American Journal of Psychology
| American Journal of Psychology (AJP)
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| description | Scientific journal |
| Area of Expertise | psychology |
| language | English |
| publishing company | University of Illinois Press ( USA ) |
| First edition | 1887 |
| founder | GS Hall |
| Frequency of publication | 4 times a year |
| editor | Robert W. Proctor |
| Web link | www.press.uillinois.edu |
| Article archive | [1] |
| ISSN (print) | 0002-9556 |
| ISSN (online) | 1939-8298 |
| CODEN | AJPCAA |
The American Journal of Psychology (Am J Psychol) was the first English-language journal for experimental psychology to follow an empirical-scientific orientation (although the journal Mind , which was founded in 1876, had some articles on this topic earlier). AJP was founded at Johns Hopkins University by the psychologist Granville Stanley Hall in 1887, who published the magazine until 1920.
Topics are psychology as the science of experience and behavior and empirical studies on it, theoretical treatises, combined theoretical-empirical analyzes, historical commentaries and reviews of well-known books.
history
The journal is three years older than the first European psychological journal, the Zeitschrift für Psychologie , and can therefore be considered the oldest in the world. Wilhelm Wundt , who founded the first experimental psychological institute in Leipzig in 1879 , founded the journal Philosophische Studien in 1883 , where he and his colleagues also published experimental psychological work. Since he saw himself as a philosopher , he wanted to see his new psychology as a branch of philosophy.
The four-yearly journal has published some groundbreaking articles in psychology. Other editors of the magazine were, for example, Edward Titchener (editor 1921 to 1925), Edwin Boring (co-editor 1926 to 1939) or Karl M. Dallenbach (co-editor 1926 to 1941).