This is the story of the remarkable psychologist John E. Coover, who, in the early 1900s, was the first to advocate the comparison of experimental and control groups as a methodological necessity. Moreover, the author raises the issue of why control groups were launched about a century ago, and why psychology was comparatively early in codifying group comparison as a methodological routine. In dealing with these questions, the author discusses the relations between turn-of-the-century science and society as well as between psychophysical research and educational experimentation. Furthermore, the mystery is solved of how Coover's rightful place in the received history of experimental controls could be taken by precisely the authors whom he c...
Methodology makes visible to a scientific community the phenomena disclosed by research activity. T...
Experimental psychology in the early 20th century was targeted by several authors who described a cr...
The history of experimental psychology in America is typ-ically told as a series of two Kuhnian revo...
This is the story of the remarkable psychologist John E. Coover, who, in the early 1900s, was the fi...
In the life sciences, psychology, and large parts of the other social sciences, the ideal experiment...
This article tl aces the historical origin of social experimentation. It highlights the central role...
This article tl aces the historical origin of social experimentation. It highlights the central role...
History has shown us that the inclusion of a control group is vital to our understanding of research...
Currently, anyone with a qualification in social sci-ence (and also medicine) takes the notion of th...
For at least 100 years the experimental method has been used to add scientific rigour to the process...
There is increased emphasis on using experimental and quasi-experimental methods to evaluate educati...
In this paper, I examine the transformation of rhetorical strategies in experimental reports in the ...
In debate over the ethics of deceptive experiments in American psychology, commentators often provid...
In the life sciences, psychology, and large parts of the other social sciences, the ideal experiment...
Psychology's obsession with control, with manipulating the experimental situation and the behavior o...
Methodology makes visible to a scientific community the phenomena disclosed by research activity. T...
Experimental psychology in the early 20th century was targeted by several authors who described a cr...
The history of experimental psychology in America is typ-ically told as a series of two Kuhnian revo...
This is the story of the remarkable psychologist John E. Coover, who, in the early 1900s, was the fi...
In the life sciences, psychology, and large parts of the other social sciences, the ideal experiment...
This article tl aces the historical origin of social experimentation. It highlights the central role...
This article tl aces the historical origin of social experimentation. It highlights the central role...
History has shown us that the inclusion of a control group is vital to our understanding of research...
Currently, anyone with a qualification in social sci-ence (and also medicine) takes the notion of th...
For at least 100 years the experimental method has been used to add scientific rigour to the process...
There is increased emphasis on using experimental and quasi-experimental methods to evaluate educati...
In this paper, I examine the transformation of rhetorical strategies in experimental reports in the ...
In debate over the ethics of deceptive experiments in American psychology, commentators often provid...
In the life sciences, psychology, and large parts of the other social sciences, the ideal experiment...
Psychology's obsession with control, with manipulating the experimental situation and the behavior o...
Methodology makes visible to a scientific community the phenomena disclosed by research activity. T...
Experimental psychology in the early 20th century was targeted by several authors who described a cr...
The history of experimental psychology in America is typ-ically told as a series of two Kuhnian revo...