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The psychology of natural history

Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2022
Natural history observations are an integral part of ecology and evolution. However, they can be underappreciated because they operate independent of the scientific method. Here, we illustrate that the science of natural history has its own methodology based on a well-known psychological paradigm that describes how the human mind learns.
K.C. Burns, Jason Low
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History of Psychology

International Journal of Psychology, 2016
The editor of History of Psychology discusses her plan to vary the journal's content and expand its scope in specific ways. The first is to introduce a "Spotlight" feature, a relatively brief, provocative thought piece that might take one of several forms. Along with this new feature, she hopes further to broaden the journal's coverage and its range of
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History of Psychology

2022
Hothersall and Lovett's History of Psychology is a lively survey of the evolution of the field from 1850 to the present. Built around the lives of fascinating thinkers who proposed bold new ways of studying human behavior and mental processes, and telling the true stories behind their famous experiments, this textbook provides students with an intimate
David Hothersall, Benjamin J. Lovett
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History of Health Psychology

This chapter gives an overview of the history of health psychology, covering the development of the discipline across a number of countries, including the United States of America (USA), Europe, the United Kingdom (UK), Japan, Africa, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
Angel Marie Chater, Francis Quinn, Val Morrison   +2 more
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History of Psychology: Recurring Errors among Recent History of Psychology Textbooks

The American Journal of Psychology, 2007
Abstract Five recurring errors in history of psychology textbooks are discussed. One involves an identical misquotation. The remaining examples involve factual and interpretational errors that more than one and usually several textbook authors made.
Alfred H. Fuchs, Rand B. Evans, Roger K. Thomas   +2 more
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History of “History of Psychology” in Japan

Japanese Psychological Research, 2016
AbstractOnly a few Japanese psychologists have been interested in the history of psychology. The historiography—or the methodology of historical description—for the history of psychology has been ignored. Moreover, chairs for professors, academic journals, academic meetings, and an archive of the history of psychology remain to be established.
Tatsuya Sato, Hazime Mizoguchi, Ayumu Arakawa, Souta Hidaka, Miki Takasuna, Yasuo Nishikawa   +5 more
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The history of psychological categories

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 2005
Psychological terms, such as 'mind', 'memory', 'emotion' and indeed 'psychology' itself, have a history. This history, I argue, supports the view that basic psychological categories refer to historical and social entities, and not to 'natural kinds'. The case is argued through a wide ranging review of the historiography of western psychology, first, in
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History of the History of Psychology

2020
Reflexivity has been a common theme in the literature on the history of psychology in recent years. Reflecting on the history of psychology is for historians of psychology the ultimate reflexive step. Germany is widely regarded as the homeland of “modern” or “scientific” psychology.
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Of What is History of Psychology a History?

The British Journal for the History of Science, 1987
The British Psychological Society having established a ‘Philosophy and History’ section, a fresh look at the nature of the History of Psychology is called for. In this paper, I would like to make a contribution to this by raising some conundrums which have yet to be adequately addressed.
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History of Organizational Psychology

2017
Organizational psychology represents an important theoretical and practical field of contemporary psychological science that studies mental and behavioral phenomena that take place in individuals and groups belonging to social organizations. From a historical point of view, the roots of this specialty can be traced to the psychological ...
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