Psychology and the Law: an Overture

J L Tapp
1976 Annual Review of Psychology  
with the rules of and for human behavior-initiated collaboration, the history of psychology and law dates back to the first decade of the twentieth century. While Freud in 1906 in Vienna (42) was lecturing judges on the practicality of psychology, others in the United States circa 1910 were also connecting the classroom (psycho logical laboratory) with the courtroom (law). In 1908, Munsterberg of Harvard University's psychological laboratory attempted in his book, On the Witness Sta nd, to
more » ... psychology to legal problems by demonstrating that the psychological processes of perception and memory must be considered in evaluating courtroom testimony (128). In 1909, Healy established in Chicago the first psychological clinic to be attached to a juvenile court-a first also for law; in 1915, he wrote Honesty:
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