Laura C Ball
Biographic Data
| ID | 5380149 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura C Ball |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura C |
| FAMILY NAME | Ball |
| SIGNATURE | BALL L C |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Privacy and safety: Issues of dual compliance in high-secure and other forensic psychiatric hospitals
Naomi Weisstein (1939–2015)
This article memorializes Naomi Weisstein, who passed away on March 26, 2015 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. In Chicago, Illinois, Weisstein began what would become a defining feature of her career and legacy-combining feminist political activism with both her academic and personal life pursuits. By the time she began her first faculty position at Loyola University in Chicago in 1966, Weisstein was an outspoken feminist. In 1968, she pu…
Using Psychology’s Feminist Voices in the Classroom
Beyond Gender Differences: Using Tests of Equivalence to Evaluate Gender Similarities
Proponents of what has been termed the Gender Similarities Hypothesis (GSH) have typically relied on meta-analyses as well as the generation of nonsignificant tests of mean differences to support their argument that the genders are more similar than they are different. In the present article, we argue that alternative statistical methodologies, such as tests of equivalence, can provide more accurate (yet equally rigorous) tests of these hypothese…
Genius without the “Great Man”: New possibilities for the historian of psychology
The Carlylian style of history, more commonly known as the "Great Man" approach, presented the "genius" as an individual worthy of celebration: history as hero worship. This style, which characterized the first wave of the history of psychology, has gone out of historiographic fashion. In its place is the "new history," which is marked by its external focus and privileging of social factors and cultural context in its explanations. This shift in …
Mechanically Objective History: Mining PsycInfo, Excavating the Discipline's Psychological Factories
Responsible Opposition, Disruptive Voices: Science, Social Change, and the History of Feminist Psychology
Feminist psychology began as an avowedly political project with an explicit social change agenda. However, over the last two decades, a number of critics have argued that feminist psychology has become mired in an epistemological impasse where positivist commitments effectively mute its political project, rendering the field acceptable to mainstream psychology yet shorn of its transformative vision. In this article, we explore the complexity of a…
Twin research, revisionism and metahistory
We understand metahistory as an approach that studies how histories within a particular discipline have been written and focus on insider scientists' reconstructions of twin research. Using the concept of ethical-political affordances we suggest that such histories are based on a management of resources that prove to be beneficial for representing one's own research traditions in a positive light. Instead of discussing information on the context …
Exceptional Women: Their Life and Work Through Psychobiography
From racism to genocide: Anthropology in the Third Reich
Responsible Opposition, Disruptive Voices: Science, Social Change, and the History of Feminist Psychology
Feminist psychology began as an avowedly political project with an explicit social change agenda. However, over the last two decades, a number of critics have argued that feminist psychology has become mired in an epistemological impasse where positivist commitments effectively mute its political project, rendering the field acceptable to mainstream psychology yet shorn of its transformative vision. In this article, we explore the complexity of a…
Beyond Gender Differences: Using Tests of Equivalence to Evaluate Gender Similarities
Proponents of what has been termed the Gender Similarities Hypothesis (GSH) have typically relied on meta-analyses as well as the generation of nonsignificant tests of mean differences to support their argument that the genders are more similar than they are different. In the present article, we argue that alternative statistical methodologies, such as tests of equivalence, can provide more accurate (yet equally rigorous) tests of these hypothese…
Using Psychology’s Feminist Voices in the Classroom
Genius without the “Great Man”: New possibilities for the historian of psychology
The Carlylian style of history, more commonly known as the "Great Man" approach, presented the "genius" as an individual worthy of celebration: history as hero worship. This style, which characterized the first wave of the history of psychology, has gone out of historiographic fashion. In its place is the "new history," which is marked by its external focus and privileging of social factors and cultural context in its explanations. This shift in …
Mechanically Objective History: Mining PsycInfo, Excavating the Discipline's Psychological Factories
Twin research, revisionism and metahistory
We understand metahistory as an approach that studies how histories within a particular discipline have been written and focus on insider scientists' reconstructions of twin research. Using the concept of ethical-political affordances we suggest that such histories are based on a management of resources that prove to be beneficial for representing one's own research traditions in a positive light. Instead of discussing information on the context …
From racism to genocide: Anthropology in the Third Reich
Exceptional Women: Their Life and Work Through Psychobiography
Twin research, revisionism and metahistory
We understand metahistory as an approach that studies how histories within a particular discipline have been written and focus on insider scientists' reconstructions of twin research. Using the concept of ethical-political affordances we suggest that such histories are based on a management of resources that prove to be beneficial for representing one's own research traditions in a positive light. Instead of discussing information on the context …
Responsible Opposition, Disruptive Voices: Science, Social Change, and the History of Feminist Psychology
Feminist psychology began as an avowedly political project with an explicit social change agenda. However, over the last two decades, a number of critics have argued that feminist psychology has become mired in an epistemological impasse where positivist commitments effectively mute its political project, rendering the field acceptable to mainstream psychology yet shorn of its transformative vision. In this article, we explore the complexity of a…
Genius without the “Great Man”: New possibilities for the historian of psychology
The Carlylian style of history, more commonly known as the "Great Man" approach, presented the "genius" as an individual worthy of celebration: history as hero worship. This style, which characterized the first wave of the history of psychology, has gone out of historiographic fashion. In its place is the "new history," which is marked by its external focus and privileging of social factors and cultural context in its explanations. This shift in …
Mechanically Objective History: Mining PsycInfo, Excavating the Discipline's Psychological Factories
Using Psychology’s Feminist Voices in the Classroom
Beyond Gender Differences: Using Tests of Equivalence to Evaluate Gender Similarities
Proponents of what has been termed the Gender Similarities Hypothesis (GSH) have typically relied on meta-analyses as well as the generation of nonsignificant tests of mean differences to support their argument that the genders are more similar than they are different. In the present article, we argue that alternative statistical methodologies, such as tests of equivalence, can provide more accurate (yet equally rigorous) tests of these hypothese…
Naomi Weisstein (1939–2015)
This article memorializes Naomi Weisstein, who passed away on March 26, 2015 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. In Chicago, Illinois, Weisstein began what would become a defining feature of her career and legacy-combining feminist political activism with both her academic and personal life pursuits. By the time she began her first faculty position at Loyola University in Chicago in 1966, Weisstein was an outspoken feminist. In 1968, she pu…
Privacy and safety: Issues of dual compliance in high-secure and other forensic psychiatric hospitals
Psychology (8 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Psychoanalysis (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Context (archaeology (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Feminism (3 works)