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This is a list of important publications in psychology, organized by field. Psychology (ancient Greek: psyche = soul or mind, logos/-ology = study of) is an academic and applied field involving the study of the mind, brain, and behavior, both human and nonhuman. ...
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The history of psychology consists of a prescientific and a scientific epoch. ...
A psychologist is a scientist who studies psychology, the systematic investigation of the human behavior and mental processes. ...
The basic premise of applied psychology is the use of psychological principles and theories to overcome practical problems in other fields, such as business management, product design, ergonomics, nutrition or clinical medicine. ...
Behaviorism or behaviourism (not to be confused with behavioralism in political science) is an approach to psychology based on the proposition that behavior can be researched scientifically without recourse to inner mental states. ...
Biological psychology is the scientific study of the biological bases of behavior and mental states. ...
Clinical psychology is the application of psychology to problematic mental distress in a health and social care context. ...
Cognitive psychology is the psychological science that studies cognition, the mental processes that underlie behavior, including thinking, reasoning, decision making, and to some extent motivation and emotion. ...
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Evolutionary psychology (abbreviated ev-psych or EP) is the claim that many mental capacities and faculties can be explained by considering them to be adaptations in an evolutionary biological sense, as traits or capacities whose natures can be explained as a product of natural selection. ...
Experimental psychology is an approach to psychology that treats it as one of the natural sciences, and therefore assumes that it is susceptible to the experimental method. ...
Gestalt psychology (also Gestalt theory of the Berlin School) is a theory of mind and brain that proposes that the operational principle of the brain is holistic, parallel, and analog, with self-organizing tendencies. ...
Humanistic psychology is a school of psychology that emerged in the 1950s in reaction to both behaviorism and psychoanalysis. ...
Psycholinguistics or psychology of language is the study of the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, and understand language. ...
Personality psychology is a branch of psychology which studies personality and individual different processes - that which makes us into a person. ...
Psychophysics is the branch of cognitive psychology dealing with the relationship between physical stimuli and their perception. ...
Social psychology is often conceived to be the study of how individuals perceive, influence, and relate to others. ...
This list includes notable psychologists and contributors to psychology, some of whom may not have thought of themselves primarily as psychologists but are included here because of their important contributions to the discipline. ...
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Psychology (ancient Greek: psyche = soul or mind, logos/-ology = study of) is an academic and applied field involving the study of the mind, brain, and behavior, both human and nonhuman. ...
Some reasons why a particular publication might be regarded as important:
- Topic creator – A publication that created a new topic
- Breakthrough – A publication that changed scientific knowledge significantly
- Introduction – A publication that is a good introduction or survey of a topic
- Influence – A publication which has significantly influenced the world
- Latest and greatest – The current most advanced result in a topic
Introducing Psychology
Introducing Psychology - Nigel Benson
- Introducing Psychology, 1998. Totem/Icon Books.
Description: Introduction to psychology for general public and students. Nigel Benson (b. ...
Importance: Popular, International best-selling, 14 languages
Description: This monumental text can be view as the beginning of psychology. The Principles of Psychology is a monumental text in the history of psychology, written by William James and published in 1890. ...
William James William James (January 11, 1842, New York – August 26, 1910, Chocorua, New Hampshire) was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher. ...
Importance: Topic creator, Breakthrough, Influence
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Psychotherapy is a set of techniques intended to improve mental health, emotional or behavioral issues of individuals, family members or a whole familys interactional climate. ...
Description: Dream interpretation became a part of psychoanalysis due to this seminal work. The Interpretation of Dreams is a book by Sigmund Freud, the first edition of which came out in 1900. ...
Sigmund Freud Sigmund Freud (IPA: []) (May 6, 1856–September 23, 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology. ...
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Importance: Topic creator, Breakthrough, Influence
It has been suggested that Personality psychology be merged into this article or section. ...
A Theory of Human Motivation Description: In this paper the Maslow's hierarchy of needs was described. Abraham Maslow (April 1, 1908 – June 8, 1970) was an American psychologist. ...
Maslows hierarchy of needs is a theory in psychology that Abraham Maslow proposed in his 1943 paper A Theory of Human Motivation, which he subsequently extended. ...
Importance: Topic creator, Breakthrough, Influence
Behaviorism or behaviourism (not to be confused with behavioralism in political science) is an approach to psychology based on the proposition that behavior can be researched scientifically without recourse to inner mental states. ...
Psychology as the behaviorist views it Description: With his behaviorism, Watson put the emphasis on external behaviour of people and their reactions on given situations, rather than the internal, mental state of those people. In his opinion, the analysis of behaviours and reactions was the only objective method to get insight in the human actions. John B. Watson John Broadus Watson (January 9, 1878–September 25, 1958) was an American psychologist who established the psychological school of behaviorism, after doing research on animal behavior. ...
Importance: Topic creator, Breakthrough, Influence
In psychology cognitivism is a theoretical approach to understanding the mind, which argues that mental function can be understood by quantitative, positivist and scientific methods, and that such functions can be described as information processing models. ...
Alan Turing is often considered the father of modern computer science. ...
Computing machinery and intelligence, written by Alan Turing and published in 1950, is a seminal paper on the topic of artificial intelligence in which the concept of what is now known as the Turing test was introduced. ...
1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Jerry Alan Fodor (born 1935) is a philosopher at Rutgers University, New Jersey. ...
Fodors language of thought (LOT) hypothesis states that cognition is a process of computation over compositional mental representations. ...
Professor Stevan Harnad Professor Stevan Harnad (Hernád István, Hesslein István) - born June 2, 1945 in Budapest - is a Hungarian-born cognitive scientist. ...
Please note the difference between structural functionalism, which was developed by Meyer Fortes and Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard, and structuralism, a theoretical concept developed by other (generally later) anthropologists like Claude Lévi-Strauss and Edmund Leach. ...
Gestalt psychology (also Gestalt theory of the Berlin School) is a theory of mind and brain that proposes that the operational principle of the brain is holistic, parallel, and analog, with self-organizing tendencies. ...
Experimental Studies of the Perception of Movement - Max Wertheimer
- Experimental Studies of the Perception of Movement, 1912.
Description: Considered the founding article for Gestalt psychology. The article described the Phi phenomenon. Max Wertheimer (Prague, April 15, 1880 - New York, October 12, 1943) was one of the founders of Gestalt psychology. ...
The phi phenomenon is a perceptual illusion described by Max Wertheimer in his 1912 Experimental Studies on the Seeing of Motion, in which a disembodied perception of motion is produced by a succession of still images. ...
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Humanistic psychology is a school of psychology that emerged in the 1950s in reaction to both behaviorism and psychoanalysis. ...
- Medard Boss, Existential Foundations of Medicine and Psychology (Jason Aronson, 1984; ISBN 1568214200)
- Medard Boss, Psychoanalysis and Daseinsanalysis (Da Capo Pr, 1982; ISBN 0306797089)
- Medard Boss, The Analysis of Dreams (Philosophical Library, 1958)
- Amedeo Giorgi, Psychology as a Human Science (Harper & Row, 1970)
- R.D. Laing, The Divided Self (Penguin, 1965)
- Robert D. Romanyshyn, Mirror and Metaphor: Images and Stories of Psychological Life (Trivium, 2001)
- Ernesto Spinelli, The Interpreted World: An Introduction to Phenomenological Psychology (Sage, 2nd Edition, 2005)
- Erwin Straus, Man, Time and World (Humanities Press, 1982)
- Erwin Straus, The Primary World of the Senses (Free Press of Glencoe, 1963)
- Jan Hendrick van den Berg, A Different Existence (Duquesne University Press, 1973)
Look up Phenomenology in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
A Dutch psychologist notable for his work on the subject of phenomenology; author of A Different Existence (ISBN 0820702447) --Tennemouse 07:36, 3 May 2006 (UTC) ...
Structuralism is a general approach in various academic disciplines that explores the interrelationships between fundamental elements of some kind, upon which some higher mental, linguistic, social, cultural etc structures are built, through which then meaning is produced within a particular person, system, culture. ...
Description: Cognitive psychology is the psychological science that studies cognition, the mental processes that underlie behavior, including thinking, reasoning, decision making, and to some extent motivation and emotion. ...
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Evolutionary psychology (abbreviated ev-psych or EP) is the claim that many mental capacities and faculties can be explained by considering them to be adaptations in an evolutionary biological sense, as traits or capacities whose natures can be explained as a product of natural selection. ...
Jerome H. Barkow is a Canadian anthropologist at Dalhousie University who has made important contributions to the field of evolutionary psychology. ...
Leda Cosmides Leda Cosmides, (born May 7, 1957 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American psychologist, who, together with anthropologist husband John Tooby, helped pioneer the field of evolutionary psychology. ...
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David Buss is a professor of psychology at University of Texas, Austin. ...
Evolutionary developmental psychology, (or EDP), is the application of the basic principles of Darwinian evolution, particularly natural selection, to explain contemporary human development. ...
Description: This publication was the foundation of the classification systems used in today's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Clinical psychology is the application of psychology to problematic mental distress in a health and social care context. ...
Emil Kraepelin (February 15, 1856- October 7, 1926) was a German Psychiatrist who attempted to create a synthesis of the hundreds of mental disorders classified by the 19th century, grouping diseases together based on classification of common patterns of symptoms, rather than by simple similarity of major symptoms in the...
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Hans Baldung Grien: The Ages And Death, c. ...
Anderson, J. R., Corbett, A. T., Koedinger, K. R., & Pelletier, R. (1995). Cognitive tutors: Lessons learned. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 4, 167-207. INTRODUCTION: Educational psychology is the study of how humans learn in educational settings, the effectiveness of educational interventions, the psychology of teaching, and the social psychology of schools as organizations. ...
Bandura, A. (1993). Perceived self-efficacy in cognitive development and functioning. Educational psychologist, 28, 117-148.
Cronbach, L. J. (1957). The two disciplines of scientific psychology. American Psychologist, 12, 671-684.
Cronbach, L. J., & Meehl, P. E. (1955). Construct validity in psychological tests. Psychological Bulletin, 52, 281-302.
Mayer, R. E. (1997). Multimedia learning: Are we asking the right questions? Educational Psychologist, 32, 1-19.
Palincsar, A. S. (1998). Social constructivist perspectives on teaching and learning. Annual Review of Psychology, 49, 345-375.
Skinner, B. F. (1958). Teaching Machines. Science, 128(3330), 969-977.
Spearman, Charles. (1904). "General intelligence," objectively determined and measured. American Journal of Psychology, 15, 201-293.
Sweller, J., van Merrienboer, J. J., & Paas, F. G. (1998). Cognitive architecture and instructional design. Educational Psychology Review, 10, 251-296.
Terman, Lewis M. (1916). The uses of intelligence tests. From The measurement of intelligence (chapter 1). Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Thorndike, Edward L. (1910). The contribution of psychology to education. Journal of Educational Psychology, 1, 5-12.
Thurstone, L. L. (1934). The vectors of mind. Psychological Review, 41, 1-32.
Forensic psychology is the application of psychological priniciples and knowledge to various legal activities involving child custody disputes, child abuse of an emotional, physical and sexual nature, assessing ones personal capacity to manage ones affairs, matters of competency to stand trial, criminal responsbility & personal injury and advising judges...
Forensic Psychology - Alan M. Goldstein
- Forensic Psychology, 2003
- ISBN 0-47-161920-5
Description: 47 forensic psychologists cover the theory and practice of forensic psychology in both civil and criminal litigation.
Importance: Introduction
On the Witness Stand Description: Considered the first publication in applying psychology to legal matters. Among the topics discussed are reliability of witnesses' testimony and memory, lie detection and interrogation methods on suspects of crime. Hugo Münsterberg (June 1, 1863 Gdańsk (Danzig) – December 16, 1916) was an American academic psychologist. ...
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Industrial and organizational psychology (or I/O psychology) is also known as occupational psychology (in the United Kingdom) and work psychology (from the German, Arbeitspsychologie). ...
Neuropsychology is a branch of psychology that aims to understand how the structure and function of the brain relate to specific psychological processes. ...
Classic Readings on Prejudice and Intergroup Relations Social psychology is often conceived to be the study of how individuals perceive, influence, and relate to others. ...
Allport, G.W. (1954). The nature of prejudice. New York: Doubleday.
Description: With this book, Gordon Allport put forth one of the most influential theories of prejudice reduction, known as the Contact Hypothesis. The basic idea behind the Contact Hypothesis is that increasing contact between members of different groups is the foundation for reducing intergroup hostility. This book is important for many other reasons as well, and is recommended reading for anyone interested in the areas of prejudice and discrimination. Gordon Willard Allport (November 11, 1897 - October 9, 1967) was an American psychologist. ...
Importance: Breakthrough, Influence
Tajfel, H., & Turner, J.C. (1979). An integrative theory of intergroup conflict. In W.G. Austin & S. Worchel (Eds.), The social psychology of intergroup relations (pp. 33-47). Monterey, CA: Brooks/Cole.
Description: This is a classic paper on Social Identity Theory (SIT). SIT is one of the most prominent and influential theories concerning intergroup relations and has spawned massive amounts of research. The main point behind SIT is that the social context is the key factor shaping how different social groups are perceived and treated.
Importance: Breakthrough, Influence
Health psychology is a relatively new field which is evolving and developing as one of main areas of applied psychology. ...
Critical psychology is both a critique of mainstream psychology and an attempt to apply psychology in more progressive ways (based, for example, on Marxist or feminist analyses) and contexts than have thus far been the case. ...
Post-cognivitist psychology Post-cognitivist psychology comprises varieties of psychology which emerged in the 1990s which challenged the basic assumptions of cognitivism or even information processing models of cognition. ...
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This is a list of important publications in different fields of science. ...
Evolutionary psychology (abbreviated ev-psych or EP) is the claim that many mental capacities and faculties can be explained by considering them to be adaptations in an evolutionary biological sense, as traits or capacities whose natures can be explained as a product of natural selection. ...
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