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[Identification of item], Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Records, University Archives, Duke University.
The Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Records were received by the University Archives as a transfer starting in 1974.
Processed by Jessica Wood, July 2006
Encoded by Molly Bragg, May 2011
Accessions were merged into one collection, described in this finding aid.
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The mission of the undergraduate program in psychology at Duke University is to provide students with a dynamic and interactive learning experience that confers a strong background in psychology as a science. Graduate training in Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke provides students with exceptional opportunities to examine mind, brain, and behavior at different levels of analysis (e.g., neural, molecular, individual, and social) using a variety of techniques (e.g., brain imaging, animal models, computational models, experimental research with humans, surveys, and field studies). The Duke Psychology Department was created in 1927 with William McDougall serving as its first chair.
This collection contains minutes from various subgroups within the Psychology Department, staff meetings, clinical psychology staff meetings, senior staff committee meetings, and graduate staff meetings, as well as, departmental correspondence, applications for research grants, class census records, reports to the administration and the Board of Trustees, videotapes, 16mm film, and publications of the Psychology Department faculty. Materials span date from 1930-1996 with the bulk dates of 1949-1980. Video and film materials are undated.
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The Duke Parapsychology lab opened in 1935 and in 1965 it closed at Duke and moved to the the foundation for research on the Nature of Man as the Institute for Parapsychology. Please see the Parasychology Labratory Records for more information: url="http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/paralab/
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