Item is a photograph of an unidentified person staining brain sections to make neural structures visible under the microscope in Dalhousie University's Department of Psychology.
Item is a photograph of paradise fish. Psychologists study the behavior of many animals, including the aggressive displays of species such as these paradise fish.
Item is the photograph of an unidentified person demonstrating the bite bar apparatus in the Psychology Department The bite-bar is used to hold the person's head in precise alignment with a light source.
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.
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.
File contains computer printout datasets, research notes, and statistical charts comparing information for male and female respondents in integrated and disintegrated communities.
File contains computer printout datasets of Stirling County statistics for female respondents. Also includes analysis card for Stirling county female psychiatric and social data.
File consists of charts, graphs, and computer dataset printouts. Statistics include age of female respondents, number of children, and effects on respondents' mental health.
File contains charts and datasets tracking demographic, social, and psychiatric statistics from Yoruba and Stirling Country respondents. Also contains notes on and memos regarding HOS coding for studying the role of women. Includes analysis cards for Stirling and Yoruba social and psychiatric data and master lists for sample coordination.
File contains a research proposal for further study in Stirling County, written by Alexander Leighton, Morton Beiser, Robert C. Benfari, and Jane M. Murphy.
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.
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.
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.
File includes copies of "A Survey of General Physicians : Manual for Participating General Practitioners" and "Appendix A : Nomenclature and Classification in the Stirling County Study."
File contains a research manual for field work for the Stirling County Study. The manual indicates that researchers could keep one copy of their field notes and reports for their personal or university's files and that all others remained the property of Cornell University.
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.
Subseries contains datasets, computer printouts, notes, and analysis guidelines comparing psychiatric and social statistics from the Nigerian and Stirling County studies.
File contains notes on RIDIT values and typology analysis for comparing Yoruba and Stirling data. Also contains computer printout datasets and statistical charts.
Item consists of two copies of a pamphlet about the new Life Sciences Centre at Dalhousie Univeristy. The pamphlet outlines the departments and facilities in the building.
