Control: A History of Behavioral Psychology

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments I wrote a substantial part of the first draft of this book while I was a visiting research fellow at The University of Melbourne in 1990. I am most grateful to Professor Roger Wales and to the fac­ ulty and staff of the psychology department for providing me with a very congenial working environment (and I am especially grateful to Dr. Keith Taylor, who enhanced my knowledge of Australian foot­ ball). A part of the cost of research and writing was covered by two publication grants and a grant from the President’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, all from the University of Saskatch­ ewan. Parts of chapter 4 were originally published as “The Genesis of Hull’s Principles of Behavior” in the Journal of the History of the Be­ havioral Sciences 24 (1988): 392–401; I must thank John Wiley and Sons, Inc., for permission to quote that material. I would like to thank Yale University Library for permission to quote from Clark Hull’s correspondence and Dr. John Popplestone of the Archives of the His­ tory of American Psychology for permission to quote from Kenneth Spence’s correspondence. I would also like to thank John V. Miller and the staff of the Archival Services of the Bierce Library of the Uni­ versity of Akron, who gave me invaluable assistance. I could not have written a book as complex as this without a great deal of help from many people. The staff of the New York University Press dealt with business matters promptly, effectively, and courte­ ously. Bruce Grenville chose the illustration on the dust jacket. Franz Samelson most generously sent me photocopies of sections of the cor­ respondence between John B. Watson and Robert M. Yerkes; access to that correspondence was crucial to me. Gail Youngberg exercised her incomparable editorial skills on the introduction and chapter 4; my readers and I are deeply indebted to her. Professor Frederica de La­ guna very kindly sent me information about her mother, Grace de La­ guna. Fern Winder located much of the reference material I needed for xi xii | Acknowledgments chapter 6 and wrote me a set of working notes; without her help I could not have dealt with a topic that, initially, I found rebarbative. Doug Bates, with inexhaustible energy, collected the research material for Spence and his graduate students in chapter 7. The immediate in­ spiration for that chapter came from my conversations with Josephine Mills about an exhibition of modernist architecture in Montreal. Several people read parts of this book or all of it. Andrew Winston and Julian Mills read the introduction and made incisive comments (I was especially encouraged by Julian’s response, since he is a stern critic of all prose, including his father’s). Franz Samelson and Charles Tolman each set his imprimatur on chapter 2. Hank Stam, Leo Mos, and Kurt Danziger read various versions of the whole manuscript. Their comments and their support were especially important to me. Kurt’s comments, especially on chapter 3, were acute and helpful. Ann Newdigate gave me my title and, above all, the courage and fortitude needed to tackle this very large enterprise. Those who know her work and her writings will recognize her influence on chapter 7. These days, every writer needs a computer guru. I was most fortunate in that mine was Cameron Alexson. During many dark months his in­ terests became mine; I am deeply indebted to him. My debt to Jim Reed is even greater. By using a well­calculated mixture of warm sup­ port and downright rudeness he forced me to speak out instead of whispering from behind the comforting ramparts of scholarship. Without him, this book would never have acquired a readable form. ...