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PSYCH EXPERIMENT Pembroke campus, 1953—five years before Hunter Lab was built. Thorazine had barely hit the market and lobotomies were a go-to treatment. The woman in the foreground is psych major Louise Sherlock Tighe ’53, who got her PhD in psychology from Cornell and went on to be a psychology professor. Here, she’s in front of what looks like an oscilliscope, an instrument that can be used to measure brain waves. The trail goes cold there... none of the current professors we contacted could even guess at what kind of experiment the students might have been doing. Our best guess based on the 1953 course catalogue is that this may have been a lab for Psych 111, Advanced Psychological Testing, in which students learned to measure “various aspects of behavior and intelligence in normal and abnormal children and adults.” Or was it Intro to Psychological Testing, with Sherlock as the T.A.? We do know that Sherlock Tighe, who died in 2014, liked to go to basketball games and was a nationally ranked distance swimmer.—LOUISE SLOAN ’88
PHOTO: BROWN ARCHIVES
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