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Records of the Midwest Psychological Field Station, a field station operated by University of Kansas psychology professors Roger Barker and Herbert Wright in Oskaloosa, Jefferson County, Kansas.

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This collection mostly consists of correspondence between Allan Wicker and his mentor and friend, Roger Barker, who began the field of ecological psychology while working at the University of Kansas.

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Paul Gump joined the faculty of University of Kansas as an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology in 1962 and was the Director of the Midwest Psychological Field Station in Oskaloosa, Kansas from 1968-1973. This collection includes correspondence, biographical material, class notes, research and observations, several publications, and 19 videotapes containing footage from a PBS feature entitled Help Yourself.

Overview Roger G. Barker's papers include autobiography drafts and biographical information, as well as professional correspondence dating from the 1980s. Also in the collection are lecture notes and research materials regarding educational psychology, children and adolescents, and ecological and somatopsychology, dating from the 1930s-1960s. Much of this dates from when he was a professor at the University of Kansas, conducting research through the Midwest Psychological Field Station he had...