Before modern personality quizzes, Francis Galton created the first psychological test in 1884. #RandomFact #PsychologyHistory #MindScience #Galton #TestingOrigins

Conversion Therapy My name is John Doe, and I am still undoing the knots tied into my mind. I never thought attraction could feel like nausea — but they…

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Did you know Aleksei N. Leontiev, the Russian psychologist behind activity theory, had intellectual rivalries with the Hungarian Academy of Sciences? (Q362127) #PsychologyHistory #SovietScience

2/ Did you know? Granville Stanley Hall, a prominent psychologist in the early 1900s, once declared that "being an only child is a disease in itself." Yes, really. And that harmful narrative has persisted for over a century. #PsychologyHistory #ParentingMyths

1/ In 1939, at an Iowa soldiers' orphanage, an utterly unethical experiment was conducted on 22 orphaned children to test the "misdiagnosis theory" of stuttering. #MedicalEthics #PsychologyHistory #TheMonsterStudy