Green, Christopher -

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Personal Information
First Name: 
Christopher
Last Name: 
Green
Department / Program: 
OTHER
Other: 
Psychology
University Affiliation: 
York University
Phone: 
4167365115
Extension: 
66164
Email Address: 
christo@yorku.ca
Area of Research
Subject: 
Psychology
Geographical Region: 
Great Britain
North America
Time Period: 
19th Century
20th Century
Specific Area of Research: 
History of (mainly american) psychology; Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace; philosophy of contemporary (mainly connectionist) cognitive science.
Academics
PHD Program: 
Philosophy
PHD University: 
University of Toronto
PHD Date: 
2004
Major Publications: 
Green, C. D. & Benjamin Jr., L. T. (Eds.) (2009). Psychology gets into the game: A prehistory of sport psychology. Lincoln, NB: University of Nebraska Press. Green, C. D. & Groff, P. R. (2003). Early psychological thought: Ancient accounts of the mind and soul. Westport, CT: Praeger. Green, C. D., Shore, M., & Teo, T. (Eds.) (2001a). The transformation of psychology: Influences of 19th-century philosophy, technology, and natural science. Washington D.C.: American Psychological Association Press. Green, C. D. (2009a). Darwinian theory, functionalism, and the first American psychological revolution. American Psychologist, 64, 75-83. Green, C. D. (2009b). The curious rise and fall of experimental psychology in Mind. History of the Human Sciences, 22, 37-57. Green, C. D. (2004a). The hiring of James Mark Baldwin and James Gibson Hume at Toronto in 1889. History of Psychology, 7, 130-153. Green, C. D. (2003a). Psychology strikes out: Coleman Griffith and the Chicago Cubs. History of Psychology, 6, 267 Green, C. D. (in press). How to find refutations of the Golden Section without really trying. Empirical Studies of the Arts. Green, C. D. (in press). Baseball's first power surge: Home runs in the late 19th-century major leagues. Baseball Research Journal, 40, . Green, C. D. (2011). The Chicago Cubs and the "headshrinker": An early foray into sports psychology. Baseball Research Journal, 40, .
Membership in Academic Societies: 
History of Science Society Cheiron: International Society for the History of the Behavioral & Social Sciences Canadian Society for the History & Philosophy of Science American Psychological Association
Courses Taught: 
Historical and Theoretical Foundations of Psychology (grad) History of Psychology (undergrad) Darwinian Influences on the Development of Psychology (grad) Mesmerism & Phrenology (grad) Statistics (undergrad)