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History of Psychology
A publication of APA Division 26 (Society for the History of Psychology)

History of Psychology

ISSN 1093-4510
eISSN 1939-0610
Open access offered
Published quarterly, beginning in February
Impact factor 0.9
5-year impact factor 0.9
History of Social Sciences 18 of 45
Psychology - Multidisciplinary 161 of 222

History of Psychology® features refereed articles addressing all aspects of psychology's past and of its interrelationship with the many contexts within which it has emerged and has been practiced.

It also publishes scholarly work in closely related areas, such as historical psychology (the history of consciousness and behavior), psychohistory, theory in psychology as it pertains to history, historiography, biography and autobiography, the teaching of the history of psychology, and data mining regarding the history of psychology.

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“Why should other people be the judge”: The codification of assessment criteria for gender-affirming care, 1970s–1990s.

Marrow, Elliot

Psychology of eyewitness testimony in Germany in the 20th century.

Sporer, Siegfried Ludwig; Antonelli, Mauro

The relational mind: In between history, psychology and anthropology.

Rotman, Youval

Interamerican Society of Psychology (1951–2021): Its history and historians.

Gallegos, Miguel; Pecanha, Viviane de Castro

Psychology: Early print uses of the term by Pier Nicola Castellani (1525) and Gerhard Synellius (1525).

Janssen, Diederik F.; Hubbard, Thomas K.

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Did Little Albert actually acquire a conditioned fear of furry animals? What the film evidence tells us.

Powell, Russell A.; Schmaltz, Rodney M.

The long origins of the visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learning style typology, 1921–2001.

Fallace, Thomas

Wilhelm Wundt: His bumpy start in science at the University of Tübingen.

Ulrich, Rolf; Kaup, Barbara

When Jean Piaget met Susan and Nathan Isaacs.

Kitchener, Richard F.

“Why should other people be the judge”: The codification of assessment criteria for gender-affirming care, 1970s–1990s.

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