George Mandler

Selected Books

See "My Books" for my 2007 history of experimental psychology, including comments and an early review.

History
(2007)A history of modern experimental psychology:From James and Wundt to cognitive science. MIT Press.
The development of experimental psychology from its birth as an experimental science to the current immersion in cognitive science.
Autobiography
Interesting Times: An encounter with the 20th century/Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002.
An ccount of life in Austria, England, and the U.S. from immigrant to U.S. Army Intelligence to Academia
Nonfiction
Human Nature Explored. Oxford, 1997. Out of print, but available from the author.
Historical, cultural and evolutionary bases of human nature
Nonfiction/Psychology
Five earlier books (1959-1985)
Logic and history of psychology, emotion, memory, cognition.

A history of modern experimental psychology: From James and Wundt to cognitive science. MIT Press.

A history of modern experimental psychology in the context of the social and cultural changes of the last century. From beginnings in 19th century Germany to American,British and other European developments, the destruction of psychology by the Nazis and its rebirth in the American emigration. Then with the new information age the development of cognitive psychology and the eventual emergence of psychology in cognitive science.

For prepublication comments see "My Books"