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L’eugenetica nella storia della psicologia (2019)

Foschi, Renato (Author)

Physis: Rivista Intemazionale di Storia della Scienza
Volume: 54
Pages: 291-308

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Eugenics, a nineteenth-century invention of Francis Galton (1822–1911), has been a fundamental and controversial chapter in the history of science that has engaged many scholars and influenced the course of the twentieth century. It is mainly historians of science who have addressed the subject. Despite many articles and books on one or more aspects of the history of eugenics, this area still remains marginal in many important textbooks on the history of psychology and personality psychology; in some historical essays, it is not covered at all. Conversely, in more recent books on the critical history of psychology, eugenics is mainly addressed as one of the sources of racism in American psychology. This article seeks to show that eugenics has been a fundamental chapter in the history of contemporary psychology with its roots in Anglo-Saxon psychometrics. Its influence has been decisive over the biography of many founders of scientific psychology, as also over the psychology of intelligence and personality. Lastly, an analysis is given of the possible reasons for the marginality of eugenics within the history of psychology.

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