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Psychology is an academic and applied field involving the study of the human mind, brain, and behavior. Psychology also refers to the application of such knowledge to various spheres of human activity, including problems of individuals' daily lives and the treatment of mental illness.

Psychology differs from anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology in seeking to capture explanatory generalizations about the mental function and overt behaviour of individuals, while the other disciplines rely more heavily on field studies and historical methods for extracting descriptive generalizations. In practice, however, there is quite a lot of cross-fertilization that takes place among the various fields. Psychology differs from biology and neuroscience in that it is primarily concerned with the interaction of mental processes and behavior, and of the overall processes of a system, and not simply the biological or neural processes themselves, though the subfield of neuropsychology combines the study of the actual neural processes with the study of the mental effects they have subjectively produced.

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Classics in the History of Psychology - Many full texts available online.

The Mead Project - A repository for online versions of material by the influential American social psychologist, George Herbert Mead (1863-1931). Site also archives related works, including that of many important early 20th century American psychologists, including J.R. Angell, J.M. Baldwin, J. Dewey, W. James, W.I. Thomas, E.B. Titchener.

Philosophy of Psychology Section - Information about the section.

Philosophy of Psychology Web Resources - Useful links page from the Cheiron site.

A Forum. - Bulletin board for posting questions and answers about these topics.

American Psychological Association Division 26 (History of Psychology). - Official site of the APA. Includes contact information for committee members, list of fellows, and selected links.

American Psychological Association Historical Database - Searchable by date or keyword.
Meta Description: [ History of Psychology Calendar with over 3,000 entries organized into daily calendar pages. Date and keyword searches. ]

AmoebaWeb: History of Psychology - Links to history of Psychology content.

Cheiron: International Society for the History of the Social and Behavioral Sciences - Concerned with the history of psychology and related studies. Includes meetings and list of officers.

Chronology of Psychology - Milestones in the treatment of the mentally ill, history of psychological treatments and institutions, and notable persons and publications, from the Middle Ages through 1997.

500 Classics in Psychology 1855-1914: Historical Essays - Short essays introductory to 48 works central to the history of scientific psychology. Each essay places a given work in its intellectual context, summarizes its basic content, and assesses its general significance.
Meta Description: [ Thoemmes Press publishes primary sources and reference works in the History of Ideas for the academic community. ]

Critical Psychology in South Africa: Looking back and looking forwards - Compares the development of the field of clinical psychology in South Africa to the rest of the world, as well as the detachment from political and race relations problems from 1994 to 2004. Page also describes the development of the field in general over the years.
Meta Description: [ A paper on the history, current status and future prospects of critical psychology in South Africa ]

European Society for the History of the Human Sciences - ESHHS brings together individuals interested in the history of psychology, anthropology, sociology, economy, and other human sciences.

404 European Traces of the History of Psychology - Photos and brief descriptions of sites in Europe associated with distinguished contributors to psychological science.
Meta Description: [ This site is dedicated to locating and reporting traces of the history of psychology throughout Europe. It was conceived following a recent backpacking trip to Europe, during which I visited sites both well known and obscure. It occurred to me that an index to historical artifacts ... ]

Forum for History of Human Science - The Forum for History of Human Science is an interest group within the History of Science Society, which brings together historians of economics, anthropology, psychology, sociology, and medicine.
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Georg Elias Muller - Information on the life and works of this important pioneer of experimental/physiological psychology.

Hall of Fame : Great Psychologists - Brief biographies of the all time great psychologists and their work, such as background information about Freud, Pavlov, Maslow, and Allport.

HISTNEUR-L: The History of Neuroscience Internet Forum - Gateway and information about an Internet forum for announcements, inquiries and discussion on access to historical sources and their use and interpretation for all persons interested in neuroscience history.

History of Psychology (journal) - Home page of the print journal, with information and tables of contents.

History of Psychology Links - from Alfred D. Kornfeld of Eastern Connecticut State University.

History of the Brain - A timeline of the development of our understanding of the brain, from 4000 B.C. to 2000 A.D.

HTP Prints - The History and Theory of Psychology eprints archive. Gives access to online versions of articles in these areas. Registered users may also deposit appropriate material.

Iconophobia, Knight Dunlap, and the vanishing images of J.B. Watson. - Account of an important episode in the development of the Behaviorist movement in psychology.
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Important Scientists in the Early Development of Comparative Cognition - Profiles and works of researchers and observers who made important contributions to the field of comparative animal cognition.

International Society for the History of the Neurosciences - Dedicated to promoting interest, education and research in the history of the neurosciences.

404 John Broadus Watson (1878-1958) - Discusses the psychologist's childhood, university days, work at John Hopkins, infidelity scandal, advertising job, farm life and later acknowledgments. Includes copies of original photos of people and manuscripts.

Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - Home page of the longest established print journal in the field, with tables of contents back to 1996.

Leonardo da Vinci's Contributions to Neuroscience - Includes anatomical drawings by Leonardo and extracts from his writings in brain function, plus Medieval and Renaissance diagrams of the brain, its ventricles, and their function in cognition.

404 Mary Whiton Calkins Deserves Her Ph.D. - Mary Whiton Calkins The Mother of Psychology attended Harvard at the turn of the 20th century. Help Kalamazoo College students obtain the doctorate that is rightfully hers. Site contains some biographical links.

Memorandum: memory and history in psychology - Brazilian e-journal. In Portuguese and English.

Milestones in the History of Neuroscience. - A detailed timeline running from 4000 B.C. to 1997, plus a list of useful reference works and links.

Mind and Body: Rene Descartes to William James - By Robert H. Wozniak, Bryn Mawr College.

Neuroscience History Archives - Based at the UCLA Brain Research Institute. Identifies, collects, and preserves primary source material of twentieth century American neuroscience.

Peace Research Institute Dundas: History of Psychiatry - Printed by Sage Publications. Includes archived abstracts, mission statement and manuscript submission information.
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Psychology's Roots - Reviews the history and evolution of psychology from ancient Greece to the present day.

Psychology, Society, and Ability Testing - Eight chapters describing the rise of standardized testing in animal, school, vocational, and military settings.
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RETICULUM: Neuroscience History Resources - A gateway to events, associations, opportunities, and Internet resources for history and historians of basic, clinical, and behavioral neuroscience.

Rudolf Allers - Information about this Catholic disciple of Freud and Adler who made his own distinctive contributions to psychodynamic theory. Also provides information on related thinkers Anna Terruwe, Conrad W. Baars, and Louis Jugnet.

Society for Gestalt Theory and its Applications (GTA) - Association established for the purpose of promoting the Gestalt-theoretical perspective in research and practice. Includes articles, information, resources, and conferences.
Meta Description: [ Gestalt theory and Gestalt psychology website international - featuring Gestalt resources of a broad range of fields of Gestalt theory research and application ]

Squashed Descartes - Condensed edition of Descartes' 'Meditatione', with study notes and glossary

The History of Phrenology on the Web - Although now generally considerd pseudoscience, phrenology, the popular Victorian science of the mind and brain, had an enormous historical impact on the development of psychology and neuroscience.

500 The History of Psychology - from the University of Dayton. Resources on many figures in the history of psychology, and history of psychology trivia.

The History of Psychology - Etext written by a professor in the Psychology Department at Shippensburg University, PA.

The Knight Dunlap Page - Information on Knight Dunlap, a significant, but largely forgotten pioneer of American Psychology.

The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two - Classic 1956 paper by George A. Miller that helped spark the Cognitive Revolution.

The Pre-History of Cognitive Science - An annotated bibliography of the models of human cognition of Berkeley, Burton, Hobbes, and Locke. (More thinkers from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries are promised.)
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The Virtual Laboratory - A resource for the history of the human sciences (especially psychology) and the experimentalization of life, archiving historical texts and images, as well as new essays. Site is in English, but much of the archived material is in German.

William James - Information on and readings from pioneering American psychologist William James.
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William James Discussion Forum - Discussion forum and live chat devoted to William James' works.
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500 Women in Psychology - Brief biographies and bibliographies of some female psychologists of various races, ages, and sexual orientations.

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