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NameBartlett; Sir; Frederic Charles (1886-1969); Professor; CBE, FRS, HonFBPsS
PreTitleSir
TitleProfessor
ForenamesFrederic Charles
SurnameBartlett
Dates1886-1969
EpithetCBE, FRS, HonFBPsS
Other NamesF. C. Bartlett
GenderMale
NationalityBritish
DatesAndPlacesBorn Stow, Gloucestershire 20 October 1886
Died Cambridge 30 September 1969
Stow 1886- 18?
Cambridge 1911-1969
AddressCambridge
RelationshipsBartlett was the second son of William Bartlett (nd), master bootmaker, and his wife, Temperance Matilda Howman (nd).
He married Emily Mary Smith (1886-1974) psychologist, daughter of William Henry Smith (nd) JP, of Helmshore, Lancashire
They had two sons (no details)
ActivityBartlett was educated at home in his teens, his health being thought too poor, following an attack of pleurisy, for him to go away to school.This allowed Bartlett the time to read widely, spend time walking in the countryside.
As an external student of London University, Bartlett obtained first-class honours in philosophy in 1909 and an MA with special distinction in 1911. He moved next to Cambridge and was attracted to St John's College, where W.H.R.Rivers (1864-1922) was active. Rivers encouraged Bartlett to work in the new laboratory of experimental psychology under C.S.Myers (1873-1946).Bartlett graduated in 1914, obtaining a first in part one of the moral sciences tripos, and then became assistant director of the laboratory. His health made him unfit for military service in the First World War (1914-1918) therefore Bartlett remained at Cambridge with the major responsibility for the laboratory.

In 1920 he married and in 1922 became director of the psychological laboratory and reader in experimental psychology. In 1931 Bartlett was made the first professor of experimental psychology in Cambridge, a post which he retained until he retired in 1952. During the 30 year period of directing the laboratory he developed it from one assistant to over seventy staff and research workers and trained many remarkable students. In the post-war years the chairs at Oxford, Cambridge, London, and numerous other universities were for a substantial time all occupied simultaneously by Bartlett's former students.During the Second World War (1939-1945) Bartlett served on the flying personnel research committee of the Air Ministry, and also on the Medical Research Council, and his laboratory in Cambridge became a centre for stress related performance in regard to ability to operate such devices as radar screens, target indicators, tank gunnery controls. This work led to design improvements in the devices themselves and to changes in the models used to understand human behaviour. Bartlett was assisted in his wartime research by K.J.W.Craik (1914-1945) one of the first to see the possible use in psychology of explanations derived from cybernetics and control engineering. After Craik's death Bartlett fostered a group of research workers developing similar theories. After the war, Bartlett's research on human performance and machine design was extended to industrial problems: from 1944 the Medical Research Council maintained an applied psychology research unit within Bartlett's department, and after the war he continued to act as a consultant to it.

From 1924 to 1948 Bartlett was editor of the British Journal of Psychology. He was president of section J (psychology) of the British association for the Advancement of Science in 1929. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1932, the only psychologist so honoured for many years. He was created CBE in 1941 and knighted in 1948. He was President (1950) and Honorary Fellow (1954) of the British Psychological Society, and was an honorary member of the Experimental Psychology Society of the UK (1960). He was a foreign member or associate of the Societe Francaise de Psychologie, of the American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia, of the US National Academy of Arts and Sciences, and an honorary member of a number of foreign psychological societies. He was a founder member of the Ergonomics Society.He received honorary degrees from Athens, Princeton, Louvain, London, Edinburgh, Oxford and Padua. He also received the Baly and the Huxley medals (1943)., the royal medal of the Royal Society (1952), the Longacre award of the Aero Medical Association (1952), and the gold medal of the International Academy of Aviation and Space Medicine (1964).

Sources: Mostly taken from D.E.Broadbent, Bartlett, Sir Frederick Charles (1886-1969), rev. Hugh Series, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004[accessed 11 Jan 2005: <available at>http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30628

List of publications taken from Barlett Archives <available at>http://www-bartlett.sps.cam.ac.uk/Bibliography.htm [accessed Nov.2006].

Compiled by Mike Maskill, BPS Archivist for the History of Psychology Centre.
OtherInfoThe early stages in the British history of cognition were set by F. C. Bartlett in the 1930s. The Applied Psychology Unit in Cambridge would be a leading centre for cognitive psychology.
PublishedWorksOf the ten books which he wrote, or to which he contributed, the best known is:

"Remembering: A Study in Experimental & Social Psychology" (Cambridge) CUP 1932
Selected articles;
Fifty years of psychology. Occup. Psychol. 29, 203-16 (1955)
Changing Scene. Brit. J. Psychol. 47, 81-7

Full list of Bartlett's publications as follows:
1914

(1) Exercises in Logic. London: W.B. Clive, University Tutorial Press (pp. 136). (Reprinted 1926, 1948, 1955.) Exercises and Key to Exercises were designed to be used with J. Welton and A.J. Monahan (1911) An Intermediate Logic, London: W.B. Clive, University Tutorial Press (pp. xviii, 513), 'though this will not prevent the book being used with any other textbook'. Similar Keys were produced for other volumes in the University Tutorial Series.

(2) Key to Exercises in Logic. London: W.B. Clive, University Tutorial Press (pp. iv, 130). (2nd ed. 1930, London: University Tutorial Press.)

1916

(3) 'Transformations arising from repeated representation: A contribution towards an experimental study of the process of conventionalisation', Fellowship Dissertation, St. John's College, Cambridge. Although not in the public domain, Harris and Zangwill included this dissertation in their list of published papers, perhaps because of its importance to Bartlett's career. It contains the kernel of many ideas Bartlett expanded in his subsequent work. The thesis is discussed in Zangwill's (1972) third Bartlett Memorial Lecture entitled 'Remembering Revisited', Quarterly Journal of Experi mental Psychology 24: 123-138, and also in R.C. Oldfield's Obituary Notice (Section D, 22).

(4) Symposium: 'The implications of recognition, Part II', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 16: 189-201. (Part I was by B. Edgell, Part III by G.E. Moore and Part IV by H. Willdon Can.) All four papers were read at a meeting of the Aristotelian Society on 20 March 1916, with the President, Dr. H. Willdon Can, in the Chair. The minutes of the 37th session (1915-16) record that among those taking part in the debate were Professor G. Dawes Hicks, Professor T. Percy Nunn, Arthur Lynch, MP and Professor J. Brough. Miss Edgell replied to the discussion. Bartlett had been elected to the Society in the previous year together with Mr. T. Steams Eliot and Professor A.N. Whitehead.

(5) 'An experimental study of some problems of perceiving and imaging', British Journal of Psychology 8: 222-266. This is Bartlett's first published paper in experimental psychology. He described several related experiments on perceiving forms, patterns and representational designs under conditions of short exposure, together with some experiments on the interpretation of ink-blots. These experi ments are reported in more condensed form in Remembering (see 53).

1917

(6) 'Valuation and existence', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 17: 117-138. This paper was read at a meeting of the Aristotelian Society on 5 February 1917, with the President, Dr. H. Wilidon Can, in the Chair. According to the minutes of the 38th session (1916-17) the discussion was opened by the Chairman, and Mr. Douglas Ainslie, Professor G. Dawes Hicks, Miss Beatrice Edgell, Mr. W.A. Pickard-Cambridge, Miss F. Rosamond Shields, Rev. A.E. Davies, Rev. John Drake and Mr. Morris Ginsberg participated in the discussion. 'Mr. Bartlett replied to the criticisms that had been made.'

1918

(7) 'The development of criticism', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 18: 75-1 00. Read to the Aristotelian Society on 3 December 1917, with the President, Dr. H. Willdon Can, in thc Chair. The minutes record that the Chairman opened the discussion, and the following members took part: Professor G. Dawes Hicks, Mr. St. George Lane Fox Pitt, Miss Beatrice Edgell, Mr. WE. Urwick and Rev. S.E. Hooper. Mr. Bartlett replied.

(8) 'Critical notice of Studies in Psychology', Mind 27: 361-366. Referring to Studies in Psychology: Contributed by colleagues and former students of Edward Bradford Titchener (1917), Worcester, MA: L.N. Wilson (337pp.). 1919

(9) [With E.M. Smith] 'On listening to sounds of weak intensity', pre-printed summary of lecture given to British Psychological Society on 31 May 1919.

1920

(10) [With E.M. Smith] 'On listening to sounds of weak intensity, Part I', British Journal of Psychology 10: 101-129.

(11) [With EM. Smith] 'On listening to sounds of weak intensity, Part II', British Journal of Psychology 10: 133-165. These papers, written in association with E.M. Smith (later Lady Bartlett), constitute a highly interesting introspective study of auditory perception under conditions of near-threshold stimulation. They are the first of Bartlett's several publications in the psycho-acoustic field (see also 18, 50, 54, 57, 152).

(12) [With E.M. Smith] 'Is thinking merely the action of language mechanisms? Part I', British Journal of Psychology 11: 55-62. This was a contribution to the symposium presented at the Congress of Philosophy in Oxford on 24-27 September 1920. Part II was by Godfrey H, Thomson, Part III by T.H. Pear, Part IV by Arthur Robinson and Part V by John B. Watson.

(13) 'Adventure', The Eagle, St. John's College Cambridge 41: 194-196.

(14) 'Some experiments on the reproduction of folk stories', Folk-Lore 31: 30-47.

(15) 'Psychology in relation to the popular story', Folk-Lore 31: 264-293. 1921

(16) 'The functions of images', British Journal of Psychology 11: 320-337.

(17) 'Critical notice of The group mind: A sketch of the principles of collective psychology with some attempt to apply them to the interpretation of national life and character by William McDougall', British Journal of Psychology 11: 3.

1922

(18) [With H. Maik] 'A note on local fatigue in the auditory system', British Journal of Psychology 13: 215-218.

(19) [With A.C. Haddon] 'Obituary notice: W.H.R. Rivers', Man 22: 97-104.

(20) 'Williams Halse Rivers Rivers, 1864-1922', American Journal of Psychology 34: 275-277. A touching personal tribute to W.H.R. Rivers and an indication of the influence which Rivers had upon Bartlett's interests and thoughts.

(21) 'W.H.R. Rivers', The Eagle, St. John's College Cambridge 43: 2-14.

(22) Psychology and Primitive Culture, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press and New York: Macmillan (pp. ix, 294). Reprinted 1924, and in 1970 by Greenwood Press, CT. Based on lectures delivered in 1922 at Bedford College for Women, in the University of London. A short and clearly written book in which Bartlett endeavours to apply psychological principles to our understanding of primitive culture. Although in some sense a reflection of Bartlett's unrealised anthropological vocation, the book merits attention as an early contribution towards what is nowadays called cross-cultural psychology. It is particularly noteworthy for its refutation of L. LevyBruhl's conception of the 'pre-logical' character of primitive thought.

1924

(23) 'Symbolism in folk-lore', in Proceedings of the VIIth International Congress of Psychology, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press (pp. 278-289). The Congress was held at Oxford from 26 July to 2 August 1923, under the Presidency of Charles S. Myers. An interesting though difficult paper in which Bartlett discusses the psychological nature of symbols and their role in folk-lore. He returns to some of the problems discussed here in the second part of Remembering (see 53).

1925

(24) 'Group organisation and social behaviour', International Journal of Ethics 35: 346-367.

(25) 'Feeling, imaging and thinking', British Journal of Psychology 16: 16-28. A short paper in which Bartlett advances the view that the term 'feeling' is commonly used to denote unclear or insufficiently analysed sensory or cognitive content.

(26) 'James Ward. 1843-1925 [obituary]', American Journal of Psychology 36: 449-453.

(27) 'The social functions of symbols', Australasian Journal of Psychology and Philosophy 3: 1-11.

(28) [With C.S. Myers] A Text-book of Experimental Psychology with Laboratory Exercises: Pt. II. Laboratory exercises (3rd ed.), Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press (pp. viii, 121). (Pt. I. Textbook, 3rd ed., Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press was by C.S. Myers.) The first edition, in one volume, 1909, and the second edition, in two parts, 1911, were by Myers alone. First edition C.S. Myers, 1909, A Text-book of Experimental Psychology, London: Arnold (pp. viii, 432). Second edition C.S. Myers (1911), A Text-book of Experimental Psychology with Laboratory Exercises: Ft. I. Textbook (pp. vi, 344, 1 plate, 24 figures and diagrams), Pt. II: Laboratory exercises (42 figures and diagrams), Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Bartlett contributed a number of new experiments to the Laboratory Exercises, in particular those concerned with the perception and reproduction of forms, recognition and recall, and processes of construction. In the main, however, the book continues to represent the German psychological tradition.

1926

(29) 'Psychology of culture contact', Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vol. 1(13th ed.), London and New York: Encyclopaedia Britannica Co. Ltd (pp. 765-771).

(30) 'Critical notice of Head's Aphasia', British Journal of Psychology 17: 154-161.

(31) 'Critical notice of Head's Aphasia', Brain 49: 581-587. Referring to Head, H. (1926) Aphasia and Kindred Disorders of Speech, 2 vols., Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press (pp. xvi, 549; xxiii, 430). Reprinted New York and London, Hafner Publishing Company (1963). This review clearly reflects the powerful impact made on Bartlett by Head's thinking, which had an important influence on his own theory of memory (see 53). Bartlett's interpretation of Head's view has been examined in R.C. Oldfield and O.L. Zangwill (1942) 'Head's concept of the Schema and its Application in Contemporary British Psychology: Pt. II. Critical examination of Head's theory', British Journal of Psychology 33: 58-64.

(32) 'The social psychology of leadership', Journal of the National Institute of Industrial Psychology 3: 18 8-193. This article is part of a paper read before Section J (Psychology) at the British Association Meeting in Oxford in 1926.

1927

(33) 'Temperament and social status', Journal of the National Institute of Industrial Psychology 3: 40 1-405. A paper read before Section J (Psychology) of the British Association Meeting in Leeds in 1927, as part of a discussion with Dr. Morris Ginsberg and Professor Godfrey Thomson on 'Inheritance and Social Status'.

(34) 'The relevance of visual imagery to the process of thinking: Pt. III', British Journal of Psychology 18: 23-29. Contribution to a symposium at a joint meeting of the British Psychological Society and the Cambridge Psychological Society, held in Cambridge on 30 April 1927. Part I was by T.H. Pear and Part II by F. Aveling. This article is of particular interest in that Bartlett adumbrates certain of the views about schemata and the theory of memory later developed in Remembering (see 53). He also presents interesting views on the functions of visualising and vocalising in recall.

(35) 'Critical notice of Watson's Behaviorism', Mind 36: 77-83. Referring to Watson, J.B. (1925) Behaviorism, London: Kegan Paul (25 lpp.). Although this review shows clearly that Bartlett was very sceptical of the tenets of Behaviourism, he none the less adopted certain of the Behaviourist conventions, not least that of stimulus and response, in his general psychological thinking (see 45).

(36) 'The psychology of the lower races', in Proceedings of the VIIIth International Congress of Psychology, Gröningen, The Netherlands: P. Noordhoff (pp. 198-202).

(37) Psychology and the Soldier, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press (pp. viii, 224). This is a selection from a course of lectures, on psychology in relation to military problems, for which Bartlett was responsible in Cambridge during the years which followed World War I.

(38) 'Psychological qualities in leadership and management', in Report of the 25th Lecture Conference for Works Directors, Managers, Foremen, and Forewomen. Balliol College, Oxford, 29 September to 3 October 1927 (pp. 21-25).

1928

(39) 'Social constructiveness: Pt. I', British Journal of Psychology 18: 388- 391. Contributed to a joint psychological and anthropological discussion held at Cambridge in March 1928. Part II was by J.T. McCurdy, Part III by W.E. Armstrong and Part IV by AC. Haddon.

(40) 'Temperament and social class', Eugenics Review 20: 25-28.

(41) 'An experiment upon repeated reproduction', Journal of General Psychology 1: 54-63.

(42) 'Types of imagination', Journal of Philosophical Studies 3: 78-85.

(43) 'Review of Common Principles in Psychology and Physiology by John T. McCurdy', The Hibbert Journal 4: 765-767.

(44) 'The psychological process of sublimation', Scientia 43: 89-98.

1929

(45) 'Experimental method in psychology', Journal of General Psychology 1930, 4: 49-66. (Also in Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 97: 187-198, and a shortened version in Nature 124: 341-345.) Presidential address to Section J of the British Association, delivered at the 97th meeting at Capetown on 26 July 1929. This address gives a good idea of Bartlett's earlier views on method in experimental psychology and includes shrewd comments on Gestalt psychology, behaviourism, and the work of C.E. Spearman and E.R. Jaensch.

(46) 'Psychology and the fighting services', Royal Engineers' Journal 43: 234- 242.

(47) 'Experimental psychology', Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vol. 8 (14th ed.), London and New York: Encyclopaedia Britannica (pp. 980-983).

(48) [With J.H. Parsons and C.B. Goulden] 'Vision or sight', in Vol. 23 of Encyclopaedia Britannica (14th ed.) London and New York: Encyclopaedia Britannica (pp. 199-214).

(49) [C. Murchison in co-operation with F.C. Bartlett, S. Blachowski and K. Buhler et al.] The Psychological Register, Vol. II (International University Series in Psychology), Worcester, MA: Clark University Press.

1931

(50) 'On certain general conditions of auditory experiments', in Report of a Discussion on Audition, London: Physical Society (pp. 128-134). Discussion was held on 19 June 1931 at the Imperial College of Science, London.

(51) 'Maintenance of morale in war', Royal Engineers' Journal 45: 2 15-225.

1932

(52) 'A note on the visual perception of depth', in Report of a Joint Discussion on Vision, London: Physical Society (pp. 236-241; discussion with author's reply pp. 242-243). Discussion was held on 3 June 1932, at the Imperial College of Science, London, by the Physical and Optical Societies.

(53) Remembering: A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press (pp. x, 317, 3 plates). Reprinted 1950, 1954, 1961, 1964 and 1967. Reissued 1995, Paperback edition: Cambridge University Press, 1967. American edition: New York, Macmillan, 1932. Italian edition: La Memoria (1974) (trans. Viviana Poli Velicogna), Milan: Angeli Editore. Hungarian edition: Az emlékezés: KIsérleti és szociálpszichológiai tanulmány (1985) (trans. and foreword Pleh Csaba), Budapest: Gondolat. Spanish edition: Recordar: Estudio de psicologia experimental y social (1995) (trans. Pilar Soto and Cristina del Barrio, with Introduction by Alberto Rosa, which includes a 1 2-page academic biography of Bartlett), Madrid: Alianza. This is Bartlett's most important book. Part I embodies the results and analysis of the early experiments on perception and imaging (see 5) together with those on the recall of pictures and stories first recorded in his unpublished Fellowship Dissertation (see 3) and mentioned in two earlier papers (see 14 and 41). He also puts forward a theory of memory based on Head's concept of schemata. Part II deais with the influence of social and cultural factors on memory and includes critical examination of Jung's concept of archetypes.

(54) [With K.G. Pollock, H.C. Weston and S. Adams] 'Two studies of the psychological effects of noise: I. Psychological experiments on the effect of noise. II. The effect of noise on the performance of weavers', Industrial Health Research Board Report No. 65, London: HMSO (pp. iv, 70). (Part I, pp. 1-37 is by Pollock and Bartlett. Part II by Weston and Adams.) 1933

(55) 'Adaptation et fatigue', Journale de Psychologie Normale et Pathologique 30: 673-694. 1934

(56) [With ML. Harbinson] 'An investigation of the relation between discomfort and disability resulting from glaring light', British Journal of Psychology 24: 3 13-319.

(57) The Problem of Noise (preface by C.S. Myers) [Cambridge Miscellany, 15], Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press (pp. x, 87). A short, semi-popular account of its subject based upon what was reliably known at the time regarding the nature of noise and its allegedly harmful effects. It was an expansion of two Heath Clark lectures delivered at the invitation of the National Institute of Industrial Psychology. 1935 (58) 'Remembering', Scientia 57: 22 1-226.

(59) 'Dr. Shepherd Dawson, 1880-1935 [obituary]', British Journal of Psychology 26: 117-119.

1935

'Remembering', Scientia 57: 22 1-226.

1936

(60) 'Frederic Charles Bartlett [autobiography]', in C. Marchison (ed.) A History of Psychology in Autobiography, Vol. III, Worcester, MA: Clark University Press (pp. 39-52).

(61) 'The Future of Marriage in Western Civilisation by Edward Westermont [book review]', Folk-Lore (Sept.).

1937

(62) 'Cambridge, England, 1887-1937', American Journal of Psychology 50: 97-110. A short account of the development of experimental psychology in Cambridge and of the earlier work of the Psychological Laboratory.

(63) 'Psychological methods and anthropological problems', Africa 10: 401-420. A review of psychological methods applicable in anthropology. It contains a strong criticism of intelligence testing on the ground that such tests fail to take cultural differences sufficiently into account.

(64) 'Some observations on recent psychological experiments on visual and tactile judgements of wool fibres', Journal of the Textile Institute (Proceedings) 28: P94-P95.

(65) 'Psychology and the Royal Air Force: I. A general survey', Royal Air Force Quarterly 8: 270-276.

(66) 'Psychology and the Royal Air Force: II. Interests, temperament, character', Royal Air Force Quarterly 8: 375-387.

1938

(67) 'Psychology and the Royal Air Force: III. Interviewing and some remarks on training', Royal Air Force Quarterly 9: 60-68.

(68) 'The co-operation of social groups', Occupational Psychology 12: 30-42. In this paper Bartlett outlines the relations between remembering and constructive thinking, which he was later to develop in his book on Thinking (see 155, and also 109).

(69) 'Friendliness and unfriendliness between different social groups.' (Sectional Trans.) British Association for the Advancement of Science (August 1938).

(70) 'Prof. William McDougall, F.R.S. [obituary]', Nature 142: 1107-1108.

1939

(71) [With M. Ginsberg, E.J. Lindgren and R.H. Thouless (eds)] The Study of Society: Methods and problems, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. (pp. xii, 498). Reprinted 1949. American edition: New York, Macmillan, 1939. Chapter II 'Suggestions for Research in Social Psychology' (pp. 24-45) is by Bartlett. This is a collection of essays prepared by a group of British psychologists, anthropologists, psychiatrists and others, which was intended to stimulate systematic inquiry into social aspects of psychology. Bartlett was one of the main organisers of the group.

(72) 'Thinking', in Centenaire de Th. Ribot: Jubilé de Ia Psychologie Scientifique Fran çaise, 1839-1889-1939, Paris: Imprimerie Moderne Cpp. 281- 285).

(73) 'A psychologist looks at crime', Police Journal 13: 53-60.

(74) Political Propaganda, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press (pp. x, 158). Reprinted 1942. American edition: New York, Octagon Books, 1973. Mexican edition: La Propaganda Politica (1943) (trans. Francisco Giner de los Rios) Mexico D.F.: Fondo de Cultura Economica (148pp.).

1941

(75) 'Fatigue following highly skilled work', Nature 147: 717-718. This is an abbreviated version of 77.

1943

(76) 'Anthropology in reconstruction', The Huxley Memorial Lecture for 1943. London: The Royal Anthropological Institute (8pp.). (Also published in Journal of the RoyalAnthropological Institute 72: 9-16, and summarised with additions in Nature, 152: 710-714. A further brief summary was published in Man (1944) 44: 25-26.) This noteworthy lecture delivered in London on 23 November 1943 summarises Bartlett's mature views on the relations between psychology and the social sciences, and on the future of anthropology.

(77) 'Fatigue following highly skilled work', Proceedings of the Royal Society, B131: 247-257. Reprinted in D. Legge (ed.) (1970) Skills, Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin Education. The Ferrier Lecture of the Royal Society, delivered 29 May 1941. An important paper based on the wartime work of the Cambridge Psychological Laboratory, in particular experiments conducted by K.J.W. Craik, G.C. Drew and D. Russell Davis on the effects of long spells of simulated operational duty using the 'Cambridge Cockpit' devised by Craik. Some of the findings were published later in D. Russell Davis (1948) Pilot Error: Some laboratory experiments (Air Ministry Publication 3139A), London: HMSO.

(78) 'Current problems in visual function and visual perception', Proceedings of the Physical Society of London 55: 417-425. The 13th Thomas Young Oration, delivered 4 June 1943. 1944

(79) 'Psychology after the war', Agenda 3: 1-11.

1945

(80) 'Dr. K.J.W. Craik [obituary]', Nature 155: 720.

(81) 'Some growing-points in experimental psychology', Endeavour 4: 43-52.

1946

(82) 'Kenneth J.W. Craik, 1914-45 [obituary]', British Journal of Psychology 36: 109-116. Reprinted in S.L. Sherwood (ed.) (1966) The Nature of Psychology: A selection of papers, essays, and other writings by Kenneth J W. Craik, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press (pp. xiii-xx). Contains portrait and bibliography of Craik. A remarkably frank personal memoir of K.J.W. Craik, who was killed in a road accident just before the end of World War II.

(83) 'Dr. Charles S. Myers, CSE, FRS [obituary]', Nature 158: 657-658.

(84) 'Psychological methods for the study of "hard" and "soft" features of culture', Africa 16: 145-155.

1947

(85) 'Visitor to America', American Psychologist 2: 372-374.

(86) 'Intelligence as a social problem', Journal of Mental Science 93: 1-8. The 20th Maudsley Lecture, delivered before the Royal Medico-Psychological Association on 27 November 1946. Bartlett gives his views on intelligence and intelligence testing, with special reference to the demands likely to be made on human capacity by an increasingly technological society.

(87) 'The task of the operator in machine work', Bulletin for Industrial Psychology and Personnel Practice 3(1): 3-12. Modified version of FPRC report 565, December 1943 and APU report 30, 1945 (see Section B, 27 and 28).

(88) 'Some problems of "display" and "control"', in Universitas Catholica Lovaniensis, Miscellanea Psychologica Albert Michotte: etudes de psychologie offertes a MA. Michotte a l 'occasion de son jubilé professoral, Paris: Libraire Philosophique (pp. 440-452).

(89) 'The embryology of behaviour', British Medical Bulletin 5: 232-233. Critical review of A. Gesell and C.S. Amatruda (1945) The Embryology of Behaviour, New York and London: Harper (pp. xix, 289).

(90) 'The measurement of human skill: (1) The nature of skill', British Medical Journal 1: 835-838. Also published in Occupational Psychology (1948) 22: 31-38. This is the first of two Oliver-Sharpey lectures, given at the Royal College of Physicians of London on 21 January 1947.

(91) 'The measurement of human skill: (2) The grouping and stability of the constituent items in skill performance', British Medical Journal 1: 877- 880. Also published in Occupational Psychology 22: 83-9 1. This was the second of two Oliver-Sharpey lectures given at the Royal College of Physicians of London on 23 January 1947. The two lectures draw together Bartlett's ideas on the nature of high-level human skill and the changes which it may undergo in adverse environmental circumstances. Based on experimental work carried out in Cambridge during and after World War II by members of the MRC Applied Psychology Unit, of which Bartlett became Honorary Director after Craik's death.

(92) 'Group contact in contemporary society [report]', The Daily Princetonian 7 1(26th February): 36. The first of a series of Vanuxen lectures at Princeton.

(93) 'The third Vanuxen lecture at Princeton [report]', The Princeton Herald 23(7th March): 19.

(94) 'Social factors in recall', in Committee on the Teaching of Social Psychology of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (eds) Readings in Social Psychology, New York: Henry Holt.

1948

(95) 'Fatigue in flying [abstract]', British Medical Journal 1: 166. This paper was read in the Section of Occupational Health at the 116th meeting of the British Medical Association in Cambridge on 2 July 1948.

(96) 'Men, machines, and productivity', Occupational Psychology 22: 190- 196.

(97) 'The first eighteen months of the Cambridge Nuffield Research Unit on Ageing', Journal of Gerontology 3: 294-295.

(98) 'Charles Samuel Myers. 1873-1946 [obituary]', Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society of London 5: 767-777.

(99) Foreword to J. Blackburn's pamphlet 'Intelligence'.

1949

(100) 'William McDougall. (1871-1938)', in L.G. Wickham Legg (ed.) The Dictionary of National Biography, 1931-40, London: Oxford University Press (pp. 570-572).

(101) 'What is industrial psychology?', Occupational Psychology 23: 212-218.

(102) 'Psychology and mental health, current trends and their implications', British Medical Bulletin 6: 7-10.

(103) 'Psychological research in industry', Journal of the Textile Industry (Proceedings) 40: P419-P425. This was the Annual Mather Lecture of the Mather Institute.

(104) 'Incentives in industry', Spectator (23rd December): 878-879.

1950

(105) 'Challenge to experimental psychology', in Proceedings and Papers of the Twelfth International Congress of Psychology, Edinburgh and London: Oliver & Boyd (pp. 23-30). The Congress was held at the University of Edinburgh from 23 to 29 July 1948, under the Presidency of Professor (Emeritus) James Drever. Bartlett's paper was given as an evening discourse on 27 July. In this address, Bartlett expresses his firm faith in the value of applied work in psychology as a basis for fundamental scientific advance.

(106) 'Incentives', British Journal of Psychology 41: 122-128. The Henry Sidgwick Memorial Lecture delivered at Newnham College, Cambridge, on 19 November 1949. A defence of the view that incentives have rational and not merely emotional significance in human behaviour.

(107) 'Human tolerance limits', Acta psychologica 7: 133-141. Special issue in honour of Géza Revesz on his 70th birthday.

(108) [Unsigned] 'Psychology at University College, London. Sir Cyril L. Burt', Nature 165: 711.

(109) 'Programme for experiments on thinking', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 2: 145-152. A version of a paper read on 22 July 1950 to a meeting of the Experimental Psychology Group in Cambridge. Bartlett outlines his views on the nature of thinking and proposes a coherent series of experiments designed to elucidate it. This programme was partly fulfilled in his book on Thinking: An experimental and social study published in 1958 (see 155).

(110) Religion as Experience, Belief Action, London: Oxford University Press (38pp.). The Riddell Memorial Lectures, 22nd series, University of Durham.

(111) [With N.H. Mackworth] Planned Seeing: Some psychological experiments: 1. Visibility in the control rooms at Fighter Command. 2. The synthetic training of Pathfinder air bombers in visual centring on target indicators. (Air Ministry Publications 31 39B), London: HMSO (with plates. pp. vi, 76). This report testifies to Bartlett's long-standing interest in aviation psychology (see also 65, 66, 67, 77). Although the experiments were carried out by the junior author, Bartlett contributed several of the guiding ideas and was responsible for the overall direction of the work.

(112) 'Subjective judgements', Nature 166: 984-985. Report of privately arranged discussion at University College, London, on 14 October 1950, in which Bartlett took the Chair.

(113) 'New light on old problems: psychology in modern society', Times Review of the Progress of Science (April): 18.

(114) 'Selection of leaders in war-time', Nature 166: 166. Review of book by H. Harris The Group Approach to Leadership-testing.

1951

(115) 'Thinking', Memoirs of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society 93: 31-44. The Clayton Memorial Lecture for 1951.

(116) 'The effects of flying upon human performance', Année psychologique 50: 629-638. (See also Section B, 38.) Volume Jubilaire Offert en Hommage a Henri Pieron.

(117) 'The experimental study of skill', Research, Lond. 4: 217-221.

(118) The Mind at Work and Play, London: George Allen & Unwin (l43pp. 7 plates and 26 figs). American edition: Boston, Beacon Press (1951). German edition: Denken und Begreifen: Experimente der Praktischen Psychologie (1952) (trans. Carl Friedrich Graumann and Edeltrud Seeger), Köln, Berlin: Kiepenheuer & Witsch (l55pp.). Dutch edition: Ernst en Spel Rondom Ons Brein (1953) (trans. Walter Yzerdraat), The Hague: H.P. Leopold (l67pp.). Swedish edition: Rolig Psychologi (1953) (trans. Karl Hylander), Stockholm: Natur och Kultur (l55pp.). Spanish edition: La Mente Trabaja Y Juega (1954) (trans. Ignacio Bolivar Izquierdo), Madrid: Alhambra (l42pp.). Italian edition: La Mente Nel Lavora e Nel Gioco (1957) (trans. Lionello Torossi), Milan: Valentino Bompiani (1 73pp.). Russian edition: Psihika Celoveka V Trude I Igre (1959) (trans. O.S. Vinogradova), Moscow: Izd-vo Akad ([44pp.). The substance of lectures 'adapted to a juvenile audience' delivered at the Royal Institution during the Christmas season of 1948. Although intended for schoolchildren, this book embodies much of Bartlett's thinking on psychological issues and is delightfully written.

(119) 'The laboratory analysis of human activities', The Applications of Scientific Methods to Industrial and Service Medicine. Proceedings of a conference held 29-31 March 1950. London: HMSO (pp. 77-82).

(120) 'The bearing of experimental psychology upon human skilled performance', British Journal of Industrial Medicine 8: 209-2 17.

(121) 'Human control systems', Transactions of the Society of Instrument Technology 3: 134-142.

(122) 'Psychology of behaviour: Critical review of Parsons' 'Springs of Conduct', Nature 167: 574-575.

(123) Foreword in A.T. Welford Skill and Age. An experimental approach, London, New York & Toronto: Oxford University Press (pp. iii-v).

(124) Foreword in R.W. Pickford Individual Differences in Colour Vision, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul (pp. xii-xiii).

(125) 'The measurement of skill', Times Review of the Progress of Science 1: 6.

(126) 'Anticipation in human performance', in G. Ekman, T. Husen, G. Johansson and CI. Sandström (eds) Essays on Psychology: Dedicated to David Katz, Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksell (pp. 1-17).

1952

(127) 'Review of Thinking: An introduction to its experimental psychology by George Humphrey' (1951), Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 4(1): 87-90.

(128) 'The employment of the older worker', The Worker in Industry, London: HMSO (pp. 80-87). A contribution to Ministry of Labour and National Service Centenary Lectures, 1951.

(129) 'Psychological medicine' and 'Psychology' in P.O. Williams (ed.) Careers in Medicine, London: Hodder & Stoughton (pp. 66-69).

(130) 'The experimental study of human skilled performance', Report of the Medical Research Council for the Year 1950-51, London: HMSO (pp. 25-27).

1953

(131) 'Psychological criteria of fatigue', in W.F. Floyd and AT. Welford (eds) Symposium on Fatigue, London: H.K. Lewis (pp. 1-5).

(132) 'The nature and place of thinking in medicine', British Medical Journal (11th April, pp. 795-798).

(133) 'Challenge to experimental psychology-1953' [I have no further details on this paper. The title appears in a card file of Bartlett's published papers. It may have been published under a different name. HFB.]

1954

(134) 'Intelligence tests: Assumptions, uses, and limitations', Times Science Review 12: 9.

(135) 'Use and value of intelligence and aptitude tests', Proceedings of the First World Conference on Medical Education, London: Oxford University Press (pp. 198-2 10). The Conference was held in London, 24-31 August 1953.

(136) 'The transfer of training', Bulletin of the Cambridge Institute of Education (June 1954). Also in Bulletin de l'Association Internaiionale de Psychotechnique 2(1): 3 1-41.

(137) 'Psychological aspects of ageing', Ciba Foundation Colloquiz on Ageing 1: 209-213.

(138) 'Psychology in medicine', The Eagle, St. John 's College Cambridge 61(244): 6-13. Based on the Linacre Lecture for 1953.

(139) 'Review of Faces in the Crowd: Individual studies in character and politics by David Riesman', International Affairs (January).

(140) 'Review of The Ultimate Weapon by Oleg Anisimov', International Affairs (January).

1955

(141) 'Timing: La regulación del factor tiempo como caracteristic a fundamental de la actividad humana [Timing: Control of the time factor as a fundamental characteristic of human activity]', Revista Psicologia General y Aplicada 10: 521-533. Also 'Timing-A fundamental character in human skill', Proceedings of the XII Congress of the international Association of Applied Psychology. London: IAAP.

(142) 'Fifty years of psychology', Occupational Psychology 19: 203-216. Based on two lectures given at Oxford in 1955. Two earlier versions of this were entitled 'Experimental psychology in the 20th century' and 'Psychology today'.

(143) 'Thinking: An experimental approach', Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain (pp. 1-10). Weekly evening meeting of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, 4 March 1955.

(144) 'Contact of cultures in the present social world', Twentieth Century 158(943): 269-278.

(145) 'The teacher of the deaf'. Presidential address to the National College of Teachers of the Deaf, Doncaster, February.

1956

(146) 'Changing scene', British Journal of Psychology 47: 8 1-87. Presidential Address to the British Psychological Society, March 1951.

(147) 'Training older people: An experimental approach to a social problem', Revista Psicologia Normal y Patologica 50: 45-54.

(148) 'Some experiments about thinking', Proceedings of the Royal Society B145: 443-451. The Croonian Lecture, delivered 31 May 1956.

1957

(149) Some Recent Developments of Psychology in Great Britain, Istanbul: Baha Mathaasi (pp. viii, 92). Six lectures delivered at Istanbul University in 1956, and two others also given in Turkey. The pamphlet contains a Turkish edition (pp. 1- 44), introduced by M. Turhan, and the English version (pp. 45-92), introduced by W.R. Miles.

(150) 'Review of Ciba Foundation Symposium on Extrasensory Perception, edited by G.E.W. Wolstenholme and E.C.P. Millar'.

(151) 'Review of Sense and Nonsense in Psychology, by H.J. Eysenck'. Book reviews 150 and 151 were in a list of Bartlett's published papers but without any indication of the journal in which they were published.

1958

(152) 'Recent advances in knowledge about hearing', New Scientist 4(90, 7 August 1958): 557-559.

(153) 'Review of Figural Alter-effects by P. McEwen', Science Progress (Oct. Review).

(154) 'Laboratory work on fatigue', Royal Society of Health Journal 78: 510- 513. Contributed to a Symposium on Fatigue, and read to the Occupational Health Section at the Eastbourne Health Congress on 1 March 1958.

(155) Thinking: An experimental and social study, London: George Allen & Unwin. (2O3pp.). Second impression 1964. Paperback edition: London, Unwin University Books (1962). American edition: New York, Basic Books (1958). Italian edition: Il Pensiero: Ricerche Sperimentale e Aspetti Sociali (1975) with Introduction by Fulvio Sceparto, Milan: Franco Angeli Editore (239pp.). Spanish edition: Pensamiento: Un Estudio De Psicologla Experimental Y Social (1988) (trans. Cristina Simon Cordero, prologue by J.L. Zaccagnini Sancho), Madrid: S.A. Zurbano. Bartlett's last book represents in some ways a sequel to Remembering (see 53), and in others a development of his ideas about sensorimotor skills developed during and after World War II (see 77, 90, 91, 111, 117, 141).

(156) 'Herbert Sidney Langfeld: 1879-1958 [obituary]', American Journal of Psychology 71: 616-619.

(157) 'Anticipation in flying', Congrès Mondial de Medicine Aeronautique, III. Louvain, Belgium: Congres Europeen (pp. 356-358).

1959

(158) 'Some problems of scientific thinking', Ergonomics 2: 229-238. Based on the Huxley Lecture delivered at the University of Birmingham on 13 March 1958.

(159) 'Charles Samuel Myers (1873-1946)', in L.G. Wickham Legg and E.T. Williams (eds) The Dictionary of National Biography, 1941-50, London: Oxford University Press (pp. 613-614).

(160) 'A reply to Dr. Kristof', Zeitschrift für experiment und angeswandte Psychologie 7/8: 165-167.

(161) 'Review of Psychology.' A Study of a Science, edited by Sigmund Koch, Experimental Psychology 1959: 1059.

1960

(162) 'Karl Spencer Lashley: 1890-1958', Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 5: 107-118.

(163) 'Review of The Anatomy of Judgements.' An investigation into the processes of perception and reasoning by ML. Johnson Abercrombie', The New Scientist (31 March).

(164) Opening Address to the 1960 Conference on the Care of the Deaf (pp. 5-9). Held at Church House, Westminster, 5-7 October 1960.

(165) 'The teacher as an investigator', The Teacher of the Deaf 58(347): 300-303.

(166) 'La cinema et la transmission de la culture', Journal de Filmologie 10(32/33): 3-12.

1961

(167) 'The bearing of medicine and psychology on engineering', The Chartered Mechanical Engineer 8(5): 297-299. 1962

(168) 'The way we think now', Psychologische Beitrage 6: 387-394. Essays presented to Professor Wolfgang Kohler on the occasion of his 75th birthday, 21 January 1962.

(169) 'Alucinacion', Revista Psicologia General y Aplicada 17: 235-246. Communication presented to the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Sociedad Española de Psicologia, Madrid, May 1961.

(170) 'The outlook for flying personnel research', in A.B. Barbour and H.E. Whittingham (eds) Human Problems of Supersonic and Hypersonic Flight, London: Pergamon (pp. 3-8). Proceedings of the Fifth European Congress of Aviation Medicine, London, 29 August to 6 September 1960.

(171) [With S.M. Nandé, A.B. Van der Merwe and C. Murchison] 'Simon Biesheuvel', Psychologia Africana 19: 3-13.

(172) 'On getting and using information', in N. Mitchison (ed.) What the Human Race is Up To, London: Victor Gollancz (pp. 145-155).

(173) 'Review of Psychologist at Large.' An autobiography and selected essays by E.G. Boring, Perceptual and Motor Skills 14: 347.

1962

(174) 'The future of ergonomics', Ergonomics 5: 505-511. Ergonomics Research Society Lecture for 1962. Given at Loughborough on 9 April 1962.

1963

(175) 'Propaganda and technique of mass persuasion', Financial Times (11 February, 75th Anniversary Issue): 69-70.

1964

(176) 'The evaluation of sensory experience', Laboratory Practice 13(2): 596-598.

1965

(177) 'Thinking', in JO. Whitaker (ed.) Introduction to Psychology, Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders (pp. 3 19-349). Contributors include: Frederic Bartlett, S.M. Luria, Russell Sergeant, Robert D. Meade, Muzafer Sherif and Carolyn Sherif.

(178) 'Remembering Dr. Myers', Bulletin of the British Psychological Society 18: 1-10. The first Myers Memorial Lecture, delivered in Cambridge on 8 November 1964. A perceptive memoir of CS. Myers and his varied contributions to psychology in Cambridge and further afield.

(179) 'Review of Thinking.' From association to Gestalt by Jean and George Handler', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 17(3).

1966

(180) 'Baron Michotte Van Den Berck (1881-1965) [obituary]' Bulletin of the British Psychological Society 19: 35-37.

(181) 'Some remarks about skill', Manpower and Applied Psychology 1: 3 -7.

(182) 'George Humphrey. 1889-1966 [obituary]', American Journal of Psychology 79(4): 657-658.

(183) 'La Destreza en la Acción en la Dirección de Personas', XI Annual Reunion of the National Congress of Psychology of Spain.

1968

(184) 'W.H.R. Rivers', The Eagle, St. John's College Cambridge 62(269): 156-160.


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Fragments Archived at University of Cambridge Libarary

The National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists created this list and owns the copyright. The material listed below can be obtained by contacting the manuscripts section of the University Library at the University of Cambridge.

Notebooks:

Scope and Content Nos. CSAC 36.13.75/A.17-A.39 are probably notes made by Bartlett on lectures attended at the University of London 1906-09.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/A.1 and A.2 Creation dates: 1913 Scope and Content (H. & Z. no.1) 2 noteboks, 'Logic Definitions' and 'Logic Note Book'. Notebks also include later notes on dreams related by hospital patients 1917, and early notes by Bartlett on Langland & Milton, and lists of Greek vocabulary.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/A.3 Creation dates: 1914 Scope and Content Notes for lectures on philosophy, esp. on sense data; includes draft of letter to 'Mr. Russell' on problems of sense data.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/A.4 Creation dates: 1913-14 Scope and Content Notebk. with some loose sheets. 'Practical Work in Psychology': accounts of expts. performed on each other by Bartlett, E. Seaver, C.S. Myers and others, on sensory perception of sound, temperature, colour etc. Loose sheets contain charts and drawings.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/A.5 Creation dates: 1914, 19 Scope and Content Notebk. of lectures given in Lent and May terms 1914 on various topics on thought processes. Later in book: Lectures headed '1st. Lent Term 1928', with introductory plan of course on Recognition.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/A.6 Creation dates: 1914-15 Scope and Content Notebk. of expt. observations and casenotes on association tests on pictures and objects.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/A.7 Creation dates: 1916 Scope and Content Notebk. inscribed inside front cover 'Original. Why the Sun & the Moon live in the Sky'. Contains also the story 'The War of the Ghosts' and other stories used as expt. material for tests of memory, with versions given by hospital patients, and comments and casenotes by Bartlett. This is the raw data for CSAC 36.13.75/A.8, Bartlett's Fellowship thesis on 'Transformations arising from repeated representation ...'

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/A.8 Creation dates: 1916 Scope and Content Thesis (H. & Z. no.3)

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/A.9 Creation dates: 1916-17 Scope and Content Light blue notebk. with some loose sheets. Expt. observations and charts of patients' reactions and memory, incl. raw data for CSAC 36.13.75/A.8. Draft 'Study of Convention in Perceiving & Imagining' (plan and notes for H. & Z. no.5).

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/A.10 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content Red notebk. Misc. notes and drafts on Emotion, feeling and representation, and on books and articles read. Draft 'll Feeling and Criticism' (continuation of 'Expt. study... perceiving & imagining' H. & Z. no.5). Drafts of 'An Expt. Study of the nature and course of changes in the Content of Representation' and (at rear of book) 'A Study of Change in Reproduction'.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/A.11 Creation dates: 1916-17 Scope and Content Black notebk. Notes and expt. observations on memory, and subjects' reactions and transformations.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/A.12 Creation dates: 1918 Scope and Content Black notebk. Notes on books and articles on perception of sound and hearing 1918 (in middle of book) Observations headed 'Expts. on Differential Threshold' 1930.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/A.13 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content Notes on various topics on remembering and communication, transmission of material etc. Indexed by Bartlett as far as p.41, but work continues to end of book.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/A.14 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content Notes on books and articles on topics in anthropology and psychology.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/A.15 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content Red notebk. Perhaps a draft for book, on scientific method, measurement, experimental method, variables, approximations, etc.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/A.16 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content Red notebk. Perhaps a draft for book, on 'The Philosophic Mind', generalisation and analogy, classifications, etc.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/A.17 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content Ex. Bk. 'Introduction to Political Science'.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/A.18 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content Ex. Bk. 'Introduction to SOCIOLOGY' (Bartlett's index inside front cover).

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/A.19 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content Ex. Bk. 'Ethics Mackenzie'(Bartlett's index inside front cover).

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/A.20 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content Ex. Bk. 'Manuel of Ethics Book III'(Bartlett's index inside front cover).

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/A.21 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content Ex. Bk. 'Groundwork of Psychology'(Bartlett's index inside front cover).

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/A.22-A.25 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content 4 Ex. Bks. 'Analytic Psychology II, III, IV, V' (Vol 1 missing), with Bartlett's index inside front cover.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/A.26-A.28 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content 3 Ex. Bks. 'KANT. Development of Modern Philosophy V, VI, VII'

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/A.29-A.34 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content 6 Ex. Bks. 'LOTZE' (Bartlett's index inside front cover).

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/A.35-A.37 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content 3 Ex. Bks. 'The Origin & Development of the Moral Ideas' (Bartlett's index inside front cover).

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/A.38, A.39 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content 2 Ex. Bks. 'Morals in Evolution'(Bartlett's index inside front cover).

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/A.40 Creation dates: 1929 Scope and Content Notebk. entitled 'F's Journal of S. African visit 1929'. (Bartlett's journal 29 July-10 September 1929); some loose papers.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/A.41 Creation dates: 1909 Scope and Content Loose gathering from ex. bk. Essays on logic, with tutorial annotations, reading lists, etc. Date-stamped 'Returned corrected 23 Sept. 1909'; probably work done by Bartlett during studies in London before going up to Cambridge.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/A.42 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content Loose gatherings from ex. bks. Early notes on psychology, indexed, and pages numbered. CSAC 36.13.75/B.1-B.88

Lectures, speeches and addresses:

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.1-B.7 Creation dates: 1930 Physical characteristics: All lectures are manuscript; there is also a typescr. version of all except CSAC 36.13.75/B.5 and CSAC 36.13.75/B.6. Scope and Content Lectures on Social Psychology, given at Cambridge CSAC 36.13.75/B.1 includes notes for plan of course.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.8-B.23 Creation dates: 1937 Physical characteristics: Manuscript, some also with typescr. versions. Scope and Content Lectures on Social Psychology, given at Cambridge, some dated 1937.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.8 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content Individual Initiative and Social Control Related Material See also CSAC 36.13.75/B.20

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.9 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content Popular Education.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.10 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content Social Stability. Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.11 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content Popular Education and Social Responsibility.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.12 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content Psychological Principles which operate in determining the effects of a Contrast of Cultures.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.13 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content Class Distinctions and Divisions.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.14 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content The Specialisation of Function in Society, Social Stratification and Leadership.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.15 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content Group Resistance to Disentegration.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.16 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content The 'Representative' Man. Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.17 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content Leadership.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.18 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content Election and Representation.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.19 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content The Notion of Collective Unconscious.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.20 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content Individual Initiative and Social Control (not the same lecture as CSAC 36.13.75/B.8).

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.21 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content Problems and Methods.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.22 Creation dates: n.d Physical characteristics: (Typescr.). Scope and Content Social Values

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.23 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content Incomplete lecture on popular education.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.24 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content A discussion of factors involved in Learning.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.25 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content Learning Processes.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.26 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content G. Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.27 Creation dates: 1934 Scope and Content Learning

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.28 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content The Relation between Laboratory and Field Work in Industrial Psychology.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.29 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content Untitled lecture on 'historical study in regard to psychological problems'.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.30 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content Innate Differences between Social Classes.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.31 Creation dates: 1945 Scope and Content How the Body and Mind deal with the Sorting of Key processes and items

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.32 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content Games and Amusements. Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.33 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content Education and Social Life.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.34 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content Psychology in relation to Social Phenomena. Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.35 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content Man in Society.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.36 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content Untitled address, on group psychology.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.37 Creation dates: 1938. Scope and Content Friendliness and Unfriendliness between different social groups (address given to British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1938).

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.38 Creation dates: n.d Physical characteristics: (Typescr.). Scope and Content Group Organisation and Social Behaviour

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.39 Creation dates: n.d Physical characteristics: (Typescr.). Scope and Content Psychological Factors in Peace and War

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.40 Creation dates: n.d Physical characteristics: (Page 1 missing; typescr.). Scope and Content Incomplete lecture on similar subject

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.41 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content Untitled lecture on the Swazi people.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.42 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content Psychological Problems in the Government of Native Races.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.43 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content Koffka (a reply by Bartlett to criticisms of his work by K).

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.44 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content Incomplete lecture, or lectures, on learning processes (perhaps for Cambridge course).

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.45 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content A Preliminary Note on Promising Lines for the Assessment of Temperament.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.46 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content A note on early signs of Skill Fatigue.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.47 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content The Development of Skill. Summary. 1. Definition. 2. The Development of Skill. 3. Sequences in Skill. 4. Objective Control. 5. The Task. 6. Co-ordination. 7. Continued Exercise. 8. Mental Skill.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.48 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content Fatigue in the case of Skill.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.49 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content Experimental Psychology in Modern Society. 1. The Study of Human Skill. 2. Incentives. 3. Learning. 4. Human Relations. 5. Selection.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.50 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content Functional Anthropometry. Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.51 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content Untitled account of experiments conducted with Dr. Henry Barcroft on mental reactions during decreased O2 pressure.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.52 Creation dates: n.d Physical characteristics: (Typescr. with Ms. corrections). Scope and Content Self-delusion, and its Value. Paper delivered to the 'Heretics', Cambridge Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.53 Creation dates: n.d Physical characteristics: (Typescr.). Scope and Content Some applications of Experimental Psychology (perh. abstract for address or paper)

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.54 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content Prodigious Memories.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.55 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content The Evaluation of Sensory Experiences (incomplete).

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.56 Creation dates: 1945 Scope and Content Psychology in England (a historical survey from 1914 to post 1945).

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.57 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content Experimental Psychology, Past and Present.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.58 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content Psychology Past and Present.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.59 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content The Group Mind (incomplete).

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.60 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content Four lectures on 'Social Planning' (incomplete); also misc. shorter notes for lectures and papers by FCB, and Mss. found with FCB's papers but not by him.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.61 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content Ms. 'Comments of the Lecture entitled Some Aspects of Fatigue' by Dr. W.S. Frederick.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.62 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content 'Karl Spencer Lashley' (perh. reference or commendation).

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.63 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content Foreword to Series 'Psychological Monographs on Cognitive Processes'.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.64 Creation dates: 1912 Scope and Content 'Animism', address to 'The Heretics', Cambridge

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.65 Creation dates: 1935 Scope and Content 'Remembering', perh. related to H. & Z. no.54.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.66 Creation dates: 1943 Physical characteristics: (Ms. and typescr. versions). Scope and Content 'Social Psychology in Colonial Administration'

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.67 Creation dates: 1945 Physical characteristics: (Typescr.). Scope and Content 'Psychology as a Social Science'

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.68 Creation dates: 1945 Physical characteristics: (Ms. and typescr.). Scope and Content 'The Bomb and the Human Mind'

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.69 Creation dates: 1946 Scope and Content 'Experimental Psychology for History of Science Lectures'

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.70 Creation dates: 1947 Scope and Content 'Thinking' (The Herbert Spencer Lecture, Oxford) 2pp. only.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.71 Creation dates: 1947 Physical characteristics: Ms. and typescr. Scope and Content 'The Contact of Social Groups in the Modern World': I The Psychology of the Very Large Social Group. II Forms and Results of the Contact of Groups. III Prediction in the Field of Group Contact. with an introductory Ms. note 'The three chapters of this book were delivered as YANUSEN Lectures in the University of Princeton in February and March 1947. They have been expanded in a few places and some additional detail and references added. In all other respects they remain in their original form'.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.72 Creation dates: 1949 Scope and Content 'Psychological Aspects of Industrial Productivity'.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.73 Creation dates: 1950 Language: French Scope and Content Speech of welcome by FCB at Psychological Laboratory, Cambridge, to Professor Michotte and colleagues from Louvain.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.74 Creation dates: 1953 Scope and Content 'The Industrial Training of the Older Worker' (cyclostyled report).

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.75 Creation dates: 1955 Scope and Content 'Thinking: An Experimental Approach', discourse given at the Royal Institution, March 1955, with drafts and notes.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.76 Creation dates: 1955 Scope and Content Obituary notice of Madison Bentley published in Nature, 2 July 1955 with editorial correspondence. Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.77 Scope and Content Ms. Draft chapter for Thinking (H. & Z. no.133), and two other typescr. sections 'probably not by FCB' (Dr. A.D. Harris).

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.78 Creation dates: 1958 Physical characteristics: Typescr. Scope and Content 'Anticipation in Flying', with Ms. note 'talk to Congress of Aviation Medicine'. Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.79 Creation dates: 1958 Physical characteristics: Typescr. Scope and Content 'Memory', article for Enc. Brit.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.80 Physical characteristics: Typescr. Scope and Content 'Association, Mental', article for Enc. Brit.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.81 Creation dates: 1960 Scope and Content 'A little more about Remembering' (12 pp. Ms.) 1. The Topic of the Book. 2. Theory of Remembering. 3. 'Turning round on one's own Schemata'. 4. Immediate Versus Remote Remembering. 5. Remembering Discrete Items, and Return to Remembering (11 pp.). Typescr. of above with new title and an added section I 'A 'Romantic' Approach', the other sections being renumbered 2-6.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.82 Creation dates: 1959-60 Scope and Content 'Recent Developments in the Psychology of Thinking'; contribution to Recent Trends in Theory and Practice of Psychology, Silver Jubilee Commemorative volume of the Faculty of Education and Psychology, Baroda, India., with related correspondence.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.83 Creation dates: 1964 Scope and Content Untitled address to International Congress of Aviation and Space Medicine, Dublin, 14 Sept. 1964.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.84 Creation dates: 1947 Scope and Content 'Foreword', prob. for The framework of human behaviour by Julian M. Blackburn, 1947.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.85 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content 'The Bearing of Medicine and Psychology upon Engineering' + one unidentified page

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.86 Creation dates: 1964 Scope and Content 'What's the Use of Psychology?'. Preface and Ch.I of a 'short book', describing early life, Cambridge studies and lecturers before and during 1914-18 War.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.87 Creation dates: n.d Scope and Content Sketches for short stores by Bartlett

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/B.88 Creation dates: 1942-1944 Scope and Content Misc. reports: 1. On the efficient length of the working week. 1943 2. The Positioning of Instrument Controls. 3. Fatigue: Navigators and Radio operators. 1944 4. The Role of the Operator in Tracking Targets. 1944 5. Assessment and Structure of Mechanical Ability. 1944 6. The Relations of Psychiatrists and Psychologists in regard to the Post-War Development and Application of Psychiatry and Psychology. 1942 7. A Note on Personnel Problems in the Royal Navy. 8. Speed of Performance.

Drafts of Publications:

Creation dates: 1927-1955

CSAC 36.13.75/C.1-C.29 Scope and Content Mss. of published papers. The related no. in Harris & Zangwill's handlist is given in each case.

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/C.1 Creation dates: 1927 Scope and Content 'Inheritance and Social Status' (H. & Z. no.31).

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/C.2 Creation dates: 1937 Scope and Content 'Cambridge, England 1887-1937' (H. & Z. no.57).

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/C.3 Creation dates: 1943 Scope and Content 'Anthropology in Reconstruction' (H. & Z. no.70).

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/C.4 Creation dates: 1943 Scope and Content 'Fatigue following highly skilled work' (H. & Z. no.71).

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/C.5 Creation dates: 1943 Scope and Content 'Current problems in visual function and visual perception' (H. & Z. no.72).

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/C.6 Creation dates: 1944 Physical characteristics: (Ms. and corrected typescr. versions). Scope and Content 'Psychology after the War' (H. & Z. no.73)

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/C.7 Creation dates: 1945 Scope and Content Obituary of K.J.W. Craik (H. & Z. no.74).

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/C.8 Creation dates: 1945 Physical characteristics: (Ms. and typescr. versions). Scope and Content 'Some Growing Points in Experimental Psychology' (H. & Z. no.75)

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/C.9 Creation dates: 1946 Scope and Content 'Psychological Methods for the Study of 'Hard' and 'Soft' Features of Culture' (H. & Z. no.78). Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/C.10 Creation dates: 1947 Physical characteristics: (Typescr.). Scope and Content 'Visitor to America' (H. & Z. no.79)

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/C.11 Creation dates: 1947 Physical characteristics: (Ms. and typescr. versions) Scope and Content 'Some Problems of 'Display' and 'Control'' (H. & Z. no.82)

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/C.12 Creation dates: 1947 Physical characteristics: (Ms. and typescr. versions) Scope and Content 'The Measurement of Human Skill' (H. & Z. nos. 84, 85)

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/C.13 Creation dates: 1948 Scope and Content 'Men, Machines and Productivity' (H. & Z. no.87). Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/C.14 Creation dates: 1949 Scope and Content 'Psychological Research in Industry' (H. & Z. no.93).

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/C.15 Creation dates: 1950 Scope and Content 'Incentives' (H. & Z. no.96) (with several drafts). Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/C.16 Creation dates: 1950 Scope and Content 'Human Tolerance Limits' (H. & Z. no.97).

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/C.17 Creation dates: 1951 Scope and Content Foreword to 'The Mind at Work and Play' (H. & Z. no.97).

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/C.18 Creation dates: 1952 Scope and Content 'Psychology' (H. & Z. no.117).

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/C.19 Creation dates: 1958 Physical characteristics: (Ms., typescr., editorial corresp.). Scope and Content 'Recent Advances in Knowledge about Hearing' (H. & Z. no.131)

Reference: CSAC 36.13.75/C.20 Creation dates: 1958 Physical characteristics: (Typescr.). Scope and Content 'Laboratory
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