APS

29th APS Annual Convention · 2017

Helping Students Discover Darwin

Boston, MA · May 2017

Poster Session

  • Thomas Heinzen
    William Paterson University

Abstract

Visual displays of archival data about Charles Darwin’s problem with beauty provide a way for students to engage with the person at the heart of psychology’s dominant metatheory: evolution. Darwin was unable to resolve his religious objections to natural selection until he discovered an alternative explanation – in statistics!

History of Psychology

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