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Michael Sokal's Degrees

PhD History of Science University of California, Berkeley
Masters History of Science University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors History University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Michael Mark Sokal is an American historian and educator. He is retired professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in the history of science. He received his PhD in history of science and technology from Case Western Reserve University in 1972. His research focuses on James McKeen Cattell, a prominent psychologist and scientific impresario in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was the 2004-2005 president of the History of Science Society.

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Manufacturing Knowledge: A History of the Hawthorne Experiments (1991) (447)
The Gestalt psychologists in behaviorist America. (1984) (90)
The Intelligence of a People (1973) (60)
Psychological Testing and American Society, 1890-1930 (1988) (53)
The Human Condition: An Ecological and Historical View (1980) (46)
Origins and early years of the American Psychological Association, 1890-1906. (1992) (44)
An Education in Psychology: James McKeen Cattell's Journal and Letters from Germany and England, 1880-1888 (1981) (42)
A Philosophicall Discourse concerning Speech (1668) and A Discourse Written to a Learned Frier (1670). Géraud de Cordemoy , Barbara RossObservations on Mental Derangement. Andrew Combe , Anthony A. WalshRational Psychology (1849). Laurens Perseus Hickok , Ernest Harms (1975) (34)
The origins of the psychological corporation. (1981) (33)
The unpublished autobiography of James McKeen Cattell. (1971) (23)
Laboratory instruments in the history of psychology. (1976) (23)
The Establishment of Science in America: 150 Years of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1999) (21)
Baldwin, Cattell and the Psychological Review: a collaboration and its discontents (1997) (19)
Science and James McKeen Cattell, 1894 to 1945. (1980) (19)
G. Stanley Hall and the institutional character of psychology at Clark 1889-1920. (1990) (19)
Jelliffe : American Psychoanalyst and Physician and His Correspondence With Sigmund Freud and C.G. Jung (1983) (16)
A Guide to Manuscript Collections in the History of Psychology and Related Areas (1983) (15)
James McKeen Cattell and mental anthropometry: Nineteenth-century science and reform and the origins of psychological testing. (1987) (13)
JAMES MCKEEN CATTELL, NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER, AND ACADEMIC FREEDOM AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, 1902-1923 (2009) (11)
Scientific Biography, Cognitive Deficits, and Laboratory Practice: James McKeen Cattell and Early American Experimental Psychology, 1880–1904 (2010) (9)
Practical phrenology as psychological counseling in the 19th-century United States. (2001) (9)
Psychology, Science, and Human Affairs (1995) (9)
Psychology at Victorian Cambridge-the unoffical laboratory of 1887-1888. (1972) (8)
APA's first publication: Proceedings of the American Psychological Association, 1892–2893. (1973) (6)
The History of Science Society, 1970-1999: From Subscription Agency to Professional Society (1999) (6)
Approaches to the History of Psychological Testing (1984) (5)
Introduction: Psychological testing and historical scholarship: Questions, contrasts, and context. (1987) (5)
History of psychology and history of science: reflections on two subdisciplines, their relationship, and their convergence. (1984) (5)
James McKeen Cattell, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the American Psychological Association, 1891–1902 (1994) (5)
Obituary: Psyche Cattell (1893-1989). (1991) (4)
The origins of the new psychology in the United States. (2006) (4)
On History of Psychology's launch. (1998) (4)
A national inventory of historic psychological apparatus. (1975) (3)
The Shaping of a Behaviorist: Part Two of an Autobiography. B. F. Skinner (1980) (3)
An Education in Psychology: James McKeen Cattell's Journals and Letters from Germany and England, 1880-1888 (1984) (2)
APA publications and the history of psychology. (1985) (2)
Cattell, Columbia, and academic freedom: rarely used sources enrich analyses of this significant episode. (2011) (2)
LAUNCHING A CAREER IN PSYCHOLOGY WITH ACHIEVEMENT AND ARROGANCE: JAMES McKEEN CATTELL AT THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, 1882-1883. (2016) (1)
Scientists of the Mind: Intellectual Founders of Modern Psychology (1987) (1)
Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society, Madison, Wisconsin, 30 October-3 November 1991 (1992) (1)
Book Review:Phrenology in the British Isles: An Annotated Historical Biobibliography and Index Roger Cooter (1991) (1)
Book Review": Benjamin Silliman: A Life in the Young Republic, by Chandos Michael Brown (1991) (1)
"The psychologist as expert witness": A correction. (1981) (1)
The Architects of Adjustment: The History of the Psychological Profession in the United States. Donald S. Napoli (1982) (1)
Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society Gainesville, Florida, 26-29 October 1989 (1990) (1)
Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society Washington, D.C., 27-30 December 1992 (1993) (1)
Elizabeth Scarborough (1935-2015). (2016) (1)
Appendix A: Officers of the History of Science Society, 1924-99 (1999) (1)
Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society Seattle, Washington, 25-28 October 1990 (1991) (1)
The behaviorist tradition: the origins of behaviorism. (1986) (1)
Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society 29 October-1 November 1987 (1988) (0)
Book Review:New York Intellect: A History of Intellectual Life in New York City, from 1750 to the Beginning of Our Own Time Thomas Bender (1990) (0)
Book Review:Studies in the History of Linguistics: Traditions and Paradigms Dell Hymes (1977) (0)
Face Value: Physiognomical Thought and the Legible Body in Marivaux, Lavater, Balzac, Gautier, and Zola. Christopher Rivers (1996) (0)
Psychological Schools in Historical Perspective. (1970) (0)
Stargazing: James McKeen Cattell, American Men of Science , and the Reward Structure of the American Scientific Community, 1906-1944 (2019) (0)
Recent reference books in the history of science: an essay review. (1983) (0)
The New Psychology in the Modern University: James McKeen Cattell and William Pepper at the University of Pennsylvania, 1880–1891 (2018) (0)
John C. Burnham. Jelliffe: American Psychoanalyst and Physician; His Correspondence with Sigmund Freud and C. G. Jung. Edited by William McGuire. Foreword by Arcangelo R. T. D'Amore. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1983. Pp. xx, 324. $20.00 (1985) (0)
On Alison Turtle (2007) (0)
Alison Turtle Memorial Fund (2007) (0)
A James without Ideas is no James at All. (1973) (0)
Dorothy Ross. G. Stanley Hall: The Psychologist as Prophet. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1972. Pp. xx + 482. $12.75 (1975) (0)
Particulars of My Life. B. F. Skinner (1978) (0)
Graduate education and postdoctoral training opportunities in history of psychology at North American universities and colleges. (1998) (0)
Book Review:The History of Psychology and the Behavioral Sciences: A Bibliographic Guide Robert I. Watson, Sr. (1979) (0)
Special topics II (1973) (0)
Book Review:Young John Dewey: An Essay in American Intellectual History Neil Coughlan (1978) (0)
Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society, 27-30 December 1988 (1989) (0)
Story behind the Story: Edward W. Morley, the Atomic Weight of Oxygen, and Prout's Hypothesis. (1980) (0)
From the archives. (1985) (0)
Thinking inside the Box (2003) (0)
Cattell, James McKeen (1860–1944) (2015) (0)
Roots II (Psychology) (1977) (0)
SSH volume 11 issue 2 Cover and Back matter (1987) (0)
Restrictions on scientific publication. (1982) (0)
Book Review:The Life and Mind of John Dewey George Dykhuizen, Jo Ann Boydston (1976) (0)

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