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Marga Vicedo
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Research
Latest papers
The secure attachment system is a paleo fantasy.
The Behavioral and brain sciences · 2026 · first author
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Pragmatist Framework for Constructing a New Humanhood.
Journal of the history of the behavioral sciences · 2025 · first author
Moving beyond the search for the first discoverer of autism.
Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024 · first author
Latest funding
- $49,948
Breaking Bad: Historicizing the Science of Human Nature
SSHRC · 2026 · Principal investigator
- $17,485
Language, History, Gender and Science: Celebrating the Work of Evelyn Fox Keller
SSHRC · 2019 · Principal investigator
- $58,765
Mother Love and Human Nature: A History of the Maternal Instinct
SSHRC · 2019 · Principal investigator
15 publications.
The secure attachment system is a paleo fantasy.
Vicedo M
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Pragmatist Framework for Constructing a New Humanhood.
Vicedo M
Moving beyond the search for the first discoverer of autism.
Vicedo M
Autism's heterogeneity in historical perspective: from challenge to opportunity.
Vicedo M
Beyond the Instinct Debate: Daniel Lehrman's Contributions to Animal Behavior Studies.
Vicedo M
Epistemological discipline in animal behavior studies: Konrad Lorenz and Daniel Lehrman on intuition and empathy.
Vicedo M
Autism in Baltimore, 1938-1943.
Vicedo M, Ilerbaig J
Leo Kanner's Call for a Pediatric-Psychiatric Alliance.
Vicedo M, Ilerbaig J
The 'Disadapted' Animal: Niko Tinbergen on Human Nature and the Human Predicament.
Vicedo M
Playing the game: Psychology textbooks speak out about love.
Vicedo M
Breaking Bad: Historicizing the Science of Human Nature
Principal investigators: Vicedo, Marga
Language, History, Gender and Science: Celebrating the Work of Evelyn Fox Keller
Principal investigators: Vicedo, Marga
Keywords: metaphor in science; history of genetics; philosophy of biology; agency in biological science ; organisms in evolution; epigenetics
Mother Love and Human Nature: A History of the Maternal Instinct
Principal investigators: Vicedo, Marga
Keywords: history of maternal instinct; mother love; gender and science; biology and social issues; history of emotions; psychology and behaviour; instincts; emotions
Historicizing the science of the affects: autism, emotions and gender 1943-present
Principal investigators: Vicedo, Marga
Keywords: history of autism; history of emotions; gender; history of psychology
Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice Conference
Principal investigators: Walsh, Denis M.
Keywords: scientific practice; philosophy of science; history of science; science and technology studies; philosophy of medicine; epistemology; bioethics; instruments; models; measurement; experiment; evidence; representation; justification; policy; values
The construction of social science in cold war America: between geo-politics and sites of knowledge production
Principal investigators: Vicedo, Marga
Keywords: history of the social and behavioral sciences; United States history; Cold War; knowledge production
The nature and nurture of love: the construction of mother love and love for mother as biological instincts
Principal investigators: Vicedo, Marga
Keywords: history of: maternal love; maternal instinct; attachment; child development; evolution; genetics; evolutionary psychology
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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