The following events in the history of psychology took place in 1953.
Events
- The Sociedad de Psicologia del Uruguai is established
- A postgraduate school of psychology at the University of Madrid
is established
Eugene Aserinsky and Nathaniel Kleitman discover REM sleep
Publications
- The American Association of Psychology publishes the first Code of
Ethics of Psychologists
- B. F. Skinner publishes Science and Human Behavior
- Leon Festinger and Daniel Katz publish [[Research Methods in the
Behavioral Sciences]]
- C. Hovland, I. Janis and H. Kelley publish [[Communication and
Persuasion: Psychological Studies of Opinion Change]]
Births
Deaths
Timeline: 1948 - 1949 - 1950 - 1951 - 1952 - 1953 - 1954 - 1955 - 1956 - 1957 - 1958 |