Am Psychol. 2016 Jan;71(1):76. doi: 10.1037/a0039683.
Franz Samelson, social psychologist and historian of psychology, died in Manhattan, Kansas, on March 16, 2015. Franz joined the Psychology Department at Kansas State University (KSU) in 1957 and rose through the ranks to retire as Professor in 1990. At KSU he taught social psychology informed by his dislike of narrow empiricism and a growing interest in historical topics. The history of social psychology, Franz believed, was distorted by post-World War II desires for value-free empiricism. Gordon Allport, he showed, created an origin myth for the field that suited his values, obscuring the ideological diversity of his predecessors. Turning to intelligence and intelligence testing, Franz's research again altered the scholarly landscape. Although it was long believed that psychologists' testing in World War I demonstrated the usefulness of their young science, Franz revealed this to be another disciplinary myth. Next, Franz showed that a popular history of IQ testing (Stephen Jay Gould's Mismeasure of Man) was distorted by the author's liberal enthusiasm-again showing his willingness to take on the political left as well as the right.
弗朗茨·塞缪尔森，社会心理学家和心理学史家，于 2015 年 3 月 16 日在堪萨斯州曼哈顿去世。弗朗茨于 1957 年加入堪萨斯州立大学（KSU）心理学系，并在该系晋升，于 1990 年退休为教授。在 KSU，他教授社会心理学，他不喜欢狭隘的经验主义，并且对历史主题越来越感兴趣。弗朗茨认为，社会心理学的历史被第二次世界大战后对价值无涉的经验主义的渴望所扭曲。他表明，戈登·奥尔波特（Gordon Allport）为该领域创造了一个符合他价值观的起源神话，掩盖了他前辈们的思想多样性。在谈到智力和智力测验时，弗朗茨的研究再次改变了学术界的面貌。尽管人们长期以来一直认为心理学家在第一次世界大战中的测试证明了他们年轻科学的有用性，但弗朗茨揭示了这是另一个学科神话。接下来，弗朗茨表明，一本关于智商测试的通俗历史（斯蒂芬·杰伊·古尔德的《人的误测》）被作者的自由热情所扭曲——再次表明他愿意接受政治左派，也接受右派。
