 | Electronic journals - 1910 - 458 pages
...of this motley mass of material is first, that the literature of the subject is improving in tone. There is perhaps no field aspiring to be scientific...and drivel, have run riot to such an extent as here. It is very significant to note the importance ascribed by Dr. Mall to the personal equation in so tangible... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1910 - 502 pages
...of this motley mass of material is first, that the literature of the subject is improving in tone. There is perhaps no field aspiring to be scientific...and drivel, have run riot to such an extent as here. It is very significant to note the importance ascribed by Dr. Mall to the personal equation in so tangible... | |
 | Cynthia Russett - History - 1991 - 260 pages
...less an artifact of physiological reality than of human faith. CHAPTER 6 The Victorian Paradigm Erodes There is perhaps no field aspiring to be scientific...such an extent as here. — Helen Thompson Woolley (1910) No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the... | |
 | Sandra L. Bem - Social Science - 1993 - 260 pages
...about criticizing their colleagues for what they saw as truly bad science. As Woolley said in 1910: "There is perhaps no field aspiring to be scientific...and drivel, have run riot to such an extent as here" (quoted in Shields, 1975a, p. 739). The misogynistic rot and drivel to which Woolley referred did not... | |
 | Domna C. Stanton, Abigail J. Stewart - Social Science - 1995 - 372 pages
...literature on sex differences even back then as a "motley mass," she offered the following assessment: There is perhaps no field aspiring to be scientific...and drivel, have run riot to such an extent as here. (1910, 340) Helen Thompson Woolley's work, like that of Mary Whiton Calkins and Leta S. Hollingworth,... | |
 | Meredith M. Kimball - Psychology - 1995 - 258 pages
...of this motley mass of material is first, that the literature of the subject is improving in tone. There is perhaps no field aspiring to be scientific...and drivel, have run riot to such an extent as here. . . . The signs in the literature of greater moderation in tone and more respect for evidence are in... | |
 | Mary Roth Walsh - Social Science - 1997 - 480 pages
...when it came to gender comparisons. "There is perhaps no field aspiring to be scientific," she wrote, "where flagrant personal bias, logic martyred in the...and drivel, have run riot to such an extent as here" (Woolley, 1910, p. 340). Leta Stetter Hollingworth, another brilliant pioneer, established a remarkable... | |
 | Judith A. Howard, Jocelyn A. Hollander - Psychology - 1997 - 228 pages
...social psychology were apparent as early as 1910, when psychologist Helen Thompson Wooley commented, "There is perhaps no field aspiring to be scientific...and drivel, have run riot to such an extent as here" (Wooley 1910:340). Another reason for social psychology's focus on sex differences has to do with the... | |
 | Tomás Ibáñez, Lupicinio Íñiguez - Psychology - 1997 - 320 pages
...commented searingly on the contemporary research purportedly demonstrating women's mental inferiorities: 'There is perhaps no field aspiring to be scientific...and drivel, have run riot to such an extent as here' (p. 340). More than half a century later, as second-wave feminism gathered momentum, feminist activist... | |
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There is perhaps no field aspiring to be scientific where flagrant personal bias, logic martyred in the cause of supporting a prejudice, unfounded assertions, and even sentimental rot and drivel, have run riot to such an extent as here. 
