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 a photograph of an unidentified person using engineering equipment in psychological research. The transit in this photograph tracks buoys towed by scuba divers in experiments on underwater navigation.
Item is a photograph of an unidentified person using a tachistoscope. The tachistosope is a basic tool in visual research and is used to present visual stimuli for very brief durations as short as a few milliseconds.
Item is a photograph of an unidentified person giving a seal pup its daily ration of vitamins stuffed inside a fish in the Department of Psychology. Seal pups that are used in psychological research are fed special diets to maintain good health.
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.
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.
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 contains preliminary research plans, a seminar report on psychological testing, a multiphase personality inventory, and an excerpt on psychoneurotic screening in the Army, all written or originating with M.L. Kohn (1928-2021), who may have been a graduate or post-doctoral student at Cornell, working under Alexander Leighton.
Fonds contains records documenting the professional life of Professor Toni Laidlaw. Records types include research files and reports, workshop presentations and materials, published papers and presentations, professional correspondence and two photographs.
Subseries consists of joint mental and physical health evaluations for male and female study respondents. Also contains a complete respondent master list with code and case number information.
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.