Psychological Research
| Psychological Research formerly: Psychological research until 1973
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| description | Peer-reviewed journal |
| Area of Expertise | psychology |
| language | English |
| publishing company | Springer Science + Business Media ( Germany ) |
| First edition | 1922 (1974) |
| founder | Max Wertheimer , Wolfgang Köhler , Kurt Koffka , Kurt Goldstein , Hans Walter Gruhle |
| Frequency of publication | bi-monthly |
| Impact Factor | 2,681 (2015) |
| editor | Bernhard Hommel |
| Web link | Website of the magazine |
| ISSN (print) | 0340-0727 |
| ISSN (online) | 1430-2772 |
| CODEN | PSRED |
Psychological Research is a German journal for psychology . It was published in German as Psychological Research from 1922 to 1974 , and has since appeared in English under its current name. Today, the focus is on articles that deepen the basic understanding of perception, attention, memory and actions, primarily based on experimental principles. This creates links between basic research and applied research.
history
The journal Psychological Research (full name: Psychological Research - Journal for Psychology and its Frontier Sciences ) was founded in 1922 by the Gestalt psychologists Max Wertheimer , Wolfgang Köhler and Kurt Koffka , the neurologist Kurt Goldstein and the psychiatrist Hans Walter Gruhle and published by Julius Springer (Berlin) published. The journal has been published by Springer Science since 1974 under the name Psychological Research .
The journal became the main publication organ of the Berlin school of gestalt psychology and gestalt theoretical research, which was developing very successfully at the time, without this having been originally intended . Among other things, the research series appeared in the journal
- "Investigations into the theory of shape" by Max Wertheimer,
- "Contributions to the psychology of gestalt", edited by Kurt Koffka,
- “Investigations on Action and Affect Psychology” by Kurt Lewin and his colleagues (including Bluma Zeigarnik , Maria Ovsiankina , Anitra Karsten , Tamara Dembo ) and
- “Psychological analyzes of brain pathological cases”, edited by Adhémar Gelb and Kurt Goldstein.
After the National Socialists came to power in Germany - starting with the 21st issue in 1935 - Wolfgang Köhler edited the magazine from Swarthmore on his own. In 1938, Köhler thought that another publication of the magazine in National Socialist Germany was no longer justifiable and, against the will of Springer Verlag, ordered it to be discontinued. The magazine did not appear between 1939 and 1948; the first issue after the war was in 1949.
After the war, psychological research was resumed from 1949, initially with Johannes von Allesch as editor, and continued until the 36th year of 1973/1974. This Psychological Research Although postwar published continues among other works by renowned authors gestalt theory, but is no longer comparable with the scientific rank of the magazine in the first period and her former role in the international development of the gestalt theory research.
literature
- Mitchell G. Ash : Gestalt Psychology in German Culture. 1890-1967. Holism and the Quest for Objectivity. University Press, Cambridge 1995, ISBN 0-521-47540-6 .
- Wilhelm Buchge: Der Springer-Verlag: Catalog of his magazines, 1843-1992. Springer, Vienna, New York 1994.
- Kurt Guss : Psychological Research - The Years 1922 to 1938. Eureka! Publishing house of the Ostwestfalen-Akademie, Borgentreich 2019. ISBN 978-3-947435-14-2 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Journal Citation Reports®, Thomson Reuters
- ↑ Volume 1 Table of Contents from springer.com
- ↑ the journal was originally intended as a general psychological journal without any particular psychological school; see M. Ash 1995, p. 217
- ↑ See M. Ash 1995, p. 350
- ↑ Overview of volumes and booklets on springer.com
- ↑ W. Buchge (1994): Springer-Verlag: catalog of his journals, 1843-1992 , Springer Vienna / New York, pp 64f. All editors of the journal 1921–1974 are listed there by name.