Hall.

Liechti, Bertha E. Susanna, b. 1871

George William McQueen fonds

  • MS-2-594
  • Fonds
  • 1875 - 1878
Fonds contains photocopies of G.W. McQueen's letters to his mother and sister while he was attending Dalhousie University; G.W. McQueen's annotated textbook, Introduction to Anglo-Saxon (1875); and G.W. McQueen's notebooks from Professor Lawson's junior chemistry class (1876-1877) and Professor Lyall's psychology class (1877).

McQueen, George William

The continuity between instinct and intelligence : [manuscript]

File contains a typed manuscript of an essay entitled "The continuity between instinct and intelligence", written by Kenneth Leslie while he was a student at Harvard University, likely in 1915. File also contains handwritten notes and remarks from Leslie's professor, "E.B.H.", presumably Edwin Bissett Holt, lecturer in Psychology.

Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

  • MS-13-86
  • Fonds
  • 1837-2020, predominant 1904-2008

Fonds contains records created and collected primarily by Alexander H. Leighton, with some by Jane Leighton Murphy. Documents span from Leighton's studies at Princeton, Cambridge, and Johns Hopkins univerities, through his government employment in World War II, and his teaching career at Cornell, Dalhousie, and Harvard. The majority of records are related to the 1961 Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project and the 1963 Study on the Role of Women, both based in Nigeria, and the Stirling County Study, based in Nova Scotia. Record types include correspondence, manuscripts, grant applications, reports, photographs and slides, medical and academic records, method and guidebooks, reviews, offprints and publications, teaching and course materials, and surveys and interview transcripts.

A sous-fonds contains records documenting the migration of Alexander Leighton's parents from Ireland to the United States and their subsequent life in Philadelphia. The sous-fonds contains extensive correspondence between extended family members over the course of a century, as well as photographs, diaries, wills, family trees, memoirs, and Alexander Leighton's personal correspondence.

Murphy, Jane Leighton

Data analysis

Subseries includes data for and analyses of socioeconomic aspects of Yoruba women's lives (education, migration, social class, health, children, husbands, religion, family, etc.). The 1963 data seems to be part of another study, referred to in several files as "The 1963 study on the role of Yoruba women," that either piggybacked off the Cornell-Aro study or was somehow included as a sub-project.
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