Showing 111 results

Archival Description
Nova Scotia Psychology
Print preview View:

48 results with digital objects Show results with digital objects

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

Beaver study correspondence

File is loosely organized into two sections: Nova Scotia beaver and Norway beaver. Both sections contain correspondence to and from government officials, biologists, academics, and industry consultants regarding research for and publication of Alexander Leighton's study on beaver mental characteristics. The Norway section also contains excerpts from Norwegian newspapers. There is also a set of handwritten notes titled "Outline for study of the Beaver: D. Cross & A.H. 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.

Freud and Dalhousie : the Symons Affair of 1929 / James W. Clark

  • MS-2-534, SF Box 19, Folder 13
  • Item
  • 1985
Item is a manuscript for James Clark's presentation at a Dalhousie History Department seminar in March 1985. The text discusses Norman Jellings Symons, a professor of psychology at Dalhousie during the 1920s who studied, taught and published articles related to Freudian theory.

James Clark

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

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

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 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 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

Results 1 to 50 of 111