Andrew S Winston
Biographic Data
| ID | 960415 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew S Winston |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew S |
| FAMILY NAME | Winston |
| SIGNATURE | WINSTON A S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Guelph |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6812-8287 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The five pillars, disunity, and crisis: Commentary on Bernstein and Frantz (2026)
Bernstein and Frantz (2026) provide a valuable review of past and present attempts to evaluate and reform the introductory psychology course. Using the Introductory Psychology Initiative five pillar model, they offer ways to make the course more meaningful. I argue that both the five pillar model and the recommendations of Bernstein and Frantz leave two persistent issues unaddressed: the disunity of the discipline and the crisis of replication. B…
Confronting scientific racism in psychology: Lessons from evolutionary biology and genetics
Although the American Psychological Association has taken a strong antiracism stance, scientific racism continues to be published in psychology journals and scholarly books. Recent articles claim that the folk categories of race are genetically meaningful divisions and that evolved genetic differences among races and nations are important for explaining immutable differences in cognitive ability, educational attainment, crime, sexual behavior, an…
"Jews will not replace us!": Antisemitism, Interbreeding and Immigration in Historical Context
"Jews will not replace us!":Antisemitism, Interbreeding and Immigration in Historical Context Andrew S. Winston (bio) White nationalist cries of "Jews will not replace us!" and, "You will not replace us!," at the 2017 Charlottesville, Virginia, rally were frequently discussed but rarely understood.1 Taken as a sign of general hostility toward Jews or the belief that Jews were vaguely threatening, the deeper meaning of the "replacement" theme in r…
Why mainstream research will not end scientific racism in psychology
Mainstream research on racial essentialization may be valuable in the fight against racism, as Held (2020) suggested. I argue that the production of scientific racism in the literature of psychology is unlikely to be affected by such research. Assertions by psychologists of Black people’s average inferiority in brain size, intelligence, and morality have persisted for over 100 years despite repeated, careful critiques. Recent presentations of the…
Robert V. Guthrie and Even the Rat was White: A Retrospective Appreciation of the First Edition
Neoliberalism and IQ: Naturalizing economic and racial inequality
How did IQ become an important means of naturalizing economic and racial inequality and supporting neoliberal visions of a fully privatized, free market society? I show how post-WWII neoliberals and libertarians could employ ideas of “innate intelligence” to promote the reduction of government funding of social programs. For extreme libertarian economist Murray Rothbard, inequality among individuals and ethnicities was self-evident from human his…
Gender, ethnicity, and career trajectories: A comment on Woodward (2010)
Woodward (2010) argued that Maria Rickers-Ovsiankina, Eugenia Hanfmann, and Tamara Dembo constituted a group of Jewish emigré psychologists who received substantial help in America from a "Jewish network" of patronage. This comment focuses on the historiographic problems and pitfalls of essentialized ethnic identification. There was no evidence that Maria Rickers-Ovsiankina was a Jew or that Eugenia Hanffman, raised Russian Orthodox, identified h…
Value Neutrality and SPSSI: The Quest for Policy, Purity, and Legitimacy
I describe how the problem of “value neutrality” remained a central issue for SPSSI from the founding of the organization to the 1960s, as SPSSI leaders worked to maintain legitimacy in both scientific and public spheres. In 1930s psychology, notions of objectivity and political neutrality were intertwined in ways that produced substantial debate over SPSSI's aims. Under pressures from anticommunism and changes in public and private funding for r…
Behavior Analysis and Developmental Psychology
Relationships between the fields of behavior analysis and developmental psychology are examined. First, the influence of behavior-analytic research within developmental psychology is surveyed. In the next two sections, integrations of the two approaches are examined with respect to metatheory and methodology. The section on metatheory examines the behavior-analytic approach to nature and nurture, structure and function, traits and situations, and…
In and out of Control
On the Presentation and Interpretation of International Homicide Data
Whitney in 1995 argued that White groups around the world have relatively low homicide rates compared to Black groups. He used the presumed similarity of homicide rates of White groups to argue for the importance of genetic factors and the unimportance of sociocultural factors in explaining group differences. We show that for Europeans, Whitney added two categories from United Nations data: homicide and death from a variety of other causes. For t…
The rhetoric of experimental social psychology, 1930-1960: From caution to enthusiasm
Between 1930 and 1960, experimentation became the premier form of knowledge generation in social psychology. In journals, texts, and handbooks, experiment was now conceived as the active manipulation of an independent variable, and the sole method for the discovery of "causes." Understanding this change requires further investigation of the fine-grained discursive strategies used to promote experimentation during the 1930s and 1940s. In this pape…
The defects of his race: E. G. Boring and antisemitism in American psychology, 1923-1953
The defects of his race: E. G. Boring and antisemitism in American psychology, 1923–1953
From the 1920s to the 1950s, Edwin G. Boring wrote letters of reference for Jewish students and colleagues in which he followed the common practice of identifying them as Jews and assessing whether they showed "objectionable traits" thought to characterize Jews. These practices are discussed in relation to the increasing antisemitism of the interwar period, with specific reference to Abraham A. Roback and Kurt Lewin. In Roback's case, the "defect…
Science in the Service of the Far Right: Henry E. Garrett, the Iaaee, and the Liberty Lobby
Henry E. Garrett (1894–1973) was the President of the American Psychological Association in 1946 and Chair of Psychology at Columbia University from 1941 to 1955. In the 1950s Garrett helped organize an international group of scholars dedicated to preventing race mixing, preserving segregation, and promoting the principles of early 20th century eugenics and “race hygiene.” Garrett became a leader in the fight against integration and collaborated …
B. F. Skinner and behaviorism in American culture
Rushton and Racial Differences: Further Reasons for Caution
Genocide as a scientific project
http://dx.doi.org/10.1037//0003-066X.52.2.182.b
Genocide as a scientific project
The Context of Correctness: A Comment on Rushton
According to Philippe Rushton, the “equalitarian fiction,” a “scientific hoax” that races are genetically equal in cognitive ability, underlies the “Politically correct” objections to his research on racial differences. He maintains that there is a taboo against race unequaled by the Inquisition. I show that while Rushton has been publicly harassed, he has had continuous opportunities to present his findings in diverse, widely available, respecta…
As his name indicates: R. S. Woodworth's letters of reference and employment for jewish psychologists in the 1930s
Letters of reference from Robert S. Woodworth identified some psychologists as Jews and reveal an implicit stereotype of Jewish “objectionable traits.” I examine these conceptions of “Jewish character” in the context of Woodworth's general views on individual differences and in the broader context of Jewish immigration to America and enrollment at Columbia University in the early 1900s. Constructing the exclusion of Jews from academic psychology …
Science in the Service of the Far Right: Henry E. Garrett, the Iaaee, and the Liberty Lobby
Henry E. Garrett (1894–1973) was the President of the American Psychological Association in 1946 and Chair of Psychology at Columbia University from 1941 to 1955. In the 1950s Garrett helped organize an international group of scholars dedicated to preventing race mixing, preserving segregation, and promoting the principles of early 20th century eugenics and “race hygiene.” Garrett became a leader in the fight against integration and collaborated …
Value Neutrality and SPSSI: The Quest for Policy, Purity, and Legitimacy
I describe how the problem of “value neutrality” remained a central issue for SPSSI from the founding of the organization to the 1960s, as SPSSI leaders worked to maintain legitimacy in both scientific and public spheres. In 1930s psychology, notions of objectivity and political neutrality were intertwined in ways that produced substantial debate over SPSSI's aims. Under pressures from anticommunism and changes in public and private funding for r…
The defects of his race: E. G. Boring and antisemitism in American psychology, 1923–1953
From the 1920s to the 1950s, Edwin G. Boring wrote letters of reference for Jewish students and colleagues in which he followed the common practice of identifying them as Jews and assessing whether they showed "objectionable traits" thought to characterize Jews. These practices are discussed in relation to the increasing antisemitism of the interwar period, with specific reference to Abraham A. Roback and Kurt Lewin. In Roback's case, the "defect…
Confronting scientific racism in psychology: Lessons from evolutionary biology and genetics
Although the American Psychological Association has taken a strong antiracism stance, scientific racism continues to be published in psychology journals and scholarly books. Recent articles claim that the folk categories of race are genetically meaningful divisions and that evolved genetic differences among races and nations are important for explaining immutable differences in cognitive ability, educational attainment, crime, sexual behavior, an…
The Context of Correctness: A Comment on Rushton
According to Philippe Rushton, the “equalitarian fiction,” a “scientific hoax” that races are genetically equal in cognitive ability, underlies the “Politically correct” objections to his research on racial differences. He maintains that there is a taboo against race unequaled by the Inquisition. I show that while Rushton has been publicly harassed, he has had continuous opportunities to present his findings in diverse, widely available, respecta…
As his name indicates: R. S. Woodworth's letters of reference and employment for jewish psychologists in the 1930s
Letters of reference from Robert S. Woodworth identified some psychologists as Jews and reveal an implicit stereotype of Jewish “objectionable traits.” I examine these conceptions of “Jewish character” in the context of Woodworth's general views on individual differences and in the broader context of Jewish immigration to America and enrollment at Columbia University in the early 1900s. Constructing the exclusion of Jews from academic psychology …
Rushton and Racial Differences: Further Reasons for Caution
Genocide as a scientific project
http://dx.doi.org/10.1037//0003-066X.52.2.182.b
Genocide as a scientific project
The defects of his race: E. G. Boring and antisemitism in American psychology, 1923-1953
The defects of his race: E. G. Boring and antisemitism in American psychology, 1923–1953
From the 1920s to the 1950s, Edwin G. Boring wrote letters of reference for Jewish students and colleagues in which he followed the common practice of identifying them as Jews and assessing whether they showed "objectionable traits" thought to characterize Jews. These practices are discussed in relation to the increasing antisemitism of the interwar period, with specific reference to Abraham A. Roback and Kurt Lewin. In Roback's case, the "defect…
Science in the Service of the Far Right: Henry E. Garrett, the Iaaee, and the Liberty Lobby
Henry E. Garrett (1894–1973) was the President of the American Psychological Association in 1946 and Chair of Psychology at Columbia University from 1941 to 1955. In the 1950s Garrett helped organize an international group of scholars dedicated to preventing race mixing, preserving segregation, and promoting the principles of early 20th century eugenics and “race hygiene.” Garrett became a leader in the fight against integration and collaborated …
B. F. Skinner and behaviorism in American culture
On the Presentation and Interpretation of International Homicide Data
Whitney in 1995 argued that White groups around the world have relatively low homicide rates compared to Black groups. He used the presumed similarity of homicide rates of White groups to argue for the importance of genetic factors and the unimportance of sociocultural factors in explaining group differences. We show that for Europeans, Whitney added two categories from United Nations data: homicide and death from a variety of other causes. For t…
The rhetoric of experimental social psychology, 1930-1960: From caution to enthusiasm
Between 1930 and 1960, experimentation became the premier form of knowledge generation in social psychology. In journals, texts, and handbooks, experiment was now conceived as the active manipulation of an independent variable, and the sole method for the discovery of "causes." Understanding this change requires further investigation of the fine-grained discursive strategies used to promote experimentation during the 1930s and 1940s. In this pape…
In and out of Control
Behavior Analysis and Developmental Psychology
Relationships between the fields of behavior analysis and developmental psychology are examined. First, the influence of behavior-analytic research within developmental psychology is surveyed. In the next two sections, integrations of the two approaches are examined with respect to metatheory and methodology. The section on metatheory examines the behavior-analytic approach to nature and nurture, structure and function, traits and situations, and…
Value Neutrality and SPSSI: The Quest for Policy, Purity, and Legitimacy
I describe how the problem of “value neutrality” remained a central issue for SPSSI from the founding of the organization to the 1960s, as SPSSI leaders worked to maintain legitimacy in both scientific and public spheres. In 1930s psychology, notions of objectivity and political neutrality were intertwined in ways that produced substantial debate over SPSSI's aims. Under pressures from anticommunism and changes in public and private funding for r…
Gender, ethnicity, and career trajectories: A comment on Woodward (2010)
Woodward (2010) argued that Maria Rickers-Ovsiankina, Eugenia Hanfmann, and Tamara Dembo constituted a group of Jewish emigré psychologists who received substantial help in America from a "Jewish network" of patronage. This comment focuses on the historiographic problems and pitfalls of essentialized ethnic identification. There was no evidence that Maria Rickers-Ovsiankina was a Jew or that Eugenia Hanffman, raised Russian Orthodox, identified h…
Neoliberalism and IQ: Naturalizing economic and racial inequality
How did IQ become an important means of naturalizing economic and racial inequality and supporting neoliberal visions of a fully privatized, free market society? I show how post-WWII neoliberals and libertarians could employ ideas of “innate intelligence” to promote the reduction of government funding of social programs. For extreme libertarian economist Murray Rothbard, inequality among individuals and ethnicities was self-evident from human his…
Why mainstream research will not end scientific racism in psychology
Mainstream research on racial essentialization may be valuable in the fight against racism, as Held (2020) suggested. I argue that the production of scientific racism in the literature of psychology is unlikely to be affected by such research. Assertions by psychologists of Black people’s average inferiority in brain size, intelligence, and morality have persisted for over 100 years despite repeated, careful critiques. Recent presentations of the…
Robert V. Guthrie and Even the Rat was White: A Retrospective Appreciation of the First Edition
"Jews will not replace us!": Antisemitism, Interbreeding and Immigration in Historical Context
"Jews will not replace us!":Antisemitism, Interbreeding and Immigration in Historical Context Andrew S. Winston (bio) White nationalist cries of "Jews will not replace us!" and, "You will not replace us!," at the 2017 Charlottesville, Virginia, rally were frequently discussed but rarely understood.1 Taken as a sign of general hostility toward Jews or the belief that Jews were vaguely threatening, the deeper meaning of the "replacement" theme in r…
Confronting scientific racism in psychology: Lessons from evolutionary biology and genetics
Although the American Psychological Association has taken a strong antiracism stance, scientific racism continues to be published in psychology journals and scholarly books. Recent articles claim that the folk categories of race are genetically meaningful divisions and that evolved genetic differences among races and nations are important for explaining immutable differences in cognitive ability, educational attainment, crime, sexual behavior, an…
The five pillars, disunity, and crisis: Commentary on Bernstein and Frantz (2026)
Bernstein and Frantz (2026) provide a valuable review of past and present attempts to evaluate and reform the introductory psychology course. Using the Introductory Psychology Initiative five pillar model, they offer ways to make the course more meaningful. I argue that both the five pillar model and the recommendations of Bernstein and Frantz leave two persistent issues unaddressed: the disunity of the discipline and the crisis of replication. B…
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