The name of the professional magazine, in which we are publishing this slightly polemic study, is for us a preamble which determines its intent. By means of the content of the article we open the discussion about personality, since existing models and theories of personality bear witness to the construct of personality and “conceptual chaos and semantic confusion” rather than to the extent of c...

"Perhaps the most quoted statement in the history of comparative psychology is Lloyd Morgan's canon" (Dewsbury, 1984, p. 187). To this it can be added that perhaps the most misrepresented statement in the history of comparative psychology is Lloyd Morgan's canon. Apparently a version of Morgan's canon was first published in 1892 (Dixon, 1892; Morgan, 1892). However, the most cited version of th...

Abstract Between 1899 and 1907, the medium Rosalie Thompson—giving voice to her dead daughter, Nelly—participated in a number of experimental seances with Society for Psychical Research (SPR), which were formative development society’s theories telepathy, personality survival. Using extensive séance notes taken by researchers, range published materials related case, this article situates psychi...