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Studies From the Laboratory of Experimental Psychology of the University of Wisconsin: Series First, Second, Third, and Fourth, 1889 to 1893; From the American Journal of Psychology (Classic Reprint)
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Collection Of Reprints Of Articles By Joseph Jastrow: Pamphlet Vol.
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Plain man should be interested in the experiences of the world of mind which form an intrinsic part of his common humanity; and it is equally natural that he should find attraction in less commonplace and seem.
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Psychology is concerned with explaining how we incline to think; logic undertakes to lay down the law of how we must think if we would think correctly. The actual thinking that we do, whether true or false, strong or weak, original or commonplace, consistent or capricious, direct or rambling, is none the less thinking. The results are psychological specimens, however well or ill they stand the test of logic; they are all plants, whether weeds or flowers. In the standard patterns of thought, the process begins with premises and ends with conclusions, and requires some sort of bond to hold the two together in an argument. Formally that is the whole procedure; actually it is little more than a bare skeleton, lacking all the features of the flesh-and-blood reality. What makes it so is the distribution of our interests and the limitations of our mental nature. Primarily we are interested in conclusions; for they bear upon our conduct, our comfort, our emotional security. Thinking encounters as it is stimulated by the reality of facts and events, the complexity of experience. We live under a practical stress; thinking must satisfy needs. We are ever thrown back upon our composite psychology. The tangible outcome of our taking thought is the reservoir of our convictions, that supplies the stream of action.
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Joseph Jastrow was a Polish-born American psychologist. He believed that everyone had their own, often incorrect, preconceptions about psychology. One of his goals was to use the scientific method to identify truth from error, and educate the layperson, which he did through speaking tours, popular print media, and radio.
Background
Jastrow was born on January 30, 1863, in Warsaw, Poland, one of the seven children of Bertha (Wolfsohn) and Marcus Jastrow and a younger brother of the Semitics scholar Morris Jastrow. His father, a scholarly rabbi educated in German universities, was banished from Poland for supporting the patriot cause against Russian domination. In 1866, after several years in Germany, he accepted a call to Congregation Rodeph Shalom in Philadelphia, where he became a leader in American conservative Judaism.
Education
Jastrow attended the University of Pennsylvania (A. B. 1882) and went on to the Johns Hopkins University, where he studied philosophy, came under the influence of C. S. Peirce and G. Stanley Hall, and developed an interest in the emerging science of psychology. In 1886 he received what was apparently the first Ph. D. degree in the United States specifically in psychology.
Career
Unable after graduation to obtain a teaching position in the new field of psychology, Jastrow continued as honorary fellow at Hopkins until 1888, when he went to the University of Wisconsin as professor of experimental and comparative psychology. Some of the eighteen published papers of his Hopkins years he gathered into his first book, Fact and Fable in Psychology (1900). At Wisconsin Jastrow established the third psychological laboratory in the United States. He guided research by his students and continued his own experimental interest in problems of sensation, perception, involuntary movement, association, and reasoning. His work with illusions included an original ambiguous rabbit-duck figure which found a place in many textbooks of general psychology. He also taught courses in philosophy, especially aesthetics, a subject in which he maintained a lifetime interest. His approach to psychology was broad and eclectic; he belonged to no "school" of psychology but found something to accept in them all.
When the American Psychological Association was established in 1892 he became its first secretary, and in 1900 he was elected president. At the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 Jastrow arranged the first public exhibit of psychological apparatus and set up a laboratory where for a small fee visitors could take a variety of tests: in sensory and sensory-motor tasks, sensitivity to pain, eye-hand coordination, visual acuity, color blindness, reaction time, and the like. The results of this large-scale testing program were carefully recorded but never processed or published. Jastrow's heavy teaching load, combined with his work for the World's Fair, resulted in a breakdown of health in 1894, which left his energy greatly curtailed, even after a year's leave for recuperation. He continued to teach until his retirement in 1927, although he has described his latter years as "full of anxiety and illness. " Dissatisfaction with his salary and the feeling that he never obtained the recognition he deserved left him embittered.
His books of this period include The Subconscious (1906), The Qualities of Men (1910), Character and Temperament (1915), and The Psychology of Conviction (1918). After retirement Jastrow moved to New York City, where he taught at the New School for Social Research (1927-1933) and at Columbia, gave frequent lectures to clubs and other groups, and developed a newspaper column, "Keeping Mentally Fit, " which was published by the Philadelphia Public Ledger Syndicate from 1927 to about 1932. A volume of material collected from the column, published under the same title in 1928, proved highly popular. Eight more books of popular psychology followed before Jastrow's death. He also reached a wide public through a series of radio talks for the National Broadcasting Company from 1935 to 1938. His mission was to combat error and charlatanism and advance the cause of mental health. Jastrow died of a coronary occlusion in 1944 at the Austen Riggs Foundation in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and was buried in Baltimore, Maryland.
Achievements
Joseph Jastrow has been listed as a noteworthy psychologist. by Marquis Who's Who.
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Membership
Jastrow served as President of the American Psychological Association (1900).
Personality
Jastrow was short in stature, with carefully trimmed beard and mustache, and dignified and reserved in person.
Connections
On August 2, 1888, Jastrow married Rachel Szold, daughter of a Baltimore rabbi and sister of Henrietta Szold, the well-known Zionist leader. Mrs. Jastrow died in 1926; they had no children of their own, and their adopted son, Benno, was killed in World War II.
